Blog Setup or Static HTML Website Under 150$

Posted in Announcements, Blogging on January 31st, 2010 by Icd – 1 Comment

PurpleHazard offers the following two options for those who would like their own websites.

1. Blog Setup

We will setup your domain, your hosting and a WordPress blog with the theme of your choice.

Price : $100

(Excludes premium theme)

2. Static Site

We will setup your domain, your hosting and a static 5 page HTML driven website. Theme designed as you require.

Price : $100

All packages include three months of free maintenance.

Extra’s

Hosting : 40$/per year

Premium WP theme : 25$-100$

Other Coding : 10$ per Hour

Graphics : Pricing per project.

WordPress P2 Theme at RugbyShout.com

Posted in Announcements on January 29th, 2010 by Icd – 3 Comments

I’ve worked with the P2 theme before and thought it would be a great setup for my new community driven Rugby Blog. Basically the blog is a place for rugga lovers to share their opinions on rugby games and players etc. They will also be able to post Youtube vids and hopefully pictures.

My favorite find up and to know is the MiniMeta plugin which allows me to completely control the Wp-meta widget. Everything seems to be working together rather nicely.

I would love to hear your opinions so far. If you use or plan on using P2, drop a comment. I would love to check it out.

RugbyShout.com

PurpleHazard is back online!

Posted in Announcements on January 28th, 2010 by Icd – Be the first to comment

Welcome back and thank you! It’s been a rather long time since the blog went down, but fortunately we’re back and hopefully better than ever. We upgraded our hosting plan and won’t be going down for a very long time.

PurpleHazard will undergo a few changes in the next couple of weeks. The theme is still our favorite , but there is some performance issues we would like to attend to.

Our mission for 2010 is to build a community of bloggers around PurpleHazard or a BuddyPress/Elgg sister site. You’ll find out more if you stay tuned. In the meantine we would like to ask any and all bloggers to register for an account, chat on the forum and submit any blog posts or promotional material you think we might agree to post.

Our aim is to create a fun and informative blogging portal for the WordPress enthusiast.

Leave a comment and welcome us back!!

Blogging Up, Knowledge Down

Posted in Announcements, Blogging, Real People Traffic on December 14th, 2009 by Icd – Be the first to comment

It seems a strange thing the blogging sphere, always growing but always declining. A bit contradictory you think? Not so. A world of possibilities opened with the introduction and expansion of blogging platforms such as WordPress. Yes, more and more people open blogs to share their knowledge, but for every knowledge giver there’s a few hundred profit seekers.

Open up a free blog with generic content, use free services to drive traffic and voila, you can have yourself a money making, knowledge killing machine in a few days. It’s all over the web. “How to make money blogging, but do nothing.”

It’s as if knowledge or useful information is being deluded one cent at a time. It’s not that I’m complaining, I’m sure I’ve contributed my own bit to deluding useful information in my futile attempts to generate some profit, but fortunately, I’ve learned.

My blog went offline for about a week. When I got it up again, my hits, naturally, dropped to about zero. But in a few days the hits increased to a natural number. This natural number was due to people I know and converse with on the internet. My pagerank climbed up one spot and I was happier than ever.

All I could wish for is some kind of way to verify a real blog, some service that can provide you with a big old yellow ribbon stamp saying : “This is a real blog, managed by a real person, providing real interesting and useful information.”

Now wouldn’t that be nice?

WineMeUp

Posted in Announcements on December 4th, 2009 by Icd – Be the first to comment

I recently started working on a new project, WineMeUp, which is a retailer of unlabeled bottled and bulk wine. I would love to hear your thoughts on the site so far.

See site here : www.winemeup.co.za

Cheers

Post Free Classifieds

Posted in Blogging, Job Board, Marketing, Real People Traffic, elgg on November 17th, 2009 by Icd – 1 Comment

Looking for a job? Offering a job? Need to advertise your website or find a specific one? Browse our classifieds or just post yours for free.

We currently have 8 categories you can post in:

Wp Designer Needed

Posted in Job Board on November 10th, 2009 by Jroux – Be the first to comment

Hi, I’m looking for a good Wp Designer to do some tweaking on my wp blog. It should be a very quick job, so the budget is between 50-100$. Please comment on this post and I will get back to you.

Thanks

Admin Note : You can also post ads like the one above, simply register on our blog, post your ad and we’ll approve it if we like it.

Finally A New Adsense Interface

Posted in Blogging, Monetize Your Blog, Optimum SEO on November 8th, 2009 by Icd – 2 Comments

Adsense users will be happy to know that the Google team is currently testing a new interface to make ad publishing that much easier, and that much prettier.

It’s a sad fact that the biggest contextual ad provider online still utilizes, one of the ugliest user interfaces in the world. Think ad formats, think reports, even though it works and we’re all used to it by now, it’s about time Google did some cleaning.

Below is a screenshot of the pruposed interface, which is currently being tested by by a small group of publishers

The new interface plans to improve certain features which include :

1. Helping you to manage your account more efficiently.

2. Putting you in charge of what appears on your site.

3. Give you a more detailed insight about your ad performance, which will help you make better decisions.

You will be notified via e-mail if you’re included in the new beta testing crowd.

Adsenseinterface

If I was still using Adsense I might have been really happy. Now hopefully the decline in performance will stop… I think not.

Rss Feeds To Post

Posted in Announcements, Blogging on November 3rd, 2009 by Icd – Be the first to comment

Yes, this is possible in WordPress, but I’m not here to tell you how, but why. I recently installed a plugin, which allows me to input certain Rss feeds, which will then be transformed into blog post, on a certain timeline. If you want to know which plugin it is, please make a comment.

What I’m going to do with the plugin is give bloggers out there a chance to have excerpts of their most recent blog posts appear on this blog on a daily/weekly/monthly basis. If you want to take part in the competition, you have to mention this blog in one of your posts and then tell me!

Riding the Google Wave

Posted in Blogging, News, Technology on November 3rd, 2009 by Icd – 1 Comment

Google Wave has been described as  a real-time communication tool or an online collaboration tool.  Sounds like a mouthful, but from what I understand it seem to be similar to Facebook, but on steroids.

Google Wave

Google Wave

The most interesting part,  because it differs from the normal Google monopoly mindset, is the release of many sections of the code to the general public. Which means developers will be able to design their own third-party services on Google Wave. The possibilities… endless.

I say well done Google, you’re finally moving in the right direction. It will be very interesting to see how far Google Wave will go when they release it to the general public, you are currently only allowed to login if you get an invitation… *hint hint*.