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Narrow Your Focus and Broaden Your Sales
If your web-based business solves a specific problem, then your chances of online success are good. This is not a facetious statement: you'd be surprised how many businesses go online with no clear objective
CGI, Permissions, and Your Host
One year ago this month, Stephen wrote an article concerning the basics of setting UNIX file permissions in order for a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) script to perform properly. If you are unsure in the least of what I'm talking about, make sure you read his article.
Screen Captures for Fun and Profit
Being able to make a decent, readable screen capture is one of the most basic and essential techniques in any computer graphic artist's repertoire. While you don't need to be a digital Michelangelo to perform this simple yet often challenging task, there are a few 'advanced' tips and tricks that will improve your results.
What Is Beauty? Golden Rectangles and Website Design: Part 3
We've ultimately explored the aspects of human attraction by questioning the essence of beauty and, in doing so have discovered multiple reasons why similar objects often score far apart from one another on a scale of relative beauty.
UCITA and the End of Freedom of Speech
A recent article at XBiz entitled "Boycott Microsoft" that dealt with the author's disdain for Windows XP's End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) provided a forum that re-ignited the often passionate (and often irrational) chorus of debate streaming from both sides of the Microsoft camp.
What Is Beauty? Golden Rectangles and Website Design: Part 2
So, what exactly is beauty? Last week in Part 1 we discussed the contributions of geometric simplicity, specifically as it applies to symmetry and the golden rectangle. We discovered that patterns which are easily recognizable throughout the natural world, and thus easily deciphered, tend to be more aesthetically pleasing to the human eye.
What Is Beauty? Golden Rectangles and Website Design: Part 1
Is beauty a magical, wonderful thing, or is it based upon primordial instinct? Amanda Grimm from Adult Webmaster Consultants takes up the subject in this first of a three part series examining just "What Is Beauty?"
Traffic: Targeting, Locking, and Converting - It's Not Just a VISA Driven Marketplace
The Internet is still growing and is finally becoming a true global network of individuals communicating, conducting business, shopping and thankfully transacting large amounts of money. For you, the Adult Webmaster, this means that you must service various cultures, desires, and most importantly offer targeted options.
Pay Site Traffic, Advertising, and Conversions
I'm banging my head against the wall, wondering where my traffic went. Sometimes it just makes no sense to me. I have not changed anything, I am with the same advertisers, the same search engines, the same link trades. But I am only getting half the traffic today as I was yesterday.
How Security and Privacy Concerns Affect Business
Many Webmasters do not consider how a lack of security and the fear of an invasion of privacy are adversely affecting their business. This often causes the adult business to not operate at its full potential; a situation which Webmasters can resolve by facing the issues of Online Security and Privacy Protection.
'Whacker' Programs and .htaccess
This article started as a thread on Cosmic Village's 'Speak Your Mind' forum that detailed an .htaccess file modification which prevents known 'Whacker' programs from automatically downloading all of your content. This was a useful and significant enough technique that I had to share it with all of you:
Abuse, Neglect, Encouragement and Guidance
How do YOU treat the visitors to your Web site? All too often, visitors to 'adult' Web sites in particular are treated with an appalling lack of respect — and this not only hurts our sales, but the industry as a whole. Here are a few thoughts on the different ways in which surfers are, could be, and should be treated:
Zen and the Art of Problem Solving
Okay, so I picked that title because it sounded good. If you're looking to become one with your problem, I can't help you out right now. What I can help with, is giving you some tips on problem solving. Or rather, how to solve a problem without the solving of the problem becoming the problem. Still with me?
A Quick and Easy AVS Site, Part 1
While so-called Age Verification Services (AVS) have been around for quite a while, many new adult Webmasters still do not understand them, or know how to build sites using them. Today I'll begin to show you a quick and easy way to bang one out from recycled free site parts...
Scripting in 2002 and Beyond!
In December of 2000 I wrote an article with my New Year's predictions for 2001. The purpose of that article was to try and explore where the scripting world would be going in 2001. I promised to return a year later and write about how wrong or right I was. Well it is time for me to make good on that promise.
Lions, Tigers, and Spiders
Ok, 66.33333...% false title - there are no lions or tigers in today's article but YES there are definitely spiders... No, not the creepy crawling, bug eating, you want to squash kind, but the site indexing, you want to be friends with kind...
Selling Yourself for Fun and Profit
No, this isn't an article about how to make extra money by hanging around in certain sleazy districts of your home town/city, but how to market yourself to a wider audience – both other Webmasters and potential visitors.
Finding Models and the Pitfalls of Beauty
So you have decided to take pictures of naked women. Your wife or girlfriend is either non-existent, doesn't know, real secure (bi-sexual), or really money driven. Now that out of the way, you listened to my first article and know some of the things not to do.
Do Marriages and Porn Mix?
Given a current message board thread, I'm now sure that I'm not the only one that has seriously questioned this issue; but I have a feeling that like other people who enter this biz looking for more money and a better lifestyle, I'm probably not the only one who has at least thought about mixing porn and marriage.
And Now For Something Completely Different...
In a previous article entitled "The Secret of Success," I revealed a discussion that I had with a young lady about the requirements for getting into this business, and what was truly important if you wished to succeed. In today's challenging economy, there are a few new considerations that have occurred to me: