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Building a website: The Basics

You have probably browsed and used the internet for years now, whether chatting with your friends on Yahoo, Gtalk or MSN Live Messenger or using Social Networking websites like Orkut, LinkedIn and Facebook.You have searched the internet for years searching for what ever you need to find out and you have also  heard stories of your friends or distant relatives or on the internet itself of how someone made a fortune from the internet via his website or via a blog.  You have read all this and now you are wondering should you actually build a website or not? What should you do to build a website? How do you actually profit from your website? Well that’s what this website aims to deliver. To enable people know what they should do and what they shouldn’t do to build that ultimate website or write that great blog.

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Although internet has expanded by leaps and bounds there are still loads of people who want to launch their website, but have no idea what so ever how to do so, especially from countries like mine that is India. The other day I met this guy on Orkut which is very popular in Asia, especially India and he has been an internet user for lots of years now and yet he had no idea how to set up his own website. He is a DJ and wants to have his website where in people could access his work but as I said, he had no idea how to go about it. This prompted me to setup a new category on this blog which helps people to know how to setup a website right from the beginning. I will cover different aspects of website building right from the basics to the point where your website is no longer a website, it is a business in its own right.

So, I hope you guys to be around and have a great time in this tutorial of mine. As always comments are welcome.

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CNN today published a list of “Top Tech Flops” for 2007 and I must say there are some weird things there. The list contains around 18 instances which are stupidest in the field of technology but some of them particularly caught my attention and Google it seems is ahead in this regard as well with the CNN list comprising of 3 instances where Google goofed up! [Read more →]

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How about adding a level of security at the network level for free? Thats what opendns does for you. And more than an added level of security what openDNS does is brings back the control of Internet usage in your home or your office back in your hands. And all you have to do is to configure your DNS settings and register for your free acoount and your done. Besides OpenDNS offers a variety of other services and that too at the network level so that there is no chance of your security getting tampered due to extra smart employees or your geeky kid!

So, what are the features that openDNS offers and how can they benefit the common man who wishes that his digital data and his little kids who have just discovered internet and who think internet is really “Cool”?

The several Features of OpenDNS are:

• Adult Site Blocking
• Domain Blocking
• Domain Whitelist
• Phishing Protection
• Statistics
• OpenDNS Guide
• Customization
• Large Cache
• Ultra Reliable network
• Shortcuts.

The detailed description of all these features can be found out here. And thats not all, there is a excellent knowledge base for help as well as free technical support if you need. Of course, if you will need the technical support because they have loads of documentation to install openDNS that you wont need any technical support.

So, as they say, All the best things in life come for free, and so does openDNS.

Absolutely recommended by me!!You can get started here.

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In response to a blog post from the popular security software company Sunbelt, Google has removed from its search index thousands of malware websites that installed malware and spyware on unsuspecting computer users.  The blog post also said that the malware sites had seemingly manipulated google’s algorithm by forum postings and blog comments to get more traffic to these websites.

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Google now wants to start an encyclopedia called as the Google Knol where in people with expertise in a particular subject are requested to share their knowledge with the entire world. Google also proposes to have advertisements( well thats quite obvious) with the permission of the writers and then a substantial amount of the advertisement revenue will go to the writer or the contributor. Lets hope this revenue incentive will encourage people to share their knowledge.

So, here’s wishing Google all the best and lets hope this new encyclopedia is a success!!

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Google, in its latest blog post and also the red link that appears in RED in the right corner when you login to google asks you to tell them how do you feel about Gmail and how has Gmail helped you immensely.  You can mail them your “interesting story” or give a video testimonial and post it on Youtube, Google’s Video sharing Portal.

So, lets see how this works out to be especially after the first collaborative video for Gmail sometime ago. So, whether the video comes out good or not is a different aspect, one thing is sure, this will surely increase or atleast google hopes that this will increase the number of users on youtube as well as Gmail; now I know why they are called the “Moguls of Internet Marketing”!!

Reference Links:

• Gmail Video

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Many of my friends and online acquaintances ask me about the website hosting provider that i use as well as which one is the best out of the entire ocean of website hosting providers! Of course the big name in web site hosting is definitely Godaddy but we will also take a review of other lesser known web site hosting services but who provide an excellent quality of service so that all of my friends as well as clients can review and read about these various website hosting providers and can then make a mature descision.Many of these web site hosting providers provide various other website services like built in website templates as well as other build your own website tools.  Many of them like Godaddy provide various additional facilities like unlimited domain hosting, unlimited web space as well as unlimited parked domains. Many of them offer a range of free scripts from content management systems for small businesses as well as various other open source software products like PHPBB forum software and various other software suite.

So, in the following days we will review all the several web hosting services listed below and I will also give a deep insights and various web site hosting tutorials.

Some of the website hosting companies that we will review are as follows. Do give me more names of companies so that we can broaden this search as much as possible.

• Godaddy INC.
• AN Hosting
• 1and1 Web Hosting
• Fatcow
• NetFirms
• Voxtreme
• Blue Fish
• Host Gator
• Lycos

As usual all comments are welcome.

Keep checking back, for the reviews of all these web site  hosting providers along with a review of their hosting plans. So, please do check back for updates.

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AIM integration using Gmail

Gmail is going Places. Gmail first integrated Gtalk into Gmail, so that people can chat and mail at the same time, then they integrated GTalk and Orkut and then social networking became easier. Then they introduced group chat into gmail and now they have introduced AIM integration into Gmail and which i believe is great! [Read more →]

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Yahoo messenger for Vista is available and the latest version seems to be quite a break through. I also kind of liked the latest Yahoo messenger version, The Yahoo Messenger 9.0 which is still in Beta but this version has several features which have been significantly improved from earlier yahoo messenger versions along with the all new GUI(Graphical user interface) which seems easy on the eyes.

The most striking  feature that I really liked about the Yahoo Messenger 9.0 Beta is that you can forward all your offline messages to a mobile number and can also forward your incoming calls to a phone line. However, the later that is the forwarding of incoming voice calls is a paid subscription based service and you need to have a Yahoo Phone out subscription.

However, you can check out the preview video of yahoo messenger for Vista here.  You can also view the latest yahoo messenger 9.0 beta video  preview here.

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