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Increase Your Google AdSense Revenue With Ads Black List

There are several ways to increase AdSense revenue — good color schemes, intelligent designs and clever ad positions. I recently stumbled upon another way to improve AdSense revenue. It’s called Ads Black List and it allows you to take advantage of a special feature called … Read More

Introducing PHP-AWS

Today I’m happy to announce a new open source project from Sitening. PHP-AWS is a collection of PHP classes that let you tap into the power of Amazon’s Web Services platform. This is the same codebase we used to build Basejumpr. It lets us offer … Read More

Top 10 Code Snippets from Snipplr

Snipplr was launched in June 2006. With Snipplr you can keep all of your frequently used code snippets in one place that’s accessible from any computer. You can share your code with other visitors and use what they post, too. During the short six months … Read More

Henshaw Selected to Speak at webDU 2007

webDU, the premier Antipodean Web technology conference, selected Sitening’s Jon Henshaw to speak at the the 2007 event in Sydney, Australia. Formerly known as MXDU, webDU is in its fourth year, attracting the majority of Australian developers, designers, managers and students with an interest in … Read More

Mauk Joins Sitening

Sitening has hired Amy Mauk as Web & Flash Designer. Mauk, who created an illustration deemed “charming” by Martha Stewart, was previously a designer and illustrator for Design-her Gals. An accomplished artist and photographer, Mauk’s work has been featured in Nashville Business Journal and juried … Read More

When Developers Get Cute

Here’s an idea, let’s program a secret feature in a widely used Mac application and make the icon change to something completely different. That’s exactly what Allan Odgaard (through the prodding of two contributors) did with his application, TextMate. On October 31st the icon for … Read More

Anastasia Holdren Selected to Conduct AdWords Seminars

Nashville, Tenn. October 24, 2006 — Anastasia Holdren has been selected by Google to conduct a series of AdWords training seminars. Holdren, vice president of Sitening, a Nashville-based SEO and Web design firm, will help prospective and existing Google advertisers better understand and benefit from … Read More

Sitening Wins WebAward for PorterCreekLiving.com

  Sitening won a 2006 WebAward for outstanding achievement in website development for PorterCreekLiving.com. The website was awarded a Real Estate Standard of Excellence Award. The Web Marketing Association is the producer of the WebAward Competition. Now in its 10th year, the WebAwards is the … Read More

Crash IE6 with Only CSS

I was recently designing and coding a new website for one of our clients. As always, I was coding it in TextMate and viewing it in Firefox and Safari for testing. I had finally come to the point where I needed to start up Parallels … Read More

Google AdWords Location Targeting Preview – Made Easier

The Google AdWords team recently announced the release of an ad preview tool for location targeting. The search results and ads are not active, so you can preview at will without accruing impressions or accidental clicks. Best of all, you can refine the results page … Read More