Website Technician

Sometimes you need to space thing on your site and don’t want to mess around with the CSS coding to accomplish the proper space requirement. In the past I have used line breaks to create vertical spacing. I have also used ascii spaces to create horizontal spacing.

No more, now I use a 1 pixel by 1 pixel transparent .gif file to do this work. Open your graphics editor and create a new image. Make the image a 1px x 1px file and leave it blank. When you start setting up a new file, be sure to have the background be transparent. Save the file as spacer.gif and upload it to your server.

When you need a vertical spacing then place the link to the file in your document and use the Height and width parameters to create the space.  For example if you need vertical spacing it would look like this:

<img src="http://www.you.com/spacer.gif" alt="Spacer" height="400" width="5" />

Need a bit of horizontal spacing:
<img src="http://www.you.com/spacer.gif" alt="Spacer" height="1" width="50" />

Try it out.

Steve

I finally pulled everything together and funded my account at Media Traffic. As of this post I have had 2744 clicks on my keywords and URLs that I picked, and not one person actually completed the action. That is a ROI of 0.00%. My campaigns ranged from submitting an email address for a chance to win a $500 grocery card to links for selling houses online. Nada.

My current campaign is for Lunarpages web hosting. I simplified it up and have just 4 keyword phrases (Web Hosting, website hosting, Web host and domain hosting). Anyone in their network entering those keywords, in that order would get a pop-under window for this campaign:
Here is the Campaign

This campaign has had over 1000 clicks and no one made a purchase. I have limited the campaign to $10 per day, so I’m letting it run a few more days. My enthusiasm has waned. Off to another project.

At the end of my experiment, I had over 6000 clicks, based upon keyword searches, and not one sale. I spent $94 with no luck. My refund on the remainder of my deposit was returned yesterday.

Steve