What's the current consensus on using phpadsnew (dynamic ads) on freesites?

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Bill

Is there some reason you don't use htaccess to allow ssi to run on html pages, ecchi?

Because if a Link List webmaster does not allow ssi and I use htaccess or similar to hide the fact, I am a cheater. I don't have many virtues, but one of the few I didn't ditch is honesty (except when in my role of a journalist).

Originally Posted by Bill

How does the perl program you use to count traffic work?

Every time a site of mine gets a hit it collects all the important data (IP referrer, site etc.) so that I can look at it in a variety of ways, e.g. how many (number or percentage) of uniques from each link list to all sites or to each site individually, how many hits to a particular site, how many hits to sites of a particular niche, etc. It is far from finished, but the beauty is that I wrote it myself so if I want to find out some info I did not think of when I wrote it (eg calculating which link lists are best in a particular niche rather than overall) I can add a subroutine to do that.

Originally Posted by Bill

Does it capture and store full referrers urls?

Yes but I rarely use this data (I need to know who sent me the traffic, not which page of their site it came from).


I have said before, and I will say again. Having spent several years designing sites only knowing HTML, and several years knowing both HTML and Perl (and a smattering of PHP), I would defiantly say all webmasters should learn at least one CGI usable language. A web site designer who does not know a CGI language is like Stevie Wonder driving a car: Technically it should be possible, but he won't be as good as a sighted man, and eventually there will be a God awful crash.