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Why WordPress Is The Absolute Best Platform For Your Membership Site

January 28, 2010

NOTE: WordPress is right for you, only if you want to actually launch your membership site some day, make money from your site, and do not wish to spend an insane amount of time creating and maintaining it, and only if you do not wish to spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars outsourcing the creation [...]

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Insane Web Hosting Deal From DreamHost

January 5, 2009

My favorite web host DreamHost is offering an *insane* deal… 2-year web hosting (normally $214) can now be purchased for just $21.48 – that’s almost a 90% discount. And I just got a new account (already have 3 accounts with them!) This is not an affiliate offer. This is just a coupon I found online, [...]

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Chat With Your Visitors: Google Chat For Your Web Site

November 21, 2008

Until last night, I thought I was quite tech-savvy and very up-to-date with the latest and greatest in the web world. But I guess I was wrong I started on a (brief) quest last month to add live-chat to some of my sites. After looking around, I couldn’t find a decent free solution. Of course, [...]

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How To Check If Your Web Site Can Run PHP Scripts (or WordPress)

April 10, 2008

Create a file called phpinfo.php Enter these few lines of code in it: (you can copy-paste from below): <?php phpinfo(); ?> Upload this to your root folder (where your home page (index.htm or index.html etc) lives. Access this script via the browser like this: http://www.YourSite.com/phpinfo.php You should see a nice page come up, with the [...]

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Google Supplemental Index

September 24, 2007

In my book “No Business Like E-Business“, I write about the Google Supplemental Index (GSI – Ravi’s acronym). Basically, this is like the “alternate” Google database, where sites that are “on the way in” or “on the way out” show up. If yours is a new site, it may show up in the GSI before [...]

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How To Use Blog-And-Bookmark To Send Your Traffic Through The Roof

July 11, 2007

You know what is Blog-And-Ping. Blog-And-Bookmark is quite similar. You first blog about something (hopefully) interesting, then once your blog’s ping service has done its work on the back-end pinging all of the various web sites and your post is live, then you go to work as follows. Use a one-to-many social bookmarking tool like [...]

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Cool FireFox Plug-in Installation Trick

February 4, 2007

Everytime I come across a cool Firefox plug-in, I want to install it and use it right away. This is even more true when I want to perform a task (like, say, grab the color code of a cool looking color from a web site), then search if a Firefox plugin exists to do that, [...]

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Gimp vs. Photoshop

January 17, 2007

GrimThing has this interesting post that makes a practical comparison of Gimp and Photoshop. Summary: For businesses: Photoshop rules! For home use: Don’t pirate Photoshop, and use Gimp instead, which can do all the basic stuff you need to do anyway. Personally, I’ve used both Gimp and Photoshop, but primarily use Fireworks just because I’ve [...]

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How To Display RSS Feeds On Your Site

December 27, 2006

If you know what a “blog” is, you probably already know what a “RSS Feed” is. One of the best (not to forget, cheapest and fastest) ways to get free content for your web site, is to display a third-party RSS Feed. Every time the feed’s content changes, content on your web site automatically changes, [...]

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