There are literally thousands of online services that allow webmasters to lookup domain name registration information. These services will tell the webmaster if a domain name is available for registration or already registered. Many domain registrars allow users to place so called backorders which will basically make the domain registrar register the domain name in [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

On June 22, 2009 the domain sales service known as SitePoint split and changed their name to Flippa. Flippa’s design is simplified compared to SitePoint although it still offers options to browse popular categories like established or premium websites. According to SitePoint, Flippa will offer a new search function that allows users to search for [...]

Categories: Online Services

Page Speed is a new and interesting website optimization add-on for the Firefox Firebug extension. This means that Page Speed requires the Firefox web browser and the Firebug extension for Firefox before it can be installed. Two new tabs will be added to the Firebug menu which can be used to analyze the performance of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Selecting the right font and font characteristics can be quite a daunting task. The information are usually defined in a CSS file that needs to be edited multiple times until the right font selection has been made. Another problem that might occur is caching that might require the webmaster to delete the web browser cache [...]

Categories: Web Development

If you are running a website, be it as a hobby, semi-professional or professional you need to know some tools of the trade. Webmaster tools can help the webmaster in many different areas like verifying that the website will display fine in all modern web browsers or ensuring that the search engines do not encounter [...]

Categories: Web Development

The following article contains all web development articles that have been published in January 09. The articles are provided in PDF format to make them readable on most operating systems and devices. We are providing article compilations to give you the chance to read the articles offline and keep them as reference without having to [...]

Categories: Compilations, Web Development

Search Engine Optimization is essential for webmasters who want to promote their websites to their fullest extent. It is usually divided into onpage and offpage SEO. Onpage SEO describes the process of optimizing the website itself while offpage SEO describes all methods of attracting links to the website. Most search engines do not talk about [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Search Engines

Some webmasters develop a keen sense for spotting valuable domain names. They might be reading an article, thinking about something or discussing something with friends or coworkers. It makes “pling” suddenly and they have the idea for an excellent domain name. If only it would be still available. The usual way to check that would [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Joe Anderson who recently began writing articles for Ghacks send me a message two days ago asking what I thought about Twitterfeed and I had to admit that I never heard of that service before. He let me know that webmasters could use Twitterfeed to publish RSS News Feeds on Twitter. What it does is [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web