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I’d like to introduce my new project, Monty Tuts - Your Ultimate Web Design Resource. MT offers tutorials on web design, web development, graphic design and all areas of the .com world. On top of the learning Monty Tuts will also take an up to date look at the web offering reviews, best of’s and lots more.

So why not come and take a look and join in a growing community.

With other projects taking up most of my brain power, Monty-Blog has taken a back seat. Now I feel its about time to pull it out the back of the cupboard, dust it off and re-launch it. So keep your eyes peeled for the new look Monty-Blog coming in the next few weeks. All thou I will still offer information and reviews on the same topics such as making money on the internet, blogging and internet tips, I’m going to be offering tutorials on using Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, building websites and much much more. So keep checking back.

Do you use ads on your blog? Do you find that you can only position the ads before and after your post content?

If the answer to these two questions is yes I have found the Wordpress plug-in to answer your advert prays. Adman gives you a huge amount control over the positions of your ads on your home page and in your posts. With this plug-in you can place your ads in the middle of your of your post content as opposed to stuck out in the cold at the end of your post.

The plu-in was designed by Sum Guy and i’d just like to say that if you ever read this post. Cheers for a great Plug-in and keep them comming

 Download Adman

Editing Wordpress themes can be mighty tricky as I commented on in the previous post but if but if your dead set on designing a theme that suits all your needs and looks exactly how you want it to, there are ways. Option one is become professional in CSS which would be great in the long run but will take time. If you can’t wait that long and want to design your theme straight away you can use Dreamweaver. In my opinion Dreamweaver is the king in the want you see is what you get web design packages.

Wordpress uses template files to control the appearance of the website. The web-page is assembled of several PHP files controlling specific aspects of the site like header, sidebar, main content etc.

To use Dreamweaver to edit these themes you have to combine the different PHP files into one Dreamweaver document so you can view the site as your editing it. An important start of point is to work out which PHP files correspond with which part for example the index.php is the main page and the single.php is the individual post part.

Create a new folder and copy into is the style.css of the theme you are editing and the folder containing the images.

Open Dreamweaverand create a new HTML document then save it in the folder you’ve just created. Switch Dreamweaver so you your viewing it in code view and paste in the lines below:

<!– Header part goes here –> <!– /Header part ends here –> <!– Main content here –> <!– /Main content ends here –> <!– Sidebar content here –> <!– /Sidebar content ends here –> <!– Footer content here –> <!– /Footer content ends here –>

The Lines you have just copied into your HTML document are code comments and will help guide you to put the right PHP file in the right place. If you want a different sort lay out just swap the lines to suit your need. (more…)

A key factor to running a successful blog is have it well designed and professional looking. If your a wizard with CSS this will be breeze for you but for those of you that can’t get your head round CSS there are many other ways to get the look you want for your blog.

As you probably know there’s many free templates that you can find by searching on Google, but if your after are more professional look with a blog that around 10.000 other people around the world haven’t got Monster Template is a great site. Monster Templatesoffers 1000’s of great looking blog templates for very cheap prices. Now you may say I’m not paying for a site template when I can get them for free but if your using your blog for money making purposes you would be amazed at how much a professional looking blog increases sales. It only takes around 2 affiliate sales to cover the cost of the template and will certainly help increase your monthly revenue buy a significant amount.

Take a look at Monster Template here

Welcome to the new look Monty-Blog.com. Hopefully you like the new design. Once again sorry for the lack of updates of the last week but Monty-Blog.com will now resume normal service with entries every day. So thanks for your patience and I hope you continue to use and enjoy Monty-Blog.com.

I’m currently in the process of redisgning Monty-Blog.com. So look out for a new look, some new features and maybe even a few suprises. Works coming along well so it should be done in the next 2 to 3 days. Once it’s done I can get back to updated more regulary. Thanks for all your support of Monty-Blog.com.

Sorry for the lack of updates in the last few days. I’ve been working on another project called Celeb Daily Dose. CDD is a blog containing galleries of celebs, models, porn-stars etc. It went live today and to my surprise has received 288 visitors already. 288 may not seem that many but that’s without any promotion what so ever so once I incorporate the techniques i’ve covered in Monty-blog.com I should be looking at 1000 + per day with in a week.

This may seem like me bragging or a shameless plug for my new blog, but why I really added this post was to show you how easy it is to set up and run a blog. From start to finish it took me a day to setup the blog with a free Wordpress account. Once your happy with the way your blogs looking just start posting till your hearts content.

A ‘Page Rank’ is a number Google gives to a web page that represents how important Google thinks the page is on the web. When one page links to another, Google considers it to be effectively casting a vote for the other page. The more ‘votes’ there are for a page across the whole web, the more important that page must be. But that’s quite an assumption, isn’t it?

The importance of the page that is casting the vote determines how important the vote itself really is, meaning in Google calculations a page’s importance comes from the votes cast for it. These votes are then taken into account when the page is ranked.  

As a general rule of thumb, Google Page Ranks along with Alexa ratings are the best indicators of how well your SEO work has been going. Granted, the ranking that you appear in on the results for your most important key words is the real indicator, but a strong Google Page Rank will help to boost this position substantially. The more links that you have pointing at your site, the better off you are. That’s a basic rule that will apply throughout your SEO operations.

Page Rank matters because it’s one of the most influential factors that determine a page’s ranking in Google’s search results. If you want to have good Page Rank, you’d better make sure people are linking to your site.  

Well, don’t jump the gun and try to get your site linked from everywhere you can, because Google doesn’t count every link. They have started filter out links from known ‘link farms’ (sites that are nothing but big lists of links), and being linked to or from these kinds of sites will get you penalized by Google. Be careful out there. They have also implemented a new relevance calculator that (true to its name) tries to determine how relevant the links into and out of your site are. The most important factor here is that Google considers long lasting links as more meaningful than a recently published link.

The best way to increase your page rank is to contact people with relevant and complementary content (that is, content that does not compete with your own but that enhances it). These links are most likely to last and they will not only increase your Google Page Rank, but they will also provide relevant hits via the links themselves.
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The other day I stumbled across a great plugin by Ankesh Kothari called buy me a beer. The WordPress plugin that allows my blog readers to buy me a beer via PayPal. 

The plugin adds a “Buy Me a Beer” button to your sidebar and at the bottom of every post. When your readers click on the button, they are taken to the secure PayPal page so they can donate money for your drinking habits. For the tea total people among you, there’s non-alcoholic drinks, which shows a setting to replace the beer mug with a coffee cup. 

This isn’t a way to make big bucks from your blogging, but I think it’s a nice plugin for people to show their appreciation of your blog. So if you find anything that is useful in my blog, or you’re just feeling generous, then please buy me a beer.