The blog commenting landscape is dominated by a handful of big names. Currently, Disquis and Facebook have the lion’s share of the market, although Automattic, the owners of WordPress.com, have a large presence with their Intense Debate platform. However, a different company is hoping to challenge these stalwarts of the industry. Livefyre, although it’s been [...]
Uploading anything more complicated than basic HTML (for example, a PHP script), usually requires some fiddling with permissions settings to make things work properly. Whether you’re battling an error or just following the instructions to install a new script on your server, you at least need to know how to set permissions. However, many webmasters [...]
When it comes to hosting and setting up a website, many people focus almost entirely on the technical skills one needs to keep things running smoothly. At the very least, a webmaster needs to know how to use a computer and how the Internet works, right? Only sort of. Thanks to CPanel, WordPress and a [...]
WordPress users (and that includes us!) will be happy to know that version 3.2 had a beta release last week, bringing a slew of new features that are designed to improve the performance, usability and appearance of the blogging platform. However, this upgrade is rather different from the others. The most touted changes are not [...]
Since TwitPic’s recent controversy over its terms of service, which saw the company backtrack from an aggressive TOS that prevented its users from reselling photos they had uploaded to the service, a great deal of new attention has been focused on the contracts and agreements we sign every time we register with a new service. [...]
When it comes to third-party site statistics, Google Analytics (GA) is pretty much the gold standard. It provides a tremendous amount of practical information, integration with other Google products, including Adsense and Adwords, and clear charts all for free. However, Google recently announced that it was taking things one step further and adding something almost [...]
RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is one of the technologies that helped blogging grow hugely. By offering a simple method for others to subscribe to or otherwise access the content of a dynamic site, it made blogs, with their rapid pace of updates, more accessible and approachable. For a time, an RSS feed literally determined, [...]
If you are in a typical shared hosting environment, there are a lot of limitations on what you can do with your site and your server. Though you can add domains, install PHP and other scripts and generally upload things to your site, you can’t make any actual changes to your server. If a script [...]
The hosting industry is always in flux. New companies enter the fray every day and old ones are constantly leaving, either by being sold off or changing what they offer. As well as the stalwarts such as Hostgator, Dreamhost and GoDaddy, there are thousands of smaller companies in the market, some of which have been [...]
Dotster recently announced a new feature called “Instant Website”. This creates a simple, attractive, one-page site for its customers that is then hosted for a mere $2.99 per month. To be clear, this isn’t an “Under construction” page, a placeholder or some temporary site. Dotster‘s Instant Website is mean to be a full and complete [...]