Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Money making news from Pro Blogger, Drupal 4.7 and Adsense news

Darren has been posting prolifically, as usual over at ProBlogger.

One particular article of interest on his site is a story illustrating the power of affiliate links.

Drupal have finally released version 4.7. I have one site in development using the beta version of this. I will have to upgrade it and test it out.
Darren posts an article listing the main release changes:

* Multiple Block Regions: Were you feeling constrained by only two choices for block placement? You can now dynamically specify as many block placement locations as you want.
* ‘Offline for Maintenance’ Configuration: You can now easily configure your site to display a friendly notice to visitors when you have to take down your site for maintenance.
* Free Tagging Support: Free tagging functionality is now built into the taxonomy system.
* Site-Wide Contact Form: You can now easily enable a contact form page that will let you easily collect feedback from your site visitors.
* Author Information Block: There is now a block you can enable that will display author information alongside posts.
* Public/Private Profile Fields: You can now specify permissions for profiles on a per-field basis.
* Block by IPs/Hostname: It is now possible to block users by their IP address or Hostnames. Good bye trolls!
* Aggregator now Supports Atom: It is now finally possible to aggregate Atom formatted feeds like those created by Blogger.
* Aggregator Generates RSS Feeds: It’s now easier than ever to use Drupal to power ‘Planet’ like sites.
* RSS Feed Settings You can now configure how much content and how many items to publish in your RSS feed.
* Better Search Index: The search module indexer is now smarter and more robust
* Advanced Search Operators: You can now search by advanced search operators (e.g. phrase, node type, etc.)
* Custom Search Results Ranking: The search module now lets you weight search results by keyword relevance, date of post, number of comments, and number of views.


Finally Darren and I both received an email from Adsense today - indicating that they can now make EFT payments to Australian Adsense Publishers - yippee!


Posted by: Jethro | 11:28 PM |