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Webjockey

Jul 21  10
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Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few months you cannot have missed the latest in a long line of must have domain extensions hitting the market. The .co extension is, if the hype is to believed, the future of the internet and the solution to all the problems that have [...]

Is the new .co domain extension just another waste of money?

Feb 01  07
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It doesn’t matter what software you’re using to power your blog or Web site—WordPress, Textpattern, Drupal, Pligg, etc. At some point, there’s a good chance you’ll need to run cron jobs to automatically execute various tasks on your preset schedules. For example, it’s a very good idea to schedule automatic backups of your database. Your [...]

How to Create a Cron Job in cPanel

Nov 15  06
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There are numerous ways to backup and restore your MySQL database, from the simple to the complex, both manual and automatic, some reliable and others spotty. In this post, I’ll outline several strategies for keeping your MySQL database safe and secure. Since I use WordPress, I’ll talk specifically about backing up a WordPress database, but [...]

8 MySQL Backup Strategies for WordPress Bloggers (And Others)

Jan 06  06
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Since I’ve been working on redesigning the site, I’ve been stumbling on a number of useful tools. The Web Page Analyzer from WebSiteOptimization.com helps you test your Web site speed and offers suggestions to improve performance. Analysis and recommendations cover a number of factors that influence load times, such as HTML, number and size of [...]

Optimize Your Site With the Web Page Analyzer

Jan 06  06
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You can learn a lot about visitors to your site from studying your log files. There are numerous statistics services (like Google Analytics) and software packages (like Mint) to help you view your information in a variety of ways. But Crazy Egg (still in beta) provides more immediate insight into how users actually use a [...]

Monitor Visitor Clicks With Crazy Egg