What does this mean for people with flash on their sites?  Nothing.  If you are looking to have a site built however, I would highly recommend that you have it built in HTML5 + CSS3 instead of Flash.  HTML5 and CSS3 are the future, and Flash will be a thing of the past.

With HTML5, you can do most of the things you would be looking to do with flash, it is more search engine friendly, and best of all, mobile devices can load it.  Contact Bonk Media today to find out your options on HTML 5 + CSS3

Read Adobe’s press release here.

function stripsymbols($filename){
return preg_replace(“/[^A-Za-z0-9.]/”, “”, $filename);
}

This is a very simple function.  To use it just do something like this:

$filename=”this is my-#$%#$%file.jpg”;

$filename=stripsymbols($filename);

All set!  If you found this helpful, please send me a shout out.  I do not need credit for using this.

Please note: I am not sure if there is a maximum amount of sidebars allowed, or if this will reduce the speed of the site.  I would not recommend this will hundreds of pages, but a typical site it seems fine.

First things first, make sure you backup your template file.  After you have done this, login to your WordPress admin.  Go to Appearance > Editor.  On the right hand site look for the theme functions and click on that to edit the file.  We are going to be making a default sidebar, as well as making it so that each page will become a sidebar.  We are not going to be removing the current theme sidebars because every theme will differ.  At the top of the template after the <?php tag, create a new line and enter the following:

if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebars’) ){

register_nav_menus(array(‘primary’ => ‘Default Sidebar’));

$pages=get_pages();

foreach($pages as $page){

register_sidebar(array(‘name’=>$page->post_title, ‘sort_column’=>’ID’,'sort_order’=>’ASC’, ‘id’=>$page->ID));

}

}

What does this mean?  This code is saying if I am allowed to register sidebars, register a default sidebar.  After that, grab all the pages and create a sidebar for each page name.  After you have done this, click update file at the bottom of the page.  We are now half done with setting everything up.  To test if the sidebars worked, go to Appearance > Widgets.  You should now see sidebars for all of your pages.  Go to Pages > Add new and create a new page.  Give it a unique name and then go back to widgets.  You will see there is now a sidebar for this page.

Everything looks good right? Yes, but we will need to implement these new sidebars on the front end.  This next step will differ a little for each template.  Go to Appearance > Editor and edit Sidebar.  You will want to look for where it talks about the sidebar, something that says dynamic_sidebar.  Remove this line.

Note: If this is inside of an if statement, you will need to also to remove the else / endif.  If you don’t know how to do this, ask a buddy who can help you.

Replace the code with the following:

<?php if(dynamic_sidebar(get_the_title())){

dynamic_sidebar(get_the_title());

} else {

dynamic_sidebar(‘Default Sidebar’);

} ?>

What does this mean?  If there is a sidebar for the page(which there is) then show that sidebar.  Otherwise, show the default sidebar.  Why would the default sidebar be used? This would be useful for the front page, or a post since they do not have their own sidebar.

I hope this tutorial can help anyone out there that needs this for WordPress.  If you use this, please drop me a line, I would be happy to know it helped you.  You do not need to give me credit for this.  Still having trouble with this?  Contact Bonk Media and we would be happy to help you for a nominal fee.

There are many pros and cons to SEO and using Google Adwords for your PPC campaign. Before talking about the pros and cons of each, let’s first talk a little bit about what SEO and PPC campaigns are.

What is SEO?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume of quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid search results as opposed to Pay Per Click (PPC) which deals with paid inclusion. What does this mean exactly? Quite simply, it is having your site optimized so that you can rank higher up on the search engines organically. Once you get to the top, you don’t have to keep paying.

What is PPC and Google Adwords?
PPC stands for Pay Per Click. It is a way to market your site, where you pay a company every time someone clicks on the advertisement. There are many places where you can do this, and the biggest place is with Google Adwords. Google will allow your site to show up at the very top of the search results page (in the ads section) if you pay them every time someone clicks on the link. The cost varies, but can be from 5 cents to $50.00 a click and even higher.

Pros and Cons
When you first look at SEO and PPC, it looks like SEO is a much better route to go. We would agree with you on this. However, we recommend doing both to begin with. SEO is great when you get to the top of the search engines, but it can take time, and you aren’t guaranteed to get to the top of search engines ever. Anyone that can guarantee this is either lying, or using unapproved methods to get you to the top.

PPC campaigns are great to use while you are running an SEO campaign. You are at the top of the search engines paying for each click while the SEO work is being done. This way, you can get traffic and sales from day one. Once you get to the top of the search engines from your SEO campaign, you simply stop your PPC campaign.

Conclusion
Having an internet marking plan is essential. SEO and PPC campaigns are a great way to bring traffic to your site. Bonk Media has proven results in both SEO campaigns, and a solid Click Through Rate on our PPC campaigns. Contact Bonk Media today for a free internet marketing consultation.

Bonk Media has been in business for over 13 years now. At first, it started out with me being contracted to build sites, but now we have turned out to be a full fledged multimedia studio. We are really your one stop shop for all of your multimedia needs. We do things from illustrations to animations, to websites, to mobile apps. There really is no limit. For more information about what we offer, check out our site for details.

I will be posting a new video blog every week to every two weeks. These video blogs will be discussing ideas for your business, new technology that comes out, internet marketing tips, and more! We feel that there are many companies out there that try and take you for everything you got just to make a buck. At Bonk Media, we help you sort out what will benefit you the most on getting success and a good return on investment.

Thank you for visiting this video blog, and I look forward to hearing your comments and working with you.