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Get Paid to Blog

WSJ: Businesses are hiring people to write blogs. Companies are looking for candidates who can write in a conversational style about timely topics that would appeal to customers, clients and potential recruits. Salary range from $40-$70K.

Clean Up Word HTML

Haven’t tried this yet, but worth a look for the next time I have to convert a large Word document to HTML.

I recently received a rather lengthy and somewhat elaborate MS Word document, which I was asked to convert to HTML for uploading to a 3rd party’s website. My first instinct was to save the Word document as HTML and use Dreamweaver’s “Clean Up Word HTML” Command. But not only did I have to leave it running all night for Dreamweaver to finish “cleaning”, but the results were far from desirable in my opinion. There were still a lot of left over inline styles, etc. that Dreamweaver just plain missed.

I approached it differently this morning and just selected the entire document in Word, copied it, and then pasted it into Dreamweaver’s Design window. Not only was it much, much faster, but the output code was much, much cleaner! I didn’t have to run the “Clean Up Word HTML” Command afterwords either.

Moral of the story: If you get an HTML document that was created using Word: yes, clean it up. But if you get a Word Document and need to convert it to HTML, don’t waste your time converting it to HTML with Word and cleaning it up, just copy and paste it!

Selling T-Shirts Is Big Business on Web

A Wall Street Journal article describes the how to create a successful online business selling T-shirts.

All over the Web, bloggers, artists and entrepreneurs are unexpectedly finding that T-shirts are more reliable moneymakers than the original ideas that brought them to the Internet.

It turns out the T-shirt is a perfect fit for online commerce. It captures the Web’s renegade allure and allows surfers to show off their virtual journeys

Sell T-shirts on your Web site by starting here.

Google AdSense for Feeds

AdSense for feeds is a program that enables publishers to place relevant ads in the feeds they syndicate.

Currently in beta, pushing ads into RSS feeds needs to be non-intrusive to the feed content. That remains to be seen. Best practices for AdSense for feeds.

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browsershots.org

Free service similar to browsercam. With browsershots, you get what you pay for which means sitting in a que for several hours before you can view your results. Not complaining about it; as a matter of fact I applaud their initiative:

This project is concerned with a favorite problem of web designers: websites look different in other browsers.

Testing a new site in many browsers can be quite time-consuming. Not everybody has a farm of legacy machines with older OSes and browsers.

There are online services that offer screenshots of websites in different browsers for considerable fees. For the hobbyist and for open source projects, these fees may be prohibitive.

What is Greasemonkey?

Add Free Stats

Well, not really ad free. The AddFreeStats button is an ad, there are ads on the stats pages and a popup ad appears when you check the stats.

AddFreeStats has an option to either let anyone view your Web stats , or protect your Web site statistics by providing a password.

Cut and paste the HTML code to your existing pages and you can track info such as what link your visitors clicked for leaving your Web site. Good for tracking Google Adsense clicks.

Another feature is Inlive which counts exactly the number of visitors currently present on your site and displays it in a small box.