GreyBlog has been gettext enabled by Henrik Schack and Danish translation for the theme is now available for download here. Thanks Henrik

Update 17 Feb 2008: SoftwareHolic Theme.also received the same treatment

Ever since Google made their adsense units less clickable, my adsense revenue has dropped by almost 60%. So I have been on the lookout for alternatives to replace the lost income.

On 15 Jan, Pepperjam launched their affiliate network, PepperjamNetwork, which promises to revolutionize the way we do affiliate marketing. I signed up yesterday and was approved within 12 hours. Basically what they offer is a mashup between traditional affiliate marketing and adsense. In the words of Pepperjam’s CEO

Think about it - on CJ, Linkshare, ShareASale, Performics, Azoogle, and others you simply select a specific banner or specific text link for one merchant. You are limited to promoting one specific merchant per creative.

With PepperjamADS you create the ad widget. Your ad widget can contain ads from multiple merchants or any single merchant.

A short video tutorial on how to create your very own affiliate marketing widget

A sample of PepperjamAds I created

Looks promising? Now the downer… currently there are only 81 affiliate partners. Right now, I can only find 4 relevant partners for this blog: SEOmoz, Review Me, Text-Link-Ads and PepperjamNetwork itself.

I guess being a new player, more time is needed for them to build up the network. But you can get early in the game. Maybe they will be less stringent in approving your website at this moment, when they are recruiting affiliate marketers like yourself as many and as fast as possible. So submit your blog now! I no longer recommend PepperJamNetwork..

The bug shows up in IE6, on all pages except homepage. You will see missing images in the header (red crosses). You can download the latest zip here, upload and replace only the header.php. Alternatively you can apply the following changes to the header.php file.

Replace

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/pngfix.css" />
<![endif]-->

With

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
img.png {
background-image: expression(
this.runtimeStyle.backgroundImage = "none",
this.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='" + this.src + "', sizingMethod='image')",
this.src = "<?php bloginfo('template_url') ?>/images/transparent.gif"
);
}
</style>
<![endif]-->

Designed for SoftwareHolic, this theme adopts a techno-blue color scheme. The layout is kept simple, making it easy for customers to shop for discount software.

For the prominent logo at the top, you can choose from a variety of fun and web 2.0 Crystal Icons from Yellow Icon. Some examples in above screenshot and instructions below, under Tips & Tricks. I chose the star-in-folder icon as it is more suitable for general blogs.

Features

• 2 Columns Fxed Width
• Widget support
• XHTML & CSS compliance

Changelog

Version 1.1

• Bugfix: IE6 PNG Transparency

Version 1.2

• Gettext enabled by Henrik Schack
• Danish Translation by Henrik Schack

License

This theme is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, hence please leave the footer links intact.

Preview

SoftwareHolic Demo

Download

Tips & Tricks

How can I change the logo?
Replace the logo.png with your own image (recommended: PNG file, 128px by 128px).
If you need to shift your logo up or down, open style.css and look for #header_logo.
Change the value for “margin-top”. Original is -30px.

Need Help?

Much as I want to provide free support, there are only 24 hours a day.
So if you need a chunk of my time, I’m available for hire.

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