It is easy to blog. Infact you can use Microsoft Word program to write a post and then publish it directly to your blog. Microsoft Word can post to ‘Windows Live Spaces‘, ‘Blogger‘, ‘SharePoint Blog‘, ‘Community Server‘, ‘TypePad‘, ‘WordPress‘ or any other platform. Its like post locally. This method will greatly reduce resources burden from your web host because when you open blog admin and add new post, it eats up a lot of server resources while you type being there.
I am talking about the Virtual Private Server or Private Server. Many companies offer PS or VPS web hosting. If you are a blogger, webmaster and have been working for more then 2 years and have got some visitors then probably you are not at the shared server. After you get some regular visitors, you know your site does not run well in shared web hosting environment. Then you get 500 internal server error. You have to move to PS or VPS. Depending on your budget you will choose a host for your website. Here starts the funny game. Budget is low and you have picked up a host and transferred your data and domain to the new server. You will loose some traffic during the process because domain takes some time to get transferred and obviously your website’s IP address changes, you loose some page rank as well. There is a chance of these things but its not like it will happen always. Careful webmasters sort out things before they do anything.
Now you have shifted to VPS or PS, here starts a whole new story. Not all web hosts are good. They will promise for unlimited bandwidth, unlimited space, and unlimited resources. But they won’t tell you the exact story about ‘connections‘, ‘CPU cycles‘ and ‘memory‘ allowed. After few months you will notice some of your website processes killed by web host. Again 500 internal server error.
Now what!
As a blogger/webmaster I have been coping with the problem of spamming for more than 5 years now. Spammers are using sophisticated ways of spamming to ruin your life. They won’t bother about how much effort anybody has put in his blog. They will just send a mass crap of spam towards your forum, blog, website and will try to make it like real comment or post. A victim webmaster will have to spend a lot of time daily to remove those crappy comments/posts rather then to do some good stuff. These spammers range from various categories. They try to sell medicine, DVD, CD and even there are webmasters who try to get promoted using spam. Spammers have got their own websites, blogs, forums. Before they used to email you and comment at your blog. Few comments. You could ignore the email and delete those comments. Now its 2010. Spamming methods have evolved.
Google chrome is a powerful web browser which has proved to be fast browser. Its simple and easy to use browser. Google Chrome has got tremendous addons now. Here are some extremely useful Addons which will make your blogging and web development work a wonderful experience. You can have bookmark manager, password manager, seo tools and more right in Google Chrome.
Use Google Analytics to monitor your site’s reach or any other analytical program but how you can compare sites which are not yours? Google trends enables you to see exact reach of any site and its comparative reach with other sites. Here is how it is.
This is a very easy example on country flag change. If you have got a form with country selection field then you can easily display a flag related to that specific country on country selection made by user. In this example all the flags images are placed in a folder named as ‘flags’ which is in folder named as ‘images’. You should have a folder ‘images’ at website root and a folder ‘flags’ containing all the flags in png file format in it. Give this script a go. This is really cool and easy way to create a user friendly selection form field.
To control fonts in percentage is the easiest method which we can choose while playing with the fluid layouts, or perhaps while working with widgets and web 2.0 elements.
It is recommended while working with layouts that we define a standard font size for html and body. In the beginning there were loose style for fonts. Nobody used to care about styling fonts. Then in the design era of computer age, designers developed and adopted techniques to control different design aspects of websites and usually most popular standard was to choose 11px to 12 px font for HTML. Many years this technique prevailed until web 2.0 arrived and some web architects decides that fonts must be clear and bold. So now designers and developers adopt a technique to display large font sizes. Font size, color, face are also a part of the design. Here is how we can control font by percentage as a unit for font size.
Links are the Web’s number one interaction element. Violating common expectations for how links work is a sure way to confuse and delay users, and might prevent them from being able to use your site. Lets see what Markup Gurus say about links, and when links meet the standard or non-standard criteria. The usability guideline for any type of navigational design is to help users understand three major points:
- Where they’ve been?
- Where they are?
- Where they can go (past, present, and future)?
These three are interrelated: If we consider browsing a site, a journey; then knowing your past and present locations makes it easier to decide where to go next.
Ever experienced a problem when regular image HTML code is displaying images in firefox but not displaying in internet explorer? If you are facing the same problem then consider taking care of following points:
What Makes Comment – A Genuine Comment
Lot of bloggers and webmasters are spammers. Spammers have got their own websites full of crap and they want to promote these. New bloggers find it tempting to post spammy comments only to get attention towards their own sites. So they come to your blog and post spammy comments to get traffic towards their sites. I get a lot of spam at daily basis. I have implemented some checks / controls but I still get spammy comments. I had allowed website URL field in comments section but then people used to post comments only to register their website URL at my site so I dropped that field from many of my websites. I moderate all the comments. When you keep doing the same thing you find yourself good at it by the end of the day, so here is a clue about how you can spot genuine comments out of spam quickly and get rid of it. Commenters can also learn something from this about how to comment the right way and what to avoid.
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