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Bookmarking Demon Review

Administrator — Thu, 05 May 2011 00:58:32 +0100

Undoubtedly your SEO arsenal has many tools. Some are web based, some are running from your desktop, but all of them are based on your imagination and your hard work in order to bring your website to higher positions.

Personally I don’t like tools that are based on a recurring free model. I prefer to buy something once and haveRead More...

Blog Hatter - The ultimate autoblogging tool

Administrator — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 02:45:26 +0100

Almost every webmaster has heard the term “Black Hat”. We use this term in order to describe techniques and tools that are used to boost websites in the first pages of search engines results (also known as SERPS). This approach may give some fast results, but in the long run it will devastate our efforts, as it will be uncloaked, sooner or later, bRead More...

The Best Spinner Review

Administrator — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:12:55 +0100

How many times you bought a product or service that was promoted with the magic word “Best” as its tagline? In the past, most of us have bough relative products, but today this trend is reducing, as this word has been misused hundreds of times. This word has been misused in every possible way and every product that isRead More...

Bell Labs, the place where innovation is a way of like

Administrator — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 14:21:31 +0100

One of the most productive research and development concerns in the United States during the twentieth century, Bell Telephone Laboratories, commonly known as Bell Labs, produced numerous inventions that shaped communication, commerce, and everyday life during the twentieth century.

The venture that became known as Bell Labs grew out of Western Electric, the manufacturRead More...

Apple Inc. - A renowned name in the PC industry

Administrator — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:52:14 +0100

Apple has been one of the driving forces in innovation in the personal computer and consumer electronics industries. Even at times when the company was considered a niche player in personal computing, features that it pioneered often made their way into products marketed by its more successful competitors. In the twenty-first century, with its iPod MP3 player, the company expanded frRead More...

Spying your competitors with SEO Spyglass

Administrator — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 02:50:33 +0100

Spies were one of the most elite units in every conflict. Having inside information from the opponents camp most of the times was adequate to decide the outcome of war. Nowadays spying is one of the most widespread tactics in corporate world. Search engine optimization couldn’t be any different.

One of the most powerful and feature rich programs, that should be inRead More...

AllSubmitter – A new approach in automatic directory submission

Administrator — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 23:55:02 +0100

Today’s search engine optimization efforts are focused on acquiring more and more backlinks. The truth is that search engines, and especially Google, only value thematic, dofollow links from high quality websites. The era of spamming hundreds of websites, free for all sites and link exchanges is over. Nowadays links which residue on Read More...

Installing SQL Server 2000

Administrator — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Now that you have a general understanding of the different variations of SQL Server 2000, it’s time to install. Again, for this example, I am installing the Standard Edition.

Insert the SQL Server installation CD into your CD-ROM drive. After a few moments, the autorun installation welcome screen will appear.
Click on SQL Server 2000 Components. From the list of options that appears, click on (for now) the Install Database Server option.
The installation wizard will begin. Click onRead More...

SQL Server 2000 editions

Administrator — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

You can really take your Web design to the next level by integrating a database. By doing so, you can make your Web pages dynamic in the sense that you can interact more directly with your visitors by not only capturing information they provide (such as shipping address and customer feedback), but you can also present customized information to your visitors based on their preferences. For example, perhaps the first time they visit your site they complete a customer survey form. Then the next Read More...

HTML terminology

Administrator — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

General HTML Page Layout Tags
Every HTML page will (or should) have some basic tags.

<HEAD>. Think of this tag as the container for all of the general layout information for your page. Within the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags, you will find general information about your page. (As you will learn later, some of this information is useful in identifying your page to search engines.) Note, however, that except for the title, none of the information contained within the <Read More...

WordPress Basics

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Key Components of a WordPress Site
There are some things that need a bit of explaining before we get much deeper. For lack of a better term, we’ll call them “components.” Components represent the main parts of a WordPress site, including the actual files that make things go, and the database that houses all of the data. Together, these two components - the files and database - generate the web pages for your site. Once generated, there are two central types of these webRead More...

Absolute and Relative URLs

Administrator — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

The URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a major building block of the Web. For this discussion, you need to be aware of the difference between absolute and relative URLs and how each one can affect your HTML coding. In an absolute URL, the address includes the entire file location (including the server name). A relative URL only shows the file name relative to the current location.

For example:

http://www.someweb.com/somefolder/somefolder_2/somefile.html somefile.html

/someRead More...

Installation and Configuration of ImageMagick

Administrator — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Like most other open-source applications, ImageMagick can be installed and configured on many platforms.

Where to get ImageMagick
You can find many ImageMagick ftp and http download links on the Internet. But I suggest you download it from the original website, because the links in that site always lead you to the newest version of the program. Sometimes third-party websites update their links with a delay (unless they use the syndication solution for their download links).

Manipulating and Formatting HTML Text

Administrator — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

There’s a reason why some people are described as artistic; moreover, there’s a reason why the more talented ones make a nice salary—having the talent and natural artistic ability to be a good (or great) designer is not easy. I am not one of those artistic people; however, I am frequently asked to play the role of designer when working with technology. And, if I’m guessing correctly, you are asked (or soon will be asked) to play that same role. Indeed, those of us workRead More...

Why WordPress is Amazing

Administrator — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

WordPress makes controlling the content of a website easy. It can be done by you, or you can train another person to do it, because the Admin area is as intuitive as it is powerful. WordPress gives you the keys to build sites easily with all the modern features that clients crave. And because WordPress is free, open source, and has fostered a giant community around it, you’ll always be in good hands. WordPress has changed the face of publishing content on the web, and we are all reapingRead More...

Moving toward XHTML

Administrator — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

HTML is an evolving technology—so much so that it will probably evolve itself out of existence. Now don’t panic: All technology—even widely successful technology such as HTML—moves on to greener pastures. The key to this transition—as these series of articles will stress continually—is planning for that inevitable transition to make it as smooth as possible.

XHTML is the planned successor to HTML. The current W3C recommendation is XHTML 1.0; additionRead More...

ImageMagick Features

Administrator — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:46:19 +0100

There are so many capabilities you can work with in ImageMagick! We are going to study the most popular of them and then we will see how to use these features as programmers in our practical projects. Some of the topics and features that will be studied in this book are summarized as follows:

• Format Conversion: Convert an image from one format to another (about 100 formats supported)

• Text & Comments: Inserting descriptive or Read More...

The W3C and HTML

Administrator — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Keeping in step with the mission and goals of the W3C, HTML continues to be an evolving technology. Indeed, since the early days of the Web, HTML has seen some major changes in both its infrastructure and its implementation. Given the explosive growth of the Web in general and the tremendous (did someone say infinite?) range of applications that are being Web enabled, HTML has needed to keep pace with these changes to deliver on its goal to be a primary vehicle for the successful implementatiRead More...

Understanding Specific Database Components

Administrator — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

All databases, including those that you create with SQL Server, are made up of specific components. Some of these (such as tables and indexes) will be discussed in the chapters of this project; however, for this chapter you should at least have a cursory understanding of what each component is and how it functions in relation to the other database components.

Tables
Perhaps the quintessential database components, tables are the information repositories where all of your data is stRead More...

W3C Activities and Recommendations

Administrator — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100

Clearly, the goals listed in the previous section are ambitious, to say the least. Yet the W3C has been very successful in meeting the challenges of these goals, and they have a strong foundation to continue to meet the challenges these goals will present in the future.

In addressing these goals, the W3C bases much of its activity on the work of specific working, interest, and coordination groups. These groups consist of representatives from member organizations, the W3C Team, and outsRead More...