Mark the last little problem with my Social Bookmarking script solved. I had been chasing my tail on this one for a time, and then when I read through the css file in a bit more detail the answer was obvious, making me feel a bit silly.

I use a fixed width layout for most of my sites. This allows me to design them and have confidence that they will display as I intend. On the problem pages the Pligg developers are using their wide box. Their wide box is the same width as my layout. There was a float left rule applied to the box. Because the box is floated it is out of the normal flow, so is not contained by the wrapper that I installed. My background image is applied to the wrapper div. Because the floated div was floating below the header content there was a gap between the bottom of the header and the content area through which my page background image showed. This problem was only seen on the three pages of the submit new story section of the site.

Had I designed the page I would have had an easier time of it. There was a strong clue that did not ring a bell even though I had noted that the border on the left and right sides did not extend to the bottom of the page. I think that the display problem is there with their design, but they are using white on white on white, so it is not evident. I could confirm that by giving the page a background color or their content div left and right borders. I would imagine that other developers working on themes have run into the same problem, but they may have been more familiar with the css before it gave them a headache.

So NOW I can say, with a straight face, that I Found It! is open for business. Please register, bookmark pages, and get out and vote!! Thanks!

I dug back into the script and found the problem was as I suspected. The css was looking for an images folder in the root directory. The images were in a folder two levels down from the root directory. When I adjusted the file paths the background images were, in fact, available and so the site looks the way that I wish for the most part.

I do know of one problem yet to solve on the submit page, and there may be other pages that have display issues. I am sure that I have not seen all of the pages that are available. I may do a reference install on a test sub-domain that I have set up. (While typing this it occurs to me that I may just be able to switch templates, since I am doing my mods to an alternate template. The default template is there untouched.)

The domain that I used to install the script is heresthesite.com. I am calling the bookmarking site ‘I Found It – Here’s The Site‘. If you have a minute stop by and tell me what you think. If you have suggestions that may make the site better let me know!

This is an announcement of a new space that I have put up on the web. It is a blog called, “My IM Odyssey“. It can be found in a sub-domain of my personal site at: http://www.myimodyssey.winklongnecker.com/.

I established this space to chronicle my adventures as a hobby webmaster. The new space tracks my path to monetizing these sites that I have and those that I will put up. It will include my thoughts and findings along the way.

I decided to put up the new space because I want to save this space for less money oriented talk. I will still be learning the craft of web development and applying it to my sites, old and new. There should be news here from time to time.

I have been studying the Internet Marketing idea for some time. I have gained a good bit of knowledge but have not implemented it well. It is time to take that end of the Internet interest to the next level. The new blog will be the chronicle of that adventure.

I have established a sub-domain based article directory at InformationPlease.HeresTheSite.Com. This is to replace the instances of the Article Exchange directories that I decided to terminate.

I am using Submit Your Article as the main  source of the articles at the present time. SYA is an article distribution service. They do claim to manually check articles so the quality is better than with some of the article directories. While the service is not perfect it is the best that I have seen. Most of the articles are up to the Ezine Articles standard.

I am using the ArticleMS directory script with this site. I am accepting direct submissions and invite authors to consider submitting to the site. Your quality original articles would help us both out. For you it will mean a backlink to your site, and for me it would be one more reason for people to visit the site. I can’t offer strong page rank at the present time as I have just established the site, but I am working on promoting it and page rank will build with quality content and traffic.

Visit http://www.informationplease.heresthesite.com/ today and check out the new site!

The sub-domain site, Make Money, is open for business. This site, like a few earlier attempts, is a purely commercial site. The site deals with information products primarily from ClickBank, although there will be some related products offered as well. Of course, there can be no sales without traffic so I will attempt to build some traffic to this site.

There is a downside to using a sub-domain. It is harder to promote and, being a new entity on the web, will take some time to get working. I did put up a blog and blogs tend to get indexed relatively rapidly. I am trying to pay attention to the things that I have been learning about SEO with this site.

There are around five million searches on the web for ‘make money’ per month. But then ranking for such a broad term may be impossible. I will use longer tail names for the pages that I put up. I may need to buy a few dot info domains to point at various sections of this site. It would  be  nice to get this one to pay a little. Cash is a bit tight right now. Of course, any site like this one will take some time and a lot of work to make it an asset.

When I put up Mixer In A Box I also bought two .info domain names. When I put up the site I forwarded these sites to Mixer In A Box. I suspect that they may not get indexed without an actual page associated with the domain name, so I put up pages with tickler information and linking to Mixer In A Box. These .info domains are Cheap Digital Mixer and Live Sound Computer. I hope that this will improve the possibility of traffic from these sites so that they fulfill their intended purpose. Since the three are a family of sites I used the same design for all three sites.

These sites all promote mixing live sound in a virtual environment using the SoftWare Audio Console software package. The SAC systems allow you to mix live sound on a computer with all of the features of a big digital hardware console. This could be the wave of the future as far as mixing live sound is concerned.

I have a new website up on the web. There is still a good deal of work to do on the site, but it is up there and waiting for visitors. The site is http://www.mixerinabox.com/ if you would care to check it out. I also purchased to .info feeder domains that are now set up to redirect to the site. They are  http://www.cheapdigitalmixer.info and http://www.livesoundcomputer.info. This site is about the Software Audio Console or SAC system. I have built one and put it into service. I offer to assemble systems for those that don’t feel competent or do not have the time to do it themselves. Please stop by and check out the newest member of my family of site.

I will probably add a new site to my stable in the near future. I have assembled a tool for my business, a Software Audio Console. My primary business is in the field of sound reinforcement. The Software Audio Console, or SAC system, is a full featured virtual digital mixing environment that runs on a Windows PC. I have used the system for my last two contracts and intend to use it as my primary console in the future.

The new site will offer the service of a system integrator. I will offer to build SAC systems to those interested in owning the system, but who do not feel competent or do not have the time  to assemble their own system. This would allow me to indulge to of my areas of interest, building computers and producing sound. I will keep you posted on developments and show off the new site if I decide to put it up.

I now have another domain name – Here’s The Blog. I will begin developing this name this evening. I will link to the site in this post and in the side bar when there is something to see.

Mean while, back at the ranch, I did add a bunch of content to the PC Application Store last evening. It is all helter skelter at the present time, but I have had a few hits on the name, so I need to have something on the page beside ‘Coming Soon’.

I have a job today (for money), so it is going to cut into my web development time. But, remember, ‘There must be bacon and there must be beans (or at least rice)’.

I have worked a bit on the forum software. I made the initial categories and forums this evening. I should make a ‘sticky’ post to most of the forums, but a lot of what I would do in those posts is taken care of in the subtitles.

I do have to write a welcome message and make a post under rules. I should also make a post under ‘Announcements’ requesting help with Mod and Assistant Admin positions. I guess that those things really need to be done before I sprinkle links around my sites. I will then do an email campaign to get the word out to my industry contacts.

The forum address is: http://www.livesoundwiki.com/forum/ if you want to check it out or tell your friends.