If you work on an intranet site for a company, please read-me
Over the years I have built and worked on tons of intranet sites. When brought in to work on an existing intranet site, I commonly face a fairly big problem. There is no guideline to site management.
When I sit down it’s assumed that I will know where content goes, server capabilities, if the company has a style guide, backup procedures, and how much control I actually have. The list of unknowns is essentially infinitely long, and to make matters worse, the boss often has no clue as well. Continue reading »
Just do it! How many websites have been built like that? Most of them? With nearly an infinite amount of ideas to have a website, and the thousands upon thousands of webmasters out there, expecting all websites to be built the same way would be foolish.
For those of you that run a small business, and have no time for the technical details, I imagine/know many of you are pressed to say just do it. When it comes to your website though, you better know some basics. Continue reading »
It’s time for another post to help your site load faster. My last post, Suggested Methods by Google for Speeding Up Your Website, finished off with caching. The next step to take for speeding up your website is to minimize round trip times, RTT.
RTT refers to all the requests required when a user accesses your website. This is not a size of file issue, but a number of requests issue. For example, my home page currently has 24 resources that need to be requested and transferred. The less the site has, the faster the transfer. Continue reading »
Sticking to this weeks theme of speeding up your website, I thought I would address the most likely source of all our visitors, Google. Google may not be your primary source of visitors, but I’m sure you are getting at least a fair percentage of your traffic from them.
To make sure they are happy with your site, a good start would be to make sure you have taken their recommended steps to ensure your site is optimized for fast loading. Continue reading »
I don’t recall ever having a martini while signing up with a new web host, but I may have had a few beers setting up a personal one. Pictures help draw a visitors attention, and Velcom.com is putting this theory to the max. Bikini girl and cocktails, the perfect recipe for getting some tech geek guys attention.
Velcom offers cheap web hosting service, and in their words, offer cheap VPS hosting. Continue reading »
HostNexus, known as the Cheap Hosting company, is having a promo for their dedicated servers. The deal runs until October 31st, and is giving $100 cash back on any dedicated server order. I found out about this yesterday, and I thought it amusing that my own hosting company sent me an email just today about their promo. My hosting company was offering the same deal, but for $400 a month to celebrate their 15 years of business. Sorry guys…no deal for you this time. With Host Nexus, you can get a dedicated server for as low as $149 a month.
HostNexus also has a Reseller Web Hosting plan that is priced lower than my hosting company. I’m thinking I may be done with my guys for new stuff. They have plans starting at $24.95 for either Linux or Window machines. Continue reading »
I know many of you are keeping the midnight oil burning, and cranking out websites on the fly. Forums, blogs, ecommerce sites, you name it. Well here is a nice little gem to help you crank them out even faster, Site Valley.
Site Valley has been around since 2001, and if you are looking for one of the best cheap web hosting sites to crank out sites fast you may have just found it. Site Valley supports shared, VPS, and dedicated servers. You may have heard of them for their cheap VPS hosting, but what they should really be known for is their shared hosting plans. Continue reading »
Here is one that I have not seen in a long time. Some sneaky snakes were trying to get some free backlinks to their not so reputable websites on to my website. How? They simply pinged my site from their sites…a few hundred times and counting. Continue reading »
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