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Getting affordable design is very important to every business owner; first, you need to consider the price being charged and also the services being offered for your website to be made. Getting affordable web design is not that simple though in these days. Reason? Because in most cases, the affordable ones are believed to offer cheap services. Cheap services means that they have no guarantee that the website will provide maximum services in terms of reliability, seo friendliness or any other feature that may help your website yield income for your business. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that you can’t get any good and affordable web design company. But remember that cheap prices don’t guarantee you of best services in website designing. Here are some tips though which you can use to help you identify an affordable website design which will ensure the utmost of your website in business. First, you need to identify the available website design companies near you and e...

Who among you like and use eBay for an affiliate partner. For me, eBay has been very good to me with concerns to affiliate marketing. They have been consistent and have proved themselves as being very reliable. The problem that I have found in using the program is that when using a blog format, they just did not have many tools that would transpose live auctions into a format that would fit into a blog post. This kind of bugged me for a while, and a one time I thought about writing a plugin that would solve this problem. But as I have said many of times, I am very lazy when it comes to writing new code. I just don’t want to spend the time to code anything new. One of my downfalls… So, for a long time I just linked directly to eBay pages in all my sites. But that process if very tedious. It involves going to eBay and searching for what I am looking for, taking that URL and cut and pasting it into the eBay flexible re-direct tool. Which would spit out a affiliate URL....

WordPress is an ever-growing software that certainly has a bright scope and will grow exponentially in the coming years. Also, it has managed to rule the DOT Com industry for a decade and powers 24.7% of the websites today. Since WordPress is growing, it becomes necessary for a WordPress development company to grow along and get an edge over the competition. Every company needs increasingly experienced and highly-skilled WordPress experts. However, with WordPress evolving every single day, how can WordPress experts cope with it and improve their development skills simultaneously? So, in order to help these experts to stay up-to-date with the evolution of WordPress, we have compiled a list of the best ways to help you refine your skills and have a long career period. 1. Attend WordPress Conferences If you are an active WordPress developer, you’d probably be aware of WordPress conferences and Wordcamps that occur every now and then to help you keep a track on the newest features of ...

What are the differences between Drupal, Joomla and WordPress when choosing to use a Content Management System (CMS)? Given all the differences between the three, what is the best one to choose? A CMS will generally come with the ability to assist with user accounts (which may involve a variety of roles e.g. admin, editor, basic user etc.), it makes and preserves menus, and it manages the content of the website and the overall system. A CMS is essential for the easy running of large, content rich sites. Drupal is a highly sophisticated programming interface for web developers. This CMS will work on any platform that has a web server able to run PHP and a database, it needs these so that it can store the website’s content and settings. There are many themes that can customize the way a website looks and feels, all an administrator needs to do is choose the required theme from a menu. Drupal is a very powerful tool that is best suited to advanced PHP developers, it is often accused ...

Undoubtedly, WordPress is the most popular for making blogs and websites on the internet. WordPress is packaged in such a way that it makes it very easy to customize your site by adding plugins, templates, themes, etc. It also protects your sites from spam. The WordPress community helps you in getting answers to any problems that you may have concerning your WordPress powered site. Since people are mostly making use of WordPress for creating websites, hackers are trying their best to gain entry into the sites in order to hack them. Hence, it is very important to update your WordPress to the latest version. Another important option that you need to take into account is taking regular backup of your site. If your site gets hacked, you can simply reload the database and files and your site will be normal within a few minutes. How often you should do a WordPress database backup? Depending on the number of posts you add to your site and the comments you receive, you should do a WordPress da...

We have heard a lot about WordPress. We all know that it is a blogging platform that comes for free. We can use it according to our need. Now, this great blogging portal brings in a vast range of themes for its users. These themes are nothing but some files that offer your blog or your website an appropriate look and feel. Many of these themes are free. You can just download and apply them on your blog. It is as simple as that. In this article we are going to talk about different WordPress themes like free themes, e-commerce and responsive themes. Let’s begin with free themes. Free Themes These themes are extremely useful for the newbies, though experienced bloggers who do not wish to invest their money for buying premium themes also use these to offer a new and fresh look to their blog. There are many free themes, some of them are Attitude, Expound, Iconic One, Spun, Twenty Twelve etc. Most of these have responsive features and are perfect for corporate, educational and personal...

Enabling comments to be posted on a WordPress blog allows readers to interact with yourself and others. A healthy following of visitors builds a sense of community and increases the popularity of your blog. Comments also create unique content, something the search engines love. A blog without comments appears dead and stagnant, however allowing comments can also open the door to comment spammers. Here’s how to get it under control. Comment spam typically comes from online marketers wanting a backlink to their own site. It mainly consists of low quality content with no added value or contains blatant advertising. Turning Commenting Off Can WordPress comment spam be stopped? Yes, if you turn commenting off in the WordPress Dashboard: Settings: Discussion: Default article settings: Allow people to post comments on new articles. Trackback Spam Another form of spamming comes in the form of trackbacks. Trackbacks can also be turned off in the Dashboard in Discussion: Allow link notifica...

Digital Marketing for WordPress Websites If your search term is not right for your business, too competitive, or just a keyword that does not generate enough traffic, then you can be wasting your time. If you are inpatient and you do not do the market research, you can be hitting your head against a wall. Digital Marketing for WordPress Market research online is very easy, accessible, and honest. It’s unforgiving and available at your fingertips. What are keywords? In general terms, keywords are the words or phrases that people use to ask a question. Free tools for Market Research This step is more often than not skipped because, let’s face it, this step is not sexy. 1. Google Keyword Tool Google has tools that are free and that you can use to do market research. This tool allows you to tap into the database of the data that Google creates using AdWords. Google AdWords is a product that Google uses to sell advertising space to people who want to advertise for a specific ke...

Overview Today, I had to use a custom PHP script that I created a while ago in a new WordPress application. Instead of developing a WordPress plugin to handle this existing code, I choose instead to use WordPress directly inside my script. Using WordPress inside your script is a great option if you have a lot of custom PHP code. When you have a large PHP code base from your previous development efforts. There are typically other libraries inside your code, such as Symfony, Zend Framework, Pear, etc, that you don’t want to take apart. You have working code and you want it to stay together. In my case, I had created a form for data collection for a client. But this was no ordinary form. It had over 100 form variables. They were made up of text input, radio boxes, checkboxes, and textarea’s. I wanted to use this form directly inside my WordPress application. Plus I wanted the integration to easy. The solution was actually quite simple. Existing PHP Code For example, assume this...

An RSS feed is a good way of marketing your latest content to your readers. When you write your latest informative article your audience are immediately informed of this and are able to read it. In this article I will show you how to set up an RSS feed in WordPress. RSS or real simple syndication as it is better known is a way of getting your latest articles, posts, ideas around the web to your target audience 365 days a year. Imagine all the effort you put in and how much time is spent researching and writing your article. Doesn’t it make sense to propel that content to people interested in listening to what you have to say? RSS makes this easy. Many websites already have their own RSS facility in motion. Take for example the article sites. When you sign up to receive the service, the content will be delivered to you by way of a feed. Essentially this is what is known as an XML file containing the content such as headlines, posts, news etc. When content is delivered like this via...

I’ve had a – I was going to say a love/hate relationship with WordPress, but it’s pretty much just been a hate relationship with it, over the last couple of years. I consistently found my blogs were offline, had Internal Server Errors, were very slow to load (some page load times exceeding 60 seconds). And in addition to all that, I hosted the sites with what turned out to be some very bad choices for webhosts which resulted in some sites going offline for weeks and others going offline permanently with no access to backups to resurrect them. What can I say? It’s been a learning experience. Lesson learned: Always download backups of your sites from your server to your PC; you just never know when you’ll need to use them! 1. Blaming WordPress I used to blame WordPress for all the trouble my sites suffered from. I blamed it for being a resource hog (which it is if you add any number of plugins), buggy (more because of plugin conflicts and WordPress updates br...

There’s no doubt about it, WordPress is a remarkable platform for publishing, but beware the pitfalls of self-hosted blogs and websites. I struggled for about two and a half years with my WordPress.org self-hosted site. The issues were unstoppable, and the forums to mend the problems, equally unstoppable. You find yourself getting entwined in an ever-deepening maze of ‘solutions’. The blog is too slow? speed it up with a plugin! Insecure? Protect it a plugin! Plugins giving you problems? Sort them out with a plugin? Alternative, take a masters degree in WordPress coding and sort these issues out yourself. There are more plugins and coding solutions available than most of us have had hot dinners, but quite often they add to the dilemma, rather than taking it away. Then you get kind of obsessed with one issue or another. Mine was site speed . I thought, ‘oh, I must ensure it loads in less than two seconds or no one will stick around to see it.’ I tested it o...

The first thing that you will notice about Linux Red Hat (using the Gnome Interface) is that it looks a lot like Windows 95/98/NT. But that’s where the similarity ends. Linux requires a whole new set of commands as well as a new way of thinking about things. For instance, in Windows 95/98 you can adjust monitor or screen properties by just a few key strokes. With Linux, however, in order to adjust the monitor settings, you have to run a program called Xconfigurator. And there is no information anywhere as to how to do this. It is one of these secret things that Linux users don’t worry about because “everyone knows how to do it”. Those of us changing from Windows to Linux have a need to know these things. Let me tell you the secret: You have to be logged in as “Root” then you exit to the terminal. Now this looks like a DOS shell, so Windows users don’t get too confused. Then at the # prompt type in Xconfigurator. Then you are taken to a configura...

(Or How to set up a fully working Joomla, Drupal, LAMP, LAPP, Zimbra, Torrent server etc., in a couple of minutes) Turnkey Linux comprises a set of free, Ubuntu-based software appliances that are primarily available for server-type usage scenarios, such as setting up database, web, forum, wiki and photo gallery servers. Each appliance is preconfigured to work out of the box, with ease of use being the primary goal behind the Turnkey Linux project. This is extremely useful in itself, but if you wanted to experiment with these appliances, potentially to evaluate or otherwise test them, it would be great if you could perform installations with the absolute minimum of effort. Using Turnkey Linux on Virtual Private Servers A number of hosting providers out there provide Linux VPS services, which usually enable users to have their own virtual server with automatic provisioning of major Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu or CentOS. Work has been performed in conjunction with the Tu...

Microsoft SQL Server is the leader for inexpensive and middle size SQL solutions. Plus it is now capable to serve large enterprise on Microsoft Windows platform. Crystal Reports is the most flexible tool on the market and it has market recognition. Multiple software vendors offer Crystal Reports as the main reporting tool: Microsoft, Best Software, Oracle to name a few. Sometimes developers try to use Crystal directly to pull data from multiple database platforms – we understand the need to give you additional tips to increase Crystal report flexibility. Also common case when Crystal report should pull data from multiple database platforms. Assuming that you are creating Crystal Reports on Windows platform – we recommend you to use Microsoft SQL Server as a database access tool. 1. Use Crystal when you have your query tuned – regardless how good Crystal Reports is – it is reporting tool – not querying environment. Tune your query first and be sure tha...

It’s no secret that WordPress is the most popular platform for self publishing today. Millions of people use it to write simple blogs, or to write huge web sites filled with astonishing content. Whether you are a world famous publisher, or simply writing posts about your daily life, you likely are using WordPress. One of the many things that makes WordPress so popular are the many plugins available. Plugins are small programs that you an add to your site to make it do different things, from playing music to asking for somebody’s email address. While there are literally thousands of plugins to choose from, there are some essentials that you can’t do without. That is the subject of this article. First and foremost is Akismet. This automatically detects and removes spam comments from your blog. Even if you have a relatively small blog, and don’t think you need to worry about spam, you still need to. You’d be surprised how much spam even the smallest blog will ...

While developing a website, it can be said that PHP is one of the most popular programming language that is used till now. Many are of the opinion that it will be replaced by some other languages very soon, but even today it still stands strong and even in the coming years it doesn’t look like that it’s going to be replaced. PHP language is used to create dynamic web applications and portals and it is very important to hire experienced PHP developers who can help to create a fully functional and scalable website that helps to connect with customers in this highly competitive virtual world. So, if you have decided to create your website using this open source framework, then you have done a smart thing and the next step is to hire a dedicated PHP developer to build your project. Here is a list of critical pointers that will help you to choose the best resource for your upcoming project. Evaluate their knowledge: It is very important for the PHP developer to have expertise in...

I’m often hired to carry out and audit an Access database application that has been built and re-developed over the years due to: The developer (perhaps a former employee) has since left the organisation and left no documentation. An individual has accidentally locked a database and can not gain access which requires an official ‘hack’. Some of the components to the Access database has been lost and users need some new functions added. New administrators have been given a database and do not have enough knowledge to extend the system reports. The client wants an honest opinion on how well (or poorly) designed an Access database has been built and implemented. But with a little bit of training and know how, there are some basic but simple tasks that users can carry out for themselves to breakdown and understand an Access database before calling in the repairman/woman. I have 5 common tips to help you on your way: With most well designed Access database systems, you norm...

If you’re upgrading or thinking of upgrading to a solar powered energy system for your home then you’re probably seen the designation “WP” on certain components. This marking usually has a number next to it and a rating for the system. This has caused many people some confusion as they aren’t sure what exactly WP means. WP means “Watts Peak” and is the rating given for the total wattage output when the system is operating under perfect conditions. Your system won’t always operate at this level of performance as there are too many environmental variables to take into consideration. However once in a while you’ll have that perfect day where everything will be calm, quiet, and sunny which will result in your system producing this amount of power. Now don’t get excited and start slamming panels with high WP ratings all over your roof. There are other parts of your system involved with converting this energy and if their WP rating i...

When Health Consulting Businesses are Legally Responsible One thing the internet is infamous for is being a source of advice for our health and well-being. It doesn’t matter where we turn there is someone with a website telling us what to do to lose weight, slow down ageing or treat our illnesses. We all do it. We aren’t feeling well so we type our symptoms into “Dr. Google” and voila, thousands of results telling us we have everything from a common cold to 6 months to live. We then take our results in hand to our doctor and tell him what we have. Sadly, professionals in the health care industry, doctors, therapists, dieticians and nutritionists all have an everyday fight with misinformation that is provided on the internet. If you are a blogger and have some experience with health-related issues, you may want to share this information with the world. Or, you may be a professional with some education on certain health-related subjects and want to use that informa...