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The WAHMs Toolbox – 100 Links and Resources

Kathy — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 03:39:49 +0000

This site, Bootstrapper, has assembled a nice list of web resources for mompreneurs and WAHMs. They’ve organized hundreds of quality sites into sections including; ‘articles’, ‘blogs’, ‘networks’, ‘business resources for women’, ‘parenting’, ‘work at home resources and ideas’, ‘time management’ and the ever useful ‘miscellaneous’. Check it out here: The WAHMs Toolbox – 100 Links and Resources.

Project Wonderful Ad Network is Great!

Kathy — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 02:53:11 +0000

Project Wonderful is a hot ad network that is spreading like wildfire. They allow publishers (website owners and-or webmasters) to easily offer space on their websites to the highest bidders. Advertisers can outbid a current advertiser and be on a desired website instantly. In addition to their ease of use for both advertisers and publishers they only take a 25% slice of the advertising dollars making them the lowest priced ad network I’m aware of.

You can find more about them here: Project Wonderful Ad Network

To see their system in action check out these Websites:

We just added a 468×60 banner ad slot to this site! Check out the upper right-hand side of the site.

Momz.com and the moms web directory

Momz Top Websites for Moms

Dadz.com and the dads web directory

Bold Food

WAHM Shopping Mall

WAHM Break Cafe Top 100 Websites for WAHMS

Check it out and be sure to take advantage of the free banner ad opportunities on our sites before the deeper pockets arrive and outbid you.

WAHM Blogs

Kathy — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:14:37 +0000

Here is a list of some WAHM blogs worth checking out:

A WAHMs Blog

Adventures of a WAHM

Ami-Chan.net

April’s Daily Recipes

Duong Nguyen’s Blog – Sarah84

Internet Marketing for Mommies

Lattegirl Does Civilization

My Thoughts and Ramblings

Plain Book of Homeschooling

Randomly Chaotic and Frequently Mundance

Shoppingmum’s Home Office

Using Thumbnails on Your Website

Kathy — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:08:41 +0000

No, we’re not talking about scratching your website’s eyes out with your thumbnail… We’re talking about the small pictures of websites that you see on some sites like the Momz.com directory for example. Momz.com presents a thumbnail of every one of the 1,500 or so websites listed in the directory. This helps the visitor determine which sites are worth visiting with a quick glance.

These “thumbnails” help filter out foreign sites, offensive sites, and generally offer us a better surfing experience.

We use Thumbshots, a free tool to pull the thumbnail images from their database and present them when needed. All they ask for in return for this highly useful service is a link back to their site on your website.

To show you how easy it is I’ll explain what I did to add the thumbnails to this post:

Register at Thumbshots
Once registered they share the small piece of code needed to add the thumbs to any post or web page you want.
Using WordPress you just place your cursor where you want to insert the thumbnail and press the picture icon just as you would to insert any photograph.
This time you’ll enter the code from Thumbshots and after the “=” equal sign simply type in the URL of the website and like magic their tool pulls the thumb of the website and places it where you wanted it.
To move the thumbnail over to the left and have the text wrap around it using WordPress you click on the image, click on the LEFT justify icon or button and the picture is moved to left and text wraps around automatically.

Give it a try on your website. Post any questions in the comments area and we’ll try to help.