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Thursday, December 31st, 2009Submit website to search engine
Monday, December 28th, 2009After your website or blog is finished, you need to submit it search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Bing so that your website or blog is visible in search engines listing.
Submitting website to search engine is not really a must since search engine crawler still can find our websites through links. However, submitting your website to search engine will make things go smoothly.
To submit your website or blog, you can either do it manually or automatically.
Submit automatically by using SubmitExpress
Log in to your cpanel
Saturday, December 26th, 2009Using cpanel, a lot of thing can be done such as setup your own website using fantastico auto-installer, backup your database, and others. To login to your cpanel, just go to http://your-domain.com:2082 or http://your-domain.com/cpanel
After that just enter the related log in information such as user name and password that is provided by your hosting provider. Then you can access all of the features contain in the cpanel.
How to make backup using cpanel
Friday, December 18th, 2009Backup is important to take care of. If you forgot to make backup, some data could be lost due to virus, server crash or broken hard disk of the server. Usually, web hosting will done backup weekly for us.
I still remember once when my blog suddenly can’t be access because the hard disk of my web hosting provider suddenly broken. I got lucky because they had backup prepared. How about if they have no backup? Furthermore, the backup they have is not up to date, that means I still lost a few posts.
How about if my hosting provider had no backup at all? That’s why it is important to make backup ourselves too. As a precaution to any unfortunate events.
Install Joomla using cpanel Fantastico Auto-Installer
Friday, December 18th, 2009Nowadays, most of web hosting supports cpanel that has fantastico auto-installer. Without fantastico, webmaster need a quite a hard time to configure related file and creating the database for MySql.
Using fantastico auto-installer, setup a Joomla based website can be done in 5 clicks. Believe it or not? You better believe it.
Step 1: Login to your cpanel and choose fantastico de luxe.
How to setup feedburner
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Feedburner is just like the normal feed (feed directly from your website. eg: hostipedia.com/feed/) but the best thing about feedburner is that it gives us better tools for doing analysis and tracking our feeds. Besides, feedburner also has a lot of free services that would really help you.
Below is the step to manage your feeds using feedburner.
1. Make your feedburner account (go to Feedburner Dot Com)
How to choose domain name
Monday, November 30th, 2009Although 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.
What is CMS?
Monday, November 30th, 2009CMS 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.
How to create your own server
Monday, November 30th, 2009The 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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Coding in PHP
Thursday, April 30th, 2009Basic PHP Tutorial
PHP is the Hypertext Preprocessor extensively used Open Source general-purpose scripting language which is particularly appropriate for Web development and can be used in HTML. The PHP syntax is based on C, Java, and Perl and is easily learnable. With the help of PHP, web developers can swiftly write webpages that are generated dynamically and so much more.
As PHP runs on major operating systems as like Unix and Windows servers, it is easily available. PHP also supports most of the web servers. In case of most of the servers, the PHP contains a module while for others supporting CGI standard, it works as a CGI processor.
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