The terms pingbacks and trackbacks are used almost interchangeably, and are pretty much the same thing on the surface. They actually utilize different technologies and originated for different purposes, but these days they are becoming more intertwined. I’m just going…
Once you’ve got your WordPress blog installed, there are a few tweaks you’ll want to make to the default settings. This is a quick overview of the Settings area of the WP dashboard. You don’t have to tweak, or necessarily…
I attended my first WordCamp this weekend and had a great time listening to some info-filled presentations and mingling with my fellow nerds. 🙂 Here’s some nuggets I gleaned from the day….enjoy. WordPress will soon run the world. Their other…
Summit Collaborative’s Marc Osten gave a free webinar yesterday about Facebook and how non-profits can use it to boost donations and engagement amongst constituents. He shared some great tips – here’s just a few of the points that were made…
A Guide To Online Marketing Terms – Part 1 I put this simple guide together to clarify some of the terms that I throw around on this blog. I’m finding that many people have heard these terms, but aren’t necessarily…
Matt Cutts is a blogger and head of Google’s Webspam team. On his blog he gives a lot of great information regarding SEO and ranking well in Google. He gave a fairly in-depth talk at this year’s Wordcamp San Francisco,…
Hunting for WordPress themes can be a challenging task. Not only are there aesthetics and functionality to consider – does my theme look good and work the way I want it to? But there’s also the issue of reliability. How…
I frequently see young fledging artists and businesses using Flash to make a fancy- looking website thinking it will allow them to play in the big leagues, and set them apart from your average upstart. But this strategy is like…
Mostly the XML API is used for account management; however, there are other features in it…
First the facts: 1) A blog integrated into your business website can help your search engine rankings: a) Search engines like regularly updated content. Many business sites are informative but not updated very often so are hard to keep at…
I just discovered Dan Zarrella this evening, and let me tell you – he is a really smart dude. Take a look at this video in which he talks about the viral importance of re-tweets on Twitter, a couple of…
If you create sites using WordPress, I’m sure there are certain plugins you find yourself using…
I’m a big fan of Firefox, and it’s been my main web browser for as long…
Forcing reboot A Linux Server is not Windows XP and if reboot fail you usually still…
Virtuozzo includes a utility to update itself and the included templates. To run this, you will…
Want to be notified instantly when someone logs into your server as root? No problem, check…
To make sure MySQL uses the query cache, there are a few variables you need to…
Moving mySQL DBs from one server to another: mysqldump -uUSER -pPASSWORD txp_database > txp_database.sql puts the…
Cron allows users to automate repetitive system administration tasks such as tape backups, database reorganization, and…
Taking backup of mysql database using cron Create a file called database_backup.sh and also an empty…
Whenever you can’t remember Root password, you can read this tutorial and do step by step…
