Jan | 23 | 2011

Questions to Ask a Web Hosting Service

Posted by as Featured Articles, Hosting, Software and Widgets web-services"But I don't pay for web hosting," you may be thinking. The fact is that every blog in existence today is using one sort of web hosting service or another. It's just that some may not be aware of this fact because the blogging platform that they use automatically host the blog on their servers. For those who need more web space, looking for a separate web host may the best thing that you can do. There are many advantages to using a web host ...
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Jul | 30 | 2010

Blogging with photos

Posted by Professor as Creating a Blog, Hosting, Images nikkormatcamera.jpg Sometimes a picture is truly worth a thousand words. If you prefer showing off your photography or art skills rather than your words, you can always make a photoblog. A photoblog is a type of blog that gets regularly updated with photos, though it's not the only content it can have. Offer a bit of poetry to go with the breathtaking mountain view you took on a vacation or explain what it means to you. Chronicle an event through a series of photographs and make your readers feel like they were there. Or simply share ...
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Aug | 31 | 2009

Upping Your Blog’s Loading Time

Posted by Jimmy as Hosting, Software and Widgets, Tips Wondering why your blog has a slow loading time? A quick and easy way to answer your question would be to speed test your blog. One tool I like to use to do this is Pingdom's Full Page Test. It is a free toll that helps you determine which portion of your website takes a longer time to load. According to Pingdom their Full Page Tests works by... "load[ing] a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects ...
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Mar | 28 | 2008

Domain Name Game

Posted by Guru as Hosting, Tips I was reading Jimmy's post on having your own domain. I agree that having your own domain is a sign that you take your blog seriously or at least value your blog enough to spend a little money on it so you won't have a .blogspot or .wordpress domain. In the post Jimmy said that choosing your own blog domain could be a tool for SEO because you can opt to have your primary keywords in your domain name. Aside from the keyword factor though having your own domain also has other long term benefits including: reputation - While having ...
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Nov | 30 | 2007

Domain Name: A Small Investment with Big Rewards

Posted by Guru as Hosting, Marketing and Search Optimization, Tips Thanks to weblog services such as Wordpress and Blogger, blogging has become so easy and popular. With the improvements in weblog services even first time bloggers that know nothing of HTML can set up their own blogs in a few minutes and put up their first post. Customization is also no problem since the services make room for more advanced users to configure their blogs according to their needs and taste. And this all for free! Everyone loves free stuff and the same goes with bloggers. However, there are times when shelling out just a little money is the ...
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Apr | 28 | 2007

Staying On-Topic When Blogging

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Hosting, Templates, Terminology, Tips For most bloggers, the ideas running in their heads will most likely become distorted due to anxiety and the desire to be able to expound on various topics of concern properly. This is only normal but just like in any activity that they are very much inclined to prove, the need to discipline and take into consideration that they should not get off topic must be observed. Focused Writer The issue here is that readers will not be too forgiving in making criticism, taking them to levels where they would bash bloggers at will once they have ...
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