New Thesis Skin has been added to ThesisAwesome.com, I call it the BlogSkin, it’s ideal for internet marketers since I added fully customized Aweber opt-in forms to three different spots on the blog layout, all opt-in forms can be customized easily from the option panel without coding at all.

BlogSkin is the only Thesis Theme Skin ever created for multi-authors blogs, it has all what you need to start a multi-authors blog, there are loads of features that can be managed by only a few clicks and in no time, actually I think it has the best Skin Control Panel for Thesis, all this makes it ideal for supporting bloggers who would like to have guest posts on their blogs.

Check out the Thesis BlogSkin page at ThesisAweseom.com, there is also a demo for the blog skin.

New Thesis Skins and Plugins Free downlaods

I’ve created a new download center at ThesisAwesome.com as I am planning to release free skins for thesis. There are two free WordPress plugins for Thesis Themes available for download at the center now, it’s the Great Pens and Recent Contributors plugins.

The most interesting thing I would like to share with you is the 50% commission I’ve decided for my ThesisAwesome.com members, this is biggest commission in Thesis Skins Market, so consider signup to the affiliate program now and start referring new members to buy ThesisAwesome.com Skins and earn big commissions.

OptimizePress is an extremely customized theme that help you creating sales pages, landing pages, squeeze pages, or even a membership website using WordPress, I have one website powered by OptimizePress theme so far, and I must say that working with OptimizePress is a lot of fun as you actually see results in no time and without the need to code anything.

You don’t have to be a programmer, you also don’t have to be a web designer to create professional squeeze pages any more, and the best part is you don’t have to hire a programmer or a designer and pay a lot of money to do the job, I really love this theme and this is why I highly recommend it.

Powered by OptimizePress Theme for WordPress

I’ve written some a few posts about OptimizePress as reviews and resources to share this awesome WordPress theme to my blog readers, you can check it out here:

• OptimizePress WordPress Theme for Landing Page Amazing Results
• Optimize Press Blogging Theme Functionality
• OptimizePress Theme Squeeze Pages Templates
• OptimizePress Squeeze Pages
• Sell Physical Products from Affiliate Networks using OptimizePress
• OptimizePress Blog

Also Check my OptimizePress powered website and OptimizePress landing page which I created as a demo to demonstrate what can be done with OptimizePress theme.

If you’re new to blogging and yet want to start quickly, blogging is also a great way to make money, and besides being a good communication tool, there are several business models you can try for maximum results in a short time. This article discussed the three most popular methods. So.. Let’s talk about these three methods one by one!

The first method:

Is get paid to blog. Using this method, you create your blog and add a few good articles to it. Then you sign-up with paid blogging networks like Pay Per Post or Review Me and see what “opportunities” are available. These networks are filled with advertisers looking for blogger who can help them spread the word, and they are willing to pay. Accept the opportunity, write about it on your blog, and you get paid.

The second method:

Is AdSense WordPress blogs and it requires a little more technical know-how. You need to build a WordPress blog on a specific niche topic, and start writing some good content on it. At the same time, try to get links from other blogs by leaving comment on the blogs or by doing a link exchange with the blogger. The objective is to get more traffic who will click on your AdSense ads and make you money.

The third and most sophisticated method:

Is affiliate marketing with WordPress blogs. Again, you set-up a good WordPress blog but with this model the amount of content you publish is not as important as the “selling quality” of the content. Each post you write must pre-sell the web visitor and convince him to click on your affiliate links. When the visitor makes a purchase online after that, you get credited for the sale and earn commissions.

Ultimately, which model you choose depends on how much time and resources you can dedicate to creating and managing your blogs. Your best bet is to choose a low-investment option at first. When you get the hang of it, you can venture into other blogging models as well.

If you’re serious about making money from your blog, I strongly  recommend that you signup for my video tutorials:

As a member you’ll get tons of step-by-step video tutorials on how to use WordPress, web 2.0  technology, search engine optimization, making money from Google AdSense and affiliate marketing, and so much more.

Get more information here:

WordPress Wizard 2.0 The Ultimate WordPress and Blogging Coaching Program!

All of us knows that WP-polls plugin is a very good plugin for creating polls on WordPress blogs,  but maybe people don’t know that you can add thumbnails and links to polls. So.. Today’s Trick is about how to enhance your poll and make it looks cool, specially if you are running a poll for a design contest, or a best blog contest.

Ching Ya of Social @ Blogging Tracker asked me about which plugin I am using to run Famous Bloggers Club contest as it’s limiting the votes to only one vote per person! so I am going to explain it and tell you also the trick I am using to add a thumbnail and a link to the participants blogs!

I have to say that I was inspired by Keller who runs the Best WordPress Design Contest of 2009, and oh.. By the way.. It’s a good chance to you to VOTE for new media bloggers blog if you think it has a good design that you really like!

OK! If you are looking for the best way to create a poll that prevent people from voting more than once on the poll then try out WP-polls plugin for WordPress, and following this simple trick will let you easily add thumbnails links to the poll items which will make it so easy for people to vote!

How to add Thumbnails and Links to WP-polls?

You can add any image you want simply by HTML to show the image or the link instead of using text, as some people will think that they are limited to add text only on the poll fields, but this is not true, you can add what ever HTML code you like, but don’t miss with that too much, just try to keep it simple and clean!

Check out this shot from inside of my admin panel and you will get it (click on photo to enlarge):

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And here is a link to the Voting page of the best Blog at Famous Bloggers Club Contest, you will see it on action, and maybe it’s good to VOTE for the blog you think it’s the best while you are checking the voting page!

Now you got it right! So.. If you like this trick add a comment to tell me, if you have discovered a good voting system that really works good and looks nice then don’t leave this post with out telling us about it!

I have just visited ElegantThemes Blog and I found a new surprise, A pro looking News theme for WordPress is out, and I am thinking where I can use it, but I need your help to imagine how this Theme will look like on Famous Bloggers Club blog, I am asking for feedbacks and I want your opinion specially if you are a Famous Bloggers Club FBC Member.

Check the theme here: eNews Theme Preview and also at ElegantThemes gallery page. Find out it’s features, and Multiple Color Schemes!

I am waiting for your feedback! and by the way here is my ElegentThemes affiliate link in case you would like to purshase, it’s only $19.95 to get all the theme and support for a year!

In one of my successful posts I have talked about how to Unzip a Compressed File on PHP Server, and how I did it by a nice script that I found. On this post I am going to tell you about another valuable script that I found, the script simply backup your website and provide you a link to download it to your computer, this could be used for different reason when you develop websites.

You can use this script in two ways, the first on is to Fully Backup your website Code, and the other use will be when you decide to move your website to another hosting and compete Godaddy file manager limited archiving file size.

Over the last few days I’ve been working on some online project, it was a dynamic website, using one of those CMS open source code that I love to work with. I was having a testing hosting server for my client’s website, now it’s ready to go online and to be published on the client’s hosting server account.

Unfortunately I couldn’t backup all files on the server, Godaddy file manager is limited to archive 20 megabits only and the website code exceed this size. It’s more than 30 megabits. Of course I could go for compressing folder by folder, but this will take the whole work day rather than doing mistakes and you start over and over again.

Finally I found the solution for this problem thanks to Web Hosting Hero and it’s Great Hosting Tutorials.

Go a head and Download Godaddy Backup Zip Archive Utility.

Although this script was originally developed to backup my GoDaddy website, it can probably be used with any Linux / Unix web host.

How To Use The Backup Script

1. Extract the PHP file from the Zip Archive Utility to your local drive.
2. Edit sitebackup.php using a non-formatting text editor such as Notepad.
3. Enter the password you wish to use to protect the script and save the file.
4. Upload sitebackup.php to the root of your website through FTP.
5. Open your web browser to http://www.yourwebsite.com/sitebackup.php
6. Enter your password in the text box and hit the Backup button.
7. Do not close your browser window. When the backup has completed you will see a link to download it.
8. Once you’ve downloaded the backup, delete fullsite.tar.gz from your website using your favorite FTP client.

If you work with server a lot, then maybe you would like to check this Tool to Extract ZIP Files on FTP Server using PHP.

It’s going to be HOT time, Summer is coming and CommentLuv Premium is ready to spread more love allover the internet, Andy asked me in his email to tell him what I think about the new ComLuv network and CommentLuv plugin, Yeah.. If you don’t know then now you do.. The new plugins is ready.

The new ComLuv network is powered by WordPress MU, you can create you own blog and start making money with Comments, it’s so easy and in no time specially if you are using CommentLuv and have an account, you can use your account to login to the new network and start your own free blog, you can also name your sub domain like yourblogname.comluv.com

Also check CommentLuv Premium plugin.

Let me tell you about the good part

ComLuv network has a good part for bloggers who want to make money online. You can use your blog widgets to add Google Adsense and your Affiliate links to your blog and start making money. Let’s think about it like this way, the more earlier decision to start a blog, the more success you will get.

Start now, Get a Blog like mine that I call it Traffic and enjoy commenting on other’s blogs!

Also Don’t miss to see my Bookmarking Social Network for Making Money Online.

Here we are, I am back to you with a new Elgg 1.5 community, I named it New Media Bloggers, it’s a Social Network for Making Money Online bookmarks built on the contributions of its users. Thinking about New Media Bloggers I am serious about creating a fun, safe, rewarding, and effective Social Network Bookmarks for Making Money Online.

New Media Bloggers Elgg plugins

I have added and tested some Elgg plugin that I thought it’s good to run them on the project, and I had to modify some of them to fit my requirements, specially positioning the ads, because I wanted to make sure  that I can track my ads on several parts and make it easy for me to know which section exactly is more active than other section on the social network.

New Media Bloggers theme_NMBloggers for Elgg 1.5

Also you will notice that New Media Bloggers have a unique theme, I have used the theme_elgg_example and did some modification to it, also added Google Adsense positions on the theme. It’s not ready yet to give back to the Elgg community, but I will be sure in the feature to make it available for download after cleaning the code as I am planning to create more themes for Elgg 1.5 depending on the Elgg theme example.

More information about New Media Bloggers Social Network

Members of New Media Bloggers submit making money online bookmarks and interesting videos from their blogs and other’s blogs and websites to provide you with some useful tips for how to make money online, enjoy them! and submit your tips also. I have posted another post on My Life Blog that maybe you are interested to know more about New Media Bloggers.

OK I got it, So .. What I have to do now?

If you are interested on Making Money Online then Join New Media Bloggers right a way, it will not take a few seconds, or if you don’t want to sign-up and you feel you don’t have to do this and activate your account from inside your junk mail then the best way for you is to login with your facebook account and let New Media Bloggers do the rest.

I am asking you to promote New Media Bloggers social network, you can do this by several ways, one of this ways that I will appreciate lots is to write a short review, or mention it on one of your posts with a link using “money making ideas” as anchor text back link, you have no idea how this is going to be helpful for me.

Yeah.. exactly! I need your help to make it a better place for everyone. I am inviting you to join New Media Bloggers, try it, play around and discover it.

Meet you on New Media Bloggers ..

I wrote before when I got my blog “MyLifeThinking.com” down, I didn’t know what happened in the beginning, but after submitting more than 4 tickets to the support team at GoDaddy and losing my blog for 2 days I finally understand!

They say my database is causing the shared resources to be over-utilized. This, in turn, affects the usage by other customers, and there is some query that I have to change in WordPress StatPress plugin, it was the cause of the problem, I think because I didn’t set StatPress to delete older data from the database, so the file got so big, so they had to disable my database!

But.. How Godaddy disabled my database with out inform me first?

I was thinking about that, and say to my self this is not good at all, if I am going to expect that GoDaddy will turn my blog off each time a plugin cause a problem, this will be a nightmare.

Anyways.. after debating lots about how to fix my problem, I got sick of waiting for their reply day after day and wasting my time, so decided to create another database from my panel, and restore MyLifeThinking.com database backup to it. I consider my self so lucky because I got this backup file just one week before they cut the database!

How I did it?

You may ask yourself how I could build the tables and the structure of the new created database, well.. let me explain to you how I did it, at the beginning I was not sure how to do it, so I remember that I can use the applications on GoDaddy to create a new installation for WordPress, so I did it and created a new blog on a sub folder, then I changed the database information on the config.php file, and then the last step was importing the data to the new database.

In this process I lost one post and a few comments, I know that I can wait more time to get my blog online again, so I preferred to get it now!

Why I will live under GoDaddy merci?

Some times I can not see any reason for using Godaddy hosting service, I think that most successful blogers use other website hosting for their blogs instead of GoDaddy!

I am thinking to move to another web hosting, or at least try anew one, so plz give me some good suggestions! I will appreciate if you do!

So many of us has questions and wonders, and we all know that unsolved questions are more than the answered ones, I wrote in an older post about my dream to have a “questions and answers” website like Yahoo Answers, as it provide a great environment for generating community written posts from simple questions.

You can use this way to generate content for  you own blog by asking a simple question and share it with your friends and social net workers, since simple and effective questions attract some people to answer them, you will start gain the post body after spending a few minutes editing them to create your post.

I was checking the Questions plugin for Elgg, and decided to run a Demo website specially for it. At the same time I think this can generate some content for me when the questions start to play it’s role.

This Idea can be useful in different ways depending on the way you will use it. Some of us will use it as a fun game , I some time play the question and answers games, so what about playing it with real people with different backgrounds and ways of thinking? This would be interesting! Also if you are seeking information and knowledge then this is a nice and exiting way to do it.

I have to be clear and honest about the main purpose for creating this Demo website, I am welling to get community content for my blogs and also gain traffic to this Beta version of YourAnswer.info website. So Don’t forget you can do the same by joining now and give it a try.. I am sure that you will love it, and maybe you will apply the idea on your own blog by paying more attention to your blog commenters.

I will write in the coming posts about this experiment! Plz .. Wish me good luck!