Kids-n-Fun blog

Most popular wallpaper april 2007

2007-05-06T20:21:00.000+02:00

The most popular wallpaper on kids-n-fun.com is a wallpaper in the same category as the most popular coloring page, the wallpapers of Cars. And this is the winning wallpaper, Lightning McQueen racing on the track.

Most downloaded coloring page april 2007

2007-05-05T23:50:00.000+02:00

The coloring pages of cars are the most popular coloring pages on kids-n-fun.But you wonder which coloring page is the most popular. Well it is Lightning McQueen on the race track.

New site Teens-n-Fun

2007-04-19T07:26:00.000+02:00

After creating Kids-n-Fun.nl (Dutch site) and Kids-n-Fun.com (English site) I have created a new site .Teens-n-Fun | Coolest portal for 10+. This site is for kids from 10 and older. This site is packed with wallpapers/background for you PC (over 2000), and funstuf for MSN/messenger/Chat,like avatars, emoticons and more.It is a dutch site, but hey, is that a problem with emoticons...Just as the

Happily N'Ever after

2007-04-16T13:45:00.000+02:00

A brand new fairy tale, with an odd ending, just like Shrek. Happily N'Ever After is a new animation movie, from the same producers as Shrek.I have found only 2 coloring pages, it is not much, but it is a start. You find coloring pages of Happily N'Ever after here. Enjoy.

Coloring pages Horseland

2007-03-02T22:01:00.000+01:00

On Kids-n-Fun.com you find a lot of coloring pages of the new hit serie Horseland. Coloring pages of the horses Aztec, Jimber, Button, Chili, and Scarlet, and of course Alma, Bailey, Chloe, Sara and Will, the boys and girls who take care of the horses. And you will find coloring pages of the cat Angora, the dog Shep and the pig Teeny.Take a look at the coloring pages of Horseland on Kids-n-Fun.com

Kids-n-Fun.com Live!

2006-12-28T17:37:00.000+01:00

As I have posted before, my kids coloring site started as a Dutch site. After working on it for about half a year I decided to make a dot.com version of it, to look how long it will take to have some visitors from outside Holland and Belgium. I'll keep you posted!So take a look at Kids-n-Fun.com. You will find printable coloring pages of Cars, Fifi and the Flowertots, Winx club, Dora the Explorer

Coloring pages Happy Feet

2006-12-28T13:06:00.000+01:00

When a new (animation) movie becomes a hit, it still takes a few weeks before the first printable coloring pages to arrive. Well here they are, coloring pages of the funny penguins, starring in the movie. Have fun!

Static Url's

2006-12-26T23:19:00.000+01:00

Somewhere in may 2006 I started this site to see how long it would take to get some visitors. Well, on Christmas day there where over 1200 visitors, looking at 9000 pages. The funny thing is that I don't have a page rank in Google (lack of links pointing to my site), and dynamic pages.Since a couple of days I am using IsapiRewrite, changed the code and now: Static urls.I wonder how long it will

Go Diego, Go

2006-12-17T12:06:00.000+01:00

Looking in Google Analytics, I discovered some visitors looking for coloring pages of Diego. I thought they looked for Diego from the movie Ice Age, but I thought they ment Diego, the nephew of Dora the Explorer. So I have added some printable coloring pages of Diego. Have fun!

Fifi and the flowertots

2006-12-07T22:46:00.000+01:00

I live in Holland and Fifi started just a few month ago. This tv-serie is the girl-version of Bob the Builder. I looked for coloring pages of Fifi in Holland, but didn't find anything. I found a couple on the Internet, so if you are looking for Fifi and the Flowertots coloring pages, look here and you will find 19 (!) pages.

Query: number of rows SQL Server

2006-12-04T19:50:00.000+01:00

There is a fast and easy way to determine the number of rows in a table. Instead of using queries like: Select COUNT(*) from tablenamewhere it is necessary to use the datatable, you can use the systemtable: SELECT rows FROM sys.sysindexes WHERE (id = OBJECT_ID('tablename')) AND (name = 'PrimaryKey name'). This is very fast, because you select only one row.

Print web page: Hide content

2006-11-25T15:35:00.001+01:00

I discovered some kind of a bug in ASP.NET 2.0...First things first. On my "web coloring page" are some Google ads. I don't want to show these ads on the prints.Start with some css at in the tag of the web page:Then create a table. For each you choose the between the classes doprint

Most popular coloring pages

2006-11-25T13:25:00.000+01:00

At this moment, the most popular coloring page is a page from the movie Cars (Pixar): Lightning McQueen, printed more than 600 times in November.Look here for more Cars coloring pages

Google bot

2006-11-25T10:17:00.000+01:00

I started my website Kids-n-Fun in may, 2006. It took Google months before my site was visited. In October 2006 the visitors went up from a few (5 to 10 per day) reaching more than 600 at the end of the month.The number of pages the Google robot visited went up from 100 pages per day to 1200 pages at the end of October.Look at this graph (from Google Site maps):My question: What happened first:

Create 302 response after moving page

2006-10-18T19:53:00.000+02:00

After moving a webpage to another location on your webserver, search engines try to search this page a several times. To avoid this you have to tell the robot that the location is changed, by creating a 302 response: Response.StatusCode = 302 Response.RedirectLocation = urlThats all, problem solved.

Passing parameters from form to query

2006-10-04T20:53:00.000+02:00

I didn't use this idea for my website, but I think it is a very usefull tip voor the MS Access developers among us.This solution passes values from a MS Access form to a query without defining parameters in de query.Create an global array:Global Params(10)Create a function that returns a value fromFunction RtnParams(ParamNum As Integer)ReturnParam = Para=ms(ParamNum)End FunctionSomewhere in the

Dynamically add webusercontrol to webform

2006-10-01T13:54:00.000+02:00

On a few pages I dynamically add webusercontrols to a webform. It's very easy.Drag a panel on your webform, name is default, panel1.Make a webusercontrol in the directory "webcontrols" in your project, and name it wucmyControl.ascx, for example.Then use this code in the load event of the form:Dim myControl = LoadControl("~/webcontrols/wucmyControl.ascx")'assign a value to the properties of the

Using ObjectDataSource in code

2006-10-01T13:47:00.000+02:00

There is an easy way to use a objectdatasource in VB.Net code. Drag an objectdatasource control on your webform.Then, in the page load event, use the following code:Dim mySource As ObjectDataSource = ObjectDataSource1Dim result As IEnumerable = mySource.Select()Dim row As DataRowViewFor Each row In result 'your code here 'you can acces any field in a row: ' myString = row("table field name"

Coloring pages Open Season

2006-10-01T13:44:00.000+02:00

This new animation movie Open Season shows in cinemas in Holland next week. I am looking for coloring pages of this movie.Can anyone please help me?Thanx!

Google Analytics

2006-09-30T07:38:00.000+02:00

It's possible to use Google Analytics for analyzing the traffic onyour blog. Just add a HTML/Javascript page element on your page en paste the javascript Google generates in it. Best is it to put it somewhere at the bottom of your page. It gives great insight in the traffic and it's free.Look here for Google Analytics.

Query Select random row

2006-09-29T16:16:00.000+02:00

I was looking for a way to select a random row from a table, preferably in a stored procedure.This is the query:SELECT TOP (1) *FROM tableORDER BY NEWID()Simple and effective!

Google adsense and changes in content

2006-09-29T14:41:00.000+02:00

The number of visitors on my site is slowly increasing, so is the number of clicks on the Google ads. Problem is that the number of hits is growing faster than the number of clicks on the ads.The main reason, I think, is my own content, so I changed the text a little. Google adsense doesn't react immediately, it will take 1 to 2 weeks voor Google to react on the changes. More info: Google adsense

Coloring pages Cars (Pixar)

2006-09-29T13:08:00.000+02:00

I discovered that where just a few good links available with coloring pages of Cars, the new Pixar animation movie.So I added a few to Kids-n-Fun. So look here for the coloring pages of Cars!

Create Dynamic headers in ASP.NET 2.0

2006-09-29T12:40:00.000+02:00

Kids-n-Fun is a dynamic site. All content is stored in a database. I have some code (VB.Net) to create the content tags in the header dynamically.If you using a Masterpage use this in the load event:Dim myPage as new PageDim myHTMLHead as new HtmlHeadDim myHTMLMeta as new HTMLMetamyPage = thisPagemyHTMLHead =CType(myPage.Master.FindControl("MasterHeader"), HtmlHead)myHTMLMeta.Name = "

First blog

2006-09-29T11:05:00.000+02:00

Well, welcome to my blog. I have created this blog to write about my experiences creating a brand new website Kids-n-Fun. This blog is about the things I discover along the way, about content, ASP.Net 2.0, search engine optimalisation, Google Adsense and so on.Kids-n-Fun is a (dutch) website for kids. I have started with coloring pages, and create much more the coming winter. Pages voor crafts,