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I am tired of spending time deleting spam comments, so I've decided to not allow comments from non-authorized users. I still welcome your comments, just ask that you sign in to the site (free to register) before you can post a comment. Don't worry, it takes just a moment.

To the Spammers: you should be tied and quartered. The pieces of you should be collected, tied and quartered again. So, you should be 16^thed.

To real commenters: Sorry that you have to register before posting your valued comments.

Two years ago, when I was teaching Flash to some Middle School students, I published their movies here. Enjoy. Or as one of my students wrote, "injoy".

It's a shame that the previous year's work is not included. There were some very talented flash designers!

People often ask me how to get their own me@my-name.com email address or their own my-name.com website.

There are two parts to getting your own domain name -- you need to register the domain name (costs about $10 per year) AND you need a company to host that domain name for you (a special computer on the Internet that will house "my-name.com", or whatever you choose). Hosting will cost an additional $5 per month, or so. Once you register your domain name, you need to host it

For domain names many of my friends happily use GoDaddy which is only $8.95/yr. You'll pay more for certain domains like .tv and less for others like .info. The best choice is almost always a .com.

Once you register your domain name, you need to host it. Some registrars (like Dotster and GoDaddy) will offer to do this for you, but they are not cheap. You're best bet is Site5. They have an amazing plan that has much more than you will ever need for $5/month and they have GREAT technical support. The plan will allow for every feature you will ever need without having to worry about paying for additional services. Once you grow out of that plan, you'll have a huge staff that can chat with the folks at Site5 to move you to a dedicated server. I've been using Site5 for years.

I hope this helps. Post your questions or comments here.

Site5 has just doubled their already ridiculous offer for $5/month web hosting! Check it out:

This is no wimpy web hosting deal; this is a full-featured web hosting package with unlimited email, mySQL, and FTP, 110 domains, 110 GB storgage, and 5 TB of monthly transfer! Wow!

Give it a shot. With their 60-day money-back guarantee, what have you go to lose?

I've had a website of one sort or another for over 10 years. It is fun, informational, and an outlet for my ramblings. A few years ago, however, I discovered that my website could also be profitable.

At first, I toyed around with the highly popular Google AdWords. My site began making me over $10 per month. Sure, this isn't going to pay my student loans, but it certainly pays for the server space and domain name I pay for.

I am now making double what I was making with Google AdSense, I can choose the ads, and they are less obtusive. Google Ads were great, until they canceled my account and never paid me the $149 they owed me.

I was jaded and removed every profitable aspect from every web page I could.

Then I discovered Text Link Ads, a service that sells small text links on your site (see the ones to the right) for a monthly fee. Currently, I earn 1/2 of the $20 per month they charge for these ads. Easy money. I am now making double what I was making with Google AdSense, I can choose the ads, and they are less obtusive.

The best part is that I am paid monthly via paypal. I never have to wait for a check, wait for clicks to be approved, wait for the ads to load on my page, or wait for people to click them.

Go ahead... don't click the ads on my site!

BoxedArt.com offers the largest collection of web templates, flash templates, logo templates, print templates, and graphic elements found anywhere on the web. And unlike other template sites, your low subscription price buys you access to unlimited downloads!

BoxedArt is the only template site that I know of that offers an all access membership package, allowing you to test a few designs before committing. Additionally, when you sign up, you gain access to their entire collection of graphics and templates which are guaranteed to suit a variety of projects. You'll find far more than just web templates. They offer Full Flash Sites, Flash-Buttons and Flash Intros, Logos, Corporate IDs, and Ad Banner Packs, Mascots, Product Box Designs, eBook Cover and CD Cover Designs, Newsletter Templates, PowerPoint Templates, Music and Sound Libraries, Brochure and Flyer Templates, Vector Icons, Postcard Templates, Menus, and more. They even offer Total Identity Kits, which contain matching logos, letterhead, business cards, website templates, and banner packs.

All of this for one extremely low price. A BoxedArt membership is truly an excellent deal.

Built2Go offers the best ready-made instant turnkey websites. Each site comes complete with full editable PHP scripts and programs with fantastic template designs. They offer website solutions without the need for expensive web design or web development.

Whether you are looking to start a new Shopping site, Auction site, Dating or Personals site, Movie review site, Rate-My-Photo site, Real Estate site, Search and Links site, or a Classifieds site, they have an easy to impliment and well designed solution for you at a fraction of the cost of development. Many of the advanced features that you will crave are already built in to their scripts and templates.

Their search and links solution really helped me with a custom web application I was developing. Rather than scrapping the project, I found a ready-made solution that fit my needs. Check it out!

Other users of Drupal have asked me for a copy of this template, so here it is. This includes .psd Photoshop files for editing graphics. Please let me know if you use this theme and what you think about it by adding a comment (see below).

wordprocessing.rar (187 KB)
wordprocessing.zip (221 KB)