If Don't Have a Website, You're Nowhere

If you've been in business for a few years you probably have a listing in the local Yellow Pages, and maybe in the online version as well. Every year, you pay for a new ad and wait for people to notice it among the hundreds of other listings in your category. But how much business does it actually bring you?

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The Importance of A Good Design

Your website is the hub of your online business; it is the virtual representation of your company whether your company exists physically or not. When you are doing business online, people cannot see you physically like how they could if they were dealing with an offline company. Hence, people do judge you by your covers. This is where a good design comes in.

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Using php.ini to enhance speed for Wordpress/Drupal etc

Want a quick hack to boost speed of your pages? There are two ways to accomplish this. Continue reading "Using php.ini to enhance speed for Wordpress/Drupal etc"

Do You Still Need To Add Urls To Search Engines?

The new millennium is loaded with individuals striving to earn a living from the comfort of their own homes. Fortunately there are several ways to go about this. While most of them involve the use of the Internet, there definitely are alternatives. However, one would have to be extremely confident in their products/services to avoid the web in this day and age. Cyberspace opens us up to such a greater audience. Take web publishing for example. Many people choose to build websites, web pages and blogs. The reason this is so appealing is because it costs you very little to nothing in order to get started. Once you create a unique blog or website, you can simply add url to search engines. This way your address will get indexed and available to come up in searches.

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How to avoid getting your website blacklisted

If you have a website the last thing you want to do is get it blacklisted. There are a few important things you need to know to ensure that you never get on a blacklist.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with the term blacklist, it simply means you have meet with the disapproval of others. In the case of an online blacklist (or blocklist as it also known), this would mean that someone has deemed you responsible for generating spam.

Spam is a no-no in the online world. Spam is essentially unsolicited mail.

Blacklists are a tool used to get rid of spam and spammers in general. What happens is that someone reports you to a spam fighting organizations and your IP address (or the IP address the spam originated from is added to blacklisted (or blocked) IP address list.

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Small Business Website Profitability Navigation Tips

Good web design means that your site needs to be sear|ch en|gine friendly and visitor friendly.....oh, and, yes, you will want it to look good as well. But, too often, I find that new web|site owners will focus on how pleasing-to-the-eye the site looks in terms of graphic design, colors, and overall design layout before they ever consider the other, more important, aspects of creating a profitable small business website.

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Customizing Wordpress Kubrick Template

You've installed Wordpress on your website but found that it installed with the standard default template, called Kubrick that has the same-old, same-old look and feel to it. Now, you want to know how to modify the Wordpress Kubrick header graphic to match the rest of your website design.

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A Specific Case Of Someone “Spying” On Domain Name WHOIS Lookups

In various domain name forums, there's talk of parties looking up domain name availability searches and registering those that weren't taken on the spot. This sort of thing has been softly talked about for a year or so, but is recently gathering steam.

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Create a Favicon for Your Customers Bookmarks in Four Easy Steps.

A favicon is a custom icon that sits next to your web site title in a persons favourite's menu when they have bookmarked your site, it is an easy way to create an 'eye drawing image' to ensure that people always see you link in their favourite's and should hopefully encourgae them to check out that 'great site that they haven't visited yet today!'

This is a quick guide that will provide instructions on how to create one for your site, it really is very easy and will help to create a extra tool to maintain your site in the customers mind.

All it takes is four easy steps...

1) Choose an image that you would like to use to represent your web site. Most people use a small version of their logo but you can use any image that you want. I would advise however that you choose an image that is reflective of your web sites theme and an image that will still remain recognisable when the size is dropped to 16 x 16 pixels.

2) Take your chosen image, which should be as high a quality as you can get, in .JPG or .GIF format and convert your image to the 256 color Web Safe Palette or the Windows 16 color format. This can very easily be done in most graphics packages and as a guideline I would say that the less colours you use the better so as to maintain image clarity and professionalism.

3) Using your graphics package, reduce the image down to 16 x 16 pixels, at this point you need to ensure that you preserve the image resolution. This is a key factor as a larger image that has been reduced can loose all clarity and just become a tacky blob, is this how you want your web site remembered? The key here is to keep perservering until you are happy with the finished icon and it is a great advertisement for the professionalism, and the theme, of your web site.

4) Once you are happy with your completed icon you need to save it as "Favicon.ico". This is the default name that web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, look for. This file then needs to be copied to the root directory of your web site and then whenever a customer bookmarks your site your image is cached and will display when they use their favourites menu.

This can very easily be tested by clearing your cache and re-bookmarking your site and 'hey presto' your new shiny, professional and eye drawing favicon will appear next to your site title and will also appear in the address bar of your browser.

This is just another simple trick that aims to get you 'thinking outside the box' when it comes to developing your website presence and reminding your customers to come and re-visit your web site.

Buy the Best Web Site Hosting

It is the age of the Internet and there is nothing better than publicizing your products or services online. Having your own website is the ideal thing to do as you can provide all the information that a customer might desire to have. However, if you are just starting your business, it might not be very easy and prudent to buy an independent website as it might need a large investment for the network hardware, the website development and for an effective server.

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How To Organize A Domain Ecommerce Hosting Register

E-commerce has been expanding rapidly as more and more businesses prefer to operate stores online too. E-commerce has earned revenues in billions making it a sector to reckon with. For a website to operate successfully the most important factor is a good web host. Many businesses have failed having hooked up with unreliable host, hence finding a good host is a very important task. The host will put up your website on their servers and charge monthly fees to do so and you get a domain-name-specific email id. Using simple FTP programs the contents of a site are uploaded and usually help is provided by the technical support team. Reliability and stability are two essential criteria to look for in a web host as your websites reliability and stability depends on the quality of service provided by the host.

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Cell Phone USA - For Background Search Services

Cell Phone USA, an online investigation service, is regularly consulted to assist in cases arising from individuals who went through all the usual hiring practices, only to end up hiring a convicted child molester to work around young children.

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Modularized Sites Load Faster!

Most websites load more quickly when they are broken into smaller "pieces" (i.e., "modularized”). While the idea seems obvious enough, it’s still worth mentioning, and good explanations are always worthwhile! What’s less obvious is that, once you’ve started along that road, issues of “coordination” take precedent; and, whether the site developer is a seasoned professional or a relative newbie, they’d do well to recognize these issues up front.

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Adsense book review

Joel Comm:
"What Google Never Told you About Making Money with Adsense"

Funny enough, I bought Joel's Adsense book and my Adsense revenue dropped to zero, nil, nada. Dude, you jinxed me! :)

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Half the colours of the rainbow!

Web page design with colorblind visitors in mind

Why bother ?

"Hmmm ? Never thought about it."
"Why bother going to all that trouble, it's not like it affects many folk..."
"Well, they can't see properly, nothing we can do about that, is there?"
"Looks fine to me and that's what matters!"

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Why Just Build a Website?

Build Your Own Site and save thousands of dollars in web design fees. Make your website to make money for you.

If you have the time, the best option is to learn how to do it yourself. It doesn't take long, and you can have a web site up and running within a few days. If you have no knowledge of building websites then you will need to get a software package that does the whole thing for you

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