BG Double Adsense

One of our websites was fixed width (980px), but as I worked on it, I noticed a lot of unused space (my monitor is 2048x1152). As the website depends on advertising revenue to continue to be free, it's important to maximize the revenue. So, I designed a Joomla module that is able to detect the user's browser window size and add additional Google Adsense windows on each side of the main content, if the user's browser window is big enough. It has more than doubled our ad revenue. Hope it will do the same for you.

 

You can use BG Double Adsense the same way you use the other Joomla! Adsense modules. IE - put your Google Adsense code into the module and display it the module position. BUT.... if you use a fixed width on your website (which most of us seem to do), BG Adsense can display extra Google Adsense "windows" alongside your normal body content, if the user's browser window is big enough.

BG Double Adsense works by injecting Javascript into your page. The Javascript compares the actual size of the browser window and then compares it to the size of your websites' body tags. It then decides if there is enough room between the body content and the edge of the browser window to display the Google Adsense ad you configured. If there is room for the ad to be fully displayed, a div tag is injected into the HTML, and the Google Adsense code is activated inside the new div.

JCheckSecurity

I am currently developing a Joomla! 1.6 extension to check your Joomla! site and installed extensions for basic security.

As of now, this is the list of security checks it will make:

  • Joomla! site check for an index.html file in every directory under the Joomla! root path.
  • Joomla! site check for ownership and permissions for every directory and file under the Joomla! root path.
  • Joomla! site check for the existence of JExec or die in every .php file under the Joomla! root path.
  • Extension check for an index.html file in every directory under both the site and admin extension path.
  • Extension check for ownership and permissions for every directory and file under both the site and admin extension path.
  • Extension check for the existence of JExec or die in every .php file under both the site and admin extension path.

The extension will keep a record of every test it makes and you will be able to view the history of each test to make it easy to see if you are making progress or not.

Also, planned for this extension in the future is:

  • A directory of Joomla! extensions and a rating of how well they perform on each test.
  • Publicly available user comments and critiques
  • A desktop application that connects to JCheckSecurity and runs tests from outside Joomla!

I will have version 1 of this extension available by the end of August (2010).

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