Being that it is a long weekend this weekend I am going camping.  Thankfully there is no internet connection where I am going so I will not be tempted to take my laptop.

Weather willing I will be gone from this evening, Friday till Monday morning.  So if you email me during these times expect to be disappointed if you are looking for an immediate response.

And to everyone else don’t forget to get out and enjoy this long weekend.

Well I have a couple of sites that I am going to be working on.  One that I had a redesign done for but never actually got around to incorporating it into the site.  I think that it still has the default.  Another is a site that isn’t really going anywhere so I have to do some revising to see if it will improve.  Again some graphic redesign is in order.

Another process that I am going to be going through is moving my sites to a new server.  Currently I have everything on one account with multiple addons.  However that account is starting to get crowded so not that long ago I started up my own “SMALL” hosting company.  I have now decided to move all of my sites to accounts there.  This will ease the accounting since I am going to treat every site as a seperate entity, and it will therefore have its own spreadsheet.  This simplifies matters since some of the sites are joint ventures and others are simply my own.  This is not going to be a small task since a few of these sites have massive databases.  I have never had that much good luck moving sites with such large DBs.

After the move is complete and everything is working again I am planning on adding a couple more tools to this site.  Both SEO and Webmaster related.  I have some ideas, and some will be clones of other sites.  Also I am going to install a simple toplist on the site.  This will be a “general” categorized toplist that will have exports via XML for Yahoo ang Google homepages.

Wish me luck because it is going to be a busy amd exciting couple of months.

Since I don’t think that there are enough forums on the web yet I am going to start one on this site.  It will be open to everyone but will be focused on topics that are important to Nova Scotian’s and ex-pat around the World.

I will let everyone know more as I develop the site.

I know you are just holding your breath

One of the ways that I find helpful to kick start a forum, whether it is now dead or just getting off the ground is to use a Post Exchange System. A really good system that I have been using for about a month is Post Fusion from the owners of AdminFusion. This system is completely automated and allows you to post in your free time.

The advantage of post exchange is that it is cheap. There are a lot of paid posting services out there at the moment, but very few of them produce posts that don’t look paid. Therefore another advantage of a post exchange is the people that are doing the posts usually pick forums that they are interested in. Another thing that PostFusion does is leave the moderation of the posts in your forum up to you. So if someone is just posting usless drivel you have the right to delete those posts. On top of that, if the same person does it on multiple forums then they are banned from the system.

So, in closing if you have a forum that you want to promote check out PostFusion and add it to their list, make some posts and get some in return. I have heard that http://www.theebayforum.com/forum/, currently at the top of the list is really easy to post in and the admin is great

I have figured out the majority of the bugs in my first version of the counter and I will be getting ready to release the BETA version in a very short while.

I am testing it on www.superfreeforums.com so it is on ever persons forum, and every page of every forum.  This should be a decent load test since there are about 50 active forums there.

In the BETA version there will be only one style available, but in the second release the user will be able to choose the colour of both the background and the text, and from there I will have numerous different pics for the background instead of just a plain colour.  The release should be in a week or so.

::EDIT:: 

I have decided to give the counter a shot in the real world, I will not be advertising teh tool very much until I make it lookg better, but you can be the first to try it out.  Also if you decide to put it on your site and then want the “better” version that is fine, you will NOT lose the count

So grab the code here and give it a try, let me know if there is any problems or if there are any 88×19 images that you would like for a background.