Posts from ‘April, 2006’

This article discusses some web page optimization tricks that webmasters use but might turn out to be harmful to the website.
Using invisible text
A lot of web masters try to put invisible text on their web pages by making the text color same as the background color. Almost all search engines can easily detect this and [...]

Search Engine Optimization, widely known in the web world as SEO, has gained a lot of attention in the last few years. SEO techniques are applied to web pages so that they are ranked higher by the search engines (like Google, Yahoo, AOL etc.) for targeted key word searches. This article will provide some tips [...]

What is an IP address?
IP stands for Internet Protocol, the most popular open-system protocol used to communicate accross any sets of interconnected networks including Local Area Networks (LAN) or Wide Area Networks (WAN). An IP address is an identification number assigned to a device (e.g. a computer or a printer) in such a network. Other [...]

What is a subdomain?
A subdomain is the part of the website address before the domain name. For example, the address for WebsiteGear forum is http://forum.g2soft.net. Here, forum is a subdomain of the domain name g2soft.net. Subdomains are also known as the third level domains or canonical names. A subdomain, unlike a domain name, is not [...]

Operating system for web hosting
The operating system (OS) of a computer is a software that makes the other computer hardware and software work together. The most commonly used operating systems for home computers are Windows and Macintosh. In order to decide what operating system to use for web hosting, one has to be familiar with [...]

When the site is running, you received the guaranty, that the uptime of your website is 99.9%. It is equal to 365day times 24 hours times 0.001. The result is 8.76 hours. How do you know the real uptime of your site.
You can depend on the log file of your site, or uptime report from [...]

When someone types in the domain to your website on their browser, several different processes take place, even though they normally transpire in less than 5 seconds. There is much more to resolving a domain name than simply typing it in and having a page magically appear on your browser.
In the background, this request is [...]

With the current proliferation of cheap domain names, many people wish that they could find a better deal when it’s time to renew their domain. If you purchased your domain from a company and have been locked into a high renewal price, you can transfer your domain to a new registrar to save money.
There are [...]

When you are registering your domain, you will commonly see references to both ICANN and Internic. What do these names mean? First, many people do not realize that the same entity owns both companies. Each one serves a specific purpose for the online community.
ICANN stands for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. This [...]

With the advent of cheaper reseller packages and a competitive hosting market, budget hosting is enjoying an upsurge. While this translates into cheaper hosting packages, it also means an increase of features, making budget hosting appealing even for large companies or site owners that need a lot of features built into their server.
First and foremost, [...]