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Ok, I know this is not a post about a web tool or a blogger you should be reading. It is a post about a singer THAT YOU SHOULD BE LISTENING TO! I thought this post might be an appropriate break for those of you who need a distraction on a Monday afternoon.
I confess, [...]
Why is it that you can buy a 1TB hard drive for $60, but 5GB of server space for your website costs $20 a month? Why don’t web hosting companies provide more space for a more affordable price? Andrew Boring, Product Manager from A Small Orange explains the inner workings behind storage costs.
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Most people don’t really know where to start when building their own websites; people have ideas, needs and visions, but often lack the means to actually construct something on the Internet. To make a real, legitimate website, there are in a sense proper channels to go through. It is not as easy as simply starting [...]
Web hosting is a competitive industry. There are some excellent hosts, but sadly, there are also hosts who provide a less-than-satisfactory service. So how do you know when it is time to abandon ship and look for a new hosting provider? Take a look at this light-hearted checklist and if any of the 20 calamities [...]
New RWT blog post: RWT Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-27 http://ht.ly/1cUA1i # Posts from Recommended Web Tools for 05/30/2011 – http://eepurl.com/d302P # http://tinyurl.com/3hslwzn Helpful tip at bottom of post about using Chrome Task Manager to manage wayward tabs. # http://tinyurl.com/3gv9tmx Finally [...]
I am currently working on three new series that I hope to be posting concurrently. My ultimate goal is to turn one of these series into an ebook. I thought it would best for my own practice as well as for my readers that I do this transparently. It will help with my own accountability [...]
Quogr offers an easy way for webmaster’s to place quotes of their own choosing on their website.
Admittedly, there are a ton of php quote scripts out there. Why use something like Quogr?
Well for starters, beginners might find php scripts too technical to figure out. Quogr provides simple cut and paste [...]
Is your server down? How would you know?
Would you like to know when it goes down?
Simple Server Monitor offers a desktop tool that allows users the ability to monitor their servers.
Simple Server Monitor offers more than just a simple ping utility to test the status of a server. It [...]
Personally, I believe the .htaccess file emanates straight from the bowels of hell.
It is THE one thing that can easily trip up beginners.
But, alas, there is help!
Scoot on over to Ask Apache and find the htaccess help you need.
This article will help you with any of the following:
When [...]
I had, in the past, tinkered with the notion of creating membership based websites. While there are plenty of CMS’ that could accomplish this, I have often wondered if there was a way to convert an established website into a password protected one without having to re-engineer the whole thing.
Well it looks like [...]
You maybe surprised to learn that there are multiple ways in which your website domain name can be found. No I am not talking about various kinds of traffic, I am talking about the “version” of your domain name. For example, this website could be found by putting one or the other of the following [...]
While spam is a blight upon the Web, I occasionally scan my blocked spam to see if there is anything entertaining. As I scrolled down the list there were the usual suspects: viagra, porn and cialis were rampant. Frankly, those are now boring. Bad spelling and nonsensical sentences are still fairly common. This one was [...]
Forget about the future. Interested in knowing how we got to this point of our Internet-driven world?
Check out these sites about the history of the Internet:
A Brief History of the Internet – Robert X. Cringely’s guide to the history of the Internet.
Timeline of Internet History – Robert Hobbes Zakon’s history [...]
Interested in the future of the Internet?
Check out the following resources:
Internet Society – organization which sets Internet standards
Internet 2 – Organization which leads the construction of a high speed network which currently connects connects two-thirds of college campuses and one-third of U.S. high schools.
Abilene – information on the [...]
In Steven Johnson’s Time magazine article “Its All About Us“, he gives what maybe the simplest definition of Web 2.0 that I have seen yet:
If web 1.0 was organized around pages, web 2.0 is organized around people.
Of course, boiling something done to its very essence sometimes isn’t very helpful. It [...]
7 wishes for 2007
WordPress 2.1- Come on alreadyyyyyyyyyyyy. Cleva Treva’s CSS Layout Tool- I would really love to see the tool focus on IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5, Firefox 2.0, and Opera 9. Personally, I don’t see the need to continue to make sure things work in Netscape 4, etc. Also, I want all functionality [...]
I took the plunge and decided to update to Internet Explorer 7.
I had two immediate thoughts:
It took too long to update and install. Downloading and installing either Firefox or Opera took a heck of a lot less time. It looks a lot like Opera
I initially thought the length of time it took [...]
You’ve heard it a million times. BACKUP YOUR DATA!
The question is, are you?? If you are not, you really need to be doing so.
Again, let me repeat, you really need to be backing up your website.
Beginners probably have their website hosted on a shared environment with cPanel running as the administrative [...]
…so states the tagline to Montastic (the fanTASTIC MONitoring tool).
The service will monitor your website and let you know whether it is up or down.
Cool stuff:
Free Monitor more than one website (up to 100) Cool Yahoo desktop Widget if you want to use it Email received when website is down Email [...]
The first Site Profile is about a site I found not too long ago. I often pay attention to the bottom of webpages to look for “who created this” kind of info. I came across one of the sites she designed (which was a very solid look and feel) and decided to visit her site. [...]
More robust searching for publishers advertisers should be able to search for publishers by keyword, category, various ranking criteria, and PRICE. More variety in the kinds of advertising. Text link advertising is too home page centric. Sub page advertising is also essential, especially if there are pages that see more traffic than a home page. [...]
Beginners eager to make some revenue from their website will find text link advertising to be attractive. Here are ten potential pitfalls. Think about these things carefully before jumping into text link advertising.
As an Advertiser
Buying a link from most publishers is just that: a link. Only when purchased from high volume sites does [...]
Google recently renamed their Sitemaps website to Webmaster Central. The original sitemaps functionality still exists but they have now added a lot of functionality to it.
Here’s the key functionality:
Diagnostic Web Crawl – errors Google found while crawling your site Mobile Errors – if your site has a mobile version, errors found crawling that [...]
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