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A while back I found myself looking for a cheap but reliable webhosting service. I’m not saying that my web hosting company isn’t doing a good job, but it took me a while to find it. Imagine hundreds of websites and offers to review, compare, find info about them… What a headache. Fortunately, I found [...]

The easiest way to find out if a web hosting service is reliable enough and has a good support service for your business is, probably, if you have a friend or more who already use that service. In most cases, you don’t have friends who use such a service and then you’ll need to turn [...]

Everything starts with an idea. A good idea is responsible for a good business opportunity. A good idea for an on-line business has to be on a niche in the market if it’s going to be a success from the beginning. Putting an idea for an on-line business into practice starts with choosing a domain [...]

In my previous article, I talked a bit about some issues that users found when trying my Yahoo status checker script. These issues were hosting related and had nothing to do with the script. But how to be sure that you’ve made the right choice when choosing a web hosting service? A great resource on [...]

I found a great site and I’m so sorry that I didn’t find it when I was struggling to learn my first SELECT query a few years back. This website explains the basic SQL sintax, from basic a SELECT query to JOIN, LEFT JOIN, OUTER JOIN and other more complicated queries and then it shows [...]

    Hi,     I would like to share something with you. I use Google’s Analytics service for my web analytics needs. It provides the basic functionality that I need. Sometimes I browse through the other features Analytics offers but I hate to have to click through those menus … I would rather have that menu [...]

    Who says that just because something is 100% free that it can’t also be good? In this post, it is my mission to debug myths about open source applications being poor quality. Here are the top 10 (in no particular order) open source applications. 1. Amarok     In my opinion, Amarok is the best [...]

    If you’re lookin’ into  creating, or re-creating  your web presence, here’s a list of great CMS choices. Some are free, some are hosted, and some are industry specific. All of these platforms are quite different from one another, but all have some great attributes. Well, at least most of them. FYI – the thumbnails [...]

    Ah, the Internet. It’s one of those things that regularly inspires awe in me, even though I spend several hours a day interacting with it (both professionally and recreationally).     But with such an immense amount of information, it’s difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, so to speak. While there are many [...]

Search for exactly what you want Using quotes, eg ” “, will ensure you search for what you enter and nothing else. When you enter a bunch of words into google it will search for pages containing any of those words so instead of searching for geek cool, which will bring you anything with geek [...]