Sometimes you may wonder whether a website is custom made or use CMS. And perhaps you are eager to know which type of CMS that the website is using.

If you have knowledge about a CMS, then you can distinguished them by viewing the source code.

Other alternative is to use Wappalyzer, a Firefox Add-on. This add-on automatically check what type of technology that a website is using. Whether the CMS, or other scripts.

Once you detect what type of CMS that a website is using, then you can easily achieved the same results (in term of appearance and functionality) by using the same CMS.

Tired of the default Joomla template? Don’t worry because there are a lot of websites that provide Joomla templates for free. Although they are free, most of them are still beautiful, clean and SEO optimized.

Siteground (view)

Joomlart (view)

Themebase (view)

Joomlashack (view)

Best of Joomla (view)

Joomladesigns (view )

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

Go to submitexpress website and put the address of your website or blog into the URL box and fill your email too. Then, you just need to press SUBMIT. Now your website is already submitted to more than 20 search engines.

After submitting, it will take some times for your website or blog to be indexed by those search engines.

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.

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.

To make backup using cpanel, firstly login to your cpanel and choose Backups.

Then, it is important for you to know that most CMS website are divided by two important parts that form the site; that is :

1.the website related files (you can make backup by download the ‘Home Directory Backup’)

• images
• themes

2. and database that store various information (you can make backup by download the ‘MySQL Database Backup’

• posts or pages
• user accounts
• address information that link image to your post

If something bad happens, you can restore back your site to the previous state by restoring the backup files and database.

Besides that, you can use cpanel to backup you mails too.

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.

Step 2: Click ‘New Installation’

Step 3:

• Choose Joomla 1.5 under content management category.
• Then you need to provide the directory that you want to use as joomla installation. If you put v2, that means your joomla website is at http://hostipedia.com/v2
• If you want to use subdomain, you should first create subdomain (at the cpanel main page) before entering the  fanstastico de luxe.
• Then fill the form completely and press install Joomla 1.5.

Step 4: Just click ‘Finish Intallation’.

Step 5: And that’s all you need to do. Once you enter http://hostipedia.com/v2, you can see that your Joomla site is already being setup in 5 clicks.

Below is the step to manage your feeds using feedburner.

1. Make your feedburner account (go to Feedburner Dot Com)

2. Write down your direct feed address. Or you can also write down your home address and feedburner will display the related feeds for your site. You just need to choose the appropriate feed.

3. Then, give your feed its title and feedburner address

You need to be remind that in order for subscriber to be subscribe using feedburner, they need to use the feedburner address, not your website feed address (however, you can redirect user that user your web feed address to the feedburner address).

4. Summary burner

Default, feedburner provide full feed to the subscriber. That’s mean subscriber can view your overall post just using RSS reader without the need to go to your webpage or blog. If you don’t want this, you can provide them with just summary of your feeds.

5.  Chicklet Chooser

• In order to encourage people to subscribe feed, most webmaster put RSS icon that link to the feedburner subscribtion page.
• If you feel too lazy to make your own RSS icon, you can just use this chicklet chooser to find the suitable icon and put the code inside your web page.
• For WordPress user, you just need to copy the snippet code into a widget. So easy.

6. E-mail Subscription

Some reader still unaware of RSS or feeds. Thus, email subscription might be a good way to make them subscribe. Just put the snippet code into webpage and you will get email subscription form just like mine.

Good lucks!

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.

Length of the domain names

• Basically, short domain names prices higher than longer one
• The logic is short domain name is easier to remember than the long one.

Pronounceable

Domain name that can be pronounce is valuable than domain name that is hard to be pronounce.

Those is a few tips that you need to remember in choosing a good domain name so that if you do not want to blogging anymore, you can sell the domain name for a price.

• You can buy domain name separately with hosting provider and this will make it easier for you to sell your domain name later.
• You can buy and sell domain names trough auction at Sedo.com or Dnscoop.com .

Lastly, make sure that the domain name you are going to bought is not banned by Google or your domain will not be indexed by Google. You can check for blacklist domain at:

• http://www.all4seo.net/banned_checker.php
• http://www.dnxpert.com/google-banned-checker/

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.

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.

Wampserver as easier way

However, we do not need to worry about getting those softwares since there is a software called Wampserver that already has Apache, PHP and Mysql. Wampserver really make your work easier.

• You can download wampserver software at www.wampserver.com/en/download.php

Hosting your website

In order for your website to be visible through the web, you need to make sure that the server is on 24 hours. However I am very sure that most of us do not want to open our PC 24 hours right? That’s why we use hosting provider to host our website files.

However, it’s still very important to know how to create your own web server because you can test your script or website at localhost (your own PC. You can access it using http://localhost) before transfering them to the hosting provider.