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Contest to design a PAYjr Visa Buxx Card

July 26, 2007 by Tricia

If you are creative and enjoy contests you might want to try your hand at the PAYjr Visa Buxx Teen Credit Card design competition. You could win some great prizes if your design wins the competition.

The contest is for a new prepaid credit card that teens are loving and parents are thrilled to use. Parents can load the card with the money that they’d normally pay their teen for chores around the house or with whatever amount of money they think is reasonable for their teen to have access to and then there teen can use the card wherever PAYjr Visa cards are accepted.

What’s great about this credit card is not only that it’s prepaid, it’s that teens can design their own card or choose from designs that have already been created. This of course is where the contest comes in. Do you think you can create a credit card design that teens will love using?

The design contest winner will be awarded with an Apple Laptop, the second place winner will get an Apple Video iPod and the third place winner will get an iPod Nano. I know that if I entered the contest I’d be pleased to win any of those prizes.

The winning designs will be used in the PAYjr Visa Credit card gallery where teens can choose to use them for their own credit card.

Just go to the page that I’ve linked to above and follow the instructions to enter the contest and upload your design. Once you’ve submitted your design you’ll be given code that you can place on your website or myspace page which will help you gain votes for the contest. The top three highest voted designs will win the contest.

Give it a try if you want to win any of those great prizes!





Filed Under: Art, Contest, Cool stuff, Entertainment, Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Recreation, Services Tagged With: Apple laptop, Apple video iPod, award, Contest, credit, credit card design contest, design, great prizes, ipod, iPod Nano, laptop, PAYjr visa Buxx, prepaid credit card, top votes, votes, winners

Problem with site urls – help!

July 26, 2007 by Tricia

I’m having a problem with my websites – a minor problem compared to what happened over the weekend, but a problem none the less.

When I visit my other blogs that are installed on the directories of Feverishthoughts the primary domain being used on my web hosting account also shows in the address if you click on the header on one of the blogs.

By this I mean you can get to WebStyle by typing in http://feverishthoughts.com/webdesign/ and the url looks normal, but if you click on the header or the home tab while on the site you’ll get an url that looks like this:

http://feverishthoughts.thewebfiles.com/webdesign/

Also, if you visit the first url without adding the / at the end of the url you’ll be taken to the second url that I listed with my primary domain included in the url.

This was happening when I was on my previous web host too. I’m not sure when it started happening but it’s been at least month. It could coincide with my upgrading my WordPress installations to the latest versions, or it could have something to do with lunarpages moving my sites to another server at the end of June. Perhaps when they transferred the site a little bit of coding got messed up and now that my complete site has been transferred to my new host – HostGator via a c-panel full account back up the problem persists.

The funny thing is that this doesn’t seem to be happening on my gardening blog or my husbands guitar related blog, but on all the other sub-directory blogs. Could it be something in the sites themes? WordPress or a hidden redirect?

The support team at Hostgator tried to take a look at this for me but they kept trying to change my htaccess codes and I’m certain it’s not something in my htaccess coding.

I’m pretty sure that I could add a redirect line to the htaccess for each of the troublesome blogs, but I think that there’s some underlying problem causing this too.

Help!

Filed Under: Blogging, Internet, Web and Technology, Web Hosting, Wordpress Tagged With: blog, blogs, design, hosting, moving, my sites, primary domain in url, redirect, redirect site, redirect site url, support, url problem, web host, website, websites, Wordpress

Re-invent and Improve your blog

July 25, 2007 by Tricia

There was a bit of heated discussion last week on the blog of one of the companies with whom I do some pa1d bl0gging work. They used to allow people to do three pa1d p0sts per day, but they’ve dropped down to two per day late last week.

They did that in the past for a few months and it actually allowed more people to get opportunities. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with what they’ve done. True they could have notified us in advance, but it’s there prerogative to do this.

Use this time to re-invent your blogs.

Stand back and take a good look at your site with fresh eyes. Believe me, you might not like what you see.

I’m not saying that I haven’t made a few mistakes with my sites. I have. But every once in a while I sit back and take stalk of what I’m doing and I keep trying to improve how I do things.

I’m stuck at home with a chronic illness. The money I make in various ways via the internet is the ONLY money I have coming in. I must pay the bills.

If the opportunities were truly there in the first place moving from three ops a day to two would hurt all of us financially, but the ops aren’t there. Hopefully now some of us that haven’t been getting any decent ops that FIT our sites will get some.

I do have several blogs on that particular companies system but as of the end of last week I’d only done 12 ops this month. TWELVE. That ain’t much. I do believe that most of the ops that I chose to take for my sites did fit their topic/niche.

Those that have been getting their 3 a day quota per blog … were all those ops really on topic for your site? Really?

Think about it this way. If every second post on your site, or in some cases large chunks of posts in a row are pa1d p0sts (some companies allow this!) do you really think your readers are going to stick around?

Are advertisers going to seek your blog out if it’s full of ads?

Is your sites PR going to go up? – Maybe maybe not. It depends on the quality of your posts, if you’ve been taking opportunities that fit your blogs topics, and most importantly if your readers are sticking around and occasionally linking to your site or your posts.

Now that we can only take two ops per day on this one site that many of us do work for try to find posting opportunities that truly fit your site.

If you write about things that suite your blogs topics it will only enhance your blog. Don’t kill your site by taking everything and anything just for the sake of money – no matter how much you need it.

I must be doing ok with my choices.

My readership has gone up each week. Many of my visitors interact with me via the comment section of my posts. I must be doing well in selecting things to write about that interest not only me but my readers as well.

Not only has my readership gone up, but so has advertiser interest. I’m getting offers for all kinds of things from free samples to sidebar links to posting and affiliate opportunities on a daily basis. See my post about Monetizing our Sites to learn what’s been happening here lately.

Vedis gave me a very nice compliment regarding my passion for blogging and how it shows in my posts – both pa1d and unpa1d.

I’m very thankful for that comment because it gives me some feedback as to what I’ve been doing, how I’m doing and what other bloggers are thinking.

All I can really say is that I try.

I try to write about things that interest me and hopefully my readers. Whatever I’m writing about I try to make it personal by adding my own experiences and thoughts into the post. I think that’s the key factor in any post. It’s the key factor in my posts.
These are mostly personal blogs that we are working on – make it personal. Write something that touches your readers.

You can’t do that if you are writing about things that you have no experience with or that you haven’t taken the time to research well.

I want everyone to have success which is why I take a moment to share what I’m doing every once in a while.

I know people are upset about the paid blogging company that has reduced the amount of jobs that one can do on a blog per day, but really use this time wisely.

Use this time to make your blog better. If you do you’ll probably end up raising your sites page rank and then you’ll also end up increasing the amount that you can earn through your blog in a variety of ways.

Filed Under: Affiliates, Blogging, Finance, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Make Money, Money, Sales and Marketing, The Blogisphere, Web and Technology, Writing Tagged With: 2 opportunities, affiliate, blog, blogger, blogs, comment, company, feedback, ill, illness, improve your blog, improve your writing, Internet, make it personal, making money, Money, my sites, offer, on topic, op, opportunity, page rank, personal posts, post, posting, posts, quality, quality posts, re invent your site, visit, visitors, work, write, Writing

Stressed and tired? That’s me

July 24, 2007 by Tricia

I’m feeling kind of wiped out today. Actually I was feeling that way yesterday too.

I think I’m still fighting the flu that my husband had last week – I think I’ve had a touch of it, but no where near as bad as he had it. Which of course I’m thankful for since I have Crohns and if I got the flu as bad as he did I’d probably end up in the hospital!

Also, all the stress of my sites being down – writing to two web hosting companies and waiting for replies from support which can take hours and hours wore me down too.

I really am pleased that my sites are finally working again though. Now, if I could get some decent rest I’ll be ready for anything again!

Actually I have some built up work for advertisers that I’m going to spend the evening working on. I might just take a tiny rest first though so my head will be clearer and with any luck my posts will be better.

Filed Under: Blogging, Chronic Pain, Health Fitness and Beauty, Home and Lifestyle, Inflammatory bowel disease, Web and Technology, Web Hosting Tagged With: crohns, flu, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hospital, hosting, husband, IBD, ill, Inflammatory bowel disease, my sites, pain, posts, Stress, support, Web Hosting, wiped out, work, Writing

Virtual dolls at the Cartoon Doll Emporium

July 24, 2007 by Tricia

When I was a little girl I used to love playing with cut out dolls. I’m not even sure if that kind of toy is still around anymore.

The closest thing that I can come up with that is similar in nature would be sites like the Cartoon Doll Emporium where you can choose a doll type and then proceed to dress it up and accessorize with a selection of items ranging from hats, pants, skirts, dresses, tops, blouses, jackets, purses, shoes, glasses and all kinds of fun items.

The Cartoon Doll Emporium calls these dolls Virtual Dolls. Virtual because they are web based and Virtual because you can make them look any way your heart desires. Or … uhm … your child can make them look whatever way they’d like.

It’s for kids, but I know adults use sites such as this to create avatar images to use on their websites or on discussion forums too. I believe I might have made my own Tricia’s Musings avatar that you see in the header on the Cartoon Doll Emporium. I probably did since it’s supposed to be the most popular dress up website.

There are over 800 different types of dolls to choose from. There are girl, boy, celebrity, character, anime, Bratz, fashion, fantasy, makeover, international, historical, geeks, seasonals, babies,video game, political and even animal dolls. One of the doll types – webkinz even has virtual pets!

You know you’ve found a great site for kids when even as an adult you can have fun with it and spend some time creating interesting doll characters.

Be sure to visit when you have some time on your hands because I have a feeling you’ll be there for a while.

Filed Under: Cool stuff, Entertainment, Family, Games, Hobbies, Home and Lifestyle, Internet, Recreation, Web and Technology Tagged With: animal dolls, anime, avatars, Babies, boy, Bratz, Cartoon Doll Emporium, celebrity, character, create avatar, create doll, discussion forum, doll avatar, dolls, dress up doll, fantasy, Fashion, forums, geeks, girl, historical, images, international, kids, makeover, play, political, seasonals, video game, virtual doll, virtual pets, webkinz, website

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