As more and more people come to live their lives online via social media and sites around the Internet, the wall between one’s public and private lives is eroding at breakneck speed. The very definition of what might reasonably considered “private” in a world where every meal is photographed and posted to Instagram, and every [...]
“Inbound Marketing” is the new black – SEO companies across the land are falling over themselves to reposition their brand as inbound marketers. Inbound is touted as the opposite to traditional, ‘interruptive’ advertising methods, in that you produce content and place it in front of users so that they find you. The irony of it [...]
Maybe it’s happened to you before. Someone somehow breaks into your email account or one of your social profiles, and wreaks havoc. They send spammy emails to everyone in your contacts list, tweet suspicious links from your account (or awful homophobic and racist comments), or post unseemly photos on your Facebook wall. And while they’re [...]
You’ve heard lots of people say WordPress.org is the way to go when building a site. Heck, we’ve said it here. It’s a powerful content management system (CMS) that just about anyone can use. The back end interface is very user-friendly, and by choosing a theme and adding plugins, you can easily customize your site [...]
You’d think with as Internet-literate as most people are now, copyright infringement wouldn’t happen as often as it probably did in the early days of the Web. Topics like intellectual property and copyright are covered pretty frequently both in blogs and traditional media, so more users than ever before are educated about them, or at [...]
You have a fantastic idea for a blog, service, or affiliate marketing niche. All you have to do is set up a website, and you’ll be on your way. You know WordPress is a powerful yet easy-to-use content management system, so that’s your first stop. Oh, and look—they offer free hosting! You won’t have to [...]
Uploading anything more complicated than basic HTML (for example, a PHP script), usually requires some fiddling with permission 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, knowing how to set permissions is essential. Many webmasters try to set their [...]
Running a website isn’t just about technical skill – although it clearly helps to know your stuff. But thanks to CPanel, WordPress and other popular tools, you can get by without much technical knowledge at all. In fact, if you’re willing to use a free hosting service, you can normally opt to use a site [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]