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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We have recently seen a number of issues posted in forums that are related to hacked web sites where it appears that a Trojan virus infecting a site owner’s PC may be sending FTP information to hackers. The common thread appears to be FileZilla. If you are using the FileZilla FTP utility, this is potentially a very serious threat to your web sites.
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Backing up your FileZilla files is easy to do and needs to be done periodically to avoid problems if your PC decides to crash.
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The XHTML code generated by WordPress includes a few useless meta tags that can easily be removed. The following tutorial explains how to do this.
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We have received several requests for information regarding how to edit live online files using FileZilla. You will need to configure FileZilla to edit live files. Here is how you do it.
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If you use the FireFox browser and are looking for a free FTP utility, try FireFTP. For a freebie browser add-on, FireFTP is a fairly full featured FTP tool. It will handle all of your common FTP needs.
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Excerpts can be created using the WordPress More quicktag. Quicktags are like HTML formatting tags, but they only work within WordPress. Should you use excerpts? Yes, and here is the reason why.
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Sometimes there is a need to display the list of files in the directory and allow a user to select a file name from the list. We run into this most often when a user must be able to select an image or a document to be downloaded or displayed after being selected. Here is a very simple PHP script that will display the content of a web site directory using an HTML select list.
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As American television broadcasts switch from analog to digital, some people are reporting reception problems where they can no longer receive broadcasts from weaker television stations. At the time of this writing, about one-third of the 1,800 television broadcast stations have already made the switch to digital transmissions in advance of the new June 12, 2009 deadline.
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Did you know that you can change the sort order of posts and categories listed in menu items with WordPress, and can even eliminate some items that you might not want to display? WordPress uses built-in PHP functions and the output is easily modified without the need to alter the code in the functions themselves.
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