Hosting status

If you’ve chosen to have your website hosted with Tall Poppy Digital,you can now check if there are any problems just by visiting here and looking in the sidebar.

I’ve added a widget there for the Dreamhost Status feed,through Twitter,which gives updates on any issues that may be occurring.

As annoying as . . . →Read More:Hosting status

Tech Support Cheat Sheet

With thanks to Randall Munroe of XKCD.com:

The Tech Support Cheat Sheet –be the envy of your colleagues and co-workers and fix your family’s computers using this highly sought-after free guide

You can download it here:Tech Support Cheat Sheet at XKCD.COM

Photoshop 3d book and box

Thanks to the wonderful people at Stylish Design,anyone who has Photoshop CS2 or up,together with some graphic design skills,can create really nice,convincing-looking 3d eBook and box images.

Click to open the Stylish Design eBook page

It’s a really nice solution and looks great! The only thing to remember is to save . . . →Read More:Photoshop 3d book and box

Webmaster information- useful,free information

Google Webmaster Help Google provides a number of free services for users of the web (and by default,users of their search engine. Bing is a newcomer to the market and only time shall tell how popular it gets). Google Webmaster Help The Google Webmaster help gives answers to questions that you probably haven’t even . . . →Read More:Webmaster information- useful,free information

Beware of excessive domain name pricing

I and my good friends once owned a domain. It was a nifty domain (think it cost us $30US for a year at the time). It was for a street magazine I’d conceived on the flight back to OZ from the UK.

We let it go. There simply wasn’t the time to keep the magazine . . . →Read More:Beware of excessive domain name pricing

Gmail signatures

One of the few shortcomings of Gmail that I’ve found is that if you use it to manage more than one mail account,you can’t have a custom signature for each.

For those not in the know,you set the signature in the Settings >General tab.

But if you’re using Mozilla’s Firefox internet browser, . . . →Read More:Gmail signatures

Don’t pay for what’s free

A report today in the Melbourne Age about a company charging another to change the picture on google maps. It’s pretty clear to me that the people who wanted their picture removed weren’t experienced with web searches. Read the report here

Google Adwords

Here’s an article from Melbournes The Age about Google Adwords.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/beginners-guide-to-google-adwords/2009/04/27/1240684398708.html

Interesting stuff –Google Adwords has to be one of the most useful ways of targetting advertising for your business —it’s based on the search that a person enters into Google and advertising (very short and succinct) is displayed down the right hand . . . →Read More:Google Adwords

Facebook for beginners

Here are instructions for you to use to get onto Facebook,create your account,and hook-up with friends and groups. All you need for this is the obvious:a computer with an internet connection!

Where do I start?

I’ll guide you through the following tasks:

Creating your Facebook account Finding friends Joining groups Creating your . . . →Read More:Facebook for beginners

SEO for beginners article published…

Ben Angel of Nationwide Networking has published our “SEO for Beginners”article on his business blog:

Click to open Part One of the article,with comments.

Part two will be published next week.

Thanks Ben!