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See this is why I feel it is entirely important sometimes to build rep o with your clients or with anybody for that matter. Yesterday I had met with Timothy and Nicholas of Nuffnang. They are both really nice people and what I think impressed me more was how well they know the industry that they are in. I originally used both Advertlets and Nuffnang. To be honest, I was testing the waters with both and I’ll be frank that it is not easy to get cash in to your account if you don’t drive enough traffic into your site. Having said that though, there are pros and cons from both side, which was the reason that made me keep both Blog Ad Services on my blog. Here’s why. Advertlets I have to admit had a much better layout structure when it came to their site and I’m one for the prettiness of a layout. But I was thoroughly glad to hear that Nuffnang had changed their layout yesterday by Timothy. So after our meet, I decided to go give it a looksie…Thumbs up!!! Nice change dudes. Secondly another reason why – when I was about to switch to Advertlets entirely – was because of their ad banner sizes. It fitted quite nicely with my blog layout the one that is usually just after a particular post. The only thing I couldn’t stand was the ad banners for a post was this huge square! But then again I guess that is how it has to go if you want to advertise. Thirdly it depends o the brands they are supporting…for me anyway. Nuffnang  I found had a brand which I am thoroughly in love with. NIKE!!!!!! So that really had a big vote on my end and that’s the reason why I hung on to Nuffnang. Ok ok I know people mostly go to these blog advertisers for the cash, but once again unless you have some god traffic flowing in, don’t count so much on this means of getting easy cash. Cause it ain’t easy!! So for me putting these ad banners up now, while it can be a side income of some sort, it is more of supporting the blog community. Furthermore, honestly I think the founders of this Blog advertising networks are brilliant! Why? Simply because locally here there is no one offering the service. And with such a service they are the only source that actually have a tie up with all the top blogs and most influential ones. It is like a sitting gold mine. That said why should companies, individuals and governments think that bloggers are important? Bloggers are now becoming the voice of the society. What you want to hear that is good or bad, are coming from the bloggers. It is first and foremost a freedom of speech on the net. LITERALLY FREE! Which is also great for countries that have a very tight cap on their media. Everyone would like to know two sides of a story, so having a different voice sometimes help in giving the public a more open discussion on a topic. Take how Al-Jazeera is now the other voice of the news, opposed to their counterparts like CNN and BBC. Even people like Hillary Clinton is very keen on what blogs have to say about her. Smart lady ehehe. Lol…. I have gone a very long winded topic… Basically I just want to say that I support Nuffnang now and reason is because I have now met them in person. No hard feelings to the Advertlets side but I don’t want an abundance of ads all over on my blog. I have seen enough ads as it is… LOL…. for those who know me… they know what I mean by this. It’s just a preference in the end, so this is mine.
I have just installed the latest WordPress which was 2.3 and I say was because now they have WordPress 2.3.1 out… Just when I was getting used to 2.3 the new one is now out, which you can download over at WordPress.org. Having said that, I must say that the new WordPress 2.3 has got some neat features which the previous ones didn’t have. No i haven’t read through the articles available on the net to see what is new, I just experience them :P
  1. I love the fact that now they have tags on the write page. Originally i had to install a plugin for a tag section which i can pop in words for each post. But the new wordpress comes with that feature.
  2. There is an advance toolbar at the write post. If you notice there is a whole new second bar with stuff like heading format, justification for your posts, the parts that i like is the pasting from word, remove the formatting and cleaning up the messy buttons which is quite handy, especially when there is some html coding that has become all messed up. Its really irritating and I’ve been in that occasion once too many. The advance toolbar looks like so. ** I have a third line which if some are wondering, is how I place all my videos into the post. WordPress still can’t handle. I’m using Viper Video Tags, which is absolutely fabulous and helps me with whatever video i want to share here.
  3. Oh and the sidebar what we have is an added member in the post status box. Now we have one more option which is called pending review. How that is very different from draft beats me. Cause in the end if i don’t really like my draft i can always kill it.
  4. Now moving away from the write page, what I found a tad bit a annoying was how if there is a new program, there will be this subtle line in your plugins page or at whatever page your on that there is a new program available, so i have to update pronto… sigh.. not that it’s a bad thing, it’s just annoying.
And yeah i ran out of topics thats why I ended up blogging about wordpress. haha