Nov
28
2006
Check this out -
http://www.istockphoto.com/design_spotlight_details.php?ID=7757
My photo (From costa rica) was used in a design spotlight at iStockPhoto. It was actually used in a postcard to promote a Yoga retreat in Costa Rica.
Cool.
Nov
24
2006
Yesterday Michal and I saw a really good tragi-comic play – Mikveh. I really recommend it, for people living in Israel, that is
Nov
21
2006
Heya.
My friend Nir has a new travelogue site. He is a gifted photographer, although I personally think the travelogue is a bit messy. But the pictures are great.
Nov
20
2006
Hey.
A lot of people have asked me recently for help about writing web pages. From actually writing it, to hosting, domain name choosing, how to make money, AdSense, how to attract visitors and more.
So after a few long discussions about the same issues, I decided to write some simple guides. And here they are -
http://www.ronmertens.com/guides/webPage/
I [...]
Nov
13
2006
I’ve updated the Metalgrass site. A few graphical changes, and some text-copy change. I’ve also started to write a “Metalgrass blog”. Please tell me what you think!
So I expect that all technical-metalgrass-adsense issues will now be written in the Metalgrass blog. If you want to stay updated, please start reading that blog as well.
http://www.metalgrass.com/blog
Nov
05
2006
I finished development of AdSenseLog v4.5.0…
I have added a new feature… I don’t want to discuss it yet (hush hush), but it’s already in beta testing with a few clients. I hope they’ll give me good feedback.
Another thing I have added is a short survey when people uninstall the software. I find that I have [...]
Nov
05
2006
One of the toughest things for me, now that I’m self employed, is time management.
It’s very easy to find myself just thinking about what I should do, checking my AdSense statistics, reading e-mails and blogs and stuff like that. One of my main problems was that I have two major things that I do – [...]
Nov
01
2006
I finally finished working on my current 5 sites.
OLED-Info has been updated to a CMS system (drupal). This was a lot of work (mainly to convert the old data), but it’s been worth it. Traffic has gone up, and page views has a doubled. Revenue has also doubled, more or less. I’ve got in touch [...]