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Google Pagerank update May 2009

May 28th, 2009

It’s started. The new update of the toolbar pagerank is on the run. Our pages again got a boost and so artviper.de has increased to a 4, whereas it has dropped before from 4 to 3. So, back on the line.
artViper.net has gained a slight increase from 2-3 on some of its subpages, but except that, everything seems to keep stable. Even the blog gained a slight boost upwards from 2-3 on some articles.

Now, going to figure out which articles are considered important enough to get that boost and which ain’t. Let us know what happened to your PR - if any chances occured.

Other pages of us didn’t change at all, so tag-cloud.de and others maintain their PR 4 level.

XT Commerce security leaks - and their fixes

April 14th, 2009

The original XTC 3.04 SP 2.1 has some major bugs that can be easily exploited to gain access to the administration, user details and more.
To prevent that, there are a few bug fixes that will get rid of that. You can download them here:

Currency Fix
Bank transfer Fix
Advanced Search Result Fix
Class Inputfilter Fix
Application Top Fix

Please note:
Do not apply the fixes if you have modified versions of the files above. Instead, compare them ( i.e. with PowerGREP ),find the changed parts and copy the changes to your modified version.

PDF to animated GIF converter

April 3rd, 2009

It has never been that easy - simply create previews of your PDFs as gif images.
NO NEED TO UPLOAD YOUR FILES - they will be converted from where they are. A PDF often consists of more than one page - no problem with PDF2GIF online converter, it converts the pages in a document into an animated gif, showing either only a few pages or all pages in a compact gif.

For your convenience, we have split our service into multiple packages, so you can find the package that suits you best

Here are all the features listed that you can expect from PDF2GIF*

* create as many GIF’s from your PDF as you like
* choose how many pages should be integrated into your GIF
* select single pages from your PDF to convert ( i.e. Page 1, 2, 5, 10 )
* select the delay time before flipping the pages in the GIF ( animation )
* maximum with of the preview GIF’s up to 480px
* update PDF on changes, always up to date GIF’s

* ( depending on the chosen package )
For adminstrators

follwing header information is provided by PDF2GIF:

* creation status - information about creation status
* creation time - creation date of GIF, if any
* size - image size and height
* error status - see if any errors occured

Protection of your account

PDF2GIF checks the referer and the userID, if these both do not match no image will be displayed. Furthermore direct access and hotlinking prevention makes your investment secure.

Go and register with us!

Google Pagerank Update April 2009

April 2nd, 2009

It’s running - the long awaited PR update is on the way.
Still google keeps kicking our websites concerning pagerank, the .de domain dropped from 4 to 3, others from 3 to 2 but at least this one here stays intact.

This consolidation of the PR seems not to be influenced by google adsense or foreign links on the page - neither if you have them or not, google keeps dropping the PR for our pages. So whether you have link sales on the page or not, google adsense or not, pages keep free falling. Not very funny, let’s see what happens to our SERPs.

This april update hasn’t brought what it was expected to - disappointingly, but maybe necessary.

CSS Chart Generator - generate bar graphs on the fly

March 4th, 2009

We’ve just released a new tool - our nifty CSS Chart Generator. With this easy to use interface you can create an design your bar charts in seconds. A whole bunch of features is waiting for you - from defining the output size, over colors for each bar, titles for x and y axis, to color of font and bar backgrounds and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

No more IE6 support - let IE6 die

February 21st, 2009

We have dropped support since Jan 09, as putting so much effort into an outdated browser proves to be slow economical suicide. The time needed to eradicate all “errors” to show the website correct in IE6 increases its price, or in case you offer this for free, lowers your income, as a lot of additional work is required. Not to talk about a designers nerves.

More than two years now, IE7 is available, IE8 about to be released, but still there are people who do not update this security gap filled monster.

This addresses also all the administrators inside companies who make a big part of those 20% still using IE6. Strange enough, as they should be the first to get rid of such a security leak.If you think, this is absolutely the way, then support these two pages: http://iedeathmarch.org/ as well as on http://ie6.forteller.net

pageboss.com - website analyzer

February 21st, 2009

Again a handy tool to analyze your website. This tool checks entries from social networks, backlinks from yahoo and google as well as demographic data from sources like alexa and compete. Give it a try! pageboss.com

Google Pagerank Update December 2008

December 8th, 2008

Yesterday evening google did another pagerank update. Shockingly our PR dropped from an average PR6 to PR3 - seems google wants to sell their own links instead of letting others get the money.

This blog suffered even more. A drop from PR4 to 0 is just brutal. Regarding this, we will take off any links and hope that this is sufficient for the next update to be rated higher again.

So one can be thankful that the SERP’s didn’t drop too. Seems the google PR doesn’t reflect the popularity and content worth anymore.

Still, this kind of politics doesn’t seem fair - people who rely on their sales via their website get cut down to a level they cannot make any income. Furthermore the type of adsense blocks are simply ugly and their fixed layouts do not fit in any case into a website. If google would think of letting the user decide how the link boxes should look like, more people would consider adding that to their pages. In comparison, a good high PR site can earn with only one link already between 80 and 120 euro per month. Would you ever get that via adsense?

tinyMCE - submit via AJAX problem

November 12th, 2008

TinyMCE is a great editor, but if you try to use mootools or any other javascript framework to submit your post, the post variables of the ( former ) textarea will stay blank.

A simple addition to the submit button resolves this issue:

onclick="tinyMCE.triggerSave(true,true);"

After that, your post variables are all submitted as usual.

tinyMCE - startup without p tag

November 12th, 2008

Since the new release of tinyMCE (3.x), every opened editor starts with a p tag. To circumvent this behaviour, place the following line into your init function of the editor:

example:

tinyMCE.init({
...
forced_root_block : false,
...

That’s it. The editor now starts without any html tags.