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Dec 11, 200827

Good Domain Name Picking Tips for Your Blog Setup

Categories: Web Hosting
Good Domain Name Picking Tips for Your Blog Setup
The first thing that comes to my mind when setting up a blog is getting a good domain name. In this article, I have described why I think it is important to choose a good domain name upfront. I have also explained how you can pick a good domain name for your blog or website followed by some domain name picking tips and general outlines ("dos" and "don't s"). Why pick a good domain name for your blog Apart from many other reasons, you want to pick a good domain name for your blog site from the start because most likely you will be stuck with that domain name for the rest of the blog's life. You may change the domain hosting provider from time to time depending on how reliable your current domain hosting provider is but the domain name will remain the same. The reason I say that you will be stuck with that name is mainly because changing the domain name is kind of like starting all over again from the start and you don't want to do that once your site is established and getting regular traffic. You will start with '0' Google Page rank and will have ...
Dec 7, 200834

How to import WordPress SQL database backup file without having ‘create new database’ privileges in phpMyAdmin

Categories: Troubleshooting
How to import WordPress SQL database backup file without having ‘create new database’ privileges in phpMyAdmin
In this article I have explained how you can import your WordPress SQL database backup file even when you do not have the 'create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin. This is particularly useful when you are trying to import the SQL database as part of transferring your site from one host (old-host.com) to another host (new-host.com) and your new host doesn't have the 'Create new database' privilege in phpMyAdmin.In your phpMyAdmin page check for the 'create new database' privilege. If the privilege settings looks like the example shown below then your database import following the normal method is going to fail as it will try to create a database and you don't have permission to do that.[caption id="attachment_417" align="alignnone" width="192" caption="No privilege to create new database "][/caption]You will get the following error when trying to import the database file:#1044 - Access denied for user 'username'@'localhost' to database 'database_name'To get around this problem and to complete importing your database to your new host do the following:Login to your cPanel and click on 'MySQL Databases'. Create a new database with your preferred name (I am going to use the name 'newDB' for easy reference. You should have privilege to create a new database ...
Dec 3, 2008119

Find out which web hosting company offers the cheapest and reliable web hosting solution

Categories: Featured, Web Hosting
Find out which web hosting company offers the cheapest and reliable web hosting solution
I have been looking for a good web hosting company who offers cheap but reliable web hosting solution for quite a while. The keywords here are cheap and reliable and for some reason these two words do not want to go together very well :). If you are willing to pay big money then you have nothing to worry about... your options are endless. My focus is finding that sweet spot where reliability meets affordability. I update this page with my findings on affordable web hosting solutions. Hopefully this information will be of some help to someone looking to find a good web hosting company.If you don't feel like reading the full story and just want to get to our hosting recommendation then click here.I am very strict when it comes to the reliability of the web hosting company. Server uptime is very important for anyone who has a website doing whatever business that they are doing. If your site is down when a visitor or customer goes to your site then you are losing traffic and business. In addition to losing temporary customers, if your site goes down frequently then there is a good chance that your customers will ...
Nov 26, 2008135

WordPress Plugin for Category Specific RSS feed subscription menu

Categories: Wordpress Plugin
WordPress Plugin for Category Specific RSS feed subscription menu
The 'Category Specific RSS feed subscription' WordPress Plugin allows you to add a menu with multiple RSS feed subscription option to your site in addition to the normal RSS subscription option. The category specific RSS feed menu can be added to a post, page or sidebar. Through this menu your visitors will be able to subscribe to the RSS feed of a specific topic/category of your blog/site that particularly interest them.Why use category specific RSS subscription? The reason is very simple... you don't want to be served with Meat when you are a Vegetarian!  If your site covers multiple topics then your subscribed readers may get annoyed when you update your site with content that they are not interested in and they get a notification in their RSS reader. With category specific RSS subscription option, your readers can choose which topic they want to subscribe to and will only get notified when you update/add content to your site with that specific topic. Apart from the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) advantage, this is a much more neat and clean RSS subscription option. Most of the time, your visitors will not subscribe to your RSS feed if they can not choose a topic/category ...
Nov 18, 20083

What image compression settings to use when converting an image to jpg/jpeg

Categories: Tech Tips
What image compression settings to use when converting an image to jpg/jpeg
I have been trying to find the perfect compression settings to use when converting my digital images to 'jpg' or 'jpeg' format that yields the best result in terms of the image quality and the image size. There are various softwares out there that can convert images e.g. Photoshop, ACDsee, ImageConverter etc. I always used to use the same 90% compression settings for converting from 'bmp' to 'Jpg' and for all my other digital image compressions without much thought. As my photo collection from my digital camera is getting bigger I wanted to efficiently archive my images without losing too much image quality. Also after taking a look at my monthly bandwidth usages for my website, I found that the images are consuming the highest bandwidth. So I needed to be more efficient on the image compression of the images that I use for my website to save bandwidth(How to save website’s bandwidth and storage usage)
Nov 17, 20085

How to fix WordPress.com Stats plugin showing zero (0) visitors!

Categories: Troubleshooting
How to fix WordPress.com Stats plugin showing zero (0) visitors!
This article explains how to fix WordPres.com Stats plugin when it doesn't show any statistics for your site or shows 0 visitors.
Nov 9, 20087

Protect your WordPress site/blog from comment spam trick

Categories: Wordpress
Protect your WordPress site/blog from comment spam trick
I got caught with this trick once so I decided to share this with other web masters who don't know this already.
Nov 6, 200812

How to control access of the web crawlers or web robots to your site

Categories: Web development
How to control access of the web crawlers or web robots to your site
There are numerous reasons as to why or when you should control the access of the web robots or web crawlers to your site.  As much as you want Googlebot to come to you site, you don't want the spam bots to come and collect private information from your site. Not to mention that when a robot crawls your site it uses the website's bandwidth too! In this post I have explained how you can control the access of the web robots to your site through the usage of a simple 'robots.txt' file.What are web robots or web spiders?Web Robots (also known as bots, web spiders, web crawlers, Ants) are programs that traverses the World Wide Web in an automated manner. Search engines (like Google, Yahoo etc.) use web crawlers to index the web pages to provide up to date data.Why use 'robots.txt' file?Gooble bot may be crawling your site to provide better search results but at the same time other spam bots may be collecting personal information such as email addresses for spamming purpose. If you want to control the access of the web crawlers on your site, you can do so by using the "robots.txt" file.How do I ...
Oct 23, 200816

Reduce your website’s bandwidth and storage usage

Categories: Web development
Reduce your website’s bandwidth and storage usage
If you are looking for a quick and easy solution for using big files (movie files for example) on your website without wasting your website's bandwidth and storage then read on.When you host a media on your website it takes the storage on your site and when the users view that media it takes up your bandwidth too. If the media file is small then you probably don't have much to worry about. But when you want to use some media files that are large in size then it can have a significant impact on your site's storage and also when the users view it, it takes up your bandwidth. Now if you have limited storage and limited bandwidth on your site like mine then you can try this method that I use to save bandwidth.
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