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• 19Oct

  Usability and Search Engine Visibility

  SEO Tutorials, Web Design, Web Development 5 Comments

  Usability of a website and its visibility in search engines both are integral part to achieve success online, you need to design your site keeping your users in mind and find out the factors that can  make your site more viewable. If you care both while developing your website from scratch  it will overall help you in visibility and enhance your web presence. Here are few guidelines;

  

  * You should Create less fancy site and should adhere w3c guideline while developing your website from scratches.

  * Make sure that your web pages should load less than 5 second and avoid using flash which will delay the time of loading.

  * In case you’re using flash, use flash in limitation and also provide HTML version for your users.

  * Also it is important to  check your website on popular browsers to ensure about Cross browser compatibility.

  * It would be best if you use universal name for your menu option like Home, Contact Us,  About Us, Products, and Site Map and avoid using most trendy words.

  * You should position simple text navigation preferably at the bottom for the pages which are quite long such as case studies or pdf file and also add link that point to depth information about your website.

  * You should also reflect your logo to every page and link your logo to your homepage and point a link to your homepage on all internal pages.

  * In case you’re using a large database yous hould consider displaying a breadcrumb trail showing the path from the homepage to the page where the users are.

  * You should also make sure to represent your website with best keywords in your Titles & Descriptions.

  * Add simple text links that search engine robots can follow.

  * If your website has many pages you should set a custom search box on your home page and avoid placing search button for “entire web” otherwise it will drive away your visitors.

  * Create a custom error page through cpanel and display a simple site map or the links to the main section of your site.

  * Use Google webmaster tools & Google Analytics which will help you to diagnose your website and track the stats from different point of view.

  Also Optimization of web pages is most important factor to obtain high search engine rankings, follow Google’s quality guidelines for search engine optimization and do keyword research, link building, and update your website with useful content on regular basis. Also Start Networking using different social sites which will help you in traffic and to enhance your web presence. I’ve covered just couple of factors however you should take holistic approach to refer few Seo resources that can help you to make your web site more viewable because SEO is really a very vast topic.

  Please feel free to add other factors which you think can help to increase the visibility of a website on websphere. :)

  -Bob

• 28Jan

  Overview Of Cold Fusion Hosting

  Hosting Support, Linux web hosting, Web Design, Web Development, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting No Comments

  ColdFusion is a server scripting language which is used to create rich dynamic web pages. It is one of the highly preferred tools by developers. The most tricky part of hosting is to identify the customer that causes problems on the server, here in such a case coldfusion hosting debugs codes and helps customer in understanding why their code does not work.

  ColdFusion hosting is mainly for developers building dynamic websites, it offers effortless enterprise data connectivity, it helps in organizing dynamic content, it has a suite of built-in applications. The ColdFusion suite consists of ColdFusion Server and ColdFusion Studio.

  The ColdFusion Server is the application used for processing CFML code. CFML is an abbreviation of ColdFusion MarkUp Language. CFML is an extension of XML and HTML, hence it is powerful and simple to use language.

  There aren’t much web hosting providers that support ColdFusion. ColdFusion is a server side technology. ColdFusion works well with Fireworks,Freehand,Flash and Dreamweaver.ColdFusion Hosting development group consists of a server and toolset designed for Web pages and designing databases. ColdFusion is helpful for developers and programmers for building systematic authoritative, content publishing systems and Web services.

  Coldfusion has gained reputation as a swift application improvement system that merges server, browser and database technologies into Web applications. With the help of ColdFusion hosting web developers can rapidly deliver and develop the transaction intensive Web applications for business automation to e-Commerce. ColdFusion hosting is industry’s leading cross platform Web application server. It is useful for businesses which require complicated Internet applications and increased scalability. The ColdFusion application Server software has been tested on platforms such as Linux, Windows and Sun. Coldfusion hosting also helps to Build powerful web applications and web services.

  Coldfusion hosting can be utilized in small and large businesses and for personal uses.

  Tags: CFML, ColdFusion, ColdFusion hosting, ColdFusion MarkUp Language, ColdFusion Studio, Dreamweaver, e-Commerce, HTML, linux, Sun Solaris OS, Web Hosting, Web service, windows, XML

• 21Jan

  Magento Web Hosting : An Open Source E-commerce Solution

  Hosting Support, Micfo Web Hosting, Web Design, Web Development, Web Hosting No Comments

  Magento is an Open Source feature rich E-commerce solution specially designed for E-commerce websites. Magento offers complete flexibility and control over the content, functionality and look of an online store.Since no two businesses are same, Magento was designed with the perception that every eCommerce implementation has to be unique. Magento has a modular architecture which puts the control back in the control of the online merchant and places no restriction on the flow of the business and the processes.

  

  Many Web Hosting companies offer support for Magento hosting.

  Below are the different features of Magento:

  1. Analitics and Reporting
  2. Product Browsing
  3. Catalog Browsing
  4. Catalog Management
  5. Maintenance of Customer Accounts
  6. Customer Service
  7. Order Management
  8. Payment
  9. Shipping
  10. Checkout
  11. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  12. International Support
  13. Site Management
  14. Marketing Tools and Promotion

  Recently Magento 1.2 was released. This version includes various issue resolutions for Magento 1.1.x versions. It also includes few highly requested added features such as:

  a) Added layer navigation to the site search result page with control on the characteristic level to exclude or include attributes used on the search result pages.

  b) Additional support for fixed taxes on the product level.

  c) It includes an added Layered Navigation cache for improved performance of large catalogs, though currently in beta but soon to be released for production usage.

  d) It provides support for Downloadable/Digital Products.

  e) It includes improved site search for the utilization of MySQL full text search.

  f) It has an upgraded Zend Framework to the latest stable version 1.7.2.

  Tags: e-Commerce, Magento, Magento Hosting, Magento Web Hosting, Open Source eCommerce solution, Web Hosting, Zend Framework

• 08Dec

  New Career Path For Web Developers : Become a Windows Web Hosting Reseller

  Micfo Web Hosting, Web Development, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting, reseller web hosting No Comments

  Web developers can create websites for the clients along with this they can also become Windows Reseller Web Hosts for their clients too. All that needs to be done is become a reseller by finding a Web Hosting company that offers multiple website hosting accounts, alongwith reseller services. Reseller Web Hosting is cheap and affordable, so web developers can gain a substantial clientele and also earn huge profits.

  The first thing to be done is find a Web Hosting company that offers Reseller hosting package. Then you need to get a multiple domain account. The Web Hosting companies provide reseller accounts at cheap prices. But you can resell them choosing your own package offering for your clients. It is always preferable to have full administrative control over the clients website. The Web Hosting control provides you with a control panel which provides complete administrative facility for managing multiple accounts. But, the Web Host should give you the provision to hide your web host identity to avoid your clients realize that you are offering a third party service. The web host should allow you to customize your clients control panel inorder to suite your requirements.

  It is necessary that your clients have a copy of the terms and conditions of your reseller business. Most web hosts either let you copy their terms and conditions or help you create it as per your requirements.

  It is very essential to provide reliable, fast support service by your Web Hosting service provider. Incase your clients website has some complications, then it should get sorted with the minimum waste of time. Failing to do so might cause your client to leave your services.

  Now-a-days Windows Reseller Web hosting business is becoming popular as you are not required to purchase the costly hardware and services. This side business yields a fair amount of profit if you choose the correct Web Hosting Company. Searching for such a firm might take sometime but once you find it, can yield big profits and reputation.

  Tags: reseller business, reseller hosting, reseller web hosting, Web Hosting, Windows reseller web hosting

• 06Nov

  Quick Preview of XOOPS.

  General, Hosting Support, Linux Hosting, Linux VPS, Linux web hosting, Micfo Web Hosting, PHP and ASP.net, Web Design, Web Development, Web Hosting, Windows Web Hosting No Comments

  XOOPS is a abbreviation for eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System. Creating dynamic websites and with grand content and multiple useful features can be achieved through XOOPS. XOOPS is basically a program for administrators. Administrators make good use of XOOPS for developing dynamic community websites, no matter if the website is small or big. XOOPS is also useful for making weblogs, intra company portals, corporate portals etc. With the use of a pHp capable web server such as Apache and a database such as MySQL. XOOPS can be installed on the Internet host.

  XOOPS is free to use or modify. It can also be re-distributed following the distribution terms of GPL. XOOPS is a release under GNU General Public License (GPL).

  XOOPS was started as a portal system, but now it has transformed into a strong Content Management System. It is useful for small, medium or large websites framework.

  

  Standard XOOPS can be installed by anyone who owns personal blogs or journals. But for medium websites one needs to use modules such as News, Web Links, Forum etc. which forms a community to interact with visitors. But for larger websites a special module needs to be developed, then using XOOPS’s uniform user management system the modules can be integrated with the whole system.

  

  Major Features of XOOPS

  1. Theme Based Skinnable Interface : It has a powerful theme system. Users and administrators are enabled to change the look of the complete website. More than 60 themes are available for download.

  2. Completely Modularized : With the use of XOOPS module administration system, modules can be activated, deactivated, installed of uninstalled.

  3. User Management : It is the ability to search for users using many different criteria’s send private messages and e-mails using a template based messaging system.

  4. Database Driven : XOOPS is currently using MySQL as a relational database for the purpose of storage of data which is essential to run a web-based content management system.

  5. Multipurpose Group Permission System : It is equipped with strong and user friendly permission system enabling administrators to set permissions by group.

  6. Personalization : Registered users have various rights such as editing their profile, selecting themes etc.

  7. Worldwide Support : Volunteers from all around the globe have created XOOPS, hence it has many official support websites around the world hence it can provide support for non-English users too.

  

  Many web hosting service providers provide XOOPS hosting support on many of their packages. XOOPS is supported on Windows web hosting as well as Linux web hosting packages. It is an open source CMS (Content Management System).

  XOOPS Web Hosting Service Includes :

  • Free XOOPS installation
  • Instant Account Setup
  • Simple upgrade for Hosting accounts
  • Multiple Domains and Databases
  • Unlimited E-mail accounts
  • Cpanel and Fantastico
  • 24×7 Customer support.

  Tags: administration system, Apache, CMS, community websites, Content Management System, Database, dynamic websites, eXtensible Object Oriented Portal System, General Public License, GNU, GPL, Linux web hosting, module, MySQL, Open Source, PHP, portals, template, user management system, web hosting service, Windows Web Hosting, XOOPS, XOOPS Web Hosting Service

• 23Oct

  Develop Your Own Website Keeping These Points In Mind.

  Computer, General, SEO Tutorials, Search Engine Marketing, Web Design, Web Development No Comments

  Here are a few tips to remember while developing website of your own.

  1. Creating Content

  2. Getting listed

  3. Improving your page rank

  4. Advertising the website

  5. Generating revenue using Adsense.

  1. Creating Content :

  • Create useful rich quality material beneficial for the users. Put yourself in the user’s shoes and then think what contents can be helpful for the user.
  • Design the website for the users and not for the search engine’s spiders and bots. The titles, anchor texts and tags should be relevant and descriptive.
  • The information should be available in many ways such as quick reference links, tutorials, printing access, forums, blogs, etc.
  • The title of the page should give an idea of the page contents.
  • Make good use of the keywords and phrases that users are more likely to search.
  • Make a logical design of the web site. Interlink pages. If the web page has links then they should open in a different browser.
  • The web site should have a site map for Google to understand the structure of the web site.
  • Web page should be kept short, the data in it should be precise.
  • As much as possible try and avoid dynamic content such as Java Scripts, Flash, DHTL etc as the search engine bots index a plain text or html page much easily. It is a possibility that Google spiders may not index such pages.
  • Spellings should not be incorrect.
  • There should be a provision where users can give their feedback.
  • Remove broken links if any.

  2. Getting Listed (Listing Your Web site)

  • After registering your domain on the Internet you should submit it to Google using .

  3. Improving Your Page Rank

  • Pagerank is Google’s system of ranking web pages.
  • Pages should be interlinked. A well woven website web site gets a better page rank in Google.
  • Every web page should have a link that directs users to the most important web page of your website or the product page.
  • The web page should have high and rich quality information.
  • Submission of your web site to different web directories and reference site too helps in increasing the page rank.
  • Make available the RSS – Rich Site Summary. Your RSS feed will get indexed by popular blog search engines.
  • Links from other high quality websites linking to your website makes a big impact on the page ranking.
  • Getting highly ranked sites to link to yours will improve your ranking more than getting many poorly ranked sites to link to yours.
  • You should check the site that links back to your web site.
  • If possible translate your website in other languages too.

  4. Advertising The Web Site

  • Determine your budget for the advertising campaign. There are multiple ways of advertising your website………….. Click here to know more.

  5. Generating Revenue Using Adsense :

  • Your page should have ads relevant to your website. Unrelated links can hamper the page ranking.
  • The web site should have links from other web sites which too are relevant to your web site.

  Tags: bots, google, Interlink, Pagerank, RSS, search engine, spiders, website development

• 05Jun

  CSS Editors for Linux

  Linux Hosting, Web Development No Comments

  By default there are not many editors on Linux which are CSS friendly, for better syntax highlighting and cleaner look, you basically need a text editor which perform smoothly in your web development environment. Here are some of great CSS editors available for Linux;

  * Quanta+ - It provide maximal user extensibility, best editor for efficient and natural use, You can effectively manage editor contents and visually create dialogs for your scripts.

  * CSSED - Best editor in open source for auto completion, syntax highlighting and syntax validation that make CSS editing easy. CSSED also features MDI notebook based interface, quick CSS properties and values insertion, auto-completion and dialog-based insertion of CSS complex values.

  * Gedit - It is general purpose text editor,the official text editor for GNOME. A simple and efficient editor with flexible plugin system for CSS/HTML editing, and does syntax highlighting.

  * SciTE - Another great editor for development, SCIntilla based Text Editor runs on both Linux & Windows. Apart from the standard syntax highlighting and code folding features - it also understands error messages from compilers/interpreters.

  * jEdit - jEdit is Written in Java works on Unix, Windows, Mac OS and others. Great editor for CSS and other languages.

  * BlueFish - A powerful editor with many great features. Supports editing of PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS and so many others.

  * Screem - A tool for web development environment which increase productivity, it provide quick access to commonly used features and provide versatile XML editing package, perfect for use as a general purpose structured data editing environment.

  * Kate - Another web development editor on KDE with Sessions handling applications, it Supports most languages.

  * Nvu - A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users, you can handle it even without technical expertise or knowledge of HTML.

  * Cream / Vim - Cream is a version of Vim which is easy-to-use configuration run on vim, It nicely highlights CSS syntax, HTML. It also provides a simpler learning step to vim.

  To be Continued in next Post..

• 04Jun

  The Popular Content Management System

  Micfo Web Hosting, Web Development No Comments

  Here are the list of few popular content management system with brief note about their features; It guide you to decide which system best suits your needs.

  Joomla! is an open source content management system for publishing content, it is most suitable for creating both business & personal websites. it include feature such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. By using Joomla CMS you can add many components which will enhance the value of your website and will enrich your visitors’ experience.

  E107: With e107 released under the GNU General Public Licence, e107 is powered by PHP and mySQL that gives you a totally dynamic and professional website, the webmaster can create easy and quick business (intranet) or community driven website there is also a powerful forums system as a built-in application and a high performance file-based caching. Best CMS for Corporate website.

  TYPO3: TYPO3 is suitable for enterprise and corporate level websites and also it can be used for intranets. It provides you ready made modules and interface which are flexible basic Typo3 installation. The design of TYPO3 is template-based and the webmaster can create own templates using their language TypoScript.

  Mambo: Mambo is among most dynamic portal engine and content management system and commonly used Content Management Systems ever. With its help you can create simple as well the complex corporate website. It has many nice features and functionalities, it has easy to manage control panel and is user-friendly. Mambo has a growing community, support and template resources.

  Drupal: With Drupal you can easily build different types of web pages, it is to setup or build a content driven or a community using drupal- you can create a simple web blogs to large online communities. Drupal’s designs are easy to create and it is very easy to customize/ it has built-in search tool and search-engine friendly and an extra module, discussion capabilities and news aggregator.

  phpNuke: phpNuke is powerful Open Source portal application by which you can create web-based administration, surveys, customizable blocks, modules and themes with multilanguage support. The webmaster can add a lot of new features and customize the appearance of the website. It is widely used for game clan and guild sites.

  Most of these content management systems have community forum which help you to get more information about this CMS from users, developers & web designers. Also check individual website for more information about all new features and latest development.

• 22Jan

  Cross Browser Compatibility & Testing

  Micfo Web Hosting, Web Design, Web Development No Comments

  The web browsers are generally similar to each others in terms of technologies though some browser have different syntax although more or less using same technologies and architecture. However from your end- it’s better if you make sure that your website completely cross browser compatible to every browser so that it can look more or less the same in every browsers.

  In general most of the people using IE, Mozilla and Opera so it is important from your part that you make your website look similar on all these browsers, however a web page can be interpreted differently depending on the browser and the version that people are commonly using. In my personal view Mozilla approach are strictly followed with W3C’s guidelines whereas IE is more relaxed on this.

  Here are few guidelines that can help you to make your website cross browser compatible;

  * Do not use browser specific HTML tags and features as that can work in the browser only they were created for.

  * Use W3C syntax validation services. To validate your HTML/XHTML coding and your cascading style sheets.

  * Use only standard compliant code & conform strictly the web standards guideline.

  Once after finishing up your website, check your website using this tools http://browsershots.org/ before you go live, check your screeshots in different browsers in different screen resolution and plugin. Although it is difficult to please everyone- your website look 100% similar in all browsers as it is pretty much difficult to make a website render the same way on each and every browser available on the web, but you can try out your level best since you’re nothing going to loss.

• 01Dec

  Monetizing Facebook Apps

  Web Development No Comments

  Here is the video from Jason Bailey of Millnic Media that illustrate the process of Monetizing Facebook, though it does not have javascript embed code to facilitate adsense for content but facebook application have maximum prospect for developers those interested to use affiliate links and monetize it to earn revenues.

  Facebook provides good opportunity which will see rising activity within the blogosphere for the coming months. Facebook’s growth is expected to someday go beyond that of MySpace itself. For developers and businesses alike, this is an opportunity that is well worth look at. Watch this presentation on youtube.
  Monetizing Facebook Applications - Jason Bailey

  { http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6vjKo6Lzg4 }

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