The answer was surprisingly simple.

Log into cPanel and on the left sidebar click on the link to expand stats, because you will need to have the stats expanded to see it, under stats It should say “Shared IP” or “Dedicated IP” if you purchased one. That’s all there is to it.

The IP  is the same for all domains.

I searched for ages looking for a decent post on how to do this and the best I could find was this one over at www.thomasgriffinmedia.com.

But I found it a little confusing simply because I don’t use Thesis and probably never will.

But the concept was what I needed to place the ads in my learning the guitar blog primary widget.

The first thing you want to do is create a post, but don’t publish it, and upload your ads images into the post, unless of course you just ftp them into your images folder.

Once you have the source link for your images you want to add the link to the page the image is linking to.

Your link and image code should look something like this…

<a href="http://shop.ebay.com.au/rhythmicguitar/m.html?_nkw=&amp;_armrs=1&amp;_from=&amp;_ipg=&amp;_trksid=p3686"> <img src="http://rhythmicguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ebay_store_logo-125.jpg"  />

So now that you have your images sorted, you want to add a new text widget in the sidebar. Go to Appearance/Widgets and drag a text widget into your preferred widget area.

Inside the text widget you will need to add the following code.

You could do this using a P class, Div or any number of different attributes, but in this scenario we are going to follow the example set by the previously mention post. Using an Un-ordered list.

We have named our class as “ads” in this example.

<ul class="ads">
<li>
<a href="http://www.songsterr.com/?referrer=91278"> <img src="http://www.songsterr.com/WebObjects/Songsterr.woa/Contents/WebServerResources/affiliate_banners/songsterr_banner_125x125.png?1287068433901"  /></a>
</li>
<li>
<a href="http://shop.ebay.com.au/rhythmicguitar/m.html?_nkw=&amp;_armrs=1&amp;_from=&amp;_ipg=&amp;_trksid=p3686"> <img src="http://rhythmicguitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/ebay_store_logo-125.jpg"  /></a>
</li>
</ul>

The next thing we want to do is add the style rules to the CSS, here is what I added to mine… I should also mention I just pasted the new styles at the very bottom of my style sheet.

ul.ads li.left {
float: left;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-right: 5px;
list-style: none;
}

ul.ads li.right {
float: right;
margin-left: 5px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-right: 10px;
list-style: none;
}

ul.ads li a {
display: block;
}

Because we are using an Un-ordered list, I had to use list-style: none; to remove the bullet point next to the image.

Please read every word and make an informed decision on who you want to run this country, and remember…

Your vote will make all the difference come election day.

The Email…

Quote by:  Ross Greenwood of Money News.

What is a Billion?

How many zeros in a billion???

This is too true to be  funny…

The next time you hear a politician use the  word ‘billion’ in a casual manner, think about whether you want the ‘politicians’ spending YOUR tax money.

A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it’s releases.

1. A billion seconds ago it was  1959.
2. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
3. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
4. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
5. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

“NOW THIS IS INDISPUTABLE!!! NO MATTER WHAT YOUR POLITICAL LEANINGS”

Quoted by: Ross Greenwood of Money  News.

Right now the Federal Government is at pains to tell everyone – including us the mug-punters and the International Monetary Fund that it will not exceed its own, self-imposed, borrowing limits.

How much? $200 billion.

And here’s a worry. If you work in a bank’s money market operation; or if you are a politician; the millions turn into billions into trillions and it rolls off the tip of the tongue a bit too easily.

But every dollar that is borrowed, some time, has to be repaid with interest. By you, by me and by the rest of the country.

Just after 5 o’clock tonight I did a bit of math for Jason Morrison. But it’s so staggering its worth repeating now. First though; here’s what Chairman Rudd has been saying about – what he calls – these temporary borrowings Remember Those Words : Temporary Deficit.

The total Government debt could end up around $200 billion. So here’s a very basic calculation …

I used a home loan calculator to work it out ….  it’s that simple. $200 billion is $200,000 million.

The  current 10 year Government bond rate is 4.67 per cent. I worked the loan out over a period of 20 years. Now here’s where it gets scary … really scary.

The repayments on $200 billion come to more than one and a quarter billion dollars – every month – for 20 years.

It works out we – as taxpayers – will be repaying $15.4 billion in interest and principal every year… $733 for every man woman and child – every  year. The total interest bill over the 20 years is –  get this – $108 billion.

Remember: This is a Government that just 18 months ago had NO debt.  NO  DEBT.

In fact it had enough money to create the Future Fund to pay the future liabilities of public servants’ superannuation… and it had enough to stick $20 billion into the Building Australia Fund last year …

Money News Presenter, Ross  Greenwood

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Alan Jones Comment….. “this is  frightening”: Hmmmmm??

He continues…

A note that was sent to me which explains that the six leading members of the Government from Mr. Rudd down, the top six have a collective work experience of 181 years, but only 13 in the private sector.

If you take out of those 13 years the number that were spent as trade union lawyers,  that total 11, of the 181 years only two years were spent in the private sector.

So out of those 181 years:

• No years spent running their own business
• No years spent  starting their own business
• No years spent as a director of a  family business or a company
• No years as a director of a public  company
• No years in a senior position in a public  company
• No years in a senior position in a private  company
• No years working in corporate finance
• No years in  corporate or business restructuring
• No years working in or with  a bank
• No years of experience in the capital markets
• No years in a stock-broking firm
• No years in negotiating debt  facilities with banks
• No years running a small  business
• No years at the World Bank or IMF or OECD
• No years in Treasury or Finance.

But these people have plunged Australia into unprecedented debt, and now threaten to torpedo employee share schemes which they plainly don’t understand.

Well, in a way you can’t blame them.

It’s clear the electorate did not do their homework, because the Gov’t is there by right.

Note:If you have read this you may like to pass it on to your friends as you, them and me, will be repaying the above.

AND…

Don’t forget that although our kind Govt. has allowed 300,000 immigrants into Australia in the past 12 months, how many of them will be contributing to paying this Deficit ( eg, how much Income Tax will they pay) OR will the majority be living from the System??

The Press gives plenty of air play to the 60 odd boats that have arrived in 2010 which is about 2000 people, but there is virtually no comment on the 300,000 that have arrived through our front door.

Go for a walk through Moorooka Shopping Centre, Brisbane ( and I  am sure you have a Shopping Centre near you with the same happening) on any day of the week and see how many are making a living and paying Tax, oh well I guess they might be Night Workers…

Maybe they are on a Gov’t sponsored shopping trip from their luxury motel paid for by the Australian mug tax payer.

Remember, On Election Day Make Your Vote Count. Vote + Labor = More Debt.

Since the Pledge of Allegiance & The Lord’s Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore, because the word ‘God’ is mentioned….

A kid in Geelong Vic wrote the attached:-

NEW School prayer :

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That’s no offense – it’s a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God’s name is prohibited by the state.

We’re allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They’ve outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the ‘unwed daddy,’ our Senior King.
It’s ‘inappropriate’ to teach right from wrong,
We’re taught that such ‘judgments’ do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It’s scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school’s a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take !!!

Amen

If you aren’t ashamed to do this,
please pass this on and bookmark it.

It is really a simple process, let me show you how to do it.

First step choose your font. I am going to download the free Museo font from Myfonts.com

Note: If you don’t have an account with Myfonts you will need to create one, it is very easy just follow to the normal sign-up process you would when signing up for any other site.

After signing up you will then get to download your font, make sure you save the file, click OK to continue.

The next step is to choose the location of your new font>

Note: I suggest creating a folder for all of your Photoshop Downloads, then create folders for each of the individual items you will use in Photoshop, ie; fonts, backgrounds, headers etc…

After downloading unzip the file, you can just double click on the file and it will automatically unzip or open it with the default Archive Utility (As Shown Below)

After the file has been unzipped double click on the font file.

You will then see the Fontbook window open, if you want to complete the installation just click on the Install Font button to continue.

Now, open up Photoshop and look at our list of fonts, just click on the type tool and look in the toolbar at the top of your screen…

We will now see that it has automatically been added to our list of pre-saved fonts.

Easy isn’t it

Since it’s inception WordPress has evolved to become a multi purpose, personal publishing system for creating easy to use websites, or in other words…

WordPress is the complete Content Management System for the technological illiterate.

With most Web hosts offering self installation scripts such as Fantastico or Simple Scripts, Setting up a WordPress site can literally be as simple as a couple of mouse clicks, and some administration details, user-name and password for example.

Once you have filled in your admin details and follow the prompts, the installation script will automatically set up your MYSQL database for you.

Note:Your WordPress website needs a MYSQL database for it to work.

The WordPress software is built using PHP, CSS and (X)HTML code, and although you do not need to know any of these coding languages to use WordPress, a basic understanding and knowledge will pay huge dividends when customizing your WordPress website.

The beauty about WordPress is, adding content to your site can be as easy as typing in some text and hitting the publish button. Basically if you can send an email you can publish your own content on your own website.

WordPress also has an ever growing community of users and programmers, making the software more and more flexible and powerful each and every day.

WordPress also allows you to easily change the look of your site by using Themes, basically you can change your website layout with a single click of your mouse.

WordPress also uses Plugins, you could easily describe a plugin as a specific piece of software that adds an additional function to your site by “Plugging into it“.

Plugins and themes are usually free and can be downloaded from the main WordPress site.

WordPress also builds itself. Every time you add a new post or page, all of your links are automatically generated, meaning all you have to worry about is adding good quality content to your site.

You add content by using posts and pages. Posts are usually placed into specific categories and sub categories where your pages can be arranged in hierarchies, for example you could have an “About” page that has several pages “About You” under it. There are no limits to how many pages you can have under your Parent page.

In a nutshell, WordPress is very easy to install, use and customise.

One way of sharing the links to your favorite websites, is through the conversations you have on your Facebook wall.

By adding a live link to a website, you are making it super easy for your friends to go straight to any particular website that you want them to see.

This is just a short tutorial on how to easily add a link into a Facebook chat.

Start off a new chat by adding some text in the What’s on your mind? text box.

Next, Open up a new browser window or Tab, and go to the exact web page or website that you would like to share with your friends, Highlight the Full URL in the address bar and copy the entire link, you can copy the link by using the keyboard command Command + C on the mac or Ctrl + C on PC.

After copying the Entire link, go back to your Facebook chat window, Click inside the chat box where you want to add the link, and simply Paste the link into the chat, either by Right Clicking and selecting the Paste option or use the keyboard shortcut Command +V or Ctrl + V.

After pasting in your URL or Link, just click on the Share button to the right.

And that’s all there is to it. You now have an Active link in your chat that your friends can Click on to visit any of your favorite sites.

Every time a new version of WordPress is released, your reminded to backup your database before upgrading, So we know backups are important, but do we have to manually do this every time?

I have found that the best way to keep on top of your back-ups is to set up an automatic backup of your database and have it delivered directly to your emails inbox, that way you can set and forget, and every time your asked to upgrade your WordPress installation you can be confident that you have a recent version of your database on file.

The plugin I use for this automation is the WP-DBManager by the incredibly talented Lester Chan,. (There would be other plugins you could use that would do this also, I just haven’t tried them.)

It is a very simple plugin to set up and install so I wont go into the specifics of setting it up, but I do want to mention that, with the plugin you can determine how often you want your database backup sent to your desired email account, from once every minute to once a month.

To always have the most recent version of your database on hand it would make sense to set the delivery of your database to at least once per day, but in doing this it won’t take long to bloat your inbox with database backups and use up all of the allowed storage that you get with your free Gmail account.

The way I get around this is by setting up a specific Gmail account and send all of my databases to that one account, but even then the new Gmail account will have a limit on the amount of storage I can have.

Note: To avoid filling up my Gmail account, the trick is to create a filter for my Databases.

Creating a filter is incredibly easy to do and will save you heaps of time from going in and deleting your old versions of your databases, and stop your Gmail account from getting bloated from all of your old backups.

If you don’t already have a spare Gmail account that you can use for your database delivery go and get one

After you have set up your Gmail account that will be specifically used for your databases, and you have at least one Database backup in your inbox, open the email sent to you from your WordPress site.

Once you have it opened, Copy the From email sender details, it should look something like this YourWebsite.com Administrator.

Then click on the Create a filter link you see next to the Search Mail, Search The Web buttons at the top of your Gmail inbox.

Once the filter page is opened, paste in the sender details that you just copied into the Has the words text box, then click on the Next Step button just under the text fields.

What you want to do in this page is check the Delete it option and the Also apply filter to XXX conversations below check box, click on the Create Filter button to continue.

“Why would you want to delete your brand new database backup”. I hear you ask, in the next step you will see how this will work.

If you now go to your Trash folder you will see a note at the very top of the folders inbox that says (messages that have been in Trash more than 30 days will be automatically deleted), isn’t that cool.

You can send all of your backups straight to the trash folder and any backups older than a month old will be deleted from your email account.

Now you have a full months worth of backed up databases and a clean Gmail account that isn’t clogged up with old and out of date databases.

Come to think of it, you probably don’t even need a second Gmail account to do this, but by having the second Gmail account it will save you from having to sift through your trash emails to find your current databases.

If you find this little trick handy, why not share it with someone you know by linking to this page. Hey you could always tweet it by clicking on the Tweet this button at the top of the post.

The first step is to set up an account at the paypal developer site https://developer.paypal.com/

After setting up your account and logging in, the next step is to create a minimum of one merchant account and one buyer account, I suggest making at least two buyer accounts, that way you can get one of your mates to go through the purchase process also.

Setting up an account for your friends to test won’t work because you have to log into your Sandbox account to test this process.

To do this you should see a link on the home page with the text “Create a preconfigured buyer or seller account.” click on it to set up your accounts.

I usually use the pre-configured option, but I like to add extra funds into the accounts, by default they are set to a zero balance.

On this page there is an option to create both a buyer and a seller profile, as mentioned before create a minimum of one of each, make a note of your passwords and email addresses.

Side-note: I am not sure what the disabled setting does so I changed that to enabled.

The next step is to sign into the merchant account, you want to configure the S2Member plugin with your Sandbox account so you can create your Pay Now buttons inside of S2Member.

Just make sure the radio button on the business account is checked and click on the Enter Sandbox Site button.

Because I am testing this payment process using the s2Members Plugin I want to make sure I follow all of the steps as I normally would when setting this plugin up with my site.

When you have the S2Members plugin activated on your blog go to the “s2Member PayPal® Options” section just under the Settings area to configure this with your sandbox account.

The first thing you will need to do is add the fake seller email address, next you will have to make sure that the sandbox testing radio button is checked, and to be honest, I havn’t figured out what the Enable Logging Routines? does yet, but I checked it anyway.

The next step is to follow the details outlined in the “PayPal® IPN / Instant Payment Notifications” settings tab, I won’t go through all of the details here, if you have the plugin installed you will know what to do.

Side-note:A point worth mentioning is when you are setting up the “PayPal® PDT Identity Token” inside of your sandbox account you will need to save your settings and then go back to the “Website Payment Preferences” page to get the “PayPal® PDT Identity Token:”

The rest of the email settings wont work in the sandbox so I just left them “As Is”

If all goes well this should work.

Make sure you save your changes and go and get your button under the “s2Member / PayPal® Button Codes” section.

Simply create a payment option in the settings area and click on the “Generate Button Code” button.

For this test I am not going to use the shortcodes but paste in the full button code, the reason being is, there are a couple of payment options that S2Member doesn’t have yet, so after contacting the S2Member support forum I was told to use the full code.

After generating your button, simply copy the code and paste it into the webpage that you will be selling your product or service from and upload or update your webpage, whatever the case may be.

I like to open a new browser so I know I am not logged into the site I am wanting to test my payment process on. But, you will need to make sure you are logged into your paypal sandbox account in the new browser for this to work.

Click on the new button you have just published to your website and choose the pay with paypal option then insert the login details of the fake buyer info that you set up in the previous steps.

If you have configured everything correctly you should go through the entire payment process, and be sent back to your signup page where the user can then enter in their new username and contact details in order to access the Members Only Area of your site.

One of the main reasons I like using Gmail is the protection it gives me against Spam coming into my account, but that is another post.

But to get to the point of why I wanted to write this post about how to send mail from Gmail from ANY email address, just follow along with the steps below.

The first thing you need to do after logging into your Gmail account is go to the settings tab located in the top right hand corner, it should be right next to the “Help” and “Sign Out” links at the very top of your screen.

After opening the settings page click on the “Accounts and Import” tab, this should be the second tab along.

Once this page opens click on the button with the text “Send mail from another address” after clicking on this button you will see a small “Pop up” window open up in your browser.

Fill in the details of the new Email account you want to add to Gmail.

Just follow the steps until you have finished verifying the new email address, it is very straight forward and there is no need for me to explain it, once you do it you will see what I mean

After you have completed the verification you need to go back to the “Accounts and Import” page and locate the new email address that you have just added, if you want to send all of your emails from this new address click on the “Make Default” link associated with it.

If you only want to send emails from this new account don’t do that last step.

To find out if this worked, just click on the “Compose Mail” link as if you were going to write an email, and if you made the new address your default you should see it in the “From” address bar, If you didn’t want to make your new email your default just click on the dropdown arrow and choose the email address you just added to send your email from.