Many tech savvy Internet users love RSS news feeds to keep up to date with the latest articles and news of their favorite websites. Unlike bookmarks however RSS news feeds cannot be checked for dead sites that do not get updated. Rarst posted a process on his own website that makes it possible to check [...]

Categories: Google, The Web

One important task of being a webmaster is optimizing the elements of a website to provide visitors with a fast loading page. Unoptimized images can increase the page loading time tremendously. It was not uncommon ten years ago to see site headers with 100 Kilobytes and more. This has thankfully changed and it is only [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Online Services

This post is dedicated to webmasters who read Ghacks especially those who run their own blogs and tend to use Ghacks articles as a source at times but basically to anyone who maintains a blog on the Internet and cites his sources. Most webmasters have the decency to cite their source when they write about [...]

Categories: ghacks

Webmasters never know what they are up to when testing websites in various versions of Internet Explorer. It might look fine in Internet Explorer 6 but Internet Explorer 8 might break it. It is therefor of uttermost importance to test a website in different versions of Internet Explorer before releasing it to the public. The [...]

Categories: Browsing, ie

Many businesses look up information about their prospective employees and business partners on the Internet trying to discover as many information as possible about the person or business. Journalists need to find those information for their research as well. There are additional parties and reasons for looking up website information. One great service that is [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

The following article explains why it is a good idea to research potential web hosting companies before making business with them. This is a real story. You might have noticed that the Grand Effect toolbar spilled out 404 errors. I removed the toolbar from top after checking with the main website to find out that [...]

Categories: The Web

Webmasters have to take care of the links that they place on their websites. Keeping an overview of the links that have been posted and the status of the website that they link to is essential to make the visitors of the website happy and ensure that search engine rankings do not get penalized because [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Each webmasters has fears that his websites are getting hacked or that the server goes down. Happening usually in a moment when the webmaster is unaware of the problem (sleeping time). Server Monitoring can ease the mind of webmasters quite a bit. I have already covered the server monitoring service that I’m using to monitor [...]

Categories: The Web, Tools

The page rank of a single page on a website can be identified through various means. Users can use the Google toolbar – or a similar product -, website scripts that check the page rank of that page and even page rank tools that do that. Most however do not offer the option to check [...]

Categories: Google, Tools, Windows