The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has for many years now had one of the biggest and most visited websites on the whole Internet.  The company has taken great pride over the years and in 2002 a leaked document, still available online called “The Glass Wall” provided a masterclass in website usability that many people still consider [...]

Categories: The Web

Over the last two years one of the biggest complaints I’ve had to make against tablet computers is that the Internet has simply not kept the same pace of change.  If you go to any wbesite you’ll still find hyperlinks stacked closely together, drop down menus that only appear when you hover over them and [...]

Categories: The Web

I’m really delighted to be able to announce that this morning five of my Windows 7 troubleshooting tutorial videos went live on the official Microsoft support website at support.microsoft.com.  The videos, which are about three minutes each cover the subjects Using the Automated Troubleshooters, Repairing Corrupt Boot Files, Using the System File Checker, Using the [...]

Categories: Microsoft, Tutorials Basic

In Why Website Investments Are Better Than Stock Market Investments I have listed arguments for investing in websites, and not in stocks or other types of investment. I do not want to paraphrase the whole article, just that much: With investments in websites it is usually a matter of 12 to 24 months to get [...]

Categories: Web Development

You may know that I bought a website recently. One of the things that freaked me out in the early days of being a webmaster was moving a website to another host or server. Why? Because of all the things that could go wrong. Set the wrong nameservers for instance and your site won’t be [...]

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I just bought an expensive domain and website, and would like to share one of the things that I did to verify the seller’s legitimacy. Among other things, I check a website’s whois information and hosting information to make sure they match with the information in the sales letter. If they do not match, or [...]

Categories: Online Services

All the good domain names are already taken. I hear that phrase on a regular basis. Is it really true? No it is not, unless you define good as in exact keyword phrase. For domain names, you basically have two options. You can grab a descriptive domain name, e.g. pchardware if you want to sell [...]

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Now that the year is nearing its end it is time to reflect and plan for the next one. The road has been bumpy this year for Ghacks, with an accidental drop in traffic thanks to a change in Google’s search engine algorithm in June, and a recovery in October. The wait time until the [...]

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As a web developer, you have to make sure that your website displays fine for the most widely used screen resolutions. Doing so ensures that site visitors have a good user experience on the website. We have already covered several programs, like the Computer Monitor Hotkey Resolution Changer or the Resolution Changer, to change the [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web, Web Development