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February 22, 2007

Affiliate link cloaking with drupal

Filed under: Marketing — Joe Brewer @ 4:00 pm

So here is my nearly infamous affiliate link cloaker rewritten for Drupal. Usage is pretty much the same as the other link cloakers, but I’ll explain again here anyway as there are a few differences, and a few things you’ll need to bear in mind when using it.

Installation:

Install by putting the two files (alc.module and alc.info) into a directory called alc in your modules directory. Enable the module by clicking the check box next to “Affiliate Link Cloaker” in the module admin page.

If you are not using a WYSIWYG editor, follow these instructions for cloaking your links:

In the link that you want to cloak put the word affiliate. For example, with this link:

<a href=”http://www.netprofitstoday.com/cbae/?a=GmPNICPmNz”>Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook</a>

change it to:

<a affiliate href=”http://www.netprofitstoday.com/cbae/?a=GmPNICPmNz”>Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook</a>

If you are using a WYSIWYG editor, change it to:

{cloakurl href=”http://www.netprofitstoday.com/cbae/?a=GmPNICPmNz”}Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook{/cloakurl}

That’s all there is to it!

If you want to make the text in the status bar change when the user puts their mouse over the link, use the “statustext” tag in the link. For example:

<a affiliate statustext=”Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook” href=”http://www.netprofitstoday.com/cbae/?a=GmPNICPmNz”>Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook</a>

or if you are using a WYSIWYG editor:

{cloakurl statustext=”Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook” href=”http://www.netprofitstoday.com/cbae/?a=GmPNICPmNz”}Rosalind Gardners Super Affiliate Handbook{/cloakurl}

If you find that it doesn’t cloak you links, it is probably because you have HTML filtering turned on. This is found in Administer->Input formats then clicking on Filtered HTML. Turn the filter off by unchecking HTML filter and pressing Save configuration.

I’ve currently only tested with non WYSIWYG editors, but I will get on and do some more testing in the coming week. If you like it or use it, please leave some feedback 🙂

Download it here

An early st Patricks Day funny

Filed under: Funny Stuff — Joe Brewer @ 12:42 pm

Paddy was driving down the street in a sweat because he had an important meeting and couldn’t find a parking place. Looking up to heaven he said, “Lord take pity on me. If you find me a parking place I will go to Mass every Sunday for the rest of me life and give up me Irish Whiskey!”

Miraculously, a parking place appeared.

Paddy looked up again and said, “Never mind, I found one.”

February 13, 2007

Affiliate cloaker for Mambo

Filed under: Marketing — Joe Brewer @ 12:57 pm

I’ve rewritten the Joomla mambot I wrote last year for Mambo. Basically it works in the same way as the one I wrote for Joomla, and all instructions can be found in the link on the right.

I’ve tested with Mambo version 4.5.4 and all is well

Download and enjoy 🙂

January 31, 2007

A few ideas for your Out of Office message

Filed under: Funny Stuff — Joe Brewer @ 12:36 pm
  1. I am currently away from my desk, beating my head against the wall. Your message will be replied to once I have reached a level of numbness sufficient to cloud my vision to the point I am able to formulate an a pp ropriate response to your request.
  2. I am currently out at a job interview and will reply to you if I fail to get the position. Be prepared for my mood.
  3. You are receiving this automatic notification because I am out of the office. If I was in, chances are you wouldn’t have received anything at all.
  4. I will be unable to delete all the unread, worthless emails you send me until I return on April 1st. Please be patient and your Mail will be deleted in the order it was received.
  5. Thank you for your email. Your credit card has been charged $5.99 for the first ten words and $1.99 for each additional word in your message.
  6. The e-mail server is unable to verify your server connection and is unable to deliver this message. Please restart your computer and try sending again.***(***The beauty of this one is that when you return, you can see how many in-duh-viduals did this over and over).
  7. Thank you for your message, which has been added to a queuing system. You are currently in 352nd place, and can expect to receive a reply in a pp roximately 19 weeks.
  8. I’ve run away to join a different circus.
  9. I will be out of the office for the next 2 weeks for medical reasons. When I return, please refer to me as “Marvin” instead of “Mary”.

January 27, 2007

Making learning musical spellings fun

Filed under: General — Joe Brewer @ 12:30 pm

One of the problems that I found with the relative pitch ear training course was the monotonous exercises – especially learning the spellings of the intervals. The way that David Burge recommends learning how to spell the intervals correctly is to sing up and down a scale naming the notes, but I found this quite boring. For some reason I dont mind singing “la” to the notes though.

Being a great believer in making learning fun, I have written a page that tests the spelling of every interval (minor second to major seventh) which has helped me learn the spelling much more quickly. Each test presents ten random musical spellings based on the interval(s) that are selected at the start of the test.

Click here to test yourself

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