Friday Archive Dive: Project Wonderful as an ad-network default

Today's Archive Dive is from February 2, 2012, when I described how to set up a Project Wonderful ad as a default in ContextWeb (now called PulsePoint). Although the instructions are specifically directed towards ContextWeb/PulsePoint, they can be easily applied to any ad network provider.

Webcomics.com has long advocated the use of Project Wonderful -- and, when the time is right, using Project Wonderful as part of an ad chain.

Recently, during a ContextWeb 101 discussion, a member wrote in describing trouble that he had in getting Project Wonderful ads to work as part of a ContextWeb default.

I did a little research, and here's the solution to that problem.

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Psst. Back up your Web site

You probably already know about the Great Website Outage of 2013. Blind Ferret hosting, which is the home to several fantastic comics (and Emerald City Comicon's Web site) fell victim to hackers who deleted all of the Web sites on the Blind Ferret servers -- as well as the back-ups that, evidently, were also hosted on the servers.

So let's talk about backing up our Web sites.

As this case study shows us, it's not enough to assume that your Web host couldn't fall victim to this sort of thing, too. If your Web site is important to your livlihood, you'd better take a few moments every month and make sure you have your own back-up just in case.

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Exercise for cartoonists

We cartoonists are a stagnant lot. We sit in front of our drawing boards/tablets and then we sit some more in front of our computers. I wanted to pass along a few thoughts on how we could mitigate the effect that's having on our bodies.

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Federal income tax, 2013

It's time to start gathering your documents to prepare for tax season once again.

Along those lines, here's some helpful information.

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Tone Deaf Convention set-up

Thank you to John Bogenschutz for sharing the process behind his convention set-up.

I've been doing the convention scene for a little over a year now (somewhat new at this so take it with a grain of salt), but already my booth has transformed a lot during that time. The biggest change was the fact that I started out with a 10' x 10' booth and now use a 10' x 20' booth size. Sure it's double the cost but it is well worth it for what I have to offer to my customers.

What I'd like to explain is what materials I use for my booth set up and where I get them from. If they work for you, awesome! One last thing before we jump in here, I don't exhibit at comic conventions. I strictly do music education conventions, as those are my readers and my customers. So, if this looks radically different from what you are used to at comic conventions, that is why.

First, here is a look at my booth overall:

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