vBulletin SEO Setup

I spotted a new site on the wire today, Cross Browser Testing; it is a site that helps you test your website across a variety of different operating systems and browsers.

Whilst there are services like Browsershots that let you take screenshots of your site in different browsers, Cross Browser Testing provides you with full interactivity, allowing you to test things like AJAX and JavaScript that you can’t do with a screenshot.

Cross Browser Testing provides a very wide variety of servers to choose from, from Windows 98(!) to Vista and Linux; and many browsers including Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape.

I played around with the free 5 minute trial session available, and it seems like a really good option for those who need to test their sites in many different environments.

Here’s a screenshot of the vBS blog in Opera:

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How to Detail Your Vehicle

So you?ve decided you?d like you car to have a clean and polished look. Consider detailing your vehicle. You can do it yourself. It doesn?t take much to do an excellent job detailing a vehicle if you have the patience to develop the skill.

There are many the steps involved in detailing a vehicle: polishing the paint, cleaning the interior, trunk, engine compartment and undercarriage of the vehicle. As you can see this is an intensive job that involves a lot of labor. If you?re new to vehicle detailing, it?ll take you about half a day to complete the task. Enlist a trusted friend to help to save on time.

When you?re ready to get started you?ll need to gather your supplies. Here are the items you need: safety goggles, clean rags, soap, vacuum cleaner, toothbrush, carpet cleaner, wheel brush, plastic bags, paper towels, degreaser, masking tape and semi-gloss black spray paint

Clean your vehicle?s exterior with soap and water. Then dry off the vehicle. Open the hood of the vehicle, start the engine and spray degreaser on various components under the hood. Wear your safety goggles while doing this. After you?ve sprayed the degreaser, turn off the engine. Take your brush and scrub the built up grease. Turn the engine on and hose it off with water. Avoid the air intake. Place a plastic bag over the open air filter to avoid getting water in the engine. You must be very careful not to get water in the engine. You can avoid this step if you are too uncomfortable.

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Tips for Finding Good Indie Music

In the entertainment world there are many popular artists promoted by big music companies. Everywhere you look you can’t help but see advertisements for the latest album releases. The most popular of these artists appear regularly in tabloids and celebrity magazines. While the media bombards us with the latest on these performers there are also lots of talented independent artists that fall below the radar. And many of these performers are just as talented as the more popular ones. So how do you find good music from independent artists? Here are a few ideas:

1. Ask friends for recommendations. If you have friends with similar tastes in music, ask them to tell you about some lesser known artists they know and like. If they don?t know you?re interested in new music, they just might keep their good find to themselves. You may be pleasantly surprised with the recommendations they make.

2. Search Youtube for artists. If you can sift through the thousands of videos on Youtube, you can find some quality artists that share their work via this popular site. Some offer video performances of their latest concerts or snippets of song they’re working on at home or in the studio. If you look at their profile, they may have a link to take you to their Web site where you can find more of their work. They may even have a CD you can purchase.

3. Search through Myspace music. Everyone nowadays has their own Myspace page and independent artists are no exception. Some are looking to get discovered and others just want to share their work with anyone who will listen. Because this site generates so much traffic this is one of the best avenues for artists to share their work. You can listen to clips of songs, send messages to these artists and look for tour dates. You may even become a fan.

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Thank you to everyone that participated in our first contest at the vBulletinSetup forums.

I’m proud to share a fabulous up and coming website that is barely 3 months old yet has already had over 3,000 post. TalkDelaware is using a style that has been completely redesigned from the ground up to match the states colors. Caddyman has taken a great deal of time on the onsite SEO, you can see the use of the zoints SEO mod and the ever popular “welcome header as an image” I love the icons in the welcome image that point out some of the more active areas on the TalkDelaware Discussion Forums.
One of the more popular sections of TalkDelaware seems to be the Arcade with over 300 Games. That’s enough to keep any member busy, not to mention the game tournaments that are always a blast.
I know I’m not the greatest at Reviews, but you should really check out the site. It’s really nice to see someone take the time to change the look of vBulletin away from the stock look.

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We’re going to start offering a Review of your website on this blog ( PR4 ). I’ll only be accepting blogs related to our niche, it other words, other webmaster sites are fine, but a cross stitching site wont cut it

The reviews will have 3-5 deep links to assigned parts of the owners forums. I will however be writing the review myself, but the owners are welcome to suggest key terms. I want this to help you as much as it will help me.

Don’t feel bad if your website isn’t accepted, I have several other blogs with Pr that you may be interested in getting a review on, I just want to keep this to sites I would suggest.

-Brandon

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