A microblog is, as the name suggests, a blog that is much smaller than a typical, traditional blog. It is not smaller in the number of hits that it receives, but instead, in the size of the individual blog posts. While a blog post on a traditional blog might be anywhere from 250-1000 words (some longer, some shorter), your typical microblog entry is a sentence or two. Sometimes, there are no words, but instead, a picture. In other words, a microblog is a site that publishes numerous short little entries Read More

Click fraud is a internet crime targeting pay-per-click advertising systems. Click fraud occurs when a person or a group of persons, computer software or a internet bot clicks on an ad for the sole purpose of generating income for the publisher or putting a competitor out of business and not because of any real interest in the products advertised. Click fraud is considered a felony in many places such as California and the United Kingdom. Pay-per-Click Advertising and Click Fraud PPC advertising is a contract between two parties – usually Read More

Address munging is one of the ways through which people and organizations online can exchange email addresses without their email addresses being picked up by bots. As you know, email addresses all over the net – whether in chat rooms, forums, online forms, etc. – are harvested by special programs in the Internet and sold to bulk emailers. Address munging is done by making the email address unreadable to such harvester programs but understandable to humans. An example of this is the email address anonymous@yahoo.com that’s posted as anonymous at Read More

While it is incredibly easy to build a site that sells goods, to make an online store that is actually successful requires time and careful precision. In other words, it requires the same type of dedication you would offer to a brick and mortar business. And, if you have the funds to invest in it, some money wouldn't hurt the growth of the online store as well. The Business and the Domain Name The first step is to determine what type of business you are going to have. Are you Read More

An intranet is an internal or restricted access network. It is very similar to the Internet except it is used within organizations and businesses. The intranet uses the same types of web technologies that the normal Internet (or extranet) uses, except the content and data that is transmitted and received occurs internally. An intranet website appears like a regular website, but instead of being available to any random visitor on the World Wide Web, instead, it is only available to those that have access to the server. In other words, Read More

WAMP is a mini-server that runs on almost any Windows Operating System. WAMP has Apache 2, PHP 5 (SMTP ports are disabled), and MySQL (phpMyAdmin and SQLitemanager are installed to manage the user’s databases) pre-installed. An icon on the taskbar tray displays WAMP’s status, which lets the user know if: a) WAMP is running but no services are opened (the icon will appear red), b) WAMP is running and one service is opened (the icon will appear yellow), or c) WAMP is running with all services opened (the icon will Read More

HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, and is used to describe the visual appearance of a document to be displayed by a internet browser. HTML documents consist of document tags which act to directly describe the visual appearance of a web page or to provide a directive command such as inserting imagery or a link to another web page within a document. HTML documents are saved in text format and are designed to be viewed or edited on any operating system that is able to connect to the Internet. XHTML Read More

robots.txt is a text file which can be used to restrict web robots to accessing your web site only in ways of which you approve. This robots.txt file blocks Google's Imagebot from the entire web site: User-agent: Googlebot-Image Disallow: / For more information on robots.txt, read A Standard for Robot Exclusion. Check the Syntax of your robots.txt Several web-based tools are available which will retrieve the robots.txt file from your web site and check it for syntax errors. Robots.txt Checker Robots.txt Validator Robots.txt syntax checker Bad Robots Some web robots Read More

Broken links annoy the visitors to your web site, which lowers you percentage of return visitors. In addition, broken links on your web site may negatively affect your search engine rankings. Finding broken links on your web site can be accomplished by either a downloadable program such as Xenu Link Sleuth, or by using a web-based application such as the W3C Link Checker. Xenu Link Sleuth Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, Read More

The term image rollover refers to the technique of changing an image display on a web page when the end-user mouses over a picture or image embedded on a web page. When you program a web page to contain a rollover image, two pictures are commonly used for the effect. One of the images is displayed when the web page is loaded in the user's web browser, and the second image is displayed when the mouse is positioned over the image. The JavaScript method “onMouseOver” is invoked when the mouse Read More