"Me Linky You Long Time"

May I direct your attention to two of the funnier-looking things in my right sidebar. They represent my personal enthusiastic endorsement for the WordPress blogging platform and DreamHost Web Hosting services. Yes, I am satisfied with DreamHost, but then, I had just renewed my hosting there when the Great Billing Snafu of ’08 occurred, so I was not subjected to the mass overcharge. I have no problem with their image for goofiness; in fact, I “borrowed” the picture in my little ad from a DreamHost Blog Photoshop Contest in order to show off their “Hamster-Powered Webhosting”. I enjoy making my own unauthorized ads and link images, especially when I can find the same font that my victims used in their logo (I got totally obsessed with organizing my 2000+ font collection a couple weeks ago and now I am actually glad I did).

And the little letters under the DreamHost ad signifies “Commission”, meaning that if you use that link to go to DreamHost and buy their service, I get a generous kickback. You see, I really believe in Financial Transparency (since my finances are already so thin as to be translucent), and I prove it here. The under the Google Ads means I get Paid Per Click for that. And the nothing-at-all under the WordPress graphic/link means they don’t pay me nothin’… it’s enough for me that the WP Open Source Blogging Software and Paraphernalia costs me nothin’.

Anyway, if any of you want to use my cute graphics, feel free to copy them. And if the spaces on your website aren’t the same dimensions as mine (I do run a very non-standard-sized ship here), here are different sizes of the DreamHost Hamster Ad: 640×640 500×500 320×320 200×200 160×160 150×150. And just for the record I really hate the little 125 by 125 square ads that are stacked on top of each other in two columns in many blogs; they are too small, too square and too many, but if that’s the only space you have, I hope this is semi-legible on most screens: 125×125. (Yeah, the words are readable, but can your recognize the little blob of fur as a hamster?) I knew that if I didn’t shrink it down to that size, somebody else would.

As for the WordPress 2.6.1 (4.4% better than 2.5): 320×60 200×37 150×28 and for the lovers of itsy bitsy fine print 120×22. And yes, when WP 2.7 is released, I’ll make an ad saying “it’s 3.84615% better than 2.6″ unless I think of something funnier.