2007 February

When it comes to giving webmasters love, I think Google is the only search engine out there that does it right. They provide a handful of tools that make working with Google to make your Web site better a very easy process. Have you visited Google’s Webmaster Central lately?
I have to admit, it [...]

When it comes to managing domain names, you have three major things you can do. You can setup a subdomain. You can park a domain name and you can have an addon domain name. So what does all this jargon mean and what is the differences between each management type?
A [...]

When designing a Web site layout or just playing in CSS on your recent project, you might run into the same problem I have been having since day one. It is hard to determine exactly where all of these pixel marks are. You say you want the menu 100 pixels to the left, [...]

It has been a while since I saw a new CMS (content management system) that really impressed me. Sure there are dozens upon dozens to choose from out there, but it has been a while since one raised my eyebrows and made me even start to think about moving away from using WordPress on [...]

I got a question E-mailed to me a few days ago wanting to know if knew of a quick and easy way to upload files to a hosting account without using an FTP client. Now there are more than a few, I can promise you that. One of the easiest ways might be [...]

There is a lot of talk here lately about how all these places are switching over to WordPress to run the back end of their Web sites. WordPress is not the only pretty girl at the dance though. Another nice content management system that is out there is Drupal.
Everything you could want to [...]

Many successful online business owners use what has been called “article marketing” as a traffic and sales-building strategy. This is a process by which you write short, informative articles and submit them to either niche-specific Web sites, or generic “article directories.” Content-seekers then pick up your articles and republish them on their own niche-similar Web [...]

Now this might be a kind of oddball situation, but do you need a good browser screenshot for a Web site design or another Web project you would like to move forward with? Now you could install all of these browsers and get your images that way - or you could take this shortcut.
The [...]

Imagine my chagrin when at around New Year’s I began receiving notifications from my then-free anti-virus program, AVG, that the anti-virus protection I had come to know, trust, and even take for granted, would soon be replaced by a fee-based version of the program.
Well, like the classic alarmist that I am, I waited until the [...]

Maybe you just have your basic HTML filled Web site, and you have no easy way of creating a sitemap to index all of your Web site’s pages? If you fall into this camp, and have not yet found a tool that will help you create this sitemap file, I want you to take [...]

I got a question E-mailed to me last week wanting to know if I knew of any good places to find fancy fonts that you could use on Web site banners and graphics. Now there are plenty of places Online to find fonts - that should not be a problem. The problem comes [...]

If there’s one thing that bloggers love more than experimenting with widgets, it’s traffic. No, not traffic on the highway, but traffic to their blogs. When you’re first starting out with this thing called blogging, it’s not always easy to gain qualified incoming traffic to your content, which can be discouraging. However, there are ways [...]

Many Web sites currently offer a resource library for visitors - an area filled with articles covering relevant topics to the industry with which the site is connected. The articles may cover how to do something or define a particular aspect of the industry, but they do not usually directly sell the company’s products or [...]

Businesses and non-commercial entities have much to consider when it comes to securing their Web applications and the data they keep on customers and patrons. Acunetix, a leading vendor of Web application security solutions, today revealed that on average 70% of Web sites are at serious and immediate risk of being hacked.
Since January 2006, Acunetix [...]

Over the past several years I have heard people asking the question “should I use vulnerability analysis tools to assess my Web based applications or should I look to penetration testing?” I think we, as an industry, may be asking the wrong question. First, let’s look at how the Web application industry has grown [...]

Now I realize that not everybody is a master of PHP or creating the next great online application. Some folks out there only want to do a few simple tasks and they only want a few simple programs to get the job done. Take photo publishing for instance. Now you could have [...]

I got an E-mail from a friend of mine not too long ago that wanted to know if it would better to use the “one-click” install of WordPress that his Web host gives him or if he should just install it himself? Now both sides have their good points and their bad points, but [...]

A lot of Web host these days are allowing their customers to host more than one domain name from their Web hosting plan. Now should you do this? I say it is a great way to get a lot of little Web sites hosted and it is a lot cheaper than buying a [...]

It might not be the easiest thing in the world to master the art of creating and editing multi-columned layouts in CSS. Cascading Style Sheets can be hard to wrap your mind around sometimes, and getting started with them is often the most hardest part of all. Well I have found another cheat [...]

To understand and then combat a brute force attack, also known as a dictionary attack, we must start by understanding why it might be an appealing tool for a hacker. To a hacker, anything that must be kept under lock and key is probably worth stealing. If your Web site (or a portion of it) [...]