Another script I’ve needed in the last few days was a popunder for my site, Once again it was difficult to find one that would do exactly what I needed so I made my own. and I’m sharing it with you all here.
Its dead simple and should be easy to install.
VIEW CODE
Thats it, Happy popping!
<script>
//specify page to pop-under
var popunder=”popunder_code.html”
//specify popunder window features
//set 1 to enable a particular feature, 0 to disable
var winfeatures=”width=800,height=300,scrollbars=0,resizable=0,toolbar=0,location=0,menubar=0,status=0,directories=0,address=0,”
function loadpopunder(){
win2=window.open(popunder,”",winfeatures)
win2.blur()
window.focus()
}
</script>
A few days ago I started a campaign that had traffic coming from over 50 countries and my network was redirecting traffic to other offers from any country that was not USA, Canada and the UK. so I needed more control and needed to shift all that international traffic to a version of my landing page that was built for international traffic. Now although I did not translate my landing page this would be a good tool to use for multi-launage landing pages as well.
After searching for hours I realized this was not going to be as easy as I expected, Some where really slow to redirect, others did not have enough options for what I needed and most did not work at all.
I have since put together this simple PHP using 3 different code sources + a little code of my own as well as some help from a friend that knows PHP quite well.
Its very fast, Easy to customize, and very powerful.
This .ZIP contains 3 files
1. geoplugin.class.php – This pulls the GeoIP information
2. index.php – This is the basic redirect
3. index_tracking202_support – Basic script with Tracking 202 support
DOWNLOAD HERE
One of my favorite twitter management apps Tweepi (Free BTW) became a little bit harder to use following letter from twitter, (See Below) and while I completely understand them having to disable the “Select All” feature, it doesn’t mean I’m not going to do anything about it!
Dang Twitter TOS!
Oh well lets fix it!
Your going to need three things:
Firefox – Download (and if your not already using Firefox, Slap yourself)
Greasemonkey Firefox Plugin – Download
“Check Boxes” Greasemonkey Script – Download – Author
BAM! your tweepi problems have been solved!
the next time you load tweepi this will show up at the top of the page:
All you have to do is click “All” and it will check every twitter user on the page so you can, Follow, Unfollow, or block the user, whatever you need at the time.
Hope this helps, Leave a comment if you can’t figure it out.
plz don’t ban me for posting this Tweepi, I <3 you!!!
Ok ok, So I might come off as a little fanboy on this one, but I have been watching diggnation since episode one (even watched “The Broken” AKA pre Diggnation) and its pretty amazing that they mentationed me on the show, let alone talking about some of my work! Here is some photos I took while watching it with some friends on the projector.
And Here is a Photo of my name and twitter on the screen
Anyway It was pretty amazing, and I know it might not be that big of a deal but I was excited about it 
Links
Site – http://www.dirtsalad.com
Diggnation Episode – http://revision3.com/diggnation/diggnation—episode-198/
I’ve had a lot of people ask me about how I got started what I did and how they can start, hopefully this will clear a lot of that up.
I started tinkering with web design when I was 11 years old, back then there really where no good tools to make websites, All I had was Notepad+ and MS paint, everything had to be hand written and and trying to find HTML errors was a pain in the ass. There where no code formatting colors or alerts for when you left a table open (that’s right TABLE) and there was no CSS other then a few in-line styles for a form or table here and there.
Everything was styled indivdually and keeping each page identical (other then content) was damn near impossible.
Then my brother in law (David Hannon) got a copy of Macromedia Flash 5, and let me tell you I was BLOWN away.. I started making little animations then simple sites (that sucked BTW) and I thought it was the best thing ever, so then sadly I went into my “EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FLASH PHASE” and for about a year the only sites I ever worked on where completely flash based, It was bad..
A little while after that I was looking for help on Macromedia’s website and I ran across two new programs I’ve never heard of before, Macromedia Fireworks, and Macromedia Dreamweaver, I downloaded a demo and quickly got confused and gave up, back to Notepad+ and MS Paint for me.
Probably another year went by as I started working, First I was a Dish Washer at a local restaurant (Bad Idea), Then I started working a Call Center in Osage Beach, I worked there for about 4 months until they had some major computer problems and I helped out, I did so well I got promoted to Director of IT, as they did not even have a IT team before me. Ok so Now I’m working in IT, this gave me a lot of time to tinker with computers while I was working and I started getting a better idea of coding and websites as I was required to make things for the company.
It was taking me a long time to get anything done in Notepad+ and MS Paint so I finally decided to crack down and start learning Fireworks and Dreamweaver, What a DIFFERENCE! It was like going from 1930 to 2005 in a few days, My sites where instantly better and much smaller thanks to Fireworks image compression.
So I kept making sites in Dreamweaver and Fireworks but I was making some big mistakes, First I was still in the mindset of making sites how I used to, and would start designing in Dreamweaver then adding graphics and stuff as I went, big mistake! took too long and sites where not what they could have been.
So now my family has decided to move to FL, I thought it would be nice to be in a city and really help my career so I decided to leave my job and move to FL, I started working in call centers again and finally got a job as a IT director at a local company, I needed to build sites pretty much all day at this job so I got a lot of experience, until the upgrade.
So about 8 months ago I made a big upgrade, I vowed to never use tables again (unless necessary) and to only use CSS for styling and get away from in-line, for some reason I was a little scared to move into this unknown and I did make some mistakes, but now I find coding in xHTML and CSS natural and would never do it any other way, TABLES SUCK.
Now I’m working on something new, Wordpress. I’ve only made a few themes but they have come out great so far and I’m hoping to start making some themes and giving them away here on the site.
