I just found this site http://buysellads.com/ that holds a database of publishers that want to sell advertising space on their website(s).

It looks very cool for publishers as it allows you to see exactly who is advertising on your site and all the statistics related to your advertisement slots.

Here are some points for publishers:

• You have access to stats: e.g. Impressions, clicks, click through percentage, estimated cost per click per month etc.
• Advertisement slots are sold with a fixed 30-day rate.
• You receive 75% of the cost per 30 days hire of the advertisement slot.
• You set the price per advertisement slot.
• You also have the ability to allow rotation of adverts or just show one advert in a particular ad slot.
  

Advertisers can select sites by filtering the list of available sites. Filters include Impressions, Price for 30 days, Traffic Rank, category and advertisement size. This allows them to easily find sites that fit their budget and other requirements.

This seems like a very good service for anybody who wants to sell direct to advertisers while not having to setup and maintain your own advertisement selling/tracking system.

The big difference to Google AdSense is the ability to set your own advertisement slot price and the ability to know who is buying space on your site.

Do you know of any other good companies like the one above?

Ajax is very good for adding functions and effects to your web pages.

So next time you need to add a specific effect or solve a problem on your website, remember to think to yourself, ‘Can Ajax solve my problem?’ If so then somebody may very well have already written the code for you. Check out the free Ajax libraries on the web.

Here are some links to very cool Ajax JavaScript Libraries.

• http://freeajaxscripts.net/
• http://script.aculo.us/
• http://www.netzgesta.de/cvi/ (lots of cool image effects)
• http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ (The Yahoo! User Interface Library - very big project)
  

Set “pageExtension” to nothing to tell SiteFInity to use Extension less URLs.

The line to change looks like this:

<cms defaultProvider="Sitefinity" pageExtension=".aspx" disabled="false" pageEditorUIMode="Overlay">

Change  it so that the pageExtension property is empty liek this: pageExtension=""

Note: The FormsAthentication and RoleManager modules are not available for extensionless request but you need them for the admin section of Sitefinity.

To enable FormsAthentication and RoleManager add the runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests property to the modules section of the Web.Config file.
E.G. <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">

Now you should have Extension less URLs in Sitefinity.

Add functions such as Indent, Outdent, Custom Styles Selector, Custom Links Selector, Font Name, Font Size, Font ForeColor, Font BackColor, ConvertToLower, ConvertToUpper  Apply Custom Class Drop Down, Superscript, Subscript, Insert Paragraph, Insert Horizontal Rule, Help, Style Builder, Xhtml Validator, TrackChangesDialog, FormatCodeBlock, TableWizard, InsertSymbol etc.

To see available tools open file: Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/EditorToolsFileAll.xml.

E.g.

  <tools name="DropdownToolbar" dockable="false">
    <tool name="ForeColor" />
    <tool name="BackColor" />
    <tool separator="true" />
    <tool name="FontName" />
    <tool name="FontSize" />
    <tool name="ApplyClass" />
    <tool name="InsertCustomLink" />
    <tool name="FormatBlock" />
    <tool name="FormatStripper" />
  </tools>
 

Copy the required lines to the file: Sitefinity/Admin/ControlTemplates/EditorToolsFile.xml

Now save the file and and open Rad Editor to see the extra tools.

When trying to add inline Java Script to a Generic Content control the script tags are HTML encoded / removed.
This is the default behaviour so we must enable script tags.

To do this you must edit the control template for Generic Content.

Open the following file in Visual Studio:
Sitefinity --> Admin --> ControlTemplates --> Generic_Content --> App_LocalResources --> ContentVersionView.aspx.resx

Add a new setting: ContentFilters = None

There are still some problems with this. E.g. If you use a noscript tag then the contents of that tag will still get HTML encoded.

Radgrid;  Add New Record Button not visible

The first time you use RadGrid you may spend a lot of time trying to work out how to display the Add New Record Button. I had to search for ages to find out what to do to display the Add New Record Button.

The property you need to set is the CommandItemDisplay of the MasterTableView property.

In Visual Studio you can edit the properties of the RadGrid in the property editor window. Select the RadGrid on your page, and then find the property called MasterTableView and its child property CommandItemDisplay.  Now select one of the drop down options: None, Top, Bottom , TopAndBottom.  Like magic the Add new button appears.

Remember to set AllowAutomaticInserts to true if you are not writing your own insert code.

 The MasterTableView code that may look something like this, notice the property CommantItemDisplay="Top":

<MasterTableView DataKeyNames="PriceTypeID" 
        DataSourceID="PriceType_LinqDataSource" CommandItemDisplay="Top">
<RowIndicatorColumn>
<HeaderStyle Width="20px"></HeaderStyle>
</RowIndicatorColumn>

<ExpandCollapseColumn>
<HeaderStyle Width="20px"></HeaderStyle>
</ExpandCollapseColumn>
    <Columns>
        <telerik:GridBoundColumn DataField="PriceType" HeaderText="PriceType" 
            SortExpression="PriceType" UniqueName="PriceType">
        </telerik:GridBoundColumn>
    </Columns>
</MasterTableView>

Non-Comptability Issue between ScriptReferences and OutputCache: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=389102

Work around:

1. Downlaod Script Reference Profiler from codeplex.
   
2. Reference the dll in your poject.
3. Add the control to the aspx page. You can add it to the Visual Studio Toolbox or use LoadControl to add it to the page.
   
4. View the page and you will see some text added to the page with all the script references that you need.
5. Add those references to the script manager on the aspx page.

    <asp:ScriptManager ID="ScriptManager1" runat="server">
    <Scripts>
        <asp:ScriptReference name="MicrosoftAjax.js"/>
        <asp:ScriptReference name="MicrosoftAjaxWebForms.js"/>
        <asp:ScriptReference name="AjaxControlToolkit.Common.Common.js" 
assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.20820.16598, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e"/>
        <asp:ScriptReference name="AjaxControlToolkit.Compat.Timer.Timer.js" 
assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.20820.16598, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e"/>
        <asp:ScriptReference name="AjaxControlToolkit.Animation.Animations.js" 
assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.20820.16598, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e"/>
        <asp:ScriptReference name="AjaxControlToolkit.ExtenderBase.BaseScripts.js" 
assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.20820.16598, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e"/>
        <asp:ScriptReference name="AjaxControlToolkit.CollapsiblePanel.CollapsiblePanelBehavior.js" 
assembly="AjaxControlToolkit, Version=3.0.20820.16598, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=28f01b0e84b6d53e"/>
    </Scripts>
    </asp:ScriptManager>

Now the scripts will be registered by the main page and you can use OutputCache on your user controls.

Essential webmaster tools:

1. Google Webmaster Tools. Also see Google Webmaster Central on You Tube.
   
2. Msn WebMaster Tools

Site Diagnostics:

1. Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Page: Diagnostic test for I-do-IT.COM.
   

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