It seems that if you want to get people to help promote your site (or pay people to promote it), you’ve got to have a web banner. The standard size is 468×60. Here’s what I came up with this morning:

I’ll probably crank out some more over time, but this will get us started. Feel free [...]

Over the past couple days I’ve been researching how to make the main page of the site more useful. Recently I added a “Latest Forum Topics” section to the front page and this morning I finalized the “Latest Blog Posts” section. Now the front page will display the last five posts from the blog, making [...]

Today I installed a module on the main page that shows the latest topics in the Mk3Love Forum. This is my first modification to increase the usefulness of the front page. Originally it was just a placeholder for when users hit www.mk3love.com and then they could use the nav menu at the top to navigate [...]

Two nights ago I added Google Analytics tracking and have started to watch where visitors are coming in from. The four top traffic sources currently are:

direct links
(someone typing the site URL into their browser)
vwwatercooled.org.au
(due to my friend Raymond posting a link on his local forums)
forums.vwvortex.com
(I’ve added a link in my signature and have PM’d a [...]

Yesterday I passed the Mk3Love link out to some friends to get their opinions and feedback. One area that needed to be tweaked was the forum layout. I knew it would need some work as it was hastily installed yesterday morning, but I think I’ve got it to a point I’m happy with now.
Originally I [...]

Late last night (even after my blog post) I installed the phpBB forum and this morning I got the site template wrapped around the contents. I did some minor tweaking with the color scheme, but overall the default selection works well with our colors. There will definitely be some changes moving forward, but it didn’t [...]

Tonight I was able to get starter pages up for DIYs and Reviews. Things are going a little bit faster now that I have my templates established, but loading all of this information into the site is what will take the longest. I have most of the site mapped out, either in my head or [...]

I’ve got the basic version of the blog installed, but I’m still working to get the style all sorted out. The hardest part is getting the actual Wordpress layout to fit inside the Mk3Love skin. I’ve learned a lot about cascading style sheets (CSS) in the past couple days…