Tips & tricks

Natural and unnatural or man-made disasters happen every day, around the clock, somewhere. They can come in the forms of hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, flooding, fire, power surges and failure, destructive computer attacks and viruses / bugs, etc. And regardless of the cause, the results can be the same – devastating.

In the online world, this devastation could literally happen within seconds. One second you can have a web site and the next … zilch, nada, nothing, all gone. If you don’t make necessary backups, you can wave goodbye to your websites, your databases, your scripts, your video clips and everything else that you’ve spent so much time building, amassing, perfecting.

Ever since Gmail launched, I’ve been tempted to sign up for an account. I keep getting more and more invitations from both friends and subscribers but I already have so many email addresses as it is. I don’t really need another one.

A few months back though, I noticed that I was getting more and more spam emails through one of my email accounts. And then another.

All this while, I’ve been using SpamArrest for my main email address. A person would need to click on a link and pass a Captcha test before their emails are passed on to me. And for customer support, I’ve been using a web based helpdesk.

If you’re looking for a way to attract more visitors to your site, why not start offering your visitors video screencasts that are informative and entertaining.

What are screencasts exactly?

Well, put simply, they are digital recordings of a computer screen which may contain audio narration or text captions or both. …

If you’re using Firefox to browse the web, here’s a cool extension that makes it easy for you to bookmark and tag a site and also to view your current Del.icio.us bookmarks page.

If you’re not using Firefox to browse the web … you should.

After installing the extension, …

A followup autoresponder is essential for any web based business. The question is should you sign up for an autoresponder email service or buy a software or script with a one time investment?

To answer this simply: It really depends on your needs.

If

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Welcome to the new look of WebBriefcase. I’ve decided to let WordPress manage my whole site. If you’re new to this site, before this I only use WordPress for my blog entries. I’m not sure why I never thought of using WordPress for my whole site before.

It’s just so …

If you’ve been on the net for quite awhile, you’ve probably noticed that when you visit some sites, they have an icon next to their URL in the address bar of your browser. This icon will also show up next to the web

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I found this very interesting article that I’d like to share with you:

Google Sitemaps Explained

By Titus Hoskins © 2005

Three Ways To Index Your Site With Google Sitemaps [Difficult, Hard, And Easy]

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Okay, here’s the thing. CSS is the way to build your site now. It’s efficient, it’s powerful, it beats HTML formatting anytime.

The thing is, it’s not as easy as it should be to learn your way around CSS. I tried and gave up. The biggest problem with CSS is …

All you really have to do is sign up for a free Blogger.com account. When you sign up, you can choose from a range of available web design templates. And then add your daily content via their "Create a Post" feature. It has a word processing interface, …

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