GoDaddy has a great offer going on right now - register a new domain name for only 99 cents. With tax and all, it comes to just $1.19! Currently we don’t know how long this will last. It’s a rather valentine-y code, so my guess is that it may end in the next few days (if not tonight). So don’t wait - register it quickly.

When your checking out your new domain name use this coupon: “love99”

Unfortunately this only works for a single registration, so you can’t grab a whole bunch together… Enjoy!

Here we are again like always… I’ve been thinking about making this into a bi-weekly or even monthly thing. It can be hard to come up with new things to give away, especially when we are just starting out. Hopefully we will start to pick up more and more readers, resulting in advertisers willing to give us prizes… By the way, if you want your product featured on a giveaway, feel free to get in touch with us.

This week we are giving away a pack of 20 free PHP scripts (actually 19 PHP and 1 CGI script). They are mainly designed as full site scripts - ie. turnkey site scripts - though a few of the scripts may require a template (available in next weeks giveaway ).

What can you do with these? If you take a look at my post advocating flipping blogs, I advise those of you just starting out in the website buying/selling world to focus on selling cheap turnkey sites made through PHP scripts. These are just some of those scripts.

For the majority of these scripts, all that’s required is to upload the files to your server and follow the short installation instructions. They are all VERY easy to install.

The file “insideWebmaster - Free Friday Giveaway for 02-13-09.zip” contains:

• Expired Domain Finder Script
• PHP Auto Hits Script
• PHP Link Listing Script
• PHP MySQL Yahoo Style Link Directory/Search Engine:
• PHP MySQL Website Stats Business
• Automated Form Submission Prevention Script
• Sophisticated PHP Ecommerce Site
• eCommerce PHP Shopping Cart
• PHP FTP Program
• FAQ Generator PHP Script
• PHP Topsite Script
• PHP Auction Script
• CGI Auction Script
• First Affiliate Script
• Second Affiliate Script
• POP-UP Creator
• PHP Authentication Script
• The Perpetual Traffic Generator
• A PHP Links Exchange Website Script

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You may have found yourself asking this question before, especially if you’re new to CSS or web development. Don’t worry, you’re not alone - confusion regarding classes and IDs is not uncommon. So, should you use a class or ID selector when developing your CSS? I mean, IDs and classes do the same thing, don’t they? Well, not quite.

On the surface it sure seems that way. Both are used when you want to apply a certain formatting style for specific areas. Both are also style sheet selectors. And both are used when you want to give a certain CSS element a “name”.

However, there are a few differences between the two:

1. IDs are only to be used to describe one element, whereas classes can be shared across multiple elements.
2. An ID is identified in CSS using a “#”. A Class is identified in CSS using a “.” (full stop/period).
3. An element can have multiple classes, but only one ID.
4. Only an ID can be called by Javascript’s “getElementByID” functionality.

A simple way to think about this is to draw a comparison with the a general population. Each specific person will have a unique ID, while a class will contain many different people.

ID Explained

W3C gives the definition of the id attribute as “a unique identifier to an element”. In layman’s terms, ID names are only to be used once per page, for a single unique area. This can be especially useful in headers, sidebars, and footers, where the element will only be used once.

First, define your ID in the CSS style sheet as follows:

Afterward, your HTML content look like this:

Keep in mind that technically you CAN define more than one element with the same ID, but it’s not considered best practice to do so. While your page will render properly in most browsers, it will fail the W3C markup validation test.

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It would appear that Google Japan is ready to stoop to new lows in order to beat out their rival Yahoo! In fact, so low that they’re willing to pay internet marketing company Cyberbuzz to post good reviews of their new keyword widget. Seems fitting that this news is coming out just one day after I posted the Dilbert comic about buying reviews.

This news appears to have come out of Techcrunch first (at least that’s where I first read it), but has slowly been filtering through the rest of the internet.

Normally I wouldn’t pick on Google. They are a great company and I use them each and every day. The issue here lies with hypocrisy. Serkan Toto sums it up quite nicely:

It’s interesting to see that Google, a company that not too long ago radically took action against PayPerPost bloggers in the US, today thinks the concept is suitable as long as it helps them advance in Japan

Akky Akimoto from on Asiajin has gone and translated part of a random post, sponsored by Cyberbuzz, in support of the new keyword feature on Google Japan:

The Google Hot Keywords blog widget [link to Google's page] can show you what is in fashion now, and what other people are interested in.

It’s appealing that you can view buzzwords from the previous day or the previous week. I am sometimes surprised to see that such words are so popular! Personally, I like the “fortune-teller” feature from the previous week’s ranking. When I click on a keyword, I am quickly taken to Google’s result page and so I enjoy the feature.

I might not have noticed them by myself, but now I understand that these things are what people care about.

I am participating in CyberBuzz’s campaign.

Great. So they admit to participating in a pay-per-post campaign, does that mean that SponsoredReviews.com is now acceptable because all of their paid reviews require full disclosure?

These posts are showing up all over the Google Blog Search Japan. According to Akky, at the time of his post, their were “a number of blog entries [...] reviewing this ‘Hot Keywords’ feature, all of them strangely resembling each other”. Sad, really. Seems to be a “do as I say, not as I do” type of mentality at work here.

I can’t wait to read more on this (once more is available). How will Google get out of this one?

I think it’s safe to say that Dilbert is one of the best strip comics of the past few decades. On my list, it’s right up there beside Calvin & Hobbes and Far Side. And Scott Adams has hit gold once again. The pointy-haired boss from Dilbert attempts to explain how to manage your online reputation (a la Belkin).

You may remember the Belkin scandle from about 3 weeks ago. In a nutshell, they got caught offering 65 cents for every favorable review left on Amazon and Newegg. Not exactly the best business model. The newest Dilbert comic confronts the issue of businesses paying for their online reputation…

Now I know that Belkin were not the first company to do this sort of thing, only the most recent, but it is still an interesting topic. Belkin made it rather explicit that the reviews must be 5/5 ratings and that the reviewer doesn’t even need to own the product in order to review it, but what exactly makes this an evil act? Is it ever OK for a company to offer money for reviews - bad or good? Is this not just another form of advertising?

On a side note, if you enjoy Scott Adams and Dilbert, you should check out his interview from CNN. It’s from about a month ago, and mostly just ramblings about life and the economy, but still well worth the read.