My site has been down for over 24 hours - the time it took to move tystips.com into it’s own /subfolder on my godaddy hosting account. Unfortunately when the site came back up some of my thumbnail images weren’t displaying properly. I’m very sorry for the inconvenience. Until I get this fixed, please click on any broken thumbnail to see the full size image in a new screen.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Tyler

Edit: Ok, I Figured it out.

First, some background on how this all got screwed up in the first place:

I discovered recently that you can host multiple blogs on the same premium hosting account through godaddy. All you have to do is point your additional blogs to their own subfolder (/subfolder) and not to the root directory (/ ). I really liked how much this cleaned everything up in my root directory, but I still had the original blog (tystips.com) hosted in the root (which was messy).

So I decited to use FireFTP to copy the entire contents of the root directory (/ ) where TYsTIPs.com resides to a new subfolder (called /TYsTIPs) located within the root. Once completed, the root had two subfolders (/TYsTIPs and /projectsinmetal - which is for my other site). Unfortunately FireFTP and the .thumb folders don’t play nicely together, and NONE of my .thumb folders got copied into the new /TYsTIPs directory.

So I successfully moved my entire wordpress blog into a new subfolder . . . but none of the .thumb folders made it into that new subfolder. It took forever to copy these .thumb folders 1×1 into the new subfolder, but I finally got it done. Hopefully now everything shows up properly.  If you notice a post that still has image issues PLEASE leave a comment and let me know.

Thanks for your patience!

Tyler

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I’ve been an Amazon associate for over a year now, listing book titles on a few of the small blogs that I manage. Over the past year I’ve made about $11 in revenue. Then something fun happened. I launched a new niche blog about metalworking and sold 11 books in 1 day! Wow! Now, those 11 books only amounted to $3.56 in associate revenue, but since that 1 day of sales accounted for about 32% of my total earnings for the entire 12 months previous, I was extactic!

Then something strange happened. The next day (yesterday to be exact) I sold another book. However, my total associate revenue dropped despite the sale of another book. I went from a total of $3.56 from selling 11 titles to a total of $2.68 after selling 12 titles. How can this be? …read full articles of "Is Amazon Cheating Me out of 25% of My Associates Earnings? Could Amazon Be Stealing?"

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Here’s a quick tip! WordPress has this frustrating habit of stripping extra <br> and <p> tags out of your posts once you publish them. This is particularly annoying because the tags stay in when you preview, and aren’t stripped until you actually publish.

Instead of using <br> or <p> tags in your post (which isn’t really kosher anyway), try using this:

<br style=”height:4em” />

This should give you that extra space that you’re looking for. If you need even more space, change the 4em (to 5 or 6em, etc.) until you get the amount of space you’re looking for.

Also, if you’re ever trying to post code like I did above you’ll need to use “& l t ;” in place of the “< " and “& g t ;” in place of “>” (remember to remove the spaces and don’t include the quotes). Otherwise the browser will recognize the code you’ve typed, and format accordingly.

Hope that helps!

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I recently set up a new blog using the Clean Machine Template.

I liked the template a lot, but I was bothered by the fact that the title and description of the blog were automatically converted to lowercase. I wanted to change this setting so my blog title would be capitalized properly.

To illustrate the problem, this is what the blog looked like with the unaltered Clean Machine theme. Notice how the blog title is all lowercase (so is the slogan/description).

This is what I wanted the title to look like (nicely capitalized).

It turned out to be a pretty easy fix.

To fix it, you need to edit your style.css file. Click on “Appearance > Editor” and choose style.css in the right hand column (click the image below to make it bigger). Locate the portion of the style.css sheet that says “*/ Header /*” and change the text-transform from “lowercase” to “none”. Then scroll to the bottom and click the “update file” button.

If you also want to remove the lowercase setting from the slogan under the blog title, scroll a little further down until you find the section containing “.slogan {” and change that from “lowercase” to “none” as well.

I changed both the header and slogan settings so my blog title and slogan now look like this:

That’s it! See, I told you it was easy!

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Yes it’s true, you can pay for a deluxe hosting package through godaddy.com and host multiple blogs on the same account. The blogs share bandwith and storage, and that saves you money!

When I set up TysTips.com I signed up for godaddy’s economy hosting plan for $4.75 per month. The economy hosting provided 10 Gigs of storage space (10,000 MB), and 300 Gigs of monthly bandwith (300,000 MB). That was plenty of space (in fact, at the time of this post, TysTips.com was only using 22 MB of storage space and 32 MB of bandwith per month. Basically I was using 0.2% of the storage, and 0.1% of the bandwith. Why not put that other 99.7% to work hosting other blogs? Get the idea?

To do so I had to upgrade from the economy to the deluxe hosting package. This cost me an extra $1.90, so it was like getting another hosting account for $2. For the extra dough, you get some extra space. The deluxe plan has higher storage and bandwith limits (150 GB of storage, and 1.5 TB of bandwith). Furthermore, if I host a 3rd blog it won’t cost me anything extra. I could have 10 blogs hosted on the same deluxe plan, all sharing the storage space and bandwith for $6.65 per month. The steps below will be broken down into 2 parts. Part 1: Upgrading your plan, and Part 2: Hosting your new blog. …read full articles of "How2: Save Money! Host Multiple WordPress Blogs on a Single Godaddy Hosting Account"

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