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Keep in mind, that the buzz for milliondollarhomepage.com will die within 1-2 months.

I bought a small 20x10 pixel ad on the site several days ago, and the traffic coming in from that small ad is about an extra 50 visitors a day. I've made my money back with the ad, but it didn't flood my site with fresh new traffic. I'm sure those that bought pixels earlier on saw better results.

It might be wiser to spend the money on more effective advertising.

I've had great experiences with Google AdSense. They pay on time. And with moderate traffic the ads easily pay for hosting and then some.

With about 300 visitors per day and a click-through rate of abour 1.5-2% I bring in about $2 per day ($60 per month, $720 year.) Hosting only costs me $6 per month (and that's for three different sites). That's not a lot of money, but it beats the nothing I would otherwise recieve.

Google ads are the least obtrusive ads I know of. If users complain, then tell them to screw off since they don't pay for your bandwidth.

I've had a Cafepress shop for my physics site for over a year now:

http://www.cafeshops.com/ilovephysics

It doesn't bring in the big bucks, but I've sold over 50 t-shirts with my URL on the front and back. It's pretty good viral marketing.

This is a pretty spiffy little mod. I fiddled with it and added some buttons to augment the LaTeX support I've built it:

I'm going to attempt to write a WYSIWYG equation editor for the board. If I do, I'll put all of it together and release it as a mod. Been a while since I've been by here. Just upgraded from 1.1.5 to 1.2.6 this weekend!

I believe zaher's mod will post you favorite posts on your home page. If you just want the most recent posts, then look at extern.php that comes with punBB. Instructions are commented in the code.

Hmmm. So at the DOS command line, if you type:

mimetex.exe y=\frac{1}{2}

out will pop an ASCII raster of y=1/2? That is what happens if you run mimtex.cgi at the command prompt in linux. So mimetex works. Now how to integrate it into the mod.

Did you try:

<img src="http://domain/path/mimetex.exe?=latex stuff">

I don't know how Windows parses the output of a windows executable in a browser, so we are in territory over my head. I might suggest contacting the author of mimetex. I believe he has a support forum listed somewhere on his site.

Costs money to run a site like that. Bandwidth, script support, server space, etc. And as far as I know, they don't resort to banner ads. They have to make money or they can't survive. I offer a forum and other services to physics teachers and students for free. But I have small banner ads that pay for my bandwidth and server "rent". I also probably don't get anywhere near the traffic DynDNS gets. Plus it's a hobby, not a business so I don't expect to make money.

I think there is a site that is very similar that provides the same service for free, though. I don't remember the URL.

I have a cable modem and I used to have my eMac set-up as a webserver. I hosted some sites on it, but to get to them you had to type in the IP which is hard to remember and it also chanes from time to time (Dynamic). DynDNS gives you a URL that points to your IP address. They also have utils that you install on your computer that fequently check your IP and if it has changed, update the info with DynDNS.

You do not buy a domain through DynDNS. The $35 is for the service of pointing your domain to your IP. You still have to own a domain (or use one of the free ones as mentioned above.)

Why is networksolutions $30 for a domain name? Becasue there are suckers out there, I guess. A woman set-up my mothers website for her real estate business. Charged her $100 for a domain name and $300 for search engine submission plus $50/month for hosting. A ONE PAGE website cost my mother $1000! I flipped out when I found this out. She's not working with that woman anymore.

I had a Powerbook G4 - brand new right when it came out last year. The school I was working for bought it for me Unfortunately, I had to give it back when I left

It was VERY nice.

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about. But you will probably find that tag either in header.php or main.tpl.

Here is a very good mod:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=3179

On my board I use more of a hack than a mod. It is not as pretty or as sophisticated as Frank's, but it is simple, straight foward and it works. The discussion is here:

http://punbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4498

I replaced the readme.txt file with the corrected version Rickard sent me.