Site Management

Now its not a sure thing but Domain Parking or some call it Squatting has paid off for many a company willing to fork out the money required to suck up a couple thousand or hundred thousand domains and sit on them. This is not a task for the unprepared or small guy. Its more […]

Getting linkbacks to your site is an important way to build traffic. Understanding which linkbacks are generating that traffic can often be as difficult as getting the link in the first place. So, how do you know if people are linking to your content? If you run your site using a popular CMS application like […]

There are a number of quick and easy ways to generate traffic but how do you take the next step? Providing significant content. By significant I mean not only an abundance of  content but content of good quality and relative importance. Every SEO adviser will tell you that incoming links will only get you that […]

Some websites have a large value placed on the images they display. They could be photographs taken by a professional photographer or they could be products that they want to protect. Although all images are copyright protected and placing watermarks is a relatively simple task in GIMP or Photoshop you may have reason to need […]

If you are thinking about writing the next best tool to access twitter or use the data in some creative way then the best way to start is with some sample code and API references. There is tons of code out there and lots of it is open source so you may add it to […]

Ok so the first thing you have to do is calm down AND STOP FREAKING OUT! Everyone has this happen at least once, maybe once a week… something happens and you can’t understand what you did to make it all go so wrong… If your site stops functioning while you are working on it then […]

Almost a year to the date when Microsoft announced the removal of access to hotmail accounts through Outlook Express http protocol a new improved announcement is released. Hotmail if you didn’t know allows access to users of Outlook Express much in the same way you would any other mail account but the transfer of data […]

Amazon has Six different servers to feed your xml and other data requests that you need for building your store and serving your customers. The available locations are Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States. Amazon also has a China Store but no information about affiliate programs has been released for that local … […]

Ok this is a pretty boring page so its not worth the read unless you are working with the new Amazon Store API. If you are you need to retrieve information from their site and to do so you need to know what Search Parameters are available within each Search index. Each Search must be […]

Komodo Edit is provided free by ActiveState the same people that provide Perl distributions. This is one editor that you need in your toolbox if you ever have to work with lots of files and code projects. Even if you don’t code a lot one of my favorite features is its ability to search through […]