I just came back from the BlogWorldExpo 2008 which was held in Las Vegas. This is my first experience as an exhibitor, and I love it :D! Woopra was sharing a booth with WordPress and LayeredTech and it was one of the busiest places in the trade show.

I met plenty of Woopra fans, they shared their Woopra experience with us. Lorelle VanFossen (our crazy editor) was doing some Woopra demos for those who have never seen Woopra. Also John, Jad and I were there answering some Woopers questions and writing a big list of features requests. As I got home, I started the implementation of that list.

At night, we were hanging out with John P., Aaron Philips and Greg Kuiper. We spent our time taking pictures, gambling, walking, walking, walking and walking. My legs are still hurting now…

Last time I was in Las Vegas, I didn’t have the chance to see the old vegas! this time we did and John took a video on the Freemont Street show; I posted it here. We have also taken some photos, I posted some of the pics taken by Greg and I. I’m still waiting for John and Lorelle to send me what they got to post them here!

Bellagio Las Vegas Water Show taken by Greg:

I had enough troubles this month while I was transferring this blog and some other websites to a new dedicated server. The fact is that I suck in server administration and it’s not at all my main focus. So what happened is that when I moved my websites including this blog to the new dedicated server, it crashed in less than a week and I lost about 3 articles because I didn’t have backups… I’m sorry for all those friends who commented on these new posts! Now they’re gone. Anyway, I wanted to find a good shared hosting plan to host my websites, so I’ve done researches for about a week and asked for reviews from webmasters about some known hosting plans; and guess what? Hostgator.com Baby hosting plan was the best… No one ever had a problem with that hosting company, amazing support really!

So… I hope I won’t get into troubles anymore because I’m really sick of transferring my websites, backing up and stuff!
Stay tuned

Hey buddies,

You might notice a change in this minor design update. It might seem weird for the loyal readers because the stylesheet is still in your cache, so make sure you hit Ctrl+ Reload (Thanks Johny) to update your cache.

Lately, the perfomance of the Google Ads was really poor on ekhoury.com and of course it’s because of the bad placements of the ads. Actually, I’m not looking for profits from this blog but I’m just experimenting some placements because I’m preparing a new list of tips for AdSense on blogs and Wordpress blogs specifically!

Notice this Ad block on the top right; it is the purpose of this update and I think it will perform really well!

As you may now, Matt, the developer of Wordpress seems to be a Jazz Freak! No doubt… He’s a genius ;)… Anyway, Wordpress 2.1 has been called Ella (Fitzgerald).

Yesterday, I upgraded all my wordpress plugins and the wordpress itself to 2.1. It seems that the upgrade was successful! If you notice anything strange after the update, please write a comment here!

Desafinado!!!

Dear friends,

I decided yesterday to come up with a very different design for my blog for many reasons. First of all, the colors of the old blog are not very flashy! You get bored from the design from the 1st few visits. Other than that, the advertisements CTR has dropped since I changed the background of the contents to light blue; I believe that a white background will increase the adsense CTR. And finally, I’m planning to add much more widgets to the site; so many widgets did not fit in the sidebar of the old site, so I added a new large side bar to the right, and moved the small one to the left!

If you have anything to say about the new design, write a comment!

Later!

Hello Friends…

I designed a new look for this site… As you see, it’s much more alive and way better then the Almost Spring theme!

The cool thing about this theme is the top which makes it live. It’s a bot that takes those infos (Nickname, Personnal Message, What I’m listenning to, Status…) and the Display picture from MSN Messenger and updates the top… That’s why it’s Live!

Hope you like it… I might add a small box which sends me messages to my MSN Messenger using Ajax post requests… and much more stuff will be added!

Thank you again for visiting my blog!

Cya