I just learned about Project Wonderful, an advertising marketplace. It works on an “infinite auction” paradigm—basically advertisers bid a price per day for ad slots. As long as that advertiser is the high bidder for that ad slot, its ad is shown every time the ad slot is loaded.

Project Wonderful tracks page views, but ad rates are based on the auction, not on the number of page views. Using Project Wonderful does not appear to conflict with Google Adsense’s terms of use.

You can bid $0.00, so you could potentially get advertising for free.

It took a few days to get my web sites approved for ad slots, and another day for people to start bidding on my first ad slot on a different site. The bids so far have been small and pretty irrelevant to the site’s content, but I’m hoping that will change as the slot becomes more established.

I’ve since added a couple more trial ad slots, including the one you see in the sidebar. I’ll keep you posted on how they perform. In the meantime, you can advertise on Faces of Yve for just pennies a day.

We’ve had a couple weeks of sub-freezing temperatures and with this theme I say: Enough! I’m ready for spring. Bright colors, big flowers. Ahhhh…

Demo/Download: (Updated March 5, 2008)
Terms of Use

• 2-column version: live demo | .zip file (156K)
• 3-column version: live demo | .zip file (162K)

To install, extract the .zip archive and upload to your themes directory.

Although this Wordpress theme is free for personal/non-commercial use, if you like it, please consider making a donation in support of the time and effort that went into the design. Thank you!

*dusts hands off*

It’s a little early to be doing spring cleaning, but…what do you think? Ok, so the site basically still looks the same. But all the content is gone!

Let’s be honest. That e-zine thing, while it seemed like a good idea at the time, did not work. In today’s blogdom, no one wants to wait three months for the next hot tip.

So I’m re-christening this as Faces of Yve: The Blog. It almost sounds like a B-movie monster, doesn’t it? Anyways, I’ll be writing shorter posts, which are both easier for me to write and easier for you to process. This means more content for you.

Don’t worry, there will still be free blog templates. In fact, the first one will go up tomorrow. It’s all new, and possibly the best free template I’ve ever made. I love it, and I hope you will too. See you tomorrow!