This issue frequently arises when site owners want to convert legacy .htm or .html pages to run PHP, but they do not want to change the file name extensions due to the potential loss of rank positions when the URLs are changed. It is easy to convert HTML pages to run PHP if you know how and you can change those static pages to run dynamic PHP code. First, the site needs to … [Read more...]
Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
If you have seen the error message, 'Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device' when you try to safely eject a portable USB drive, we may have a solution. Portable hard drives that connect to a PC are handy for backing up the files on your PC. We use Western Digital portable drives to back up both our PCs and servers. After performing a backup, the proper method for … [Read more...]
Amazon Top Sellers PHP Code
Amazon.com has one of the largest affiliate marketing programs on the web. Their wide selection of products makes them an attractive merchant to work with. While there are several scripts available that interact with Amazon's XML database and provide real-time displays of products, pricing descriptions, user comments and images, it is hard to find a script that displays … [Read more...]
A Simple Redirect Script for Affiliate Marketing
This is a simple script for setting up redirects to affiliate merchant links without using a database. It can be added to any site that can run PHP code. If you are not familiar with click scripts or jump scripts, they are used to block affiliate links from search engine spiders. While using a click script is not absolutely necessary, it can be good idea because a properly … [Read more...]
How to Select a Good Hosting Company - Part 1
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. Hosting companies offer web servers … [Read more...]
How to Select a Good Hosting Company - Part 2
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. If you started with this page, it might be a good idea to read Part 1 of of Selecting a Good Hosting Company. In that part we cover some of the essentials to consider if you are looking for your first hosting company. Control Panel … [Read more...]
How to Select a Good Hosting Company - Part 3
In Part 3 of this series, we wrap up other considerations when you are looking for a good web site hosting company. If you started with this page, it might be a good idea to start with Part 1 of of Selecting a Good Hosting Company. In Part 1 and Part 2 we cover important issues to consider when you are looking for a hosting company. Search Engine Considerations Where … [Read more...]
ICANN Approves .xxx TLD Domain
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. We saw the announcement about the approval of the XXX TLD in PC World. It looks like it will take a while to work through the process of formalizing the approval of the domain and it appears that the registration … [Read more...]
Beware of Domain Registration Scams
Scam artists are at it again. Hardly a week goes by when one of my clients doesn't get approached by some sort of Internet scam. Yesterday, a client forwarded one of the latest variations of the domain name registration scam. Although this very common scam is over 10 years old, site owners and companies still fall for it all of the time. There have been several variations … [Read more...]
Flash Cookies - What Are They?
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 … [Read more...]