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Designing your own website
Jul 9th
Almost everyone, at some time during their journey to become the next Internet millionaire, has designed (or redesigned) their own website. Some have had shining success, others, miserable failure. In case you are wondering, the latter is much more common.
This is because a true web designer often has a formal education and has spent years refining their skills to learn what works and what doesn’t. You see, there is much more to designing a website than appearance alone. You have to think about factors like usability, conversions and SEO, to name just a few.
If you can afford to hire a professional More >
Tips for Choosing a Reliable Ecommerce Hosting
Jun 4th
There is undoubtedly a very long list of ecommerce sites out there, and the goal to stand out is getting harder to attain. Aside from having an informative website with user-friendly functionalities and features to make people interested on the products and/or services that you offer, you also need a reliable ecommerce web hosting provider to leverage the internet and to ensure that your potential customers will go back to your site. Undoubtedly, choosing a reliable ecommerce hosting is a crucial key to internet marketing success.
So how would you know if the ecommerce web hosting provider is reliable enough for your More >
How to remove www from a domain
Mar 18th
Want an easy way to make sure your visitors always see http://yourdomain.com instead of http://www.yourdomain.com? Here’s how to automatically remove the www from your domain (or vice versa).
First, edit (or create) your .htaccess file, using mod_rewrite to either remove the www from, or add it to your domain.
To remove the www from your domain:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} www.example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
To add the www to your domain:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Next, simply upload your .htaccess file to the root directory of your web server and you should be all set. Be sure to give it More >
Setting up WordPress as a content management system
Feb 27th
WordPress is one of the most popular blogging platforms, but many people don’t realize how powerful it can be as a content management system. Mainly, because they either don’t know of the capability, or they don’t know how to set it up.
Fortunately, it’s as easy as a few mouse clicks. Simply click on the “Reading” link under the Settings tab at the bottom right of your menu, then select the radio button next to “A static page” and from the drop down menu, choose the page that you would like to appear as your home page. The last step is More >