This has been spammed to me every which way, so I wouldn’t be surprised if most of you have already cashed in on this. But Mr Guru himself, Shoemoney, is giving away a free $60 Myads coupon. Along with a short video walking you through what the interface looks like of Myads.

What is Myads? Essentially it started out as the ad network for Myspace (See MyspaceAds), similar to what Facebook is using nowadays. But since Myspace started going down the crapper, mostly because of Facebook’s dominance, they have extended the network to include a bunch more web properties. Mostly the Fox network, but also alot of other high trafficked websites.

Anyway, With a free coupon there really isn’t much reason to not go and blow it and see what happens. Unfortunately the coupon is USA only (Me being from New Zealand), so I couldn’t try it and see if you needed to make a deposit or anything like that. But I’m pretty sure it is an instant credit.

–> Check it out!

We had our first downtime (Ever) with Wachahost today. It was a pretty unique experience in itself, mostly because I am a pretty demanding guy. It is ironic that I used to work for an ISP as a tech, and I used to think to myself, “Man these people are crazy if they think I can fix this issue in 30 minutes”. And now when I open tickets with my datacenter, I am likely the most demanding guy out.

In anycase, downtime sucks regardless. And it really gets me thinking that when we go down, we take a bunch of businesses down with us. We don’t currently offer a 99.999% guarantee with refunds. And that’s not because I think we can’t go a month without downtime either. Infact as I pointed out above, it was our first downtime ever. But the sad fact is that we are not at a stage yet as a business, that we can go a whole month with no revenue. So as much as I would love to offer that guarantee, and stick by it, economically we can’t. I know some people will smack me over the head for revealing that, and they will just say to me, “Just offer it, and the majority of people won’t take up the offer”. But that’s not the type of person I am. If I say that I will give you 99.999% uptime, then if that did not happen, I would offer an automatic refund, I wouldn’t wait for people to have to go through a huge long drawn out process to get their monthly hosting fees back.

Whether we offer a guarantee or not is really irrelevant sometimes when you have service breakdowns. If it is out for a great length of time, sometimes there really is no alternative but to offer them a refund for that portion of the month.

Something that has come up alot lately, is not just a refund of service lost, but a refund of business lost. Say you run an ecommerce store, and it is heavily trafficked. I’m not just talking a one man business, but a store that gets sales hourly. Or it could even be a PPC landing page that you are throwing hundreds of dollars at per day. If that goes down for a few hours, you have now lost for 1. Advertising costs. and 2. Lost revenue. If you were doing PPC you would have lost a bunch of money doing Adwords or what have you, only for them to be taken to a page that is timing out. Not only that, but you have lost your profit that you would have made from that campaign aswell.

Who pays for that?

In reality, big businesses should not be with a shared hosting provider anyway. I can make all the guarantees I want. But it only takes one idiot with a vulnerable script, or one person to peeve off the wrong people and invite a DDoS attack, and things go down.

But when you do lose business like that. There is not many businesses nowadays who will fork out for lost revenue. Infact I would be surprised if any do. And that’s what really peeves me off. That people are so willing to guarantee 99.999% uptime. But they are only willing to reimburse you a few dollars for your hosting. You could call it not standing by your product, in reality it is probably just good economics.  In anycase, before you go thinking that someone offers perfect uptime and will reimburse you if anything goes wrong, just think, if they actually do go down, how much do you stand to lose.

Final Note :

Alot of people offer 99.999% uptime and crap like that. And I have come across many a person who hasn’t a clue what that actually equates to. 99.999% uptime is actually 5 minutes a YEAR. Yes a YEAR. This is unscheduled though, ofcourse things need to be taken offline to install updates etc. Trust me, not alot of “online” businesses have less than 5 minutes downtime a year. Certainly not things like Shared hosting with, as I said above, it only taking one idiot to take down a whole bunch of customers.

As a comparison, if you are only offering 99% uptime. That is 7 hours of downtime a MONTH. Makes a huge difference. Although alot of people just take on a bunch of nines to make it look big. But the “5 nines” concept is one of the biggest in IT.

Here is the full availability table anyway :

First of all, I want everyone to know that this is not a statement, that little thing on the end of the title (?) is called a question mark, and it denotes a question god dammit! Too often when I pose ideas on this blog, I get picked apart by people who take it as the SEO bible. Everything on this blog is just my only thoughts and ramblings, it shouldn’t be taken as the law. Anyway, with that out of the way…

I ran across an interesting post on SEOMoz today. About not all links being equal in Google’s eyes. Nothing new with that statement, but they did post some new ideas that I don’t believe I have ever heard talked about before. The first point that really caught my eye was this one :  “Links Higher Up in HTML Code Cast More Powerful Votes?“. Now basically what they are saying, is that the higher up a link is placed in the HTML of a page, the more weight it will give.

They have some pretty snazzy diagrams that I will chuck up here aswell :

And the second one :

Now the first thing is. That you don’t want to take this as the law. You shouldn’t start only taking link exchanges from people who put your link high in the HTML. Everything is relative. They are only saying, that if there is two external links on the SAME page. That the one at the top will be more valuable. My first reaction to this was “I guess….” followed by a massive pause. It seems to fit most SEO ideologies right. And when link directories were popular back in the day, when you paid for a “Sponsored Listing” and moved to the top of the page, it would have been nice to get an added SEO benefit.

This also sticks to the fact that when someone opens a new webpage. That their eye starts at the top left corner and works down from there. Google wants to treats links just like a visitor. A visitor would never go to a footer link, so why should Google give it the same amount of weight as a link in the main content.

But given that I am a web developer myself and spend most of my days manipulating code, it really started sticking in me.  The thing is, that where you write the code on a page, or really in any programming language, isn’t always where it ends up on the page. Just because I write some HTML code at the top of a document, using things like CSS Styles, and maybe even javascript, it may not always be where it ends up. The most common thing is that you can use the style of “position:fixed”, and you can position a piece of HTML literally anywhere on your screen. Heck it is what I used in my CPA Gateway Code. The gateway code is actually at the top of the page, but gets moved around by styling. Now maybe not the greatest of examples, because the gateway isn’t really designed with SEO in mind. But the fact is, where you write code, is not where it ends up.

Another thing that is fairly popular nowadays, is to use the CSS style of “float:right” to make a two column layout.  Now you don’t have to do it this way, but the majority of people who use float:right, Write the right hand column ABOVE the left hand column. And then when the CSS of float:right is applied, it sort of fulls down the right hand side and into place. Bit confusing, hopefully you follow. Using this technique, you can see that the the html that is supposedly above the left hand column is now side by side. In this case. we should definitely be giving more weight to links in the left hand panel, 1. Because it is closer to the top left hand corner, 2. Because it is the main content, not a sidebar. But taking SEOMoz theory, the right hand panel will get higher link juice because it is higher in the HTML code. Doesn’t seem right.

SEOMoz could very well be right on this one. But I think they have over simplified it, and there is alot more at play than simply where the link is in the HTML page. I would even suggest that Google is evaluating CSS properties to work out what the page actually looks like as the final result. But with everything in the SEO world, nothing is certain.

Often when I introduce myself as a Software Developer to people, I get asked if I could program XXXX program. It could be a website, it could be a desktop product, it could simply be an idea. But they all have one thing in common. They are all great idea’s, but with no idea on monetisation.

I think too many people have what I call the “Twitter” mentality going through them. You see, Twitter has been up for so long, without making a penny. Albeit they are losing millions every year they stay up with no income. Twitter is just one of those strange cases where everything kind of fell together and landed in the right place. If several years ago, Someone said that instead of updating your myspace, bebo or facebook with your status, you would update it on a site with only 140 characters. People would have laughed. I still laugh. In anycase, Investors liked the idea and they poured millions into it.

People I meet on the street do not have this luxury.

Not everyone has the capacity to sway angel investors. And it is this key difference why I try and avoid doing “blind” programming for someone in the hope of making it big.

So where is all this going? Well one of my favorite websites Reddit.com is in the financial crapper. They aren’t in a hole yet, but they are getting fairly close to it by the sounds of it. There was this blog post here about how many pages they serve, and how things have grown over the past year : http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html

So if you read that through, they mention that they are serving 280 million webpages a month. Most people would think, “Plaster it with ads”. But the problem is that original idea, that original design that they did never really took into account ads. The whole point of reddit was to get a nice friendly interface to read current news. Almost like a digg.com, with better stories, better algo’s, and a cleaner website. No where did ads or even monetization in it’s broadest form fit into that original concept.

Reddit has tried the “promoted article” method. Where by you pay for your news submission (Often just an ad for your own site), and it gets boosted up to the top in the front page, or shows on the side.  Kind of what Twitter is doing now, and what Digg has been doing for quite some time. Heck, pretty much the same as what Google does with it’s search results. But obviously it doesn’t pay the bills. Part of this is the demographic, part of it is the visibility of ads. They aren’t integrated that well, and are never enticing to click. The type of people that go to reddit are not interested in ads at all, and most if not all visitors are anti-ads in the first place.

One of the best comments to come out of the whole shakeup, is the fact that reddit could simply replace their site search with Google’s custom search. It is free to use, would reduce load on the server (Searches are probably the heaviest thing you can do), and you can monetize with ads on the site of the search results. Unfortunately these calls have gone largely unheard, mostly because once again, the site is all about the user experience. They don’t want some tacky Google search results with ads on their website.

But at the end of the day, when you are serving approx 280 million pageviews a month, you need to have a plan in place to monetize. An idea just isn’t enough…

It’s been a long time coming, and what I think has been a long drawn out death. But I think CPALead has finally become a victim of it’s own success and is about to be flushed down the loo.

I think we need to go back to a very old post of mine. I think it was one when I first started blogging aswell, but it always remains a favourite. Check it out here. The gist of the post is that CPALead were allowing “fake content” sites to be put through CPALead. Being that a user could fill out an offer, and realise that there is no content behind the gateway, it was beginning to build a bad name against CPALead. People were by and large, finding a way around the gateway, simply because they could not trust that there would be content behind it.

This was small fries in the big picture, as we would later find out.

The next problem was that they started neglecting what got them going in the first place. You see CPALead wasn’t always a gateway company. It had something called the “Active Display Tool”, and it basically showed every survey that they had on the network to a user. The user could then fill out these offers, and be credited with ingame credits, cash, tokens, really anything. It is pretty prevalent on Facebook games nowadays, but it wasn’t so way back then. I used the ADT once, and found it a bit clunky, and impossible to style. They claimed they were going to update it and make it more modern, but it never really happened. Infact there was a period of several months when you couldn’t use the ADT at all, they pulled it right from the market. And there in lies the problem. CPALead were now considered the “Gateway” company. Sure they still had users who were using the ADT, but CPALead supported this very poorly. I remember getting fairly bland responses when I needed support. And with the tool being pulled for months at a time, most (if not all), users switched to another network that better supported them.

This doesn’t seem important at all. CPALead are raking it in with the Gateway. But the issue is now that they are a one trick pony. Should the gateway go down the pooper, they don’t even have their small pool of “ADT” publishers to fall back on.

Most recently, there has been an upheaval from CPALead to remove publishers promoting copyrighted content. I’m not about to sit here and criticise this action (Actually, I will a bit, just a tiny bit though!), because at the end of the day. Copyrighted content such as movies and such, are illegal to distribute. From what I have seen and heard, Publishers started getting ultra competitive in their niches, and often SEO’d a site so much that it was up there ranking with the movie corporations own sites. Something I have learnt working in the real world in IT, is that everytime I have gone to an interview, they always know someone who worked at my last job. A number often knew the CEO etc. And so with movie corporations getting their knickers in a twist about all this copyrighted content, it literally was only a matter of time before it worked back to CPALead and it’s advertisers. CPALead started canning publishers who were using copyrighted material, or atleast removing the best offers from them.

Fair play. At the end of the day CPALead have to protect their business. But you now have to wonder, just how many publishers in CPALead were promoting copyrighted material. It obviously wasn’t high on the agenda when the CPALead owner made this post on digitalpoint forum :

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1849000

We have someone asking how to monetise their MP3 search engine. And the CPALead owner jumping in and telling them to use their network. I don’t want to get into whether a MP3 search engine is illegal or not and whether it is just using google etc, but when it comes down to it, if this person was a publisher of CPALead this month, they would have been canned. Also note the date of the post, it is only the end of last month. Seems we have done a full 180.

As I say, I am not rubbishing their actions. I think they are valid. But it remains to be seen whether they can survive without these publishers onboard.

I’ve talked about CPALead to a couple of people, and basically said what I have said here. And they have agreed with me, to the point of whether they can survive. The issue of facebook always comes up. A growing number of people, that sometimes included myself, have been trying to make ludicrous amounts of money from Facebook. Just by creating simple web pages, creating a fan page that links to that page. And then saying “Look what this teacher said to get fired!”. And ofcourse you have to fill out an offer to view it.

Trust me. This shit won’t last long.

Yeah so we are all banking it hard right now and everybody seems to be pillaging CPALead for all it’s worth. But the fact remains that Facebook is one of (If not the biggest depending on what report you read), websites on this earth. There is just no way that Facebook are going to allow people this to continue going on. To think this is just nieve. Facebook don’t even need a reason to can your fan page, so don’t try and say that you are doing nothing illegal. They can boot you whenever, for whatever.

To sum it up. I think the words “Faulty Management” sit with CPALead like two peas in a pod. I’m not going as far to say that the people there are idiots and should never be running a business. But there has been a number of mistakes that I think were always going to end in disaster. I can even remember not that long ago, everyone’s gateways going down because the server crashed, and this was on a Saturday. And CPALead apparently didn’t work weekends so it just sat like that for a few days. Just crazy in all honesty. O well, it was nice working with yah.

Something that I am quickly finding out in the Web Hosting space, is that consumer loyalty is absolutely massive in this industry. I knew I would definitely face an uphill battle in convincing customers to switch over to Wachahost, but some people sure are stubborn.

Consumer loyalty is probably more prevalent in the real world (Opposed to the fake online world :p), where choosing a particular brand over another can really be a tough decision. One of the best examples I can think of is where you do your personal banking. Here in New Zealand, banks try to sway consumers right from day 1. There is ads on TV everyday about getting your 5 year old child a bank account for his future. And for good reason too. I personally, have never switched banks in my life, and I don’t think I ever will. And all because my father signed me up for a bank account at a very young age.

Not only do they try and sign you up at a young age, they also give you mad deals that basically involve zero fees for your entire teenage life. While you are at school, you have absolutely zero bank fees, none at all. When you become a student at university, you also have no fees. And they even offer you small student loans (around $1000), to let you buy furniture for your flat. Ontop of that, they give credit cards out to pretty much any student at all.

All of this has the effect that you belong to your bank. Maybe when you owe them thousands of dollars on your credit card, it feels like you owe them something! But more so, when you have had good experiences with your bank for 20+ years of your life, with zero fees, then you are definitely likely to stick with them. For the banks this means that you are likely to give them your mortgage which is really their biggest money spinner.

Loyalty doesn’t just belong with one person. If one person is loyal to a brand, then they will often recommend that same product onto others. I have spoken about this briefly before, but the biggest corporation in the world, Microsoft, leverages this heavily. When you are studying any Microsoft course at an established training facility (Not just learning from home etc), you pretty much get any product you want for insanely cheap prices. I have copies of Microsoft Server Enterprise (RRP $1000+), sitting around doing nothing, all because I just had to get it because it was cheap (/free). Microsoft are giving me a great experience by giving me all this free software to try and learn on.

When I did my developers course, I learned pretty much everything there is to know about Microsoft SQL Server. And of course, I got a free copy that I can basically install on as many PC’s as I want etc. Now this falls into Microsoft’s plan brilliantly. Let’s say that I am with a new startup company, and they are deciding which SQL software to use. You betcha I am going to fight tooth and nail to make it Microsofts product, not some cheap alternative. Simply because I have had so much experience with it because of all the free copies Microsoft gave me, and because I know it is just an amazing product that Microsoft has.

Loyalty. It works wonders. Except when you’re on the receiving end.

So back to my original point. It is a hard slog trying to convince people to break the shackles of their stubborn, loyalty craved minds. I’m doing it, but slowly.

In the past I have rang the praises for Livechat on salespages. I really love i because it makes the user feel like they can get all the questions out of the way before buying. I can’t think of a single instance where I have bothered to email a seller about a product before buying. Usually when I am buying something online, it is a “want” not a “need”. And therefore if it doesn’t look right to me, or I don’t know whether it will work for me, I just give it a miss. Ontop of that, when I am in a buying mood, I am in that mindset in that moment only. I don’t want to buy in a week when the company finally responds to my email, I want to buy right now.

However there has been plenty of instances where if live chat is available. I will use it to ask a quick few questions and then onto my purchase. Once again, being in that buying mindset is what drives me here.

With that in mind, I have in in the used LiveZilla for my salespages before. LiveZilla is a pretty good product, and you can read about my uses of it in a previous post here. But LiveZilla always failed in some ways for me.

The biggest being that the actual admin interface, where I answer chats and talk to people, is run from a desktop application. Meaning that for me to be able to answer these chats, I had to have the software installed on my PC. Doesn’t sound that bad, especially because I find desktop applications far more responsive than their web counterparts. But the issues come when I am at work, or at the inlaws (Don’t ask), or maybe using my girlfriends laptop for some reason. Probably in those instances I shouldn’t be answering chat anyway . But I always want to be available to answer any questions. And I can’t have the Chatzilla software installed on every possible PC I am on.

So when it came to installing a livechat system on WachaHost. I certainly shopped around a bit. I really wanted either software that could plug directly into a MSN messenger account (Everyone has messenger nowadays). Or possibly had a web interface. Luckily I found Zopim.

Zopim is amazing. Let me just get that out of the way now. It has one of the best web interfaces out there, where I can chat with buyers anywhere in the world. Aswell as this, It can plug into MSN Messenger. Although I have never tried it in all honesty, so I don’t know how well it would work, But one can assume it works aswell as their web interface.

One of the most time saving features about Zopim is the fact it has canned responses already programmed in. So for example, let’s say I type in /hi into the chat window. It will automatically change that to “Hi, How can we help you today =)”. This particular phrase was pre-programmed in, but you can add as many as you want.

If you look closely, you will also see that there is a check-box for “History (beta)”. I haven’t got much use out of this feature yet, mostly because I haven’t had a bunch of chats for it to analyze. But basically what it does, is that if you write a phrase enough times, it saves it. And as you start typing, it will suggest things in that top box. Thus if you get the same questions over and over again, it will remember your replies and save them for you. It would be much the same as writing a shortcut, but this way it auto remembers.

I’m sure there will be some people out there that don’t wish for their chats to be saved. But I couldn’t care less in all honesty. I am not selling nuclear weapons to Iran so I have no fear over Zopim reading my chats. Plus you actually have access to the history anyway. Which is super handy when you need to prove a customer wrong, which we all hope we never have to do but will always come up.

There is also a bunch of other stats. Like analyzing how many visitors you get (Sort of like Google Analytics). You can also see each visitor live as they come onto your site, and it can tell you which page they are currently viewing, their referrer, if they have ever chatted with you before etc. If you have a particular visitor who you want to talk to, you can also initiate a chat with them so that it pops up on their screen. Very very cool.

I suggest if you want to read more about the features. Go check ‘em out at www.zopim.com. There is a free version which you can download and give it a test (And usually use for small businesses anyway). I am still on the free version since there will never be more than one agent in the chat at one time in any case. So unless you run a massive enterprise business, the free version should be enough for most.

As any blogger should know by now. Last week WordPress released the latest version of it’s blogging platform. Like every other person that can’t wait to see the updates, I updated straight away. So far so good. No plugin issues here so far.

But, there is an issue that became immediately apparent. For some reason after upgrading, the “Publish” button on all new posts has disappeared. On old posts, the “Update” or “Save Changes” buttons have disappeared aswell. Huge problem obviously.

I fiddled around until I finally got the fix, and realized what had caused it. If you are like me, and want to see the full width of your post, you will usually change your WordPress admin panel to “1 Column”. For some reason, by default, WordPress will not show the publish button if you start out on this view. If you switch back to 2 columns, the publish button comes instantly viewable on the right. Luckily, if you switch back to a single column again, the publish button is now magically viewable.

I’m not sure on the exact reasoning. But as I say, it will only ever occur if your WordPress settings were on 1 column at the time of upgrading. Changing it to 1 column from 2 column after the upgrade will not result in any issues.

NOTE : To change your column settings. There is a “Screen Options” button to the top right of your wordpress admin section. It will bring a drop down which you can then change the column options.

Yesterday I posted my gateway code that I had developed to try and do away with all the overpriced ones out there. Now one of the biggest things that I got asked after posting, was how people could both Geo Target their offers, and how to blank the referrer.

Now, onto the latter. In all honesty, You shouldn’t need to blank the referrer. Using a gateway isn’t some massive blackhat tactic that networks are worried about. Admittedly some networks don’t want this sort of activity (Peerfly for one). But when a network is offering “Incentivised” offers. That is exactly what they are there for. They are there to be filled out by giving an incentive (In this case content). If anything, ask your AM. If there is a problem, go to another network. If they don’t want your business, you can bet your ass there will be a network who does.

In anycase, If you really feel the need to go behind a networks back. I have already posted ways to blank the referrer here : http://www.pyrogenicmedia.com/oldschool-method-of-framing-and-cloaking-offers/. Admittedly it isn’t the most amazing guide, and isn’t really the best thing for this. But it does work! In a couple of days I will post about the best way to cloak the referrer, but for now, honestly, just ask your AM’s.

The next issue being Geo Targeting. This being that if you have a US visitor, You want to show them only USA offers. UK only UK offers and so on. Once again, I have already done this for you : http://www.pyrogenicmedia.com/geo-targeting-ads/

Once again this isn’t done for you. But it is so extremely easy to plug the two pieces of code together. I don’t know how to make it any easier for you . Just get out there and do it, it is only copy and pasting!

For some strange reason. People have always thought of CPA Gateways as some sort of mystical piece of software. As if it was extremely hard to do. And certainly, the price tags that are attached to some of these things are absolutely astronomical. If we take at two of the gateways on the market at the moment, Both BlackHatCodeBreaker and CPA Convert go for $67 USD. Too much I say!

And so while I was half asleep at work on a friday afternoon. I decided to code my own. And you know, In a way I feel bad for doing this. Because seriously, I am ruining these guys businesses. But the code is so simple that I just cannot understand how people can keep charging for this stuff. I literally did all of the actual functionality (jQuery) in 10 minutes. Then spent 30 minutes trying to style the darn thing . Anyway, onto the code…

First you need this javascript. Just copy and paste it into the HEAD of your html document. It will need to go on every page you wish to protect.

<script src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jquery/jquery-1.4.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
 
	var Delay = 10;//Seconds after them clicking the link, the gateway vanishes. 
 
	function setupgateway()
	{
		var Left = $(window).width() /2;
		Left = Left - $('#gatewaydiv').width()/2;
 
		var Top = $(window).height() /2;
		Top = Top - $('#gatewaydiv').height()/2;
 
		$('#gatewaydiv').css('top', Top+'px').css('left', Left+'px').css('display', 'inline');
		$('#gatewayDimmer').width($('html').width());
		$('#gatewayDimmer').height($('html').height());
		$('#gatewayDimmer').css('display','block');
	}
 
	function removegateway()
	{
		$('#gatewaydiv').css('display', 'none');
		$('#gatewayDimmer').css('display','none');
	}
 
	$(document).ready(function()
	{
		$('.offerlink').click(function()
		{
			setTimeout('removegateway()', Delay*1000);
		});
 
		setupgateway();
	});
</script>

After that. You need these CSS styles. You don’t need all of them, but just take em all anyway and edit as you please. They should be pretty self explanatory. And if you don’t know, just google “Css CheatSheet”. And you should be able to work your way through em. Once again, put this code into the HEAD of your document.

<style>
 
	body
	{
		background-image:url('http://i41.tinypic.com/29zvocy.jpg');
		background-repeat:repeat;
		height:100%;
		margin:0;
	}
 
	#mainContent
	{
		background-color:white;
		margin-left:auto;
		margin-right:auto;
		margin-top:30px;
		width:700px;
		border:3px solid #CDCDCD;
		text-align:center;
	}
 
	#gatewaydiv
	{
		background-image:url("http://i41.tinypic.com/2znsvti.png");
		background-repeat:no-repeat;
		width:500px;
		height:300px;
		padding:20px;
		position:absolute;
		display:none;
		background-color:#FFFFFF;
		border:solid 4px gray;
		text-align:center;
		font-family:arial;
	}
 
	#gatewaydiv h1
	{
		font-size:35px;
		color:#cc0000;
	}
 
	#gatewayMessage
	{
		font-size:18px;
	}
 
	.offerlink
	{
		color:red;
		font-weight:bold;
	}
 
	#OfferList
	{
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
	}
 
	#OfferList
	{
		list-style:none;
	}
 
	#gatewayDimmer
	{
		background-color:#000000;
		opacity:0.8;
		display:none;
		position:absolute;
		top:0;
	}
</style>

Now you need a little bit of HTML to make the code. I could have done this in Javascript. But it makes it a hell of alot easier just to edit it when it is HTML sitting on your page. Copy and paste this anywhere into the BODY of your page. Preferably make it just after the opening body tag.

<div id="gatewayDimmer">
</div>
 
<div id="gatewaydiv">
	<ul id="OfferList">
	<h1>Do an offer or DAI!</h1>
	<span id="gatewayMessage">If you wish to see your friends alive. You will fill out an offer right now!</span>
	<br /><br />
	<li><a href="http://www.wachahost.com" class="offerlink" target="blank">Cheap Web Hosting</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.yahoo.com" class="offerlink" target="blank">Yahoo</a></li>
	<li><a href="http://www.google.com" class="offerlink" target="blank">Google</a></li>
	</ul>
	<br /><br />
	After completing an offer. Please wait up to a minute for it to register.<br />
	Thank you!
</div>

Basically just edit the “Delay” value in the javascript. This is basically a timer that after X amount of seconds elapsing after clicking a link, the gateway will be removed. In theory we could do postbacks aswell, but it would require alot more support from me to get each one of you setup.

From there, It should be fairly obvious where and how to edit it. I don’t really want to be sitting here all day long helping people out with it, so seriously, if you have a problem just google it . Simply questions are more than welcome to be asked.

Also, the dimmer background doesn’t always work. But you will have to live with that .

If you want an example of how this baby works. Check out http://www.pyrogenicmedia.com/gateway/gatewaycode.html. It uses exactly the same code.

Anyway enjoy. Feel free to share this around, just show some love with a link back