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Hotio – Premium Wordpress Community Theme

Hi eveyrone, its been a while since I posted I have been busy with my money making sites, but found some time to submit couple of Wordpress themes to Themeforest.net.  One of them is Hotio, which is a community blog theme. You can buy this premium theme with administration panel, sifr font rendering, jquery features and many more for only $25.

It is designed from ground up to function as a premium community blog powered by wordpress. This theme is ideal for people who are thinking of creating a community with multiple authors/editors.

Theme Features:

• All Core Page Templates
• Administration Panel
• Clean, commented code
• jQuery Featured Content Slider
• jQuery Sliding Login/Register Pane at the top
• Custom Wordpress Write Page
• SIFR font rendering
• Layout PSD Files
• WP-ContactForm and WP-PageNavi ready
• Extensive Documentation File included
• Twitter / Flickr Integration

Administration Panel options:

• Enable/Disable Sliding Login/Register Panel
• Enable/Disable Featured Section and selection of featured category using dropdown
• Flickr ID
• Twitter ID

Here are the screenshots:

Canadian Web Hosting

Canadian Web Hosting has been in the web hosting business since 1998 and will be here for the long term. Their mission is to keep you up to date with the ever-changing Internet and to bring you the latest in the hosting technologies.

Canadian Web Hosting strives for the low cost hosting solutions without compromising quality. In order to provide their customers with secure and reliable web hosting, Canadian Web Hosting has chosen a first class collocation facility to operate form. Canadian Web Hosting Company’s servers are located at Harbour center in the downtown Vancouver. Canadian Web Hosting is 100% Canadian Owned and Operated. All prices are in Canadian dollars and included all applicable GST/PST taxes. And all accounts comes with a 30-day money back guarantee.

Canadian Web Hosting might be an interesting hosting solution for anyone who wants to host their site in a Canadian datacenter. For small sites, running on shared hosting accounts this might be very interesting. For their dedicated servers, in the current offering I would not recommend such a service as it is very limited in the hardware choices and you should be much better with a big US datacenter that is specialized in unmanaged dedicated servers (you will have much wider range of servers to choose and normally at better prices). Hopefully they will improve this in the future…

Turkish Carpet V2 Released!

Here is the version 2 of my Turkish Carpet theme. I decided to release a second version since the first one was not very browser and user friendly. Version 2 is compatible with all browsers except Internet Explorer 6, but there are only small flaws in IE6.

The new theme also supports widgets and it contains couple of custom made widgets. I have included 10 different background textures for you to choose from. You can find the instructions to change the background images in the help file.

The new theme is also xhtml strict and css validated. Here are some screenshots for your viewing pleasure:

Download Link after the jump!
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MyPremiumBlog Theme

I love creating wordpress themes and I can’t get enough of it! MyPremiumBlog is my latest theme. As you can understand from the title, its a very elegant looking theme. Its very subtle and professional, most suitable for business owners.

Features

1. Table-less layout
2. Valid XHTML Strict 1.0 and CSS
3. Simple semantic HTML code
4. Includes source PSD
5. Help File included
6. Compatible with all modern web browsers (IE6, IE7 , IE8 beta 1, Safari, Firefox 3, Opera, Google Chrome)
7. Widget Ready
8. Fixed Layout

Here are some screenshots:

Its for sale on Theme Forest.net for $15. A very low price for a theme as well coded and as fast as this one. You can download the theme here

BmwTurkiye.net – BMW Club Turkey

After the success of TurboFSI.net – Audi Club Turkey, I have decided that I should be more involved with the car community. I wanted to step up my game, reaching a larger society, BMW owners. I have recently finished the design of bmwturkiye.net, and I am very happy with it, but it surely needs some touch-ups. I am using Vbulletin as the forum software and in a few months, will buy the VBSeo extension.

I have couple of goals for this website:

1. Since there are other bmw community forums in Turkey, its my most important goal to increase my user base to become a threat for them
2. Printing of Bmwturkiye.net Stickers and Handouts. (Already in progress)
3. Setup good relationships with BMW Dealors.
4. I have to reach the first page of “BMW” SERP in Google.com.tr
5. Increase the main page articles to significant number

If the site picks up a pace before 2009, I believe I will have a valuable assesment in couple of years time.

Is Facebook next on Turkish Internet Ban?

Starting with youtube, Turkish Government is continueing to ban access to mainstream websites. These bans include Dailymotion, Wordpress.com and the latest addition, blogger.com (or blogspot.com). If we look at these sites, they are all web 2.0 trend community sites where people can express their thoughts freely.

They all got banned because some individual went to the court about what people wrote about him or her and won the case. Turkish government suggests that all these websites set up a local page like Youtube Turkey that is moderated regularly.

Well, let me tell you two reasons why facebook is going to get banned in Turkey:

1. On February, a soccer league referee filed a case against facebook.com after the game between soccer rivals Beşiktaş and Fenerbahçe (both Turkish teams are trying hard to get the league title).
2. A Turkish boy set up a poll asking how he should kill his mother. After the end of the poll, he murdered his mom and “packaged” her in little bags.

I love facebook, and I would really sad to let it go. Seeing the number of java and ajax scripts running on facebook, it would probably be impossible to access through online proxy. On the other hand, some Turkish webmasters were spamming SERP using newly registered blogspot or blogger sites to get the number 1 spot on a given keyword. Likewise, if facebook gets banned, some local facebook-clones will get their share of the friend-network sites.

I can’t imagine if Google gets banned!

Guess Who’s on Google 2001 index?

Because of its 10th birthday, Google has created a nostalgic search page searching through the 2001 index. For example, if you search for Youtube or Facebook, it does not bring any results since they were created after 2001.

However, if you make a search for “turkhitbox.com” , you will get a result, which is like … awesome! I highly suggest that you visit Google 2001 search page and check if you are there. I bet some of you can make some interesting analyses.

via: Webrazzi

My New Audi A5

Its been some time since my post titled “Selling My Audi A3 for an Audi A5“. I have received my car about a month ago, but couldn’t find any time to post the news here I know I said I was going to get a white car, but unfortunately there was no white A5’s left in Turkey. Well, most people say this color tops white anytime, so I am happy with my purchase. The color is pearlescent Avus Silver, an Audi exclusive color. Supposedly, this is the only one in Turkey, due to its high option price. I bought the car for 69,500 Euros including the dealer discount. Originally, the car is somewhere at 75000 euros.

Here is the option list:
Pearlescent Avus Silver color
S-Line sport exterior package
S-Line sport interior package
Sline sport leather steering wheel with multifunction buttons and triptronic gear selections
Piano Black interior
Electical, heated, and foldable side mirrors
Optic park assistance at the front and the back
Light package
Adaptive bi-xenons
Bang & Olufsen Sound System (505 Watt)

…. and some small stuff I don’t remember.

Currently, 170bhp TFSI is more then enoughfor in-city driving, but I am planning on getting chip tuning and some new forged wheels following months. The chiptuning should bring the car upto 220 horsepowers, which will be even more fun. One downside would be increase of the already high fuel consumption of 12liters/100kms.

You can see more photos here on my user gallery @ TurboFSI.net Audi Club Turkey

Robneville.net Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme

A while ago, I designed a wordpress theme for my friend Rob Neville. He has helped me promote ways that I can’t even think of. He has recently restarted his blog using a different theme. I have asked him if I can publish his theme, and he said ok. I think it would be fair to name it after him

Robneville.net Web 2.0 Wordpress Theme is a very simplistic looking theme. Its very easy on loading times. You will need working Wordpress plugins for “most popular” and “recent comments” sections on top.

I have included the header.psd file so that you can create your own header image.

Download after the jump…

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JoeAnt.com Scam

After some of my websites have been hit by the July 25th update of the Google Algorithm, I decided to submit them to couple of directories.

I prefer submitting to paid directories to free directories, since they really do have more value in Google. Eventhough I was successful in submitting my websites to many directories, I was unable to get my listing up on Joeant.com

I chose “Turkey” category for my Turkish site, since thats most relevant one.  Joeant says “Guaranteed review within the next two business days. (One Time Fee – $39.99)“. After I paid using paypal, I waited a full week to get a response from them. I emailed them (I found staff@joeant.com in their Terms of Use page) asking about the status of my submission, but noone wrote back. I even looked up their listed email address in WHOIS search and emailed again, but I still got no answers.

Considering I have submitted two websites, Joeant.com owes me $80s. I will be emailing paypal to refund my money, but I don’t think I’ll get it. $80 is not a lot of money, especially if you are going to get a SCAM review on a blog.

Here is another blogger who got scammed by joeant: Ripoff Report: JoeAnt.com