Choosing a Web Hosting Company that’s Right for You
A few years ago, choosing a company to host your website was an exercise in frustration and confusion.
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Free Anti Spam Plugin Antispam Bee For WordPress
Up until recently we have been using the WordPress plugin Akismet for anti spam protection.
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Should you Try Virtual or Dedicated Hosting?
Some businesses host their own web site on their own server (or servers) while other businesses hire a web hosting provider or buy hosting services through an I
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Using a Web Hosting Directory can Aid your Search for a Host
If you are creating a website for yourself or your business and you are trying to determine which web hosting provider to choose to host your site, you may wish
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What you Really Need to Know about Choosing a Web Host
Even for offline businesses, having a website is a huge plus.
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Web Development: Is Free Web Hosting Good Enough?
If you have never set up a website, you probably have plenty of questions about how to do it.
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Web Development: Realtime Fonts Changer
Font Friend is a bookmarklet that runs in any modern browser that enables you to change a site's font and font styles on the fly.
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Google Ad Planner
It has been a long time since I have last written about advertising opportunities.
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How To Display Valid Markup Code In Websites
There are two issues or problems that Internet users encounter when they want to paste code into forms to display these on the Internet.
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Display Cached RSS Feed In Your Website
You may remember the announcement of our new web project Appnews which displays software updates in a friendly easily accessible way on its website and as an RS
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Using your own Wiki for coding
The biggest time saver you can implement in your coding practices is some sort of searchable database of all the data you need when you're working on a project.
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Indispensable Webmaster Tools And Resources
If you run a website, be it as a hobby, semi-professional or professional you need to know some tools of the trade.
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Set up MySQL database replication
If you use databases then you know how important it is to back them up.
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How to show 5 top categories in WordPress
WordPress is a great piece of software, and allows more than you'd think to be done with simple coding.
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WordPress Blogs: Create Custom Tag Pages
A WordPress blog post is made up of a handful of elements like the title and content, but also tags, categories and comments.
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Load your advertisements after your content
I didn't have much use for loading ads after my content, since on most of my sites and those I worked on, they were near the end of the code anyway, but [&helli
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WordPress template tags you should know
If you run a WordPress blog, you will eventually want to make some modifications to your theme.
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Run Your Own Home Web Server
Running a home web server can be advantageous, or even the only solution depending on what you want to use it for.
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Using Content Copying Websites To Your Advantage
Update: It is no longer recommended to use the method described in the article.
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How to style your page using CSS
Beginner article coming up, it's time to get to know the wonderful world of CSS! Cascading Style Sheets, or CSS, is the standard method of styling a webpage.
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Webmaster Contact Software
Have you ever come across a website with no means of contacting the webmaster? This poses a problem if you want to or need to contact the webmaster.
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Creating a simple multi-lingual website
If you want to create a simple webpage for yourself, listing who you are, how you can be contected and what you do, you might want to add a few languages in [&h
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Document Presentation For Websites
There is not really a standard out there for document presentation on websites.
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The difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com
This might be very obvious to some, but about 70% of the clients I work with do not know the difference and spend money on something they could be getting for f
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Identifying each page using body tags and CSS
If you are building a large website, chances are you have a great little CSS stylesheet linked to every document which governs all the pages.
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Passing variables using in the URL
If you've seen some WordPress blogs or online stores you've probably seen url-s in the form of http://somepage.
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Adsense ads available for parked domains
Google is introducing a lot of developments for Adsense, with font selection implemented not long ago, now comes a new, much anticipated feature, Adsense for pa
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How echo works in PHP
The most basic command, and probably the first you'll learn when taking a look at PHP is "echo".
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Google Adsense Enables Font Selection
Normal Google Adsense users - those that do not have the status of a premium publisher - have always been at a severe disadvantage when customizing Adsense unit
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PHP - what it does and what it doesn't
PHP is a Server side scripting language.
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Ghacks Web Development PDF Article Compilation January 09
The following article contains all web development articles that have been published in January 09.
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Web Development: PHP - what role does it fill
Before we try to work with PHP we need understand the role it fills – what problem does it address.
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Web Development: HTML Playground
The first language that you need to learn if you want to start with web development is HTML.
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Using javascript to hide and unhide elements dynamically
My favorite aspect of javascript is that it enables you to add great features to your site like showing/hiding parts of it when a user clicks a link without rel
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Backup MySQL Databases In Linux Regularly
The post Using Cron to Automate Linux Tasks by Jack got me thinking that some users might be interested in a practical example.
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Basics of looping in PHP
Loops are an integral part of PHP, and many other programming languages for that matter, the basics covered here would apply to JavaScript as well, even the cod
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Web Development: How does PHP work?
When someone starts learning web development they usually start with HTML and CSS, and many people get stuck there without ever experiencing the wonderful work
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Web Development: A brief history of time()
Part of the beauty of PHP to me is the number of really useful variables that are built in.
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Web Development: Standardizing variables to code faster
Welcome to a new exploratory post here on gHacks! I actually work as a web designer specializing in standalone PHP and MySQL based sites, and I've always wanted
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KompoZer, a free, open-source and half-decent WYSIWYG web editor
Dreamweaver and Frontpage are no doubt the most popular WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) HTML editors but carry a pretty large price tag, with Dreamweaver
