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In the last week, i decided to try to convert some wordpress themes to use with Bans. I wanted to do this, because of two reasons:

First I didn’t want to depend on others to get the themes i wanted to use on my wordpress/bans sites and secondly  there is an high demand for this type of integration and very few themes available.

So, after learning how to convert wordpress themes to be used on bans sites at mark’s blog, i decided to try for my self.  The process itself is somewhat simple, but i decided to go first with some simple themes and then head over to more complicated themes.  I have to confess that this process is a bit addicting, and im thinking that now that i have more spare time, i will be doing some serious conversions! lol.

There are some themes that i want to convert but i have stumbled with some issues that i need to correct and i haven’t discovered the solutions for them…. :\

I want to share with you some of the conversions i’ve made. The themes used are simple, nothing out of extraordinary, but i am sure they will fit the needs of some of you.

1- Peaceful Rush

Download Peaceful Rush

2- Pink Love

Download Pink Love

3- Preserver of Health

Download Preserver of Health

These themes are free to use. All zip’s come with a readme file with instructions on what you need to change to make the theme work correctly. If you have any doubt on how to install them feel free to ask for support here, and if you find any bug then please do tell me.

The themes are free, but i ask to please maintain the credits of the theme placed at the footer. Removing them goes against the TOS in which they have been released to the public.

I plan to continuously release more themes, some will be free, some will be available only to feed subscribers, others wil cost something. Let’s see how things go.

If you want a specific theme converted you can ask here, and i will put it on the queue.  If you don’t want to wait too much time then contact me so we can discuss the price of the conversion.

This was a really bad weekend… It was all going fine, when i arrived today from my parents house.

Connected to the internet, did my usual stuff and i soon found out that 3 things happened. Bad things!

Out of space!?

The first one i found was that my blog was all messed up, apparently because i ran out of hosting space!!! I immediately knew what was it, because it is the second time this happens to me in a week.

I have been getting errors on some plugins updates, and it seems that every error will make the updater to create dozens of .core files with 100mb each, until it fills my hosting capacity. Alinks reported that there wasn’t enough space…. Can you believe it?

The blogs was inaccessible too much time… damn it…

Sandboxed by google!!!

My top performing BANS store was kicked into google sandbox. This is a major drawback to me, because earnings from that store were starting to be real good. Now what can i do? Wait?

If anyone knows what to do when a BANS store was sandboxed by google then let me know…. i need to reasearch a bit about this…

IE7 Issue

For those who visit my blog with internet explorer, then im sorry to say that for now this blog isn’t showing how it is supposed to be. Just found out this after i corrected the “lack of space” issue. I have been trying to fix it but with no results, so i decided to update the theme of the blog to see if i can correct it.

Theme update

Ok, i have updated the theme, and i still haven’t managed to correct the IE7 visualization problem. Also updating options is showing (again) that it is a pain in the ass…

Bahh, i think im going to shoot something in a game… there is no better thing than to release our stress in a shooting game lol

Usfreeads is a site that allows it’s members to get free classified ads, and has been around for 9 years now, and  i have seen tremendous buzz about it around the web since i started blogging, which was over a year now.

The buzz about usfreeads is how it will help a common user to make money placing classified ads. It seems that thousands of users are taking advantage of the supposed benevolent way google looks towards usfreeads pages. It seems, that a well written ad  will most likely to perform well on google search ranking. You can look around and you will see that many “praise the gods” and “worship” the service provided by them.

Well to me, all that is a bunch of crap even if it is true (don’t take me wrong :p). The only thing the reviews made me do is to try it out for myself. Check the results of my experiences (yes another experience) and see if a common guy, with no special skills like me can make something positive out of this. So about 3 months ago a registered for a free account to give it a try round.

Ok, the first obstacle i found was the free account. It totally sucked. You were only allowed to make 2 ads, with no html, images or links to the product you want to sell!!! Point being: They want you to buy a premium membership. So free ads my ass (pardon my french lol).

I even bother to try and write an ad with this circunstances. Total waste of time, it wouldn’t bring me nothing extraordinary and in the end it was rejected. So i left my account getting dust until i could get some time to experiment. So today i subscribed the premium membership with one week free trial. After that, it will be $9.99/month.There is also a gold membership for only $10/year but to say the truth, if you see what premium gives and what gold gives, you will choose premium.

Ok, the tools are set, and i just need to choose some products and write some ads. I think my experiment will last a month, probably more and the success or failure will depend on the amount of ads i write, the quality of them and off course on how good usfreeads perfoms on delivering targeted traffic.

So the experiment will involve two types of money making programs:

1- My newest Bans Store. One that i have put more time to develop and the first one that i can call a real store. The other one were just “experiments” lol;

2- Affiliate programs from several CPA ad networks.

Now, do you want to try for yourself? Then just join Usfreeads and get a premium membership and i invite you to share your experiense here. (yes is is an affiliate link, im weak lol)

IF you want to see where this goes then subscribe my rss feed to keep easier to track the evolution process.

Yes! Finally the desired day has arrived! From now on im on vacation! well. Pseudo Vacation is more exact. Let me explain.

My internship ended today. The evaluation went well, although i thing i deserved a better grade (i got a 16 in 20), but im still very happy with it.

The vacations won’t be in full as i wanted because i have the final graduation essay to do, and a new essay that was given to the entire class today!! We were so pissed when the teacher gave us the news….  Summer vacations? What summer vacations? Said on of my class mates.:(

Yep, this will probably  the worst summer of my life… :\

Anyway, i will have much much more time to focus myself on blogging, and completing my objectives that i have previously mentioned.

oh, and btw… yesterday i had a surprise. my first bans sale! lol. i visit once a week the EPN site to check the status but i only see clicks and no sales until yesterday. Only 6 bucks but they came from an unoptimized bans store. I really have to get my hands on creating fully developed bans stores.

I just wanted to write this short post to give you some news and feedback, in case you were wondering where the hell is hugo and what is he up to!?

Now, im just preparing my bag and go to my parents house spend a couple of days with them.

I’ll see you all sunday! Cheers!

The unexpected happened. My paypal account got a limited account status.

This means that i can receive payments, but i cannot make payments or withdraw funds.

This happened right after clicking the purchase button on ianfernando sale site for his bans templates.

I was not able to make the payment because my account got flagged, and the reason paypal gave me was this:

Why is my account access limited?

Your account access has been limited for the following reason(s):

Jun. 5, 2008: Our system detected unusual activity on a credit card linked to your PayPal account.

Ok, first, i had a credit card registered with paypal that expired long time ago and it was an attempt to verify my account with a service available here in portugal that makes credit cards for one transaction only. So there was no valid credit card on paypal, and the account said i had 0 CC registered with them.

Ok, so how they have detected that unusual activity on a credit card was detected? I really don’t know, but i may think they have still associated my expired credit card with my account.

I wasn’t caught on any fishing mail, because i never click on links to paypal through an email. And im sure Ian fernando site is trustworthy. So what the hell happen to give an alert to paypal?

While i was thinking my first thing to do was change my password just in case. You never know… But now im ready to speculate, that paypal decided it was time for me to get verified, specially after my recent money withdrawal.

What i have to do now it to upload my photo and a receipt proving my address, whichi will doo today. And then i have to add a credit card. This will be a potential problem to me, because i don’t have earnings statements or anything that proves me that i make x bucks a month. I need to study some solutionst oresolve this quickly because there are investments i want to make and i can’t because of this.

If you live in portugal and know a good solution on getting a credit card with a ccv number would be great.