This series of articles is written for someone who has never set up a web site and would like to learn how to select a good hosting company. Not all hosting companies are the same. Many do a poor job of handling the needs of their customers. Make sure that you select a hosting company that will help your web site to achieve your goals. (more…)

In Part 2 of this series, we continue to explore issues that you need to consider if you are looking for a good web site hosting company. (more…)

In Part 3 of this series, we wrap up other considerations when you are looking for a good web site hosting company. (more…)

The ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) board has approved the addition of a .xxx TLD (top level domain) for use by the porn industry. (more…)

I ran into a series of strange errors while using the FireFox Error Console to troubleshoot a JavaScript problem. The errors were unrelated to the script I was working on, which led me to start hunting for the cause of the problem. (more…)

What would you say if you found out that there was a way for a web site to store up to 100,000 bytes of information on your PC that they can use for tracking your activities, and you have no control over it with your normal browser security settings? Would you be surprised? What if these files can be scattered throughout your PC, and are not detected and removed by most anti-virus software? Prepare to be surprised. (more…)

Many older sites written in PHP as well as many newer sites that evolved from older legacy code will find their sites broken when their servers are upgraded to PHP 5.3. That’s because many older PHP functions and INI directives are now formally deprecated (made obsolete) in version 5.3.
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I just noticed a domain name auction where the seller was claiming that the .mn domain extension is a Minnesota domain. You may have also seen people selling .ws domains as a domain meaning “web site” or a domain ending in .tv for “television station” or .md as meaning “medical doctor.” What do all of these have in common? If they are being sold with that type of claim, they may be misrepresented.
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The first impression that a user gets when visiting a website is the speed at which the page downloads and renders. How many times have you hit the back button and abandoned a web site because it was loading slowly? We offer some methods to prevent this from happening with your web site.
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For years people have tried to figure out how Google manages to produce lightning fast search results from the huge amount of data that they have to work with. They are still not giving away all of their secrets, but they have a released a free tool and a set of web site develoment "best practices" to help web site owners improve the performance of their web sites.
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