Website Design for SEO and Usability – The basics
May 30, 2009
One of the best ways to design a website to rank well in search engines is to bear what search engines like about websites in mind at the planning stages of your website design or redesign. When website owners award web design project to web designers, the last thing, usually added to the instructions, usually as an after thought goes something like this “ah, yes, and make it search engine friendly”.
In reality, most of the things search engines require in a website design to rank it highly are common sense things that actually helps website users to navigate and find information on a website easily. The fact is that if you design a user friendly website, its bound to be search engine friendly as well. This article illustrates the basics of designing search engine friendly sites that is also user friendly or is the other way round?. Some web design companies for example web design Vancouver puts user friendliness at the heart of the site design planning stages because they know the importance of user friendly/search engine friendly websites. [Read more]
Green web hosting – How to start a green hosting company
May 24, 2009
Environment concern is not a fad that would fade any more. A lot of consumers are demanding that their hosting company are socially responsible if not they will vote with their wallets and move their hosting elsewhere. Data centres are notoriously power hungry. Servers tends to consume a lot of electricity because they are running day and night. Temperature in the data centre needs to be kept at a cool constant temperature so its no surprise that data centres are said to consume 4% of the electricity used in the world.
Web hosting companies and data centres that has switched to powering their operation in ecofriendly manner tends to use some of the following me methods: [Read more]
Wolfram Alpha a new way of searching the net
May 19, 2009
British physicist, Stephen Wolfram has unveil plans to launch a new search engine which provides search results radically differently from the way existing search engine does it. Known as Wolfram, the new web search attempt to address some of the deficiencies of current web search by understanding people’s questions and answering them directly rather than sending them to other websites that answers the question.
Analogue TV spectrum to become mobile broadband
May 17, 2009
A radical new us has been proposed for the analogue TV channel to be freed up when UK goes completely digital in 2012 was put forward to the government by Kip Meek. The proposal will see the current broadband speed double and the coverage raised to 99% of, covering virtually every part of the UK.
Meek, adviser to the communications minister Lord Carter wants part of the spectrum that will be freed up by the switch-off of analogue television in to be sold next year under the condition that it is used to get basic mobile broadband coverage to 99% of the population. The proposal also wants the UK’s five mobile phone companies will also have their existing 3G licenses extended indefinitely in return for extending high-speed mobile broadband coverage from its current base of just over 80% of the population.
If the proposal is accept and implemented by the government, it is said that it would put the UK at the forefront of commercially-deployed mobile technology around the world, delivering economic and social benefits that far outweigh the costs. The expected speed of this broadband is 4Mbps.
Though this proposal gives mobile broadband services provider and advantage but when you compare broadband speed from various providers whether the use mobile technology, Adsl or fibre optic, UK broadband speed test are still slightly behind those of other leading industrialized countries in the world.
Kip Meek proposal preclude O2 and Vodafone from buying the new spectrum that can be used once the analogue television signal is switched. The two mobile giants are however free to enter the market if the sell off some of their current capacity. You don’t have to wait till the new proposed fast broadband access is live before you can buy access at affordable price, you can compare prices of broadband access at various websites on the internet.
Simple tweeks to make cPanel more secure
May 14, 2009
Having used Plesk and cPanel as web hosting software manager for a few years I am finally getting rid of the last of our Plesk servers. With very few tweaks like the one below you can make a cPanel server more secure.
1. enable phpsuexec, this will deal with many security problems. it helps you find out which or your hosting clients is doing what on your server. It also disabled CHMOD 777 which usually leave many a script vulnerable.
2. Enable cPHulk Brute Force Protection, this will prevent the most
hackings as will block any IP that enters wrong password on your server incorrectly after x number of tries.
3. enable PHP open_basedir Tweak, this prevents scripts from accessing
files outside of its own public_html folder.
4. enable SMTP Tweak, this will prevent users from bypassing the mail
server to send mail, so spammers can send messages from a servers
using other SMTP servers.
5. Disable open relay, to stop spammers using your server to spam.
