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why would I bear with the purveyors of the .ng domain when doing so could potentially lose me some serious money"?

For me, it's no .ng domains till I can see consistent steady results from them

Come on folks! Today, I have already exceeded my average of "3 times a day" so it isn't that bad. . .for now

Something is finally up on the site now, in the form of a flash movie.

I doubt this is an issue caused by the webmaster. I mean, it isn't the person's site but Dana's. Here are the possibilities as I see it:

1) Dana didn't have a maintenance contract with the person. If this is the case, speaking for myself, I no b UNO. Pay for play, period!

2) Dana doesn't have a dedicated website department

3) Dana just want to show the world that they have a website and so as long as they are able to do what they need to do online, it is okay, provided web hosting doesn't expire

Finally, if it is true as reported that the crash was caused by lack of maintenance of the plane concerned, na website dem go come maintain?

gbam!

I second dual core's smart aleck, yet subtle suggestion ROFLMAO LWKMD!!!

Could be a case of Nigerian IP addresses being blocked.

I am in favor of the merge, considering circumstances. Question though: How active/inactive is the programming section? Would this simply be a matter of going from 1 post a day to 2? If so, no point.

I am now up to an average of 3 visits per day (from 2. . .compared to at least 20, which was the case prior to the "redesign" so I guess some things are improving on this board

uh oh! I visit that site every day and have been doing so since 2005. Wetin I go do now?

vimeo?

Since I can't create new topics (I keep getting "unexpected error". . .since yesterday), I will create a new, related topic here:

na wa o! No more than 2 days ago, we were discussing sun news. Today, I am talking about punch. Please visit their site and see the "maintenance" message: http://www.punchng.com/

I must confess, the page is pretty cool (they even have a dynamic clock that tells you when they "hope (I could go on another tangent about this but I will hold back for now )" to be back) but why must you bring down the whole site just because you want to perform maintenance? Have they thought of those that could jump ship because of this delay?

Common sense would dictate that they use the old database to host news on a subdomain/subfolder, redirect traffic there and do their performance work on the root. Then once everything has been tested, they push stuff, including redirecting traffic back to the root.

Now, I am 2 sites down when it comes to where I go daily for news. Na wa o!

cool. Now we know the facts. Sure beats saying, "na that land wey i dey struggle with my brother come do make my brother take my site go sango oracle. Na im b d reason y d ads no show"

Folks:

You can choose to walk from VI to Ikeja and you can choose to put water in your radiator as opposed to anti-freeze. You can even choose to use spinach to cook your edikang ikong as opposed to waterleaf and you can use an e-reader to read your books as opposed to reading an actual book. Heck! You can even use DIVs to partition your paragraphs, as opposed to using actual P tags and it will still work, right? Let me go a bit further: You can use a while loop as opposed to a for loop or do-while loop. The issue of tables as it relates to this post, as opposed to CSS, is a matter of semantic coding.

We shouldn't use a piece of code as a cop out or "because it works" but because it is the right piece of code (and I am talking at all levels: front, back and business logic) for the situation. Tables semantically have their place (tabular data and HTML-based emails).

The mark of a true and disciplined coder is recognizing that one has tons of weapons at their disposal and uses the best one that fits the situation.

ON ANOTHER TOPIC: How come I can't create a new topic? Or is it location-specific? Just when I am starting to love coming back to NL more than 2ce a day, make una no kill my passion o

I actually don't like their new layout (as of yesterday). Compared to the old one, I prefer the old. They have been down for at least a week. When you don't see the "new website coming soon message", you will see a combination of "file now found" or "unauthorized access". Very annoying. I only return because they have good news.

I am thinking of giving them one more week before like Daily Independent news website, I add them to my ban list

This has always been an interesting phenomenon to me as googling will tell you that there is some CSS code to do it and it is cross-browser but it actually isn't true. I thought I was the only one who had this problem.

For me, I either do what you've just done or add top padding line height. In general though, I try to avoid positioning as much as I can.

Good luck!

Log in to your adsense account and look for the "contact adsense (or whatever)" link. I've contacted them b4, albeit a few years ago so I know it's on there.

Yeah I noticed that. That would be beyond my control. I would contact google adsense to figure out why. You created the ad and I put it on the site.

Also, I noticed that the ads are not showing on all pages you requested. Did you tamper with the code or did you give the ftp details to someone else who may have taken out the code?

As you may know, when you install something in joomla, it is looking for an xml file. Sometimes, because of size, a zip file for joomla is normally zipped twice. If the zip you have is one of such, it means you need to unzip the zip, then run the install.

To verify, open the zip you have now. If what you see in it is another zip, then you will need to unzip. If this isn't the case, I guess someone else will have to help.

Good luck!

So I am looking at the site and it appears it is violating a lot of the issues I have cited above. Also, with page names like "ctact" and "b2b", I don't see how search engines would index and/or rank your site well.

As an aside, your site doesn't appear to be secure. From the little I know about web security, your site shouldn't be throwing an error for the following URL (I got a url with a number as a parameter and replaced it with a tick):
http://www.thebusinessoutliers.com/inner.php?id='

Good luck!

Everything I have suggested above are mere speculations. No panic o, he he

When I promise to do something, I do it, albeit it may take longer than usual. Slow and steady wins the race

As for the ads, it could be a variety of factors so I don't want to speculate on a particular one: ur ads not activated, ur account not activated, ur account banned by google, you not specifying alternative ads to run on ur site until actual ads are available, etc

Give it till tomorrow and see what happens. For now, as you have confirmed, the space for the ad is there.

UPDATE 2:
I am done making changes to your forum.

I decided to go the crude approach (Hey! It works ), due to time constraints and because I feel it will be the easiest for you to follow:

1) In the same file quoted above, I have added a switch statement, based on the URI (portion of URL after the ".com" you are on.

2) If URI matches the 3 boards you sent me (computer repairs, satellite and home and something else I can't remember now), the ad shows.

3) You will notice in the code that each page is determined by the board number. You can add to this in the future.

4) Note that should you decide to tell your SMF to use SEO-friendly URLs, you will need to update the above file to reflect the page names

5) I have added comments in the code that will hopefully make the code make sense to you

6) Feel free to subject my code to code/peer review

I hope I have done my work well

UPDATE:
1) I have been able to log into your cpanel and adsense accounts

2) You didn't mention where exactly to put the ad (header, footer, both?) so I put it directly above the navigation

3) File to modify (search for "main_menu": /Themes/default/index.template.php

4) Ad isn't showing as at the time of this posting. This is most likely because no ads have been sourced by google yet and you probably didn't tell adsense to serve a public service announcement in its till then. You might want to log in to your adsense account to do this.

5) Right now, the ad will be global but if you give me another 20 minutes or so, I will add conditionals to enable it show up on the forum boards you mentioned.

Thanks and sorry once again for the delays

I am around, albeit a bit busy. Sorry about that. Was working on something due at work today. I will look at it in the next 2 hours or so. In the even that someone else does during this time, let me know so that we don't overwrite each other's work.

Again, apologies for dragging it out.

Okay, will check in another 2 hrs or so. Busy on a project currently. They had asked for phone number or the answer to a security question. I detailed it in the email I sent you yesterday.

Again, I will check it out in a couple of hours and report back here and/or ur email.

Multiple reasons here, many of which could be combined:
1) You didn't submit your site to google and bing
2) You are not registered with google webmasters
3) you are registered with #2 above but didn't submit a sitemap.xml to them
4) What is the url of your site? Maybe it isn't structured properly (title tags, etc)
5) How old is your site? Google for example gives more weight to older sites
6) How relevant is your site to what it is promoting?
7) Do you have more than 1 area covered on your site? If your site covers black marbles, google will give more weight to it and know how to index it, as opposed to if your site covers black marbles and red cars.

As I said at the onset, there are many reasons. A url would be helpful.

Update:
OP, You still haven't sent me the answers to your verification questions and/or your phone number. Without this, I can't proceed to your adsense account.