Last night, one of my sites got suspended. It was the only one on a particular reseller account, so I freaked (I couldn’t unsuspend it, either). The reason in Cpanel was “spam violations”, which really freaked me out since I don’t spam, and that had to mean someone had somehow accessed the domain to send [...]
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I found a very nice free font resource today for PC or Mac. It’s got lots of fonts to choose from, plus it’s an easy site to use: you can sort and search files in several different ways (by category, name, etc.) and it has mouseovers that let you see the whole alphabet just [...]
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Going through my stats for this site today, I noticed I was ranking for some interesting search terms – all relating to online pharmacies and drugs for sale. I looked up one of the search terms in Google and saw that it went to a page that I never created, buried two folders down [...]
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I’m building a new content site, and I know the trick is lots and lots of pages of content, and that means oh-so-much writing. I don’t think I can pump out three decent articles per day on this new site, and keep up with other sites I have to write content for.
My initial idea [...]
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If you use Firefox, I’ve found a really handy extension for making quick and easy screenshots from your browser in the .png format. It’s called Snapper, and it works on Windows and Mac. A little red shark sits at the bottom right corner of your browser window. Click him, and his mouth [...]
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Ever notice your database-driven sites getting slow to load, or sticky? Maybe the comments take forever to post, or the admin panel seems wonky (I believe that’s the technical term). You may need to optimize your database.
This is not as scary as it sounds:
First of all, backup your database! That way, you’re [...]
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Here are a couple of sources for free graphics for websites.
Bloggrounds offers a really nice assortment of free tiled backgrounds, designed specifically for blogs – but I can see them working on most any site. Terms of use are very fair, and don’t exclude commercial sites. I’m using one of their backgrounds on [...]
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A representative from GoDaddy contacted me privately after my latest article on my troubled domain transfer. Since then, my domain has been transferred, and my PayPal account credited with the amount of the last renewal I was forced to order, or risk losing the domain.
While that doesn’t help customers who don’t have a blog [...]
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Remember the domain I tried to transfer from GoDaddy, only they set up an impossible scenario in which I couldn’t possibly set everything properly to make the transfer, and was forced to renew the domain with GoDaddy, or lose it?
Now that their 60-day squatting period is over, I’m trying once again to transfer it. [...]
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Has anyone found a better stats tracking package than AwStats? On two different sites this month, on two different hosts, I’ve had AwStats simply not report any unique visitors for a day or more in a row, while StatCounter.com confirms I have indeed had the normal number of uniques on those days.
I like StatCounter [...]
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