Customization Tips Archive

Tip 34: Poker Room Screenshots

We recently collected a library of screen shots showcasing the sign up processes for each website that PAS is currently partnered with. We are happy to make them available to you for your use on your websites. Continue reading

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Tip 33: Troubleshooting

If you’ve courageously explored and tweaked your content (as we want you to) and suddenly came to the realization that something has gone very, very wrong, your not alone. We are always standing by to help diagnose and repair the error, but you will likely find that a solid approach will allow you to quickly fix the problem yourself and perhaps learn a little something in the process. Continue reading

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Tip 31: Using Revision History

The revision history is an important tool for both advanced and beginning web page developers… Not only does it allow you to undo mistakes, but it can take your page back to the state it was in weeks, months, or even years ago! Continue reading

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TIP 23: How to Choose a Designer

After reading the last post have you concluded that you’ve violated most of my top design mistakes? Maybe its time to hire a designer. Whether you plan to spend $100 or $10,000 Continue reading

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TIP 22: Top Design Mistakes

These aren’t necessarily the most common or the worst mistakes I see on rakeback websites, but they are pretty egregious and I encounter them way more often than I should.

In no particular order…

1. Colored text that is hard to read.
Text needs to be a very dark color on a very light background or vice versa. There is very little middle ground here, always have sharply contrasting text -… Continue reading

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TIP 17: Learn Photoshop

For those intimated by Photoshop, unsure of how to learn the program, or, well, anyone who ever plans to use Photoshop I present one of the most expansive catalogs of resources I’ve seen.

300+ Resources to Help You Become a Photoshop Expert | Webdesigner Depot

While your at it, why not subscribe to the RSS feed?… Continue reading

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TIP 16: Post your offers anywhere

The Offers XML feed allows you to post a list of your offers and link to them from anywhere on the internet. If you have a top level domain and a subdomain you can use this to post a list of your offers on your top level domain, but the possibilities don’t end there. You could post your offers on a blog, forum or any other website that… Continue reading

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TIP 11: Ditch TinyMCE

The TinyMCE Rich text editor is not your friend, really.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, TinyMCE is one of the editor style options available to you in your CMS editor. This option is attractive to most novice users, as it produces something like a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor. In other words, it attempts to approximate what you’ll actually see on… Continue reading

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TIP 10: Keep your CMS organized

Keeping your HTML markup clean and organized is important for keeping edits simple, tracking problems and even improving SEO a bit. You can use the folder system to neatly file pages and elements within pages.

How its done
When you create new pages take a moment to first create a new descriptive folder in either outer pages or user pages. You might call it “Poker Articles” or “Hold’em Strategy.”… Continue reading

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TIP 3: Write Good!

Monday I wrote briefly about the importance of adding new pages to your websites and developing them using search friendly techniques. I have Continue reading

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TIP 2: Learn to love firebug

Firebug, Firebug – Web Development Evolved, is an amazing tool that no novice or expert web developer Continue reading

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TIP 1: Create new harmonious pages

Create new pages and synchronize key elements by making them consistent.  Tackle Page Name, Page Title, Headings, Content and Continue reading

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