Comments on: Career Ramblings Traffic and Promotion

By: James Britton

James Britton — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 17:29:57 +0000

Those traffic numbers are amazing! Keep up the great content. I’ve had a significant boost in traffic after implementing many of the suggestions I’ve seen here and on JohnChow.com.

By: James Britton

James Britton — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 14:28:19 +0000

It’s great how you’re following the text-link-ads.com model but pocketing the entire amount yourself rather than giving up 50%. I guess that’s an advantage you have when you’re a popular blog and have the traffic in place already. Best of luck!

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Career Ramblings » Blog Archive » Resume Makeover — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:47:21 +0000

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By: Dax Desai

Dax Desai — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:54:53 +0000

Thanks for the mention. Link purchase has been worth it so far.

By: Jez

Jez — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:35:42 +0000

No its definately not your banner, its the style.css file you need to play with, like I said, try turning off threaded comments and see if that makes a difference (you will need IE 6 to test though).

If so you could play with the threaded comments files (to make narrower) or the style attributes mentioned by Jeff

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 18:07:59 +0000

This is really great info. I’ll have to play around with it. My initial thought was that the banner may be too wide for php…but maybe it is the side spacing. Thanks Jeff!

By: jez

jez — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:31:32 +0000

Useful info, thanks for that Ill have a look at it, I had been messing with the width of the main pane and the sidebar….

By: Jeff Kee

Jeff Kee — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:47:57 +0000

I used to have that issue of the sidebar jumping down to the bottom..

I think it’s the box module of IE - when I reduced the size of the #narrowcolumn and the #widecolumn DIVs, it fixed it.. you need to leave a bit of a gap between the two elements.

This was a long time ago when i was first setting up my blog though.. I hope my memories are fresh enough.

By: jez

jez — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 03:15:44 +0000

I was reading your prices yesterday and thinking they were a good deal, dont think it would help with my site as I dont really use it like a blog, but I dont think you have a problem selling these.

On another note your sidebar jumps down the bottom of the page in IE6 which is a common problem with this template.

In my case it was the threaded comments plug in which did it, which I think you are also using. Switching off the threaded comments is a quick fix until you find a permanent solution.

A lot of people still use IE6 and it really does look bad…