Archive for November, 2009

How to choose domain name

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Although the real purpose of domain name is just to replace your sever adress (consist of numbers) with words, domain name also has its market value. A good domain name can be sold for a high price, depending on certain qualities. Business of selling domain names also is referred to as domain flipping.

TLD

  • TLD is the extension of a domain name such as com, net, biz, or org.
  • .Com based domain name is preferred compare to others.

Keyword in the domain name

  • Domain that contains valuable keyword is really good. However most of good domain names are grab already.
  • You can use estibot.com to check the estimated value of a domain name and see whether the domain is still available.

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What is CMS?

Monday, November 30th, 2009

CMS is the acronym for Content Management System. Right now, most of the websites are created using CMS since CMS is easier to manage. The hard part of CMS is only to install it. There is a few procedure that need to be done. Luckily, most of hosting providers support ‘fanstastico deluxe’, a software that automatically install the CMS that you want with a few clicks.

Below are a few CMS that is quite famous:

  • Joomla
  • Wordpress (Usually use as platform for blogging)
  • Vbulletin (for forum)

After installing a CMS, the only matter is to manage them. If you know how to use Microsoft Words and how to use Blogspot, then you are on the right lane. You can write articles and change templates easily using CMS (Actually, blogspot also can be considered a CMS except that the script is not share with the world).

The best thing about most CMS is the available plugins and templates out there. This will make things easier to make a professional looks website although without any programming skill.

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How to create your own server

Monday, November 30th, 2009

The purpose of a website is so that other people can view it. In order to do that, you need to have a server. In this tutorial, we will learn how to create your own server, at your PC.

Apache is a software for server. Using Apache, you can set a folder so that any files that are placed in that folder is visible to the visitor. This is the folder that we use to put our website files.

Nowadays, most of websites are using PHP language because PHP can interact with Mysql database. So, we need to install PHP software in order for PHP file to work.

Since one of the use of PHP is to communicate with Mysql database, we need to install Mysql database too.

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Dreamweaver Tutorial

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Dreamweaver is probably the most powerful software for building websites, making the whole process of website creation as easy as possible. You don’t need advanced knowledge on HTML and CSS to build amazing pages in Dreamweaver, you just need to know basic techniques of using the software, you need to learn how to create tables, forms, styles, how to format text, change background colour, add links and so on… In this Article I’m going to explain the basic elements in Dreamweaver and how to use them in your web pages. (more…)

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