What is twitter?
What is Twitter and how does it help me? Twitter is a micro-blogging service that let's users post very short pieces of information (140 characters or less) to answer a simple question, "what are you doing?" The service has taken off like wildfire in the last year and is starting to make it into mainstream. ...
Submitting a press release
One way to get the ball rolling in the promotion of your site is to create and submit a press release using an online press release service such as PR Newswire which will let you submit a release for a few hundred dollars. This fee will enable your release to get submitted to thousands of ...
What tools do I need to get started
Once you've got your domain name registered and have selected a web hosting provider, its time to get going.
First you will want an HTML editor. You can actually create HTML pages in a basic text editor but that is for advanced users. You'll have much better luck using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what ...
What is a blog and why do I need one?
A blog (short for web log) is simply a web site or part of a web site that lets people easily publish content. Blogs have evolved a lot in the last 5 or 6 years and there are now some blogs that are multi million dollar businesses and are have sophisticated capabilities. Blogger (now owned ...
What is FTP
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is simply a mechanism for transferring files from one computer to another over the internet. There is a more detailed description here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol if you are interested in the nitty gritty but for all intents and purposes the basics you will need to know are FTP is a ...
The best designed web sites
When you begin the process of designing a web site it can be like a writer putting the first word down on a new book or an artist painting the first brushstroke. You don't always know where to begin. I use 3 main philosophies to get started on a new site.
1) Most likely someone has ...
Search Engine Optimization 101
What is Search Engine Optimization or SEO? Put simply, SEO is the art of organizing your content in such a way that it makes it easy for Google and other search engines to understand the pages of your site. For example if you have a site that reviews the latest in digital cameras, you would ...
Web hosting
What is web hosting?
Think of a web page as a file similar to a Microsoft Word document that you have created and saved on your PC but rather than a Word document, your file is an .html file. Its true that many web pages are generated dynamically at the time a user visits a site ...
Domain name tools
The first thing you need to do when you have an idea for a domain name for your site is check to see if its available. There are many places to do this on the internet. I've used godaddy.com, namebargain.com and register.com but there are many others. If you go to any of those sites ...
What’s in a domain name
I can't tell you how many people I've talked to who are ready to give up on their web idea because the domain name they had in mind is not available. It's true, many good names are taken and if you had a fantasy about registering dogs.com for your new blog, you missed that boat ...