I managed to upgrade my blog to WordPress 2.3 without much complication. I even dared to perform the upgrade before doing a backup of the database, which is strictly not recommended to do so. There was a slight compatibility issue with the plug-in I installed since the previous version. Other than that, everything went smoothly.
The built-in tagging feature is pretty useful, but there is no tags management feature. Luckily, I found the Tag Managing Thing plug-in that allows me to edit and delete the tags.
The number of domain name registration has been increasing year after year. Most of the single word found in the dictionary or easily pronounceable were already registered.
You can still buy registered domain names in the domain name aftermarkets. Registered domain name owners place their domain names for sale at these domain name aftermarkets web sites hoping for some buyers to pay a good price and make a profit from the sale. The price could range from several hundred dollars to tens of thousand dollars.
The most popular top level domain (TLD) is the .com, which stands for Commercial. Most internet surfers will type the .com TLD in the web browser instead of other TLD, such as .net, .org, and etc.
Domain name registrars established since the early days are pricing new domain names registration for $35 USD. Why do you need pay more while you can register a domain name and get the same or even better features for less than $10 USD?
If you plan to have Internet presence for your company or to create a personal web site, StayHost.com is one such portal that offers new domain name registrations and transfers for less than $10 USD per year.
StayHost.com is a one-stop portal that provides web hosting, e-mail accounts hosting, and SSL certificates. A web-based customer accounts interface allows you to administrate and manage the products and services you purchased.
If you are planning to setup an e-commerce web site, you need to purchase a SSL certificates in order to encrypt sensitive data such as credit card information that travels between your web server and your customers’ web browser.
Building a personal web site is also an easy task. If you do not have the know-how to turn text and images into nicely formatted web pages, StayHost.com offers a product that allows you to build your very own web site online with its more than 800 easy-to-use templates.
Register or transfer a domain name at StayHost.com and start building your very own web site today!
Everyone was trying their best to get a Gmail account when Gmail was first introduced. Gmail account registration was by invitation only. Gmail users were selling Gmail account invitations on Ebay. Now, Gmail has open up its account registration, allowing everyone to create Gmail account from its web site.
Nowadays, spam e-mails are accounted for more than 95 percent of total e-mails that arrive in your inbox. Unless your mail server has spam filtering protection in place, else you will end up having to retrieve all the spams to your e-mail client software and delete them one by one.
In the early days, Gmail spam filter was unable to catch spams effectively. Over the period of time, Gmail spam filter system has improved significantly. Most of the spams that reach your Gmail account will end up in the spam folder.
You will now ask about how to use the Gmail account to filter your personal POP3 e-mail account at your ISP or web hosting provider?
The answer is simple, that is e-mail forwarding.
Gmail allows you to retrieve e-mails to your e-mail clients software (eg. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora) via POP3, and send e-mails from your e-mail client software via SMTP.
Step 1
Setup e-mail forwarding in your existing POP3 account to forward all incoming e-mails to your Gmail account. If your POP3 e-mail account is hosted with a web hosting provider, most of the hosting packages include a control panel, such as Cpanel, HSphere, and etc. that allows you to setup e-mail forwarding yourself.
If you don’t have the privilege to setup e-mail forwarding, you should ask your ISP administrator or web hosting provider to setup the e-mail forwarding for you.
Step 2
Setup your e-mail client software to connect to Gmail via POP3. For information about configuring your e-mail client software, please refer to this link.
If you are unable to connect to Gmail because your company firewall is blocking traffic from going through non-standard ports, I will show you a way to overcome this problem at this link.
Step 3
Check the box to leave a copy of the e-mails in the mail server. This is optional if you wish to have a copy of the e-mails save in your Gmail account.
Step 4
Save your settings.
It’s time to check for e-mails by connecting to your Gmail account via POP3. All incoming e-mails that arrive at your ISP or web hosting e-mail account to be automatically forwarded to your Gmail account.
You should now be able to download e-mails minus all those spam e-mails that are filtered by Gmail to your e-mail client software.
Many web mail hosting providers such as Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo allow users to send and receive e-mails using e-mail client software (eg. Outlook Express, Thunderbird, Eudora) via standard POP3 and SMTP ports.
Gmail uses different ports for its POP3 and SMTP connections. Gmail requires users to connect to POP3 via port 995 and SMTP via port 587.
However, many companies firewall block traffic from accessing through non-standard ports. The standard ports for POP3 is port 110 and SMTP is port 25.
WebMail is an Mozilla Thunderbird extension that allows users to integrate web-based e-mail accounts such as Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, and many others into Thunderbird. It uses standard HTTP protocol to
connect and access your web mail account. Most companies enable HTTP traffic to pass through the firewall.
WebMail is the solution for you to connect to Gmail account to send and receive e-mails if your company firewall blocks those non-standard ports.
Follow these steps to setup WebMail extension in Mozilla Thunderbird.
Step 1
Download and install the latest Webmail add-on extension for Thunderbird at http://webmail.mozdev.org.
Restart Thunderbird after the installation is completed. The WebMail extension must be installed first before proceeding to step 2.
Step 2
Download and install the Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, and etc. extension components at http://webmail.mozdev.org.
Restart Thunderbird after the installation is completed.
Step 3
Setup new account in Thunderbird. Enter localhost for both POP3 and SMTP server setting. For information about the settings, please refer to this link.
Step 4
Check the box to leave a copy of the e-mails in the mail server. This is optional if you wish to have a copy of the e-mails save in your Gmail account.
Step 5
Save your settings.
Happy e-mailing!
The JustRecipe Forum is launched today. Anyone who is interested about cooking, recipes, food and wine is welcome to post discussion in the forum.
WordPress 2 still doesn’t have the feature to support HTTPS access to the admin area when the rest of the blog is accessed in HTTP. I don’t feel comfortable to access the admin area in unencrypted connections. I believed many people using WordPress also had the same thought with me.
Fortunately, there was a smart guy out there managed to create a WordPress plugin that secured the access to the admin area. The plugin is called Admin-SSL. The plugin supports both shared and private SSL certificates.
I received my first AdSense payment in the mail from Google today. The envelop was post-marked in Sweden. It’s just a small amount, but I am glad I really get paid.
I added a web page translator plug-in to this site. It has the ability to translate your web page to thirteen different languages. Pretty cool, huh!
It is called Global Translator by N2H.
You have the option to use either the Babel Fish or the Google Translation Engine. It comes with a built-in cache system in order to reduce the connection to the translation engine every time a page is loaded.
The permalinks in the translated web pages are search engine optimized by adding the language code to the beginning of all your URI.
When you are searching for a reliable web hosting service, you will come across many review sites in the Internet.
You can read about the different recommendations posted by people in those review sites. Many people tell you which are the best web hosting companies available in the market.
However, many people may not provide you with the actual fact because they may not have personally tried the hosting service that they recommend.
If you host your web site with one of those so-called “best†hosting service, but in fact, it may turn out to be one of the worst hosting services that eventually make you feel frustration when things don’t work out as what is being advertised.
Frankly speaking, most of the hosting services are technically the same. Hosting companies come up with these “fancy†packages that bundle with all kind of features to confuse the consumers.
Whichever package you choose to sign up, you will still get the same value for money hosting features in most of the hosting companies you can find.
So, what is the most important thing you need to take into consideration before you decide to sign up for a hosting account?
Technical Support. They Are Your Emergency Rescue Team!
A good hosting company should put its priority in providing a technical support team with fast response time. It is the key towards providing a high quality service to the customers.
I can say that, 95% of the time you will not need to get any support assistance from your hosting company.
When you need to ask for help, it will be a “lifesaver†to have the support staff responding to you in shortest period of time to help you solve the technical problems during emergency.
I believe most people, including you may not be a technical person. You will still be able to administrate your hosting account without much hassle with the administration tools that comes with your hosting account and online guide that answers to some of the most common questions.
Most hosting companies that I signed up before were poor in technical support. These hosting companies’ web sites were boasting about how superb was their customer service and technical support. But in actual fact, the support team either lack of knowledge in solving the problems or they responded to my e-mails late.
Some hosting companies do not provide technical support after office hours. I felt frustrated when I needed help but no one was able to assist me to solve the problem. By the time it was fixed, I’ve already lost many visitors to my web site.
Ever since I signed up for HostMonster, I have stopped searching for other hosting companies anymore. I was totally amazed with the high quality of support I could get from them. They showed their professional courteous support when attended to me.
- HostMonster offers 24×7 toll-free telephone support.
- It has a Live Support feature that I use quite often to get help on urgent matters. This feature benefits International customers by saving on International phone call charges.
- I use the Support Ticket System when I need help. I can also track the ticket history with the system.
- Most of the questions I sent to them were responded within 30 minutes.
Recently, I received e-mails from the support staff mentioning that they would be performing some proactive maintenance to enhance the server performance. So far, the server hosting my account is performing very well.
This shows that they do take care of their customer interest seriously by making sure all the servers are functioning well with 99.9% uptime guaranteed.
HostMonster won many awards for its high quality service. One of the awards was the Best Customer Service 2006 awarded by Hosting Review.
Cpanel – Makes Your Life Easier
All HostMonster accounts include Cpanel that makes your life much easier to administrate your hosting account. Some of the features you can perform in Cpanel are add, upgrade and delete domain names and e-mail accounts, MySQL database, and backup all the files in your hosting account.
Cpanel also allows you to install, upgrade and delete some popular applications, such as WordPress and osCommerce shopping cart. With the single-click installation feature, just sit back and let Cpanel does the rest of the work for you.
Here is a screen shot of the Cpanel administration interface.
HostMonster offers you a Shared Hosting package. You can host unlimited domain names all in the same Hosmonster account. That means you do not need to spend extra money to get extra hosting accounts to host your other web sites.
Every HostMonster shared hosting account provides you with the following services:
- Free domain name forever as long as you are hosting with them
- Free SiteBuilder with templates
- Free e-Commerce shopping cart and scripts
- 99.9% uptime guarantee
- 30-days money back guarantee
- Secure shell access
Your account will be setup within one hour of your purchase. You will receive your account information via e-mail.
Getting Started
It is just two steps to sign-up for a HostMonster account. You will be asked whether you want to register for a free domain name. If you have one already, you can just enter your existing domain name.
I wanted to take a few minutes and tell you about a new software product that’s, literally, tripling and even quadrupling thousands of Google Adwords and Adsense User’s monthly earnings.
This new keyword software program allows you to plug in a root keyword and it will immediately generate thousands of highly profitable Adsense keywords. It’ll even create Adsense optimized web pages for you… but that’s really a side benefit of the program.
You can also monitor your Adwords competition to see which keywords are actually making them the most earnings each month… Then, you can use their money generating keywords in your own web sites!
Here is a brief list of what the software can do for you:
- Easily generate keyword lists of over 10,000 keywords in a few short minutes
- Allows you to find extremely profitable, high paying Adsense keywords
- Analyzes your PPC competition to find exactly which keywords are making them the most money, as well as which ones are losing them money
- Get a quick glance at how competitive a market is in terms of organic search engine listings, as well as PPC listings
Plus way more than I can list here…
Anyway, I won’t go into details of what the software can do, but you can visit the URL below to watch several demo videos that the creator of the software has made.
If the videos and testimonials at the website don’t get you excited, I don’t know what will.
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