I was looking around for a simple php image rotation script so that I could offer rotating banners to my affiliates on ChopperStickers.com.

I found a great one here. Small, simple, clean and it does the job well.

The same place offered this banner rotation script that is a little more advance and provides you with a few more options. Since my affiliate software controls where the links point I did not need the features of the more advance script so the simple rotator suits my needs just fine.

Just doing more SEO research and site optimization and I came across another great set of online tools.

Webconf.com SEO Tools

Been doing a little research of search engine optimization (SEO) and here are couple of great resources and articles I have come across and figured I would share.

Spider Food Forums

SEO Basics

Vanessa’s Quikie SEO

Lots of stuff out there to read. Have fun.

A few others:

SEOmoz.org

SEOChat.com 

and probably thousands more…

Was looking for a way to generate a PDF catalog for ChopperStickers.com so that visitors could download and print out a catalog of all the stickers we have available on the site. Doing some searching around I came across RustyParts HTML_ToPDF PHP class.

Took some tweaking around and I had to install GhostScript and the GhostScript fonts but I got it working and I think it came out pretty nice.

I created a php script to generate a catalog of all the stickers I currently have available, then I pass that to a php script that generates the my pdf catalog. It can be done on the fly but that takes a bit and uses up quite a bit of server resources so I have a cron script that generates an updated catalog once a week.

If you are looking for away to convert other documents to PDF check out this handy online tool. It has a filesize limit of 2MB but other than that it is pretty nice. I have used it to convert the VFR Newsletter from MS Publisher to PDF and it works great.

Some different blogging platforms:

If you want to set up your own on your own server or server space that you lease (hosting account):

• Wordpress
  This is my personal favorite (and what this blog is running on). Very easy to install and customize. Take about 5 minute go from no blog to blogging. A very large support community with tons of plugins and themes. Requires PHP and MySQL.
• Serendipity
  Another great opensource blog. I used this one in it’s early days. Pretty easy to install and use. I have a buddy that uses it on his blog and he really likes it. Looks like the Serendipity Community is also growing a bit.
• LifeType
  Now I have not uses LifeType in a long while. The project use to be called pLog and it had to change because of now trademark problem or something. It has seen some recent development but the user community is not that large. Still worth looking into though.

Hosted:

• Wordpress.com
  Allows you to start your own Wordpress Weblog. Free to sign up for and very easy to use.
• Blogger
  If you are technically challenged or you are just looking at getting started blogging then check out Blogger. My daughter has her blog here and she has fun with it. It is also very easy to use.
• There are hundreds more. Just do a search for free blogging.