Tag Archives: website

December, 2009

• 2 December

  Create your own website

  Before you decide to create your own website, you should evaluate your own skill level. If you have made websites before and have experience with XHTML and CSS, you can skip to the next step. If you do not, you should start learning or consider one of the alternatives. The …
• 2 December

  Make your own forum website

  There are many issues to consider when creating your own forum website: themes, topics, moderators, administrators, categories, advertising, user permissions, and policies. One of the most important decisions you will make, however, is choosing the forum software. Discussion forum software can be proprietary/commercial or free and open source. It can …
• 1 December

  Hosting Website Tutorial

  Hosting a website for the first time can be both exciting and daunting. The best course of action is to try it first on a test site and then move to a production environment once you are more comfortable. Here are some quick easy steps to getting started. 1. Decide …

November, 2009

• 24 November

  Find the right color scheme with Color Scheme Designer

  Sure, you can have the fastest server and own the perfect domain for your website, but do you know anything about web design? There’s no point in having a powerful server and a killer domain if your site looks hideous. Luckily, you don’t have to be an artist to have …
• 23 November

  Deny Access to Any Files

  Question: I have a set of files on my website with the extension .rpc. They are financial files, and I want to make sure that no one can access them from the web. Can i do that? Answer: On an Apache server, you can do just about anything, and .htaccess …
• 18 November

  Benefits of Using CSS

  There are many design benefits to using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), but there are also technical ones that any website owner or server administrator should consider. Originally, websites were mostly just text and images with no fancy boxes, menus, or other slick layout schemes. Over time people started getting more …
• 18 November

  Flash-based Websites

  Question: I just purchased a small hosting account for my art studio, and I am considering having a Flash designer make the site. Is this a good idea? Answer: Flash-based sites have many benefits: virtually unlimited possibilities for animations, video streaming, and dynamic applications. All of that, however, comes with …
• 16 November

  Monitoring Connectivity with Traceroute

  In the hopefully unlikely event that you are unable to access your website, the first thing you should check is your own network connection. You may find that you cannot access any websites. If that is not the case, there is a network problem between your computer and your server. …
• 11 November

  Password Protecting Your Directories

  Question: How do I password protect a directory on my website? Answer: Many web hosting control panels offer a “password protect” feature for your directories. If not, there is a moderately easy way to do it with an Apache .htaccess file. First, create an .htaccess file that looks like this: …
• 5 November

  Downloading from the Web using wget

  Another neat feature of Linux and Unix-like servers that is very convenient when you need to download files is a command called “wget”. With it you can connect to websites and download files directly from the command line, even if you are connecting via SSH. For example, if you want …