Web Hosting Review

I found a good site that helps you decide which web host is the best. I personally use hostgator but this site lists the web hosts in an easy to read format with what you get from them.

Web Hosting Review

Add comment April 30th, 2009

10 ways to increase customer trust in your website

1. customer lists
2. customer endorsements
3. awards won
4. independent reviews
5. news clippings
6. guarantees
7. refund policies
8. privacy policys
9. security icons
10. trade body memberships

Add comment February 28th, 2009

Help stop people stealing your website images

Put this on your image tag oncontextmenu=”return false” to help stop people from stealing your images. For example: <img src=”/somdir/” oncontextmenu=”return false”>

Add comment August 9th, 2008

 after upgrading wordpress fantastico

I updated my wordpress blog with fantastico and got loads of character set errors for example Â
etc.. The way to get rid of them is to comment out these lines in your wp-config.php file which should
be in your home directory of your blog.
//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
//define('DB_COLLATE', '');

Add comment June 18th, 2008

Get a new keyboard and mouse to improve your comfort and efficiency

In the work environment and at home a lot of people give little thought to their keyboard and mouse even though they use them most of the time. Most people buy a cheap keyboard and mouse for around £10-£15($20-$30) or just keep the one supplied with the computer.

This seems a bit stupid if you work on the computer doing coding/graphic or web work because a good keyboard and mouse can save you a lot of time and also increase your comfort levels.

The mouse that I use is the Logitech Mx Revolution, it has a scrolling feature that makes going through forums and through pages very easy it also has a search button that makes it quick to search for something, just highlight the text and click the search button. It also has a document flip button and that easily helps you to flip through open programs. It also has backwards and forward buttons. The Logitech keyboard I use saves me a lot of time it has zoom in and out buttons vol and media player control and also programmable keys. See the links below:

Add comment December 31st, 2007

cobian backup software

My hard drive failed so it’s set me back a bit.  I’ve installed the cobian backup software to help me make backups automatically in the future you can get it for free at www.cobian.se .

2 comments November 25th, 2007

Testing your site with lots of browsers

Testing your website with lots of different browsers can be a pain.  I usually just test my sites in Firefox and IE 6.0 but I’ve Recently found a site www.browsershots.org that allows you to take screen shots in lots of different browsers. Check it out.

Add comment November 3rd, 2007

Widgetbox steals bandwidth

widgetbox dot com (not giving them a link) stole a load of my bandwidth by putting one of the games on my arcade site into there widget and then distributing it via there site to loads of people costing me bandwidth. 

This is known as hotlinking when someone steals your bandwidth. You can stop this via .htacces. The problem is if you want to block a specific person from using the but not others it can get tricky. 

Add comment August 19th, 2007

The art of PR (public relations)

Public relations (pr) should be built into your website business plan from the start.
Public relation is both an art (persuasion) and science (social, linguistic and economic) which builds bridges between an organization/company and its key publics.  

A PR professional has to be able to understand its clients goals, the skills to handle the media relations, the capacity to charm the audience, gain its understanding and acceptance, the ability to practice “a craft that calls for the deft mix of human behavioral skills and communication techniques.” Some of the PR professionals functions can be: to analyze problems and opportunities, to define goals, to identify the audience, to plan activities, to cultivate useful relationships (with the media, with financial organization, legislatives etc), to writes news releases, brochures, speeches, reports, to organize special events, deliver public speeches.   

Usually public relation didn’t have a positive imagine in a person’s mind for various reasons: there was not an ethic standard for this profession, no special requirements to entry into the field,  was believed that everybody can do the job. But according to The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR (HarperBusiness) its importance is growing rapidly. People seem to finally understand that public relations means more than advertising a company’s products or services; it means influencing people’s decisions, building reputation and creating brands (the Body Shop or Harry Potter cases for example).   

Public relation is an important part of the marketing (it brings the company messages, products, services to the targeted audience) but it is also well connected to the management (because the techniques used to get public attention and acceptance).  

What actually does a public relation do? It helps the management of a company know what to do regarding policies, relationships and communications, determines the attitude and the behavior of the public regarding a product/service and finds the way to favorable change it, informs and motivates the employees or retirees of an organization and their families, helps company to adapt to public expectations (it is also called “public affair”), communicates with different  regulatory agencies or legislatures to sustain an organization interest (also called “lobbing”); develops relation with the financial community on behalf of an organization (also called investor or shareholder relations).  

Today public relation is a must to any company/organization that seeks for success.

Add comment August 7th, 2007

sorry about not updating

Sorry about not updating in a while but I keep getting hacked so I am spending all of my time sorting that out.

Add comment February 28th, 2007