~ New Twist On An Old Scam ~ Virtually anyone with an email account eventually receives a message running one of the oldest scams in the book. Often referred to as the "Nigerian Letter," this scam involves getting a message from someone in a foreign country claiming to need a way to get 21.5 million dollars out of the country (the first country used in this scam was Nigeria, hence the scam's name). He knows that you "are a trustworthy individual" and if you'll just send him your bank account ...
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!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> Untitled Document This will show you all the basics of web hosting. First Things First After deciding that you are going to have a website, you need three things, a domain name, a website and a company to host the website for you. Domain names are fairly cheap, you should be able to get one for about $10 a year or sometimes, the web hosting provider will give it to you with their plan as a special. The web hosting company is ...
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A Virtual Private Server (VPS), also referred to as Virtual Dedicated Server (VDS), provides the features of a dedicated server for multiple web hosting customers to share. At first instance it sounds contradictory, how can you have a dedicated server if it is being shared by multiple users? Isn't that a regular shared or virtual hosting environment? It is true that with a Virtual Private Server you still share system resources like the CPU and RAM with other users but the resources ...
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If there's one thing that people love it is a web site that has plenty of automated features. Sites that are highly interactive tend to get the most traffic and generate the most business for the companies that run them. Automated features can also play a "behind the scenes" role, making your site easier to use, run smoothly and allow for things like online sales and password protection. There are many ways to get this type of automation into your site, but all involve either client side or ...
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Hosting Deals From Heaven- Article One - FindMyWebHost.org By- Kenneth L. Cluck III Below are many Web Hosting deals to help make it easier for you to find a Web Host. SimpleHost is a wonderful web host, I've had nothing but great experiences with them and they offer plenty of room to expand for the price of web hosting accounts of much lower quality, I've used them for a couple of years now and I have no complaints. Web Host- SimpleHost Free Domain Name Diskspace- Unlimited Bandwidth- 40 GBs ...
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Despite the communications power of the Internet, nothing beats good old human interaction when it comes to learning a new skill. You can always read a book, listen to a tape, or watch a video to learn how to do something, but, in the end, learning from a live teacher who can answer your questions on the spot works best. Until recently, the Internet resembled a large "book" of electronic text and pictures where any extended "human" interactivity could only take place offline by tele- ...
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Toolbar - what is it? In most cases, a toolbar is like a main menu-bar residing alongside in popular browsers, usually Microsoft's Internet Explorer. The toolbar is termed so because while surfing the net, it provides a viewer many options that aim at bringing focus to and fine-tune browsing. Toolbars of various hues are available free of cost, including one from Google, though there're some like Internet Research Toolbar, who offer toolbars at a cost. Does toolbar help? For people who believe ...
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/p> Many web development projects - large and small alike - can produce difficulties for both sides of the designer/client relationship. There are opportunities for designers and clients to become frustrated. Most businesses have little experience of commissioning web projects, and for designers it is difficult to communicate their needs to clients. There are a number of concepts that will help both sides of the relationship, and most importantly from the client side of the equation, ...
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Myth #1: Build it and they will come Traffic is everything. As thousands of webmasters have already learned, you can have a catchy domain name and an impeccably designed website already on the web. You can even have it indexed by the search engines. However, even after all that, a website may only get a handful of visitors a day. After a few weeks of launching a website, you may catch up to the fact that getting people to your site takes a lot more hard work than you expected. It will take many ...
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80% of Your Web Site is Maintenance Judy Cullins ©2003 All Rights Reserved. Once your Web site is up, you must maintain it. Maintenance means changes, and each time you make a change, you may make a mistake. If your visitors get a link that doesn't work or incomplete instructions, or if your copy is lackluster instead of passionate, they will leave your site and not bookmark it. Before you invite Web potential customers to see your masterpiece you need to check and correct all parts of ...
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