Monthly Archives: August 2008

Have A Question About Google?

You have 10 days left to ask a question about Google and get it answered. In this article, you’ll find out where to submit your questions.

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A Few Good Reasons To Install A Testing Server

One of the main reasons that people are hesitant to make drastic changes or significant updates and upgrades to their websites is fear of downtime. After all, many businesses and individuals use their websites as their sole method of generating income or selling products. And downtime can cause a website to miss out on sales, affiliate income, and new visitors.

How can this problem be remedied?

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Google Added AJAX Features To Search

Google is always up to something. Most recently, they’ve added AJAX features which attempt to ‘guess’ your search term.

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Get Your Visitors to “Tell A Friend”

As any web marketer will tell you, driving traffic to a website can be both time consuming and costly. So simple and easy ways to generate traffic are always preferred.

One effortless method is the “Tell A Friend” marketing scheme, which lets visitors do the marketing instead.

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Does Your Computer Need A Memory Upgrade?

If you are a web developer or graphic designer, you probably have tons of resource intensive programs such as Photoshop, Flash, and Dreamweaver, as well as a host of other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. If you are wondering why your computer is often sluggish, it probably has something to do with insufficient memory.

In this article, we tell you where to get memory and how to install it.

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How To Compress Your Pages With GZIP And PHP

Recently, we wrote an article which outlined several methods to speed up a websites. One item, in particular, was the use of GZIP compression to speed up the delivery of web pages. Most people, however, hadn’t heard of GZIP, so we were contacted for methods to add it to websites.

In this article, we show how to use GZIP with PHP on a Linux Apache web server.

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Shared Web Hosting: The Myth of Unlimited Resources

Shared web hosting is a great way to get started online. And if you are able to find a reliable hosting service, you’ll get a decent amount of resources and guaranteed uptime, all for one low price, usually less than $10 per month.

Even better, many hosts have started to offer unlimited resources. But what does this really mean?

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7 Website Mistakes

While websites have come a long way in the last few years — as have design principles and website technology — there are still many glaring errors that webmasters continue to commit.

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