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With over a 100 million active monthly users MySpace is the dominant social networking site. Like most users, you probably have your ID and image completed and have contemplated how you can enhance the appearance of your page. Without too much difficulty, this can be done with a little knowledge of HTML tags and Cascading Style Sheets [CSS]. If you are an active user you will want to have a first impression that says something about you to any new visitor. Read the rest of this entry �

Blogging is an interactive process where visitors to a blog site can leave comments in response to articles or stories, referred to as posts, created by the site owner or publishers. The term “blog” is short for Web Log and was apparently first used in 1997 by Jorn Barger to describe a site he maintained comprised of a list or “log” of links to sites he believed to be of interest. Since then, the development community has developed a variety of content management and blogging applications with a wide range of capabilities that have made the process of publishing content and exchanging ideas almost as simple as creating documents in a word processor. Read the rest of this entry �

YouTube offers an incomparable opportunity to expand on any effort to distribute your message via video be it for your business, a hobby, or for sharing with any online community. Weather you have a web cam or professional level video recorder you can easily prepare videos and upload them once you have a YouTube account. Joining YouTube is not only simple it is also FREE! Read the rest of this entry �

The “Free” collection of online applications included with Google Docs provide a great introduction to the SaaS [ Software as a Service ] world. Word processing, spreadsheet or presentation documents can be created from within your web browser with an interface that has the familiar look and feel of popular desktop applications. All you need to access these services is an existing Google account and access from any web enabled computer. Read the rest of this entry �

Firefox 3 was released last Tuesday with over 15 million downloads registered by mid-day yesterday. The much anticipated release of the open source browser represents the efforts of thousands of developers worldwide over the past three years under the banner of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. Ground breaking innovations include vastly improved performance with the new Gecko 1.9 platform that brings malware protection, reduced memory usage and customization that personalizes the browser in a truly unique fashion. In it’s current release it is a bit sensitive but not so much that it should deter anyone from exploring it’s benefits. Read the rest of this entry �

Businesses small and large are taking advantage of the extensive availability of web-based business applications that continue to emerge across a wide variety of industries. Rather than purchasing applications to be installed on a local system or network server these are subscriptions to applications accessed over the Internet by from any web enabled device. SaaS ["Software as a Service"] offerings have increased as web standards???????? ????? ???????? have spread and high speed Internet access has become the norm making universal access via the Internet practical.

WordPress blogging software offers everything you could want to publish your blog in an intuitive user friendly interface for both visitors and publishers alike. You’ll enjoy the state-of-the-art technology updated regularly by a dedicated development community including a variety of easy to implement themes to choose from that will compliment the image you hope to present to your public on the Internet. Don’t be suspect just because it’s free!
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Firefox web browser add-ons provide a wide variety of features that can replace costly third party utilities or extend capabilities that you would simply have a difficult time finding anywhere else. Webmasters, administrators, marketers, developers and site or blog owners are offered tools that include code validation, search ranking stats, file transfers, color matching, blog entry and more. While we will only be reviewing some of our favorites here you can go to the Firefox Add-ons page to find the extensive list of ad-ons.
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Websites are generally of a brochure design describing products or services offered by a company to the public or other businesses. This is all well and good if you have a specific offering the visitor is seeking, they know how to use it, and you are among the few places they are able to get it. For the rest of us successful online marketing involves appealing to potential customers by showing them how it is that what we are offering will benefit the prospect, knowing who that prospect might be, and knowing how to reach out to them specifically with something that meets their needs or desires. Read the rest of this entry �

Drupal provides a feature rich framework based on php scripts for building dynamic websites that can be run on a variety of platforms including Linux, Mac OS X, Windows or FreeBSD where Apache or IIS is setup and a compatible database such as MySQL or PostgreSQL is available. Once installed you have all the tools you’ll need on site accessed through any web browser. The content management system [CMS] has an extensive menu that allows you to control layout and a variety of data base driven content for web pages, blogs, forums and other publishing options. If you are only interested in blogging you may want to consider an alternative such as Blogger or WordPress. The appeal of Drupal is it’s versatility. It is one of the many open source projects found in fantastico that comes with cPanel hosting.
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