Hi Jowl - whenever you see this, please click on the banner below and sign up for this website. On this Friday’s upcoming show (#18 Dec 3, 2004) we’re going to go through how we might utilyze BlogExplosion to help grow our number of site visitors / readers here at the Webmaster Cookbook blog and at the orting.com blog.

Once you are signed up I’ll show you how to add this blog, so come and get me, please. When I was signing up through Gmail the email validation mail went into the spam bin, so keep your eye on the spam bin for the validation email.

Update: Jowl, here’s another one (though not nearly as populated yet): Mad-Den SuperSerf

Original live airdate: Friday November 26, 2004 at 3pm PST / 6pm EST
Webmaster Cookbook AUDIO:

Streaming:
20k listen archive stream (dialup users)
64k listen archive stream (broadband)
download 27.9 MB (64k version)

Drinks (cool stuff to add to your websites):
- How and why to create a blogroll

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- Webmaster Cookbook has a fan! Featured on another blog and in another podcast.

Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- Time to use a new style sheet at Jowl’s website and discussion about using Flickr for inserting pictures into blog

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Jowl and ChefTD review the Nintendo DS

The Check (what did we learn today)
- Take the weekly quiz along with Jowl

Show Summary:

Jowl is sleeping up until showtime and wakes up with a smile. ChefTD asks Jowl what he did on the website over the last week and they look at the website.

Before show started browser screenshot:

ChefTD points out three main issues with the website Jowl is working on: 1) the logo isn’t integrated with the taxi design, 2) there is a block of empty gray space in the design and 3) the title text is cut off because of number #1 and #2. Next, ChefTD shows Jowl how to locate the taxi image and use Photoshop to copy and cut out the components of his orting.com logo and blend into the taxi image, as well as cut out the cartoon character to put him in the passenger side area. They use FTP to transfer the modified image referenced in the cascading style sheet (CSS) to the website. ChefTD explains to Jowl the importance of maintaining a blogroll and how easy it is to create a link list (blogroll) inside Wordpress.

After the show browser screenshot:

Links discussed on the show:
FlickR - share pictures easily online
smartFTP - free for personal use FTP editor (Windows)
Cyberduck - FTP editor for Mac
podcat - almost daily Best Of podcasts selected by ~cat

I look good

I been listening to some of Brad Sucks music and I think the opposite of his name. He does not suck at all, he is a great singer, and he wants to be heard. In Jowls oppinion this guy Brad Sucks is really good go listen to him, we played one of his songs on our show.Brad Sucks music this is his website, go check it out.

Friday November 19, 2004 at 3pm PST / 6pm EST LIVE
Webmaster Cookbook AUDIO:

Streaming:
20k listen archive stream (dialup users)
64k listen archive stream (broadband)
download 27.5 MB (64k version)

Drinks (cool stuff to add to your websites):
- Music by Brad Sucks, you can even mix your own versions from the raw source!

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- Demo: 3D avatar chat with voice via Traveler

Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- Adding and installing Wordpress plugin: Pictpress - which allows galleries inside blog entries

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Using Keyhole to map local areas via satellite imagery

The Check (what did we learn today)
- Take the weekly quiz along with Jowl — what was learned today?

Show Summary:

Jowl’s teacher, Mr. Fries, signs on to start blogging for Jowl’s site. The Orting blog is hit by comment spammers and ChefTD teaches Jowl what CAPTCHA is and shows a demo of a validation image being used to trick spammers. Jowl is frustrated by the spam. ChefTD and Jowl discuss how Jowl could download the source music from Brad Sucks and mix his own version of the songs and then they play one of Brad Sucks songs: Look and Feels Years Younger. Jowl is trying out for basketball but doesn’t think he will make the team because he isn’t fit. ChefTD says, just give it your best effort, that’s all you have to do with everything in life: just give it your best. ChefTD and Jowl run into trouble installing PictPress Wordpress plugin and are unable to get it to work. Error messages ensue and ChefTD says they’ll have to work on it after the show and fix. ChefTD also plans to implement the CAPTCHA option for the comments.

Links discussed on the show:
Captcha - technology to describe separating man from machine
Pepsi Pinball - free pinball game with Western motiff
3D Traveler - Voice Chat in 3D Avatar world

I am by no means fit, so I got my fair share of problems. We did hard warmups and did several exercises. I found out how unfit I was, but this was a learning expercience because tomorrow I’m going to go practie harder and with more accuracy then I ever have. The sport I decided to play was basketball, the games intenseness its so heavy, I didn’t see one of my friends not trying to give 110%.

I know for myself that I would love this game more if my grades were passing, so my idea is to get every grade to c atleast by next week I’ll post my progress on both this website and orting.com, please go check out what we have done to Ortings unofficial website.

I”ll rock your world, this is my avatar.

I will be cohosting for Jowl in a few days, you will refer to me as Spawn for a while because I will be cohosting every week when he has basketball games.

I would like to learn about game programming and steps to making the perfect video game.

While being Jowl’s cohost I will try and cover what you need to do to make an excellent video game. This is what I intend to be cohost for, I will also be doing much much more so listen next week, IT’S SPAWN!!!

Jowl - check out Brad Sucks music — he is interested, in fact he wants podcasters to play his music. Make sure it’s appropriate for the show and if you like, let’s play some of it on the next show

Friday November 12, 2004 at 3pm PST / 6pm EST
Webmaster Cookbook AUDIO:

listen archive stream (20k)
download 10.2 MB

Drinks (cool stuff to add to your websites):
- using tdurl.com for shorter URLs

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- Jowl to share his first week of webmaster independence. What new things did he do as a webmaster? What will he share?

Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- Adding and installing Wordpress plugins

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Reviews of the new Robert Zemeckis film: Polar Express

The Check (what did we learn today)
- Take the weekly quiz along with Jowl — what was learned today?

Show Summary:

Jowl and ChefTD review the first week — the scavenger period — where a new webmaster must go out and find things to add to his/her website. ChefTD shows Jowl what a URL shortening service is useful for and explains that they can use TDurl.com so they don’t have to say long, long URLs for people to remember. Jowl doesn’t add very much to orting.com but he takes notes and plans to look into many new things that can be added next week. Submitting a work order when GD2 or ImageMagick isn’t installed on the server. They also review the movie Polar Express.

Links discussed on the show:
Balloon Hunter - free flash game
Free flash game main site
Wordpress plugins - Wordpress plugin wiki
PictPress Plugin - generates thumbnail gallery out of picture directory and stores inside a blog post

Not much I can say about this movie aside from I fell asleep and so did my dad. The beginning is very boring but I kind of liked the middle. On the whole this movie was what I expected, I expressed that I didn’t really want to go to it. But I ended up going,this movie rates a D-.

I saw this and wondered if Jowl would like to use the Room Defender to keep his brother’s out of his room. Room Defender - from I Want One Of Those

What’s needed is some serious armament, and the Room Defender is it. Mounted on three gun-turret style legs, the Room Defender will protect your privacy from prying snoopers. It has a motion sensor alarm, so when someone enters your room it will give a verbal warning to the intruder, then fire a warning shot (in the form of a foam disc).

Me and ChefTD just recently made www.orting.com a weblog and now I would appreciate it if you would go check it out.

I guess its just what we all face, the dreaded slow computer. The computer I use makes loud noises.

Friday November 5, 2004 at 3pm PST / 6pm EST
Webmaster Cookbook AUDIO:

listen archive stream (20k)

Drinks (cool stuff to add to your websites):
- Wordpress plugins, goodies to add to your Wordpress blog

Appetizers (hungry for knowledge, this will get you started)
- downloading and unzipping a file from the web (Wordpress blog); a program that runs on Linux-based server but is downloaded and installed and FTP’d from Windows machine.

Main Course (the meat and potatoes of the show)
- How to install Wordpress blog, step-by-step to a website

Dessert (fun and fat-free stuff)
- Find out if Jowl found and received permission to play any music for the show

The Check (what did we learn today)
- Take the weekly quiz along with Jowl — what was learned today?

Show Summary:

ChefTD asks Jowl to think if he wants to continue on with the show. Webmaster drive and motivation. Webmaster gods. How to download and install Wordpress. Jowl answers what happened to him finding music to play the site.

Links discussed on the show:
Wordpress download - get zip file for program
Wordpress styles - custom CSS you can use