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Blogging – 4 Tips to the Perfect Domain Name

The idea behind selecting an appropriate domain name is not an easy job. This is because many of the good domain names are already being used by others. In such a scenario, how will you choose the right domain for your blog? Here are 4 tips which will help you to select the right domain [...]

Joomla vs Drupal – How to Pick the Right Content Management System for You

Many people who are setting up a website for the first time will ask themselves whether or not they want to use Joomla or Drupal. As with so many building tools, the real question here is what do you need from your content management system? Once you know what you are looking to get from [...]

What Changes Can We Expect With Net Neutrality?

With the new laws that have recently been put into fruition on net neutrality, some internet users, website owners and web hosting providers are curious as to what changes they can expect. With all of the conflicting information that is circling the media; it can be hard to know whether or not net neutrality is [...]

The Difference Between Windows and Linux Platforms for Hosting Your Website

Many people who are looking to for website hosting platforms wonder what the difference is between Linux and Windows. It can be a daunting task trying to decide between the two, especially if you are new to the web hosting world. Don’t throw out your keyboard yet! Let’s go over these differences so you can [...]

Top Five Joomla Tricks

When using Joomla to help build your website, it can get a little tricky. Joomla is very different from other website builders so it can help if you have a few tips and tricks underneath your belt. Here are the top five Joomla tricks. * Be Consistent with Your Joomla Themes Joomla has a lot [...]

How to Get Eyeballs on Your Website

In order to get eyeballs on your website, you have to be all about the link placement. There are several strategies you can try to get your website in front of a large array of eyeballs. Some of these strategies are: Viral Linking Viral linking relies on internet surfers passing your website to other internet [...]

Get Connected With Permalinks

A permalink or a permanent link, refers to the URL of an individual blog post. A permalink never changes, and hence, the name. The unchangeable nature of a permalink makes it less prone to link rot. Permalinks are used to link your story in an email, and are used by other bloggers to link your [...]

The Rumors of Windows 8

An Italian Windows website got its hand on a super secret and highly confidential power point presentation by Microsoft. The power point presentation revealed Microsoft’s plans and some features of the Windows 8, which the company is planning to build. Microsoft is now inclined towards making a Windows version with some good features for which [...]

5 Tips to Successful Online Advertising

Almost all businesses require something or someone to canvass for them. Online advertisements serve this purpose, and play the all-important role of promoting businesses. Many people undermine the importance of a good advertisement and post advertisements just for the sake of it. However, if you wish to market your business and increase your sales prospects, [...]

The Benefits of Sub-Domains

Sub-domain makes your URLs shorter and nicer. It allows you to categorize content of your website. They also help in search engine rankings because they are treated as separate website address by the search engines. However, you should consider few things before settling for sub-domains for your website. A sub-domain can be used to suggest [...]

The Future of the Internet

The Internet changes so fast nowadays. Just think back a few years and we did not even have Facebook. That’s like a staple of nearly every human beings day nowadays and they have even named an official addiction called “Facebook addiction” but I digress, we’re looking at the future of the Internet in this article, [...]

Facebook Closes Gift Shop and Introduces Like Button For Emails

Facebook has succeeded in a lot of things. They’ve gone from nothing to become the largest online phenomenon with over 750 million regular users. You can’t win them all though. Alongside their dismal advertising campaign goes there “Gift Shop”. You may remember this from when it is the birthday of a friend and it asks [...]

How Facebook Has Changed Online Marketing

Facebook has proved to be a rave amongst the entire human race. It has proved to be a platform that has connected people from different borders together and made way for an inter-linked and globalised world. The number of users on Facebook has been rising steadily with each passing day and it happens to be [...]

Google Back in China But Having Trouble in Australia

China has controversially given Google back their license back to operate in the region under the “Google.cn” domain name. This comes just months after a rift between them that saw Google remove operations entirely from China after strict government censoring was ruining their search results and they would no longer accept this. If you had [...]

xxx Domain Names

Domain names with a .xxx suffix at the end (where.net,.com,.co.UK usually goes) has recently passed as a legal domain name. A British entrepreneur expects to make $200 million from registering out the domain names to pornography sites around the globe. The man plans to hire out each domain name for $60 a go. People for [...]

DNS Hosting 101

A service that runs Domain name system is known as a DNS hosting service. Majority of domain name registrars involve DNS hosting service with the registration. There are also free as well as third-party hosting which cater Dynamic DNS. Some of the hosting companies give you the consent to modify or create the DNS records [...]

Tips to Selecting the Best Domain Name For Your Businesses

Similar to a brand name, a domain name (DN) can also make or break things for your business. Search engines give special emphasis to DNs to look for what is being provided on your web site. For instance, say womensshoes.com can be considered as a piece of information for search engines that you are into [...]

The Functionality of a Proxy Server

A proxy server acts as an intermediary between a web server and the client computer. They track all traffic existing between the internet and the intranet. These servers can perform all-important functions such as tracking IP addresses, URLs, time and date of access, and number of bytes downloaded. All of this information can be very [...]

Ways to Secure Ports

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) or the Internet Protocol (IP) is an underlying factor for everything that you can do on the Internet. The IP helps you to reach the requested web destination. While, the above protocols help you to arrive at the right destination, several bugs have been implemented in the way of TCP/IP [...]

How Blog Writing Can Help Your Website Get a High Search Engine Ranking

Everyone who has a business online has the goal of improving search engine rankings of their website, because it can make a big difference to their business. It is important to get traffic for your website, because the more traffic you get, the more your chances of converting people into customers, thereby ranking high in [...]