Over the last month or so, I’ve gone from not knowing about WordPress to setting up this site, my 7th (or so). I started installing WordPress on some to-that-point inactive registered domains. My web host (bluehost.com) has a SimpleScript that installs WordPress – it’s simple and quick.

I’m reading what I can find about Themes, PlugIns, SEO, and all sorts of other things related to setting up and using a blog, particularly a WordPress-based blog.

I work part-time in a preK-8 school and want to have the 7th and 8th graders posting to and building blogs next year. Have principal’s OK, need to figure out what dangers & potential pitfalls I need to look for, need to work out curricular tie-ins, expectations.

I’m creating this post to tie together a family of blogs. In exploring the Global Dashboard for a site, I realized there are tools to tie together blogs in multiple ways. So this is an experiment to figure out how that works.

This blog’s name is meant to tie it to my first WordPress blog, systalk.org.

If you run across this site, give a shout.

If you own more than one websites you must be aware of web hosting reseller account. A re-seller account, has loads of benefits. You can’t just have all your websites hosted with it, but can sell the services further too.

It’s fun and extra earning.

And, if you have more than one websites, and don’t have a reseller account yet. Your all sites are hosteed separately, better is to get a reseller web hosting and have all your sites together plus recover the whole hosting cost by selling hosting too.

Well, to be honest, it was an attempted Skype-ing. That’s what the fellow on the other end said: “I was going to Skype you, but I got too busy.” I thought to myself: I guess that’s how you know sh*t’s for real…when they make a verb out of it. I mean, they invented the proper noun, what, ten minutes ago?

For the uninitiated, Skype is an application that lets you make voice calls over the Internet–often for free. Lately, it has gained more popularity with webcam users like business teleconferencers, or your grandmother.

If you know your communication history, or if you’re just old, you know that they have been promising video phone technology almost since they invented the telephone itself. I remember seeing an Western Electric product brochure from 1965 in an antique store. Way down at the bottom it said, “and coming in late 1969…picture phones!”

no WAY did I find the exact picture I was referring to!

So, what’s the damn holdup? Are we waiting for 1969 to roll around again? At this rate, I will be bringing home my LG picture phone from Best Buy in my Jetsons flying car.

Actually, it’s no mystery at all. Obviously, if you can watch 30 Rock on your iPhone, then the technology exists. I think the holdup is simply this: we would love to see the person on the other end…but we don’t want them to see us. And I experienced this first hand today.

As my associate and I made plans to Skype, he told me to leave everything on and he would try to dial me up. (Yes, I said “dial.”) Anyway, I began to panic. I am supposed to keep Skype—and my webcam–on all day waiting for him to dial me up? Would I have to “look presentable” or even “put clothes on?” Honestly, it bordered on an existential freakout.

I actually went so far as to compose a little tableau to shoot with my webcam…instead of me.  See pathetic quaint illustration.

So, when it comes to the widespread acceptance of videoconferencing technology, I suppose I am part of the problem.

I guess I bring this up (and you had to be hoping there was a point to all of this) to ask, who among my legion of fan is using Skype? And…can I watch?

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How to chose a right web hosting service?

As you know that the present time is a time of computer. It is very necessary for everybody to obtain basic knowledge of computer. In the world of computer internet two things is very popular the one is email/chatting, the other one is website. Any bodies who want to send his message to other at very high speed need an email id. The chat is a part of email but the little difference is that with chat you can talk with others online same time as like you talk with others by mobile.

The second post important thing is World Wide Web (www). For introducing any business products in the front of whole world needs a website. The Website is an interface for whole world with site owner and their products. For make your business an interface in front of whole world you need two things first is website and second is web space.

Website is included on pages with text and graphics that can view on internet with any browser. Where these web pages are store the name of that is web space, web hosting company or simply website storage.

Although the website and web space is necessary for each others but it is not necessary that one person who provide a good quality web designing service is also provide a good quality web space service. It is not a matter wherever from you made a website but it is a matter which company you choose for hosting your website. The first thing that should be front of you during choosing a right web hosting company is quality. That company is good for which has fast speed and less uptime. The second considerable thing is price. Some of other factors are also considerable before getting a web space that is as follows.

1. Server platform and hardware requirements

Check as per your requirements if you plan to host website with programming environments then you check the service provider if his service support it

2. Disk space & Bandwidth requirement

Choose Disk space as per your need for general website 200MB – 500MB is enough and for enormous amount of graphic pictures, mp3 or video files 1000MB is enough Bandwidth from 40GB to 100GB per month is enough

3. Other hosting features

Just like video support, number of email accounts, web static software etc.

4. Reliability and scalability

A first-class web hosting provider offers reliable server uptime and fast Internet connection. You should only choose a web hosting service that guarantee at least 99% server uptime with high-speed Internet backbones using at least OC3 (Optical Carrier) lines (155 Megabits per second) or above instead of T1 or T3 lines.

5. Customer service and support

The last major consideration in choosing a web hosting service is to find a web hosting providers that offers excellent customer service and support. You should always search for a web hosting provider that offers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week technical support that fielded with highly experience technicians, so that any web hosting problems will be resolved within a reasonable amount of time. You may also want to consider to test how responsive is their customer support by sending few inquiry emails to the web hosting provider. In general, any response in less than 24 hours is considered acceptable. It is a sign of poor customer support if they take more than one day to response. In addition, a web hosting provider with excellent support should also provide multiple support channels, such as toll-free phone support, 24/7 email support, live chat, online knowledgebase, Interactive flash tutorials and FAQ. You look for top quality and cheap service.

Below is a list of some web hosting companies that provide top quality and cheap services.

1. http://webhost-n1.runhost.com

This Company is from New York America and providing very good quality and cheap web hosting.

2. http://webhostingstore.runhosting.com

Free and paid web hosting service provider. This is Another good quality and cheap web hosting service provider.

About Author:

Baber butt is writer of this article. He is an internet marketer and article writer. His article circulated in many places on the internet. He is also working as MR Manager in a small manufacturing company. He is doing research on web hosting service.

For suggestion and comments send email to baber_javed_butt@yahoo.com

What is reseller web hosting? We’ll explain the ins & outs of reseller web hosting plans in this post. If you’re interested in becoming a reseller – this is a must read.

Reseller web hosting plans are basically web hosting packages that have been designed for people to signup and then have others signup on that same plan. The original owner of the plan can give the sub-user an account within the account. This is a cheap way to get into the web hosting business.

Reseller hosting plans come in two forms typically. First, there is the kind that charges something like $20/month and you’re allowed to signup X number of customers for that $20 and you get a certain amount of space/traffic.  This is the case with HostGator.  The other way is where the web hosting company charges the reseller X amount per customer. This is the case with LunarPages.

There are many advantages to reseller hosting. First is obviously the fact that you can make money for doing very little work except finding the client. Second, you don’t have to have your own hardware to start a web hosting company.

Who would want a reseller hosting plan?

There are many different types of companies that could use a reseller web hosting plan. Maybe you’re a web designer that has setup many websites for clients, but you don’t want to give up the recurring revenue that hosting provides. If you design 50 websites a year and you can keep 50% as hosting clients - then you would have 25 customers+ per year. If you can charge them $20/month each for hosting – that’s $500/month in revenue. That would cost you about $20/month on a reseller hosting plan. Then you snowball that each year and you have a nice side income from your past clients.  You can also do domain name reseller plans on the same concept.

Then there are other intentions to actually start a web hosting company of your own – some of these start on reseller plans. Then you move to a dedicated server of your own and then you move to your own datacenter.

So whether you are just looking for some side money or swinging for the fences trying to build a business out of it – reseller hosting provides a great option to make money.

One of the biggest measurements of a website’s success is the stickiness of its visitor base. Generally web masters would rather have 1,000 visitors who return regularly (they are “stuck to the site”) as opposed to 3,000 visitors who only visit once or twice. These days the web is massive, carving out a niche for your site and gaining a following within that niche is the key to success.

There are many reasons why you should try to make your website as sticky as possible. Visitors who return regularly are more likely to purchase some of your products or content. If you have a membership site, then retaining your member base is critical for growing your íncome and long term success. Also, a faithful following will encourage viral promotíon of your site.

Search engine optimization can be a costly and time consuming task and your site’s listing can be hammered down by the powers that be (Google) in the blink of an eye. If you gain a faithful user base though, they will tell their friends and family about your site and encourage them to use it as well. Viral marketing is the cheapest and most effective type of marketing there is and making your site and content desirable is the only way to achieve this phenomenon. There are “five C’s” of stickiness to remember, and they are:

Content

Regardless of the site’s design, without good content, the visitor will not come back or stay at the site for more than a few minutes. “Content is King” is a cliché, but true. High quality content is far and away the most important factor in attracting people back to a Web site consistently, and keeping them there for more than a few minutes when they do visit. It is said, in fact, that content is what drives 75 percent of consumers to return to their favorite sites.

In addition to your site being content rich, try to also keep it fresh. At least part of your site will be regularly updated, preferably at least once a month. This is why web sites which resemble online brochures fail. Delivering the same content in a blog, posted in installments, can be much more effective. This will encourage users to come back regularly, as they check in to see what new content you’ve added lately. This is stickiness in a nutshell.

Community

When a site attracts enough visitors with similar interests it has the potential to develop into a “community.” That can be very powerful for the site owner. Providing message forums, chat rooms, podcasts, user profiles, blogs, etc. are all tools to allow your visitors to interact with both you and each other. This also makes your site VERY sticky if you are able to develop a thriving community.

Rather than visiting your site once a month people may begin to visit it multiple times a week. Having a thriving community can be viewed as developing a site which is constantly developing its own content. Rather than requiring you to spend hours developing content, you can instead monitor the postings on your site to ensure they retain the kind of atmosphere you want for your site. As time goes by you may also be able to appoint some of your more responsible members to monitoring positions to do this job for you as well.

Communication

Communication is equally important as content and community. Communication includes building and maintaining your list, reaching out to people on it and interacting with visitors to your site. Try to respond to any question, comments, or feedback you receive promptly. This builds relationships with your visitors and will keep them coming back.

One of the best ways to reach out to customers is to provide quality, free information. This is basically a sample of what your site has to present, and should always help address the questions your visitors came to your site for answers for. The very nature of the web stresses that you consider offering more free content to your customers than most other mediums do. You have too much competition to be stingy. One of the most effective means of providing content to customers and developing a slate of potential customers at the same time is to give a free guide to visitors who provide you with a name and email address.

For example, if you run a site teaching real estate tips and tricks, after your visitors have seen your “foot in the door” content located on your “splash page,” provide them the first lesson of your course on real estate for free in exchange for their name and email address. You benefit from this by having names to attach to the IP addresses of your visitors. This provides you with more information about who is being drawn into your site. It is also important you use a quality auto-responder for this step, as communication is a critical part of your site and must be handled professionally.

One last note on communication: Be sure to provide your name and contact information clearly throughout your site. It will frustrate and turn away visitors if they have a question or comment and cannot figure out how to reach you. By providing a name and place to reach you it also helps contribute to the last two “C’s…”

Commerce and Consumer Confidence

These are perhaps the two most important things that get overlooked in websites. First, effectively promote your site by using professional marketing and search engine optimization for the niche your site seeks to fill. Provide reliable, safe, and secure means for your customers to purchase your for-pay content. If your ordering method does not look safe, all your efforts working to sell your content to your visitors will be lost if they get to the order page and you look like an unprofessional, fly-by-night operator. Always use a secure ordering form. Offering a monëy back guarantee can be extremely helpful to reassure customers.

Lastly, respect your customer’s privacy. Make it clear you will not sell their names, personal information, or email addresses. People hate spam and will be hesitant to identify themselves to you out of fear of having their information sold if you do not provide some kind of assurance against this. A clear and easy to locate privacy policy is necessary.

By Jeremy A Gislason
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Berbagai CMS (content management system) yang telah memberikan kemudahan dalam membangun sebuah website banyak digemari saat ini. Dari mulai Mambo yang sekarang beralih nama menjadi Joomla, PHPNuke, PostNuke, AuraCMS dan CMS lainnya. Namun, dari semua CMS tersebut, ada satu hal yang membuat kesulitan, yaitu dimana kita tetap harus hosting dan mengupload situs yang kita buat dengan CMS tadi.

UcoZ (http://ucoz.com) adalah sistem manajemen website modern yang gratis, bekerja berdasarkan prinsip Web 2.0, yang memungkinkan anda membuat proyek paling rumit sekalipun dengan kemudahan dan kesederhanaan yang luar biasa.

Control Panel yang baik memungkinkan anda menambah/mengubah/menghapus informasi pada website dengan cepat. Dukungan sistem yang fleksibel pada beberapa pilihan dan akses manajemen, membuatnya mungkin untuk menerapkan dan menyediakan desain apapun sesuai kebutuhan. Selain itu, sistem modul dapat dioptimalkan dan disesuaikan dengan proyek anda.

Sistem UcoZ tidak perlu didownload dan diinstall, anda cukup mendaftar dan setelah itu, sistem secara lengkap berada dalam genggaman anda.

Kelebihan dari CMS UcoZ, antara lain :

• Memungkinkan membuat website dengan beragam tingkat kompleksitas

• Hosting gratis dengan disk space yang tidak terbatas

• Dapat menggunakan domain sendiri, misalnya mysite.com. Dan jika tidak punya domain, anda dapat menggunakan domain yang diberikan oleh UcoZ

• Ketersediaan banyak template profesional (± 202 template) yang sesuai

• Dapat membuat email pada domain website anda, misalnya mail@mysite.com

• Kemampuan untuk mengupload file melalui FTP atau interface web

• Backup proyek

• Bantuan sistem tersedia melalui Forum dan FAQ

Selain dari kelebihan-kelebihan di atas, UcoZ juga menyediakan program afiliasi yang memungkinkan anda mendapatkan keuntungan finansial dari sana. Diantara programnya, UcoZ akan membayar $0.50 untuk setiap referall yang aktif.

Modul-modul yang tersedia pada CMS Ucoz, yaitu :

• Site Users

• Forum

• Blog

• Photo Albums

• Guestbook

• Publisher

• Tag Board

• Designing Tools

• Site News

• Statistics

• File Catalogue

• Link Catalogue

• Ad Board

• Site FAQ

• Web Polls

• E-mail Forms

Semua modul di atas dapat anda atur active/inactive sesuai kebutuhan proyek anda.

Bagi anda yang tidak faham bahasa pemrograman web, tidak perlu khawatir karena sebagaimana CMS biasanya, anda dapat membangun website tanpa pemrograman sedikitpun. Namun, bagi anda yang faham pemrograman web, UcoZ memberikan kebebasan kepada anda untuk membongkar dan mengubah coding yang mereka berikan sesuai dengan yang anda inginkan.

A company based in Brittany France is now offering Linux hosting services including resller packages and virtual or dedicated linux servers. Brittany Internet has over 20 years experience with servers and has been providing webhosting for over 15 years.

This should be ideal for English speaking residents in France that want a bilingual hosting partner to provide Linux website hosting services.

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The first and the most obvious problem with normal hosting companies are, they use lots of electricity. And since a good amount of the “normal” electricity power used is generated using fossil fuels, that energy use contributes to many problems ranging from Global Warming to environmental pollution due to mining and extraction, dependency on foreign oil and even having to fight wars for oil.

Last year, the servers powering various internet sites in the United States alone accounted for almost three billion dollars’ worth of electricity usage. In this article, we’ll take a look at how you can take advantage of affordable web hosting, either in the form of a web hosting coupon or of small business web hosting that offers environmentally friendly solutions.

The term “green web hosting” might sound strange to many people. After all, most things we see “going green” are things like cars, homes, and other tangible aspects of daily life. However, the internet is increasingly becoming an almost tangible part of our everyday life. Green web hosting has just caught on in the public’s mind, although there are a few hosts who have been ahead of the demand for quite some time.

Now more than ever, people are looking for environmentally friendly companies and are voting with their wallets, so to speak. As a business person, or even just an independent site owner, you can begin to build your brand as an environmentally friendly company, by using green web hosting. It makes a statement of value that many people appreciate, and you are also voting with your wallet too.

The first thing a “green” hosting company does is to power their servers, coolers, offices etc using “green electricity”. Green electricity is generated using renewable resources, mostly using wind turbines and solar panels. Sometimes biomass, biogas, or geothermal methods can also be used to generate “green electricity”. All of your green hosting options should at least include a way to use renewable energy.

Finding Affordable Hosting

Finding affordable hosting that provides environmentally sound solutions to common emissions and energy problems like carbon and electricity is an important part of running an eco-friendly businesses. Small business web hosting is not only a great opportunity to expand your home or small business, but to keep global energy usage down. Choose your blog with a blog hosting company that is committed to reducing the energy usage of their servers. Taking advantage of the increasing number of web hosting companies that are “going green” is a good way to help fight the good fight.

Major cities like Toronto and Vancouver are very close to the American border. Americans can easily locate their web hosting in these cities. This is also added value in terms of money, as the Canadian dollar is cheaper than the American dollar. One more practical point is that Canada has very few energy cuts, unlike some of America’s major cities. This means Canadian servers are up and running almost all the time, generating more business. Canada does not believe in outsourcing services. Most of its technology is indigenous, with a physical hands-on presence all the time. If a server breaks down, maintenance and repair is reliable and prompt.

Our great site hosting cheap provider is Host Papa. They also offer unlimited disk space and unlimited transfers per month. Host Papa prides itself in being a ‘green’ company and uses only 100% renewable energy to run their servers, computers, and data centers. Their fee is also $4.95 per month – but only with a three year (36 month) commitment. A Host Papa account also provides unlimited domains, which is perfect for multiple users accessing the services of the hosted site.

Major cities like Toronto and Vancouver are very close to the American border. Americans can easily locate their web hosting in these cities. One more practical point is that Canada has very few energy cuts, unlike some of America’s major cities. This means Canadian servers are up and running almost all the time, generating more business. Find out more about Canadian Green Energy Hosting

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About the Author: Paul Rodgers specializes in marketing natural health and beauty products from his website

http://mens-best-health.net

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Windows hosting makes use of Microsoft’s Windows software for the web hosting server for your websites and give you environment to run ASP ASP.net sort of web application with power of windows server environment. Microsoft Windows and Linux are the two most widely used web hosting platforms all over the world. In comparison to Linux hosting, Windows hosting allows a better user friendly interface with Microsoft’s own products and services. Windows hosting supports all the popular windows web services used in web development, allowing an individual to make a website or web application in the language of one’s preference.

Sometime new webmasters get confused that which one web hosting to choose from the variety of two choices available in market such as Windows Hosting & Linux Hosting for such users I highly recommend Windows Hosting to choose reason being is this that web hosting providers today in market most of they are offering PHP and MySQL sort of Linux server features in their web hosting plans of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 server. As they install PHP and MySQL as a add-on on their server thus in this manner you get a few most important features of Linux servers also within your same package of windows hosting without paying extra for Linux web hosting package.

Using Windows Hosting is more users friendly and carries more benefits that are the reason why it is so widely used these days. Each operating system has its own unique features, and this brings their own advantagesand disadvantages. Linux platforms do not offer support for the .NET technologies, which includes ASP.net. If you have already built a website using Microsoft .NET technologies then you may know the benefits of using this service, UNIX is an open source which means that the operating system does not include any charges. If you are planning to design a website with Microsoft FrontPage or a web application using Active Server Pages (ASP) or any of the Microsoft application then Windows hosting is the solution that you should go for.

It is said that Windows hosting are often slower than UNIX hosting in performance but it proves a very cost effective choice from using hardware efficiently whereas Linux hosting is incredibly efficient and gives you some of the cheap hosting options available but does not support applications like ASP or ASP.Net applications which use windows platform to run.

These web hosts can also be used as data center space and inter connectivity service for the Internet as web hosting is done in a safe and secure manner with a number of anti spam filtering your data is always in secure hands or rather you can say on secure servers. Customers get a quick account setup and they can easily administer there hosting account with the control panel provided by the hosting provider which is a traditional way of the control panel. Sometime those websites which are hosted on shared server experience some problems than from those websites which are placed on a dedicated web server as the result of higher volumes of traffic cannot be controlled or managed by these types of servers.

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Web hosting in the Philippines is also common. being a third world country, it is not yet ripe but more and more people are discovering the potential of internet businesses. If you want a web hosting Philippines, don’t hesitate to visit the link for good deals.

The new technology made VPS Xen enclose the full power of a dedicated and reliability of server virtualization: Each virtual enjoy full hardware redundancy and thus protected from possible broken disc and has the exclusivity of resources.

The service is designed to give customers complete autonomy in the management of the entire system: from the root shell to install / update of system components, to more advanced services through a special panel for managing the VPS: HyperVM.

Through it is indeed possible to run backup (which will be stored on a remote storage connected to a fiber optic) without causing the entire system down the virtual server, access the shell via terminal even if the VPS is not reachable via the network ( and view messages from the operations of boot).

Are you a hyphenated professional? I always considered myself as one. Once upon a time I was a shooter-editor, then a producer-director, a manic-depressive, a writer-producer and, more recently a model-slash-actress.

Lately, though, I have have been reassessing my status. And it’s a funny feeling. My mix of business is exclusively writing these days, for web, print and video. Since the video production for my church tapered off at the beginning of the year my lights, audio gear and non-linear edit system have gone unused. I did manage to make a few bucks renting out some gear. Otherwise, it gathers dust.

So, it’s a time of transition and, as I said, it’s weird. It’s not like I saw video production as my calling or anything–though, after failing out of engineering college, it sure saved my butt. And for the next 15 years, for better or worse, video was it, man.

As for the big transition away from video and toward writing, I believe I may have stayed in one place too long. I got a little restless.  I remember writing in the ITVA newsletter:

“After shooting my 10,000th hospital bed video, I began to notice subtle but alarming changes in my personality; things like strange apocalyptic visions and voting Republican. The aneurysm was the final straw–I knew I had to shake things up, to break my routine. Nowadays, when I show a nurse demonstrating, oh I don’t know, the foot brake function of a bed, I’ll shoot the wide shot as I normally would. But when I go in for the close up, I have her wear a different color of socks. Sometimes I’ll even use a dude’s foot–or maybe his hand. Believe me, it helps relieve the stress during those long re-edit sessions. Eventually I’ll be fired, and I won’t have to shoot hospital beds any more. Talk about a change of pace!”

Yeah, so, I got out of that, tried poverty for a while and then slowly built up the writing biz.  Now, instead of stultifying sameness I have a dizzying variety of work. And I do mean dizzying. More than once I have written to Jimmy at ABC Web Design with a project update—when I really meant to write Jerry at XYZ Web Design. Oh, and Jimmy and Jerry are blood enemies. Hilarity ensued.

But overall, no complaints. Not too bad for July 3rd, my forty-(coughs, muffles voice) birthday. 

Anyway, sorry if this post is 5% more rambling and incoherent than usual. I’m off to the beach! Happy Birthday America. And me!

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Because Microsoft Exchange Mail traditionally requires the purchase and licensing of software and the maintenance of your own server, its robust features had been out of reach for many smaller growing companies who had to settle for webmail or outside POP3 servers.

With Hosted Microsoft Exchange Mail from nVira in Vancouver, you can now harness the power of 13 robust features, all in one solution. See how these features can instantly make your business more productive by comparing them with regular email: Vancouver Exchange Hosting

As one of Canada’s leading web hosting company, we’ve desided to open a Vancouver web hsting office. This will allow us to server our Vancouver clients beter. We will be moving some of our servers from our current data center in Ottawa to a modern data center in Vancouver. Please check back for updates on our Vancouver web hosting office