Latest From Blogigs - TheSource – A Theme For World Cup Football Blog
Latest From Blogigs - TheSource – A Theme For World Cup Football Blog |
- TheSource – A Theme For World Cup Football Blog
- Selling Advertisements In Your Blog
- Use Fancy Custom Fonts For Your WordPress Blogs
| TheSource – A Theme For World Cup Football Blog Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:47 PM PDT
I saw something different in TheSource, a premium WordPress Theme that was added recently to the Elegant Themes stable of premium themes. The layout, the colors, and the options available makes it a perfect theme for those who are blogging about football and the on coming 2010 Fifa World Cup in Africa. TheSource was designed as a magazine theme, but in my opinion, it simply looks too hot for a news magazine style blog. It looks too funky and too hot. Using it as like a newspaper isn;t too suitable. On the other hand, if you use it for a review blog, like reviewing the World Cup matches or any action sports for that matter, this theme will suit you like, how should I put it…a hoot? Here is a full screenshot of the front page layout. You do not even need to design a header to make it unique. All you have to do is to change the title to match your blog's and that could be easily done within the options panel. The big slider at the top will do the job of making your blog stand out from the crowd. Include images of World Cup players in action and you will have your readers drooling to read more. The 4 columns below the feature slider can be categorized into match reviews, player reviews, team reviews and match predictions. Coming in 4 different color schemes, the theme also comes with a four column widgetized footer that lets you add whatever you see fit. As in all Themes available from Elegant, this theme comes with a host of user friendly features which includes, Automated Thumbnail Resizing Complete Localization Advertising Management To view the Live Demo and Full Features List, Head Over To Elegant Themes. 
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| Selling Advertisements In Your Blog Posted: 03 Jun 2010 05:35 PM PDT Selling advertisements in our blog. Don't we all want to do that. It's better than pay per click Ads. It's better than affiliate banners. Where these two form pays only when some kind of action is taken, be it clicks or sales, selling your own Ads means you get paid just for showing the Ads. No worries about getting clicks or sales. There is just one small minor problem. Getting people to advertise in your blog. Of course it would be a different story if you are as big as Techcrunch or Engadget. Advertisers practically queue up for their turn in getting an Ad spot and one that cost more than 10k a month for the smallest block, the 125 x 125 ads. If you are wondering how the price could be so high but yet so popular, there is a formula by which they arrive at such a figure. Calculating The Value Of Your Advertisement Space A universally accepted formula is to take the page impressions or page view of the blog where the Ads will be displayed, multiply it by the accepted cost of impression or CPM which is 1.5 and then divide it by 1000. Thus if your blog gets 30000 page views per month, which also means the Ads gets viewed 30000 times, then your Ads will have a value of $45 per month. If the size is bigger like say, 250 by 250 then simply multiply that value by 4. Techcrunch's monthly page views is around 8 million. Thus the price they are charging for the 125 Ads. It's no rocket science. Getting The Advertisers Unless your blog is at least 20 to 25% as successful as Techcrunch, forget about selling your Ads directly. No matter what so called gurus tells you, I doubt anyone will be interested in your blog if you try to sell your own ads without going through a third party Ad Broker. That's where Advertisers go in search of blogs that suits their Ads and even if your blog is not a very high traffic one but in tangent with the Advertiser's products, you might get lucky to snag an Advertiser or two. Maybe even three or four. Someone looking to Advertise is someone who understand blog traffic. They too will know what is the meaning of targeted traffic. The reason that they are willing to accept blogs with lower but targeted traffic is because getting their Ads viewed by 300 interested pair of eyes is better than getting their Ads viewed by 1000 who have no interest. Furthermore, they get a better deal as these lower traffic blogs charges much less for their Ads and he gets to place his Ads in many more places rather than drying up his Advertisement budget in one single blog. Where To Sell Your Ads. One very popular destination that lots of A listers utilize is BuySellAds, but I really do not have much luck with them as this blog has been rejected twice. BuySellAds are a little bit particular about the kind of blogs they want to sell their Ads in. They might have their reasons for doing so, but I do not see much sense in limiting would be Advertisement buyers the choice of sites they can choose from to place their Ads. (UPDATE) With AdvertiseSpace, you keep 70% of what they can sell for you and they keep 30. which I think is more than a fair deal. Furthermore they have a referral program where you get to keep 5 to 10% income from any any Ads sold to Advertisers whom you have referred to them. This commission is a recurring one for one whole year. So if you have a blog that is doing reasonable well, try selling Advertisements in your blog. Might prove to be a good first income. 
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| Use Fancy Custom Fonts For Your WordPress Blogs Posted: 31 May 2010 06:01 PM PDT See the fancy fonts that my blog title is using? I have been trying to do this for, like ages and ages but without any luck. I have also tried many plugins that are suppose to do this but still no joy. Until now that is. It is also the latest offering from Google. You can now use custom fonts for your Wordpress Blogs using fonts from the Google Font Directory. Still in beta, Google Font Directory lets you embed the fonts available in their directory using the Google Font API. which makes it super easy. The directory even generates the codes for you and all yo have to do is to copy and paste the codes to your Theme's file. For you to use the Fonts, simply go to the Font directory, hover your mouse over the fonts you want and hit the "Click to embed…." link. On the new page, click "Get the code". You will be given 2 lines of codes. One for you to paste into your header php file and another in your Stylesheet so you can style it even further. For newbies, you will find this The css codes comes with the h1 selector but you can use it anywhere you want. The h1 class is normally used for the Blog title. You can use it for your post titles like in my case (which will normally be h2) or for your sidebar titles, or even your overall contents if you like. You will just need to identify under which class the are attributed to. For example if you decide to use it for your sidebar title, the normal codes will look something like this,
It might differ from theme to theme but the general idea is you change the font-family value to that of the font that you have chosen then play around with the color and the size after the fonts are showing. Different fonts reacts to different sizes. The only downside is the fonts available in Google Font Directory is rather limited at present but Google being the giant that it is, you can rest assured the list will grow in future. Have fun experimenting using your own fancy custom fonts for your blogs. Update: Have discontinued using it as some fonts do not work with other browsers except Firefox. 
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