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Here’s a question: how can you make your website wildly popular overnight? The answer to the question is ‘offer free downloads’. Everyone loves to get something for nothing, and downloading is as old as the Internet itself but it never declines in popularity.
Screensavers and Wallpapers.
Wallpaper is an ideal thing to offer as a download: it’s [...]

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There are few more important factors in your website’s success than the people who link to it. But why are links so important, and how can you get more people to link to you?
Built on Links.
The early web was built on links: if people wanted to go to websites other than the ones whose addresses [...]

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You may have heard of a server system called LAMP, and wondered what it is. Well, the answer is that LAMP isn’t any one thing on its own it’s actually a combination of four technologies. Together, the LAMP technologies form the most popular overall server system on the web today.
Which technologies are they? The answer [...]

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JSP stands for Java Server Pages. The idea of JSP is to allow Java code to be embedded in HTML this is done uising XML tags. JSP allows you to dynamically add content to your pages, and also offers the facility to send Java to the web browser easily.
The Lack of Functions.
Most of the built-in [...]

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While many websites seem to assume that everyone lives in America and speaks English, most of the world, oddly enough, doesn’t. If you want your website to be successful internationally, you need to make your content available in languages other than English.
Machine Translation.
A good first step in taking your website international is to offer links [...]

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Earlier this year I had the opportunity to go with some friends over to Brooks Ayola’s photography studio and take some photos. He has an amazing studio out in LA filled with awesome equipment and toys. Besides being a fashion/commercial photographer Brooks also likes to Blog and that is how my friend got [...]

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Despite Microsoft’s dominance of everything to do with computers, their web server software sits on a relatively low 20% market share, thanks to the popularity of Apache. However, 20% of millions of servers is still a pretty substantial number of servers, and so IIS (Internet Information Server) can’t be written off that quickly.
IIS and Security.
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Have you thought about starting an online directory? Directories can be a fun thing to start if you are passionate about a certain subject. If you regularly research a certain subject on the web and happen to find a lot of sites on that subject a web directory might be the perfect thing [...]

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Once you’ve chosen your web hosting, you’ll often find that you’re given a set of passwords and technical details, before being left to more-or-less figure it out on your own. If you haven’t started a website before, that can be a daunting experience.
Point Your Domain at Your Host.
The email you received should have contained the [...]

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