So you’ve registered your domain name and now you’re trying to decide where to host your website. There are many options, you can host it yourself with your own server or you can outsource that task to a service provider. A website host generally offers two main services, they provide internet connectivity to your website and they provide a data center, they store the files necessary to run your internet business. When you think about it, this data center or server is a very important job because the wrong server can put your files at risk for corruption, loss, and spam.

The economy may be tough, yet that doesn’t stop people like you from having dreams. If you’re looking for a hand in starting your small business, a microloan may be the answer you’ve been looking for. This article explores what a microloan is, who qualifies for microloans and how to get one. Let’s get started!

A microloan is a small loan, usually given to those who are at or below the poverty level and are looking to start a business. Quite often, the people who qualify for and receive a microloan are unable to put up collateral or qualify for a traditional small business loan because they lack a steady employment record and don’t have a verifiable credit history.

Learn how to use phpmyadmin and manage databases through PHP.

When a forum is young it is easy to take care of the admin and leadership by yourself. As the forum begins to grow and gain activity you might need to start implementing a team of admins that is headed up by you. This is important because it becomes difficult for one person to read all the posts and keep a handle on the enforcement of all the forum guidelines you have set in place.

This is my first upload of a tutorial on Linux and Apache. The purpose it to demonstrate how to password protect folders and web sites. I hope you enjoy it.

When a virus hits your computer your first instinct may be to panic. Or you may simply be inclined to toss your computer out your window and start from scratch. Hold on, before you take drastic action, like throwing your computer out the window, take a few deep breaths and explore a few tips and strategies to deal with viruses.

#1 Understand what a virus is. According to teach-nology “Viruses are programs that infect other programs, or files containing macros (a series of commands grouped together to automate a complex series of tasks) such as Microsoft Word files, Microsoft Excel files and executable files.”

Now you see lots of people telling you all about .htaccess files but how do you make them in windows? Its not that easy is it? Well here is how! Works in all windows not just vista, like in the vid! Have fun.

Most word processing software programs don’t come cheaply. Even the most commonly used, MS Word comes at a hefty price tag if it wasn’t preinstalled on your computer. If you’re looking for a top-notch word processing software that is absolutely free, don’t look any further than Google Docs.

Google Docs is Google’s answer to a web based documents system. To use the software all you have to do is have a Gmail account or go to docs.Google.com and register for a Google account. It’s free. In addition to word processing, you can create spreadsheets, forms, and presentations.

In this article I will discuss page redirection techniques, what works and what to avoid.

What is page redirection and why would you want to use it?

Let’s say you rename a page on your website, for whatever reason. Perhaps you decided to revamp your entire naming convention, perhaps you decided to restructure your site and need to move pages into different folders, or you just realized that you are missing valuable keywords.

Let’s elaborate a bit on the keywords issue, since it is part of your search engine ranking success.

Especially for the aspect of search engine optimization the transformation of the permalinks is important. The permalinks can be changed under Wordpress here:

Settings>Permalinks>Custom Structure

If you are new to WordPress and blogging, also visit this site with the subject on how to create high profitable blogs. Sense is an attitude that include the title of the contribution and the title of the category.

You should change them into: /% category% /% post-name% /

Of course you could also just use the postname in order to get shorter URLs. I recommend using this permalink structure. If you chose a good keyword optimated category before, the optimization boosts your ranking and you’ll increase your traffic.

There is a secret to making your website more accessible to anybody who tries to access it while at the same time increasing signups for newsletters, ezines, ecourses, opt-in, sales, or whatever else you’re trying to get in front of more people. When I first learned the technique I thought it was too technical, but it is actually extremely easy.

I’m talking about using the error pages that come up when somebody doesn’t enter the URL correctly, or for some other reason is taken to an error message. Perhaps you’ve already noticed how major sites have personalized error notification pages and wondered, “Wow, how do they do that?” A lot of websites that know how to do this correctly still don’t even know how to make money doing it.

Spammers have a knack for developing “overrides” to even the most secured aspect of the system including those that are not readily recognized as potential targets. The .htaccess file can be used to keep e-mail harvesters away. This is considered very effective since all of these harvesters get to identify themselves in some way using the user agent files which gives .htaccess the capability to block them.

Spams Countered by .htaccess

Making a professional looking website and a throw me up quickie site are two very different things. If you are looking to impress your audience and keep them coming back for more then you need to do some serious planning before you even start the building process.

Some of the things you need to be thinking about are what technology you will use, who will be your host, which domain name will best fit your site and if a content management system will suit your needs.

In order to understand why online payment security and flexibility is important, you only need to do one thing: put yourself in your customer’s shoes.

When you’re online, what are you concerned about?

Perhaps you or someone you know has had their identity stolen. It’s something that happens to more than 80% of the population. Scammers and thieves get a hold of your credit card number in a variety of ways. They hack sites, they steal it from the mail and they snatch it right from thin air if you’re on an unprotected and unsecure site.

Google is always innovating and adding new tools for both business owners and general people to utilize. One of the more recent additions is an iGoogle gadget called “What’s Popular.”

This gadget provides users with the ability to see what’s popular. It works a bit like Digg in that it displays links, titles and a one or two sentence description of popular items of interest. Users can also add URLs to the list displayed on the page.

Web maintenance isn’t something a lot of online entrepreneurs think about. In fact it can be quite a mundane task for most. However, it is important to keep your website ticking over smoothly.

Here are a few reasons why maintaining your website is important:

# Attracting the search engines – Search engines are important to the livelihood of your online business, but they don’t like “dead” websites. Websites which have been left static without updates or fresh content are a no-no in the online world. Another thing search engines don’t like is broken links.

In order to do business online, business owners need safe, efficient and effective ways to collect payment. While PayPal might be the most notable and familiar, is it necessarily the best? Let’s take a look at some of the more common secure online payment systems and compare.

PayPal – Offers an all-in-one solution so you can accept payments online, with or without a website and accept payments online. If you already have a merchant account then you can utilize one of two options including Payflow Gateway, which offers a secure connection from your online store to your internet merchant account or PayPal Express Checkout, which creates a 3-click customer checkout. Most options require a $30/month fee and like any merchant account, you’ll pay a percentage of each sale ranging from 1.9% to 2.9% depending on your chosen package.

In the early days of the iPhone there were no webmaster guidelines whatsoever. Nowadays, they have specific web development guidelines for you to follow. In order to access it you first have to register as an iPhone developer at http://developer.apple.com/iphone. This includes a nice little simulator of an iPhone so that you can easily see how your apps are working.

One of the most obvious differences between the iPhone and your PC/Mac is the size of the screen. The iPhone maxes at 480dpi in landscape view. If your page already works on your desktop web browser you can easily create a custom css to be called when it is being viewed on an iPhone. The markup you would use is as follows:

Here’s a simple comparison to help you differentiate between the two.

Webcasting is similar to traditional broadcasting in some ways. Basically, it’s a video recording of you or others on the net. You can have a news webcast or an interactive one where you hold an online class and participants can view you on video.

Podcasting is similar to traditional radio in some ways. As a podcaster you can have an internet radio show where you invite people on to interview or simply record your thoughts on audio and share with your audience.

Wait! Don’t run off in terror; don’t fall asleep at the back. It’s time to deal with the dreaded subject of CHMOD. CHMOD is something that’s pretty unavoidable when you’re working on the web, and it’s actually not that difficult once you learn a few simple tricks. So get some strong coffee – it’s time to tackle CHMOD.

What is CHMOD?

CHMOD is to do with files that are kept on your webspace. Remember that every ‘webpage’ you look at on the web, every image you see, is actually just a file which is stored on someone’s webspace. Even if you’ve uploaded webpages and images before, you might not have encountered CHMOD before.