Archive for April, 2010

Addicted to Social Media

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Students of Maryland University agreed to cut on social networking for 24 hours, not even use of computers or mobile phones Recent study at the University of Maryland asked their students to go without use of websites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz etc, in other words no connection with social media at all. However at the same time any use of internet or even computers including cellphones were forbidden as well. From 200 participants


Starting an Online Business

Wednesday, April 28th, 2010

Few essentials needed to start your business online What do you need to start an online business from scratch, here are just few tips to launch your online presence. Domain Name Make your life easier and your online business more succesful by chosing your domain name wisely. My number one recommendation when buying a domain is to include the keyword(s) of the service you’re offering, at the same time let it be easy to remember


WordPress on GoDaddy Server

Monday, April 26th, 2010

People don’t set your file/folder permissions to 777! This morning I received e-mail’s from few of the clients hosted at http://www.godaddy.com in regards to http://www.wpsecuritylock.com/cechriecom-com-script-wordpress-hacked-on-godaddy-case-study/ found on Twitter. People are asking me if they should be concern about this so-called threat. The above article whether was true or not has nothing to do with WordPress platform or your hosting at GoDaddy. Website owners often do many unreasonable things such as changing their WordPress folder permission (chmod 0777) and


Site Speed for Better Ranking

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

Google’s Newest Algorithm, Site Speed As I am reading Google Blog about newest Google ranking factor (the site speed) there are many people out there concern about what’s going to happen to their site if the server they are on isn’t so good, or if they host with shared server. I could understand some of them, but come on how in the world is this a bad thing? Here are some basic steps how you can


WordPress 3.0 Beta

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

What’s new in WordPress 3.0? Few moments ago I installed the 3.0 beta version of WordPress and so far there’s nothing but great things to say about it. Let’s start from beginning. The installation: On the screen below you can see some major changes in WordPress security, an automatic password creation is no longer in use and another big plus added was the option to change (use) a different username for site administrator. Way to