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About Domain Name Registration
What is a Domain Name? If you are reading this page on the internet, then you are already using domain names, even if you don’t understand the principles involved. But what is a domain name? A technical term for the ‘address’ of a particular website on the internet, the domain name tells your browser where [...]
Continue reading...Top 10 Social Bookmarking Tools For Educators
5. August 2009
This is a guest post by Julie-Ann Amos who is a freelance writer who covers topics such as online university ratings and reviews, elearning tools, and more. Social bookmarking is a highly useful tool for educators since it allows specific categorization of websites for easy access and sharing. It works on the basis of the [...]
Continue reading...Protect Your Email Address From Spam Robots
12. June 2009
If you’re displaying your email address on your web site, you may be unknowingly setting yourself up to receive a ton of spam email. Unfortunately, spam robots are continuously crawling the Internet in search of email addresses they can use to not only send spam, but also sell to other spammers. However, although it’s very [...]
Continue reading...Configure Thunderbird for Email Accounts
13. January 2009
The following article explains how to download mail from your HostMySite hosting account using Thunderbird. If this is the first time you load Thunderbird, the New Account Setup Wizard window will open automatically, allowing you to skip to step 3. To configure Thunderbird, please follow these steps: In Thunderbird, from the Tools menu, click Account [...]
Continue reading...Email spoofing
13. January 2009
Email spoofing refers to the process of sending an email message from one source, but making it appear as though the email was sent from a different source. For example, an email originates from user@domain.com but it appears to be from email@address.com. Another method of spoofing is to make the message appear to come from [...]
Continue reading...Configure Outlook and Outlook Express for my E-Mail Accounts
12. January 2009
Outlook 2007 In Outlook 2007, from the Tools menu, select Account Settings. On the E-mail tab, click New. Select Microsoft Exchange, POP3, IMAP, or HTTP and click Next. Check Manually configure server settings or additional server types and click Next. Select Internet E-mail and click Next. Enter the requested information: Your Name: your name Email [...]
Continue reading...What do the HTTP error codes mean?
13. November 2008
What do the error codes mean? The following article discusses the meaning of error codes that may appear in your browser window. When a problem occurs loading a webpage, an error code and message will appear in the browser instead of the webpage. The error code and message that appears is determined by the type [...]
Continue reading...30 Different Ways To Promote and Advertise Your Web Site
12. November 2008
There are literally thousands of things you can do to promote and advertise your Web site, here are just a few I have found to work for me. Tell your audience what kind of support they’ll get after they buy. It could be free consulting, tech support, free servicing, etc. This may also answer some [...]
Continue reading...The 7 Secrets of a Profitable Website
12. November 2008
There are many ways to build a profitable website. You can offer a service, sell a product directly, sell something indirectly, sell advertising space, sell affiliate products, and everything in-between. There are a number of methods you can use to improve your site. Follow these steps and you too can have a moneymaking site that [...]
Continue reading...6 Tips To Put Your Web Marketing On Steroids
12. November 2008
The Internet has changed and will continue to change the way we do business. It has also created amazing marketing opportunities. The rules of the marketing game have changed big time. The new reality: Over 80% of all web traffic is coming via search engines. 88% of economically active Americans go online everyday A recent [...]
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24. January 2010
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