Joomla is a popular content management system meant to make building web sites easier and faster. To install Joomla you will need the following basic requirements met: A web host with a database (MySQL), web server (usually Apache), PHP A domain name under which you would install Joomla, unless this is a local install on a local server in which case you can use the local IP address. FTP/SFTP client. Examples are Filezilla on Windows and Linux, Cyberduck on Mac. Installing Joomla Step By Step 1. Download Joomla from Joomla.org, Read More
Web analytics is the process of quantifying the behavior of a website’s visitors. Web analytics have become a very important part of e-commerce since they can show the website owner which landing pages are effective in convincing people to subscribe to services or purchase the company’s products. Web analytics can also be used to monitor and analyze how well a website is achieving its goals. Tracking Web Site Visitors through Logfile Analysis Logfile analysis is an important aspect of web analytics. By using the logfile records of web servers, the Read More
As computers broke out of the dawning period and become more popular, computer programmers worldwide needed a universal standard to create and control documents. What they chose was HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, a programming language that isn’t so much of a language as it is an alphabet. All other programming languages are based on HTML which means if you want to learn programming, you must first learn HTML. In this article, we will go over what HTML is and how it works, how HTML came to be, dynamic Read More
Drupal is one of the most popular web content management systems and content management frameworks, used to make building web sites more efficient than coding them from scratch. Drupal in particular offers a high degree of flexibility, allowing the web developer or webmaster to build almost any kind of web site, with any kind of functionality or design imaginable. Installing Drupal is not hard, but you do need to have the following ready to start: A web hosting service including a database (typically MySQL), web server (typically Apache), and PHP. Read More
Preventing Web Site Downloading Using robots.txt The first step is to disallow the downloading programs in your robots.txt file. To do this, you will need to define which bad robots you wish to disallow. Disallowing bad programs in robots.txt does not prevent all web site downloading, because many bad programs simply ignore the contents of robots.txt and do what they want to do. Preventing Web Site Downloading Using User Agent Blocking in httpd.conf Another method is to exclude the downloading programs user agent in httpd.conf. Add every agent you wish Read More
CPM advertising is one of the most popular forms of Internet advertising. In CPM advertising, publishers are paid for every ad impression — regardless of whether the viewer clicks the ad or makes a purchase. CPM Defined CPM stands for Cost per Thousand ad views using the Latin word mille in the acronym. CPM is one of the most commonly used bench marks in the advertising industry and is not only used online, but in radio, TV and other forms of advertising. Instead of an ad network giving you the Read More
NetMechanic Spell Check will spell check up to 5 web pages and e-mail you a link to the results. You can Cut & Paste the text from your web page into SpellCheck.net. SpellOnline allows you to Cut & Paste either plain text from your web page or the HTML source from your web page. SpellOnline also allows you to enter a URL to be spell checked. Dr. Watson will spell check a web page, in addition to analyizing the HTML, verifying the links, generating word counts, estimating download speeds, checking Read More
When a user follows a link from WebSite A to WebSite B, it generates a logfile entry in the web server logs of WebSite B. Most webmasters use a web site statistics reporting tool such as AWStats or Webalizer. Some webmasters (either purposefully or unintentionally) make the reports generated by these tools publicly available. One of the reports generated by most web site statistics reporting tools is a “top referrers” report. This reports lists the remote web pages that have sent the most visitors to the web site. How are Read More
For those interested in monetizing their web site or that have a product or service that they would like to advertise and promote, CPA ad networks are considered to be one the most advantageous forms of advertising available online. CPA Defined CPA stands for Cost per Action. Generally speaking publishers that own trafficked web sites are paid by the advertiser when a visitor performs a specific action. These actions can vary, but usually include either viewing a site, filling out a form to join a newsletter or to receive information Read More
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