By Robbi Drake We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Mobile applications are getting bigger and bigger. Black Friday last year saw massive amounts of people shopping online instead of in stores. Cyber Monday was a huge hit as well, with about half of the people who shopped online shopping with mobile devices. Mobile and tablet devices are millions strong. If you want to get noticed, get a mobile application out there with your business name on it. With mobile computing, smart phones [...]

With English still the number one language in the world, there is a tendency for website designers and owners to concentrate on that language alone. We see more than 500 million English-speaking internet users and forget there is anything else until we need it. The reality is that the internet is a global marketplace. We can not forget about website translation services so that we get our websites translated into languages that we may require to efficiently do business globally. Professional translation is important in [...]

I build about 6 new websites a week. I noticed recently, as a client asked for All in One SEO Pack, that there was now an ALL IN ONE SEO PACK PRO version. Well I thought, what a bonus. While I haven’t always used it for every site, depending on the clients wishes, here was something I hadn’t really explored. Since the basic All in One SEO Pack was totally impressive and has always been in my top ten list of WordPress plugins you can’t [...]

Malware. An odd sounding word created to lump all malicious software programs, including viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, adware, and other malevolent codes into one cause-your-computer-serious-hurt category. In 2005, Computer Economics released a report on malware. The good news was that for the first time since 2002, the total worldwide financial losses from malware actually declined to a mere $14.2 billion. That’s probably no longer true. The past year has seen multiple very large companies, government agencies and IT groups fall prey to hackers. Not always [...]

it is important that we say something up front. It is essential for you to understand that there is no such thing as a totally secure operating system or web browser. Doesn’t matter what Windows or Mac tell you. There is simply no such animal as an OS that can’t be hacked or cracked and is totally immune to virus invasion. While the use of security suites and other complementing products can significantly reduce your risks, they are not magic wands that you can wave [...]

Today, with so many older Americans using the internet, as well as so many very young people, taking the time to teach internet security is important. Not only adults, but also children who may be using your computer can download malware, and need to know where the major threats are. They need to be aware of how to avoid malware. The biggest single threat to your online security is not the links you may click or the email you may get, it’s what you don’t [...]

How to Install WordPress Using Cpanel Software WordPress is among the most popular CMS and blogging software. If you’re a new user, you may have some questions about how to get WordPress up and running. How to install WordPress is a question that many new users of the CMS have. Learning how to install WordPress from scratch, or using cpanel software is relatively easily accomplished. The best method of installation will be to use Cpanel software to accomplish your WordPress installation. This automates a great [...]

For the kiddies who want to see what Santa is doing and where he’s at and for the parents who want to know when its past time to have the house cleared up and be off to bed… or in the garden with the camera to prove Santa really does exist… then you can get online this year and actually track Santa thanks to Google and Norad, the North American Aerospace Defense Command Center who thinks we should all be able to track Santa Claus. [...]

Dynamic Site Content Most of us love the little widgets on our home pages and are willing to pay a decent price to find something to put up there that offers our visitors something to toy with. Google Gadgets thankfully offers us some great content that is dynamically updating and changing all the time. Google Gadgets are great new toys that Google offers you to put on your home page with just two clicks. As seen here, the Google Gadgets Currency Converters is unique and [...]

I’ve got to say that the award for the most worthless, privacy invading, ridiculously amateur, overrated, and absolutely with no redeeming features, software ever goes to Feedjit. I have seen more of them lately than you can shake a stick at being stuck up on blog sites by people who simply don’t have a clue what they are offering to the world. Every other website and blog owner has one. Be ORIGINAL.  Don’t post dumb stuff on the blog cus its  SEEMS techno cool. Okay [...]

What is a Word Press Plugin? You all know by now that I am obsessed with WordPress. I love what it can do, I love what you can use WordPress for. I work with it nearly exclusively now and I liked it so well that I started teaching it, and building with it, and writing tutorials for it and working with the development of the documents for it. Most of all I love the massive amounts of ultra functional plugins that WordPress can use and [...]

UPDATE: The January Free WordPress Site was won by Rebecca Moore.I What the HECK is Word Press.? I hear it all the time and it never ceases to amaze me  the people who still think word press is a blogger software and nothing else. ] In it’s native state, wordpress is for blogging, true enough, but the absolute capacity for expansion that you can have with a few plugins will just amaze you. You don’t have far to look to get examples since Do It [...]

Since Squidoo is one of the top 200 most visited website in the world, it is a get exposure to your ideas. The site uses the concept of a lens, which basically means that each page can give you an overview of a specific topic. The lens filters out viewers from topics they might not be interested in. The website can be reached conveniently by typing www.squidoo.com into the location field of your browser and pressing the enter button. The first thing you will want [...]

Jessica is having a new baby. Johnny is late for the office. Mary Blount (fictional name of course) is having a nervous breakdown. If you’re a Twitter user, then you’re well accustomed to seeing little updates like this come across your eyes first thing in the morning. Twitter is one of the best places to check out the happenings in the lives of people you know, or perhaps don’t know. You can keep pace with anyone’s life or activity using Twitter, but did you know [...]

There are multiple ways to build your rank and your traffic when you are building up a new web site. One of the best ways to do it consists of using a feeder site, which will help to generate interest in your site, or “feed” traffic to it, if you will. A hub page is one of the best ways to generate traffic and interest. What is a hub page? A hub page is a free site that you can build, which is hosted by [...]