Recently I took a road trip across country to promote my website Cars For a Grand.com.The road trip was designed create buzz about the brand and bring awareness to inexpensive vehicles for sale online. You can read more about the road trip on the Cars For a Grand Website. On April 20th 2009 our story hit mainstream media and CNN covered our trip. Here is the video.

Recently, I was working on an update to Cars For a Grand a website that sells cars for under $1,000. I was recoding the search page and I had a long list of cars in a particular zip code. Since I didn’t want to show the details of the car in the immediate view,  I would use a toggle approach to show/hide the details on the page. Here is an example that should get you started. Test in IE, FireFox,...

Last night I published my first video screencast for my WordPress project WP Tag Ads. I decided to create a screencast cause I noticed a large number of my users were having problems getting the plugin running correctly. In the past I have used normal blog posts to aid users in setting up my plugin, but this time I decided to use video to demonstrate the installation, activation and testing of the...

With the end of the year closely approaching, I need to get my personal and professional priorities in line. Here are just a few things I need to work on so I can start fresh in ‘09 Finish the redevelopment of Zeropaid.com – All we really need to do is finish UI, is that so hard? Get a new snowboard – I need a new one and its time! Get to the gym more often – Need to get...

it’s been an exciting trip so far, I haven’t been able to blog much since I have been comatosed from drinking an abundance of Negra Modela, Pacifica beer and stuffing myself on as much food as I possibly can. Our trip started out by Leslie having a limo picking us up at 9:30 am on Friday morning transporting us to the Mexican border. The limo bus was really big and we jammed to Matt’s...

I keep telling myself each night before I go to sleep to relaxe and dream of a day when I am relaxing on a beach and sipping on a drink while I watch the day pass, well that day is swiftly approaching. In about 30 hours I will be doing exactly that, I will be heading off to Cabo to enjoy 10 days of sun bathing and relaxation.  So for the past 2 days I have been preparing for a nice little trip. Last...

Everyday, some money hungry & tech enthusiast presents me with an idea of how they can change the web. PC Pro has a interesting article on user retention and building an online business. The next big thing doesn’t have to be a new big thing. Neither Google nor Facebook were pioneers. Yet, Google searched better than the rest, and Facebook adopted a friends-only approach to profile viewing...

Have you ever been on a web page and see something you really want to buy? With the eBay Lite Toolbar you can quickly search eBay.com and find the product you are looking for in seconds. In just 2 clicks you could own that Antique Chinese Console Circa 1800-20 you have been looking to purchase online. Access all of your favorite eBay places like My eBay, watched auctions and eBay pulse. With eBay Lite...

Introducing WP TagAds, a new way to display ads on your WordPress blog. WP TagAds is an advertising solution tailored for WordPress bloggers, ads are displayed based on the “post tags” you assign to a post in your WordPress blog. This is different then say Google Adsense where the page is crawled then ads are displayed based on the findings. With WP TagAds you are served eBay products based...

Last year the most popular streaming site on the net was taken down by UK autorities for linking/streaming to “pirated” material. Since then numerous sites have blossomed into the tv-links.co.uk replacement. Sites that offer streaming content on the net are slowly becoming as popular as file sharing with users migrating to these sites in the millions. “TV Links” style sites...