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Initially, the online marketing boom mainly changed the daily habits of adolescents, college kids, and young entrepreneurs. Now, Grandparents look forward to e-mails with fresh picture attachments, and more people meet their significant others on the web than they do at speed-dating convention. If there is an interest, someone has created a way to profit…

Secret #1 – There is no secret! Secret #2 – There is only one secret So what is the key to a successful marketing campaign? First of all, you have to develop a well developed strategy that maximizes the full exploitation of your resources. Your strategy will consist of long, and short term goals. Once…

A former business colleague and I used to play chess regularly and one day he introduced me to an ancient game called Mancala. Mancala has its roots in Africa and its object is to capture as many stones at possible from your opponent. I quickly became consumed in the infinite mathematical complexity of such a…

You can check this by running: ping hello.domain.com This should respond with something like this: [root@grossiweb conf]# ping hello.domain.com code>PING hello.domain.com (62.193.xxx.xxx) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from my.serverhostname.com (62.193.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.058 ms 64 bytes from my.serverhostname.com (62.193.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.040 ms 64 bytes from my.serverhostname.com (62.193.xxx.xxx): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.071 ms 64 bytes…

Cron is a Unix scheduling utility. The syntax is a bit cryptic, but it can be figured out. You’ll need to either have telnet (shell) access to your server, or some other way to interface with it (like 34SP’s cron front-end). You’ll also have to have a host which allows you to run cron jobs.…

Recently, we were called to create a splash page to greet visitors on an existing client site and direct them towards a new feature. Similarly, you may want to collect some information on your visitors, ask them to choose their location or language, or simply present a video animation. Initially, we thought we may have…

1) First you need to select all the files you wish to rename.  To select All Files in a folder you can go to Edit > “Select All” or press Ctrl + A. On the other hand you can select Multiple Files by holding down the “Ctrl” Key and selecting individual files with your mouse.…

First of all be conscious of what version of Flash you have. Many tutorials skip this step and because each version of Flash may have new Action Script commands, older commands may no longer be viable. For example some scripts that work in Action Script 2.0 will produce errors and not function in Action Script…

Add one line to the special configuration file for the subdomain. Normally this file is located in /srv/vhosts/yourdomain/subdomains/yoursubdomain/conf/vhost.conf . If you do not see the vhost.conf file then go ahead and create it with the following text: ServerAlias www.yoursubdomain.yourdomain.com If you do not have write permissions, you will probably have to do this work via…

Great Tips for Researching Links Whether you want to find out exactly who is linking to your site or research your competitors’ linking strategy, here are some quick and easy tips.  Google and Yahoo! make it very simple to see links coming to and from a certain URL – you just have to know the…