Joomla! 1.6 open source CMS now available, with more granular controls
Joomla 1.6 is designed to offer better site control and a more polished user experience. There are a variety of improvements to the software, enhancing website management and access, a more robust organizational structure for content control, and various other user-experience improvements throughout the software.
“With new features and capabilities such as the hierarchical design of the access control system, semantic XHTML layouts, one-click extension updates and multi-language functionality, Joomla 1.6 has evolved to become the most user-friendly and powerful tool yet for developing a web presence,” said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a not-for-profit created to provide organization, legal, and financial support to the Joomla project. “This has been accomplished through the tireless feedback and work on 1.6 by the thousands of members of the Joomla community over the past year.”
Joomla is one of the easiest to use and most extensible content management systems available, making it the most popular and downloaded open source website software in the industry today (it has been downloaded more than 22 million times). It is used for everything from small personal websites to the backend management for some of the largest enterprises and highest traffic sites on the Web, including sites operated by Citibank, eBay, General Electric and McDonalds.
Joomla 1.6 offers a new access control system which allows site administrators control over who can view and manage content. It also brings unlimited depth organization models, which allows content creators to define categories and create a category tree with as many (or as few) levels for organizing articles as needed.
Additionally, this release unveils one-click extension updates which greatly simplifies the process of adding extensions. Sites can now be built in multiple languages with the new multi-language functionality.
In addition, developers and implementers will enjoy the new ability Joomla 1.6 provides in allowing extensions to be built with granular control and permissions. This makes it easier to create more advanced, enterprise-focused applications and extensions for Joomla.
“The current Joomla Platform provides developers with the tools they need to rapidly build the Web of the future,” said Ron Severdia, a member of the Joomla production leadership team. “Although 1.6 is being released today, the Joomla production team is not resting on its laurels. We’re hard at work developing even more powerful Joomla features for the future, such as new search capabilities and new ways to leverage website content.”
SEO for Google Places
Ranking highly in Google’s local results is extremely important for local companies. What can be frustrating for a company is ranking top in the organic results but not appearing in the local listings at all, or vice vessa. What’s even more irritating is that some of the local results ranking above you don’t even link to an official website.
What is Google Places/Local ?
Google Places is a business listing page within Google’s Maps service. Within Google Maps, a user can find products or services offered by local businesses; as well as transportation directions and business information.
The business information shown to a user within Google Maps is the product of the information compiled and retrieved from Google Places (or the business’ “Place Page”).
If you’ve ever conducted a search at Google.com, you’ve probably already been exposed to Google Places. You’ll know this by the incorporation of a map and a set of listings when you include a city or region within your search.
In fact, recent changes in Google’s search engine will now show the Maps listings with a great deal of emphasis when a local search is conducted; pushing the “organic” listings down the page.
Thelistings from Google Maps take up the majority of the results page. And each of these listings is created by a Google Places listing.
Why is ranking high in local results important?
If you take a look at how much space the local listings can take up, you begin to realize that your high organic ranking becomes almost irrelevant when your key search terms bring up Google Local results.
Google Local vs Google Organic Results
People generally aren’t going to bother looking past the local results because the local results have the following conveniences
1. Reviews to see how the businesses listed handle themselves
2. Phone numbers of the business
3. Map markers to let them see the proximity to their household
4. Direct links to websites for more information
For the average user, there’s not much more you really need from there.
So now we acknowledge that for our niche, ranking highly in the local results is really important. Naturally the question that follows: How do we get up there?
How to rank highly for Google Local Results
Right away you can tell that the algorithm for local results is completely different than the algorithm for organic results. This is because backlinks, the backbone of organic results, has much less influence on the local results.
Factors that most influence the local search engine results
The top 5 factors IN ORDER are:
1. Having Local Businesses listed in the city of the search
2. Citations from Major Data Providers
3. Categories
4. Claiming your Business Listing
5. Keywords in Business Title
Google Local Results may seem mysterious at first, but they are actually quite easy to get a handle on. I hope this article will help you in your SEO efforts to knock out those silly Google Maps results!
Components of a good website footer
A footer can be a useful and very important mean to for site navigation and can be used to distribute information to your viewers / visitors. You can always place those tiny bits of information about your website in the footer section like you website’s web server and CMS brand, your mini portfolio, your contact and what not. In this article we will show you how to write a very effective and user friendly footer for your webpage.
* Keep this thumb rule for Footers in your mind: Your footer should be clean, concise and readable.
* Flashy graphics, unconventional fonts and creepy designs should be avoided for your footer (unless your web site is a portfolio for your web design work or something of that sort)
* The font used in your footer should be clearly visible over the background color of your website’s theme.
* A link should be clearly distinguishable from a normal text. Follow standard conventions for deciding how should your links appear to your users.
* Footers should generally be center aligned instead of left or right. Also avoid floating arrangement of footers (which can be done using CSS)
* Footers should not be too information heavy, and it is advisable NOT to stuff links or information into the footer.
* Make sure that the footer should occupy only the lower 10%-15% of your Web page’s vertical length. The only thing lowest in your web page would be a copyright notice.
What should be in the footer ?
About Us Link: This should include basic information about you or your company.
Contact Us Link: It is important to have multiple and thorough ways of contacting a website’s owner and the webmaster.
Terms of Service: All the terms and conditions and legal terms for your website or may be the products you showcase on your website should be included under this link.
Privacy Policy: If your website is a one which collects your viewers’ or users’ data then you must let your users know so as to how are you planning to use the user information you collect and how safe is their information kept with you.
Site Map: A Sitemap helps your users to easily navigate the rest of your website. Also if anyone gets lost in your website they can find their way to other pages using a sitemap. Generally people who are get lost, scroll all the way down a page, thus the perfect location for a sitemap is the footer. A sitemap also helps a search engine to better index your website. You can use the Google’s sitemap generator to generate your own sitemap.
Address and Phone Number: If your business is office based then it is always a good idea to include your address and a telephone number in the footer.
Social Media Links: The footer makes a great place to place your social media links in an easily accessible place on every page.
Search Form: If a site design does not allow for a search form in the header or if search is an action of secondary importance, the footer provides a viable alternative location. It’s unlikely, however, that visitors will know to look for search in the footer without discovering it first through browsing.
Comprehensive list of internet domain TLDs
Here is a comprehensive list of internet domain extensions (cc tld – country code top level domains) in alphabetical order.
.ad Andorra
.ae United Arab Emirates
.af Afghanistan
.ag Antigua and Barbuda
.ai Anguilla
.al Albania
.am Armenia
.an Netherlands Antilles
.ao Angola
.aq Antarctica
.ar Argentina
.as American Samoa
.at Austria
.au Australia
.aw Aruba
.az Azerbaijan
.ba Bosnia &Herzegovinia
.bb Barbados
.bd Bangladesh
.be Belgium
.bf Burkina Faso
.bg Bulgaria
.bh Bahrain
.bi Burundi
.bj Benin
.bm Bermuda
.bn Brunei Darussalam
.bo Bolivia
.br Brazil
.bs Bahamas
.bt Bhutan
.bv Bouvet Island
.bw Botswana
.by Belarus
.bz Belize
.ca Canada
.cc Coco’s Keeling Islands
.cf Central African Republic
.cg Congo
.ch Switzerland
.ci Ivory Coast
.ck Cook Islands
.cl Chile
.cm Cameroon
.cn China
.co Colombia
.cr Costa Rica
.cs Former Czechoslavkia
.cu Cuba
.cv Cape Verde
.cx Christmas Island
.cy Cyprus
.cz Czech Republic
.de Germany
.dj Djibouti
.dk Denmark
.dm Dominica
.do Dominican Republic
.dz Algeria
.ec Ecuador
.ee Estonia
.eg Egypt
.eh Western Sahara
.er Eritrea
.es Spain
.et Ethiopia
.eu European Union
.fi Finland
.fj Fiji
.fk Falkland Islands
.fm Micronesia
.fo Faroe Islands
.fr France
.fx Metropolitan France
.ga Gabon
.gb Great Britain
.gd Grenada
.ge Georgia
.gf French Guiana
.gh Ghana
.gi Gibraltar
.gl Greenland
.gm Gambia
.gn Guinea
.gp Guadeloupe
.gq Equatorial Guinea
.gr Greece
.gs South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands
.gt Guatemala
.gu Guam
.gw Guinea Bissau
.gy Guyana
.hk Hong Kong
.hm Heard and McDonald Islands
.hn Honduras
.hr Croatia – Hrvatska
.ht Haiti
.hu Hungary
.id Indonesia
.ie Ireland
.il Israel
.in India
.io British Indian Ocean Territory
.iq Iraq
.ir Iran
.is Iceland
.it Italy
.jm Jamaica
.jo Jordan
.jp Japan
.ke Kenya
.kg Kyrgyzstan
.kh Cambodia
.ki Kiribati
.km Comoros
.kn Saint Kitts and Nevis
.kp North Korea
.kr South Korea
.kw Kuwait
.ky Cayman Islands
.kz Kazakhstan
.la Laos
.lb Lebanon
.lc Saint Lucia
.li Liechtenstein
.lk Sri Lanka
.lr Liberia
.ls Lesotho
.lt Lithuania
.lu Luxembourg
.lv Latvia
.ly Libya
.ma Morocco
.mc Monaco
.md Moldova
.mg Madagascar
.mh Marshall Islands
.mk Macedonia
.ml Mali
.mm Myanmar
.mn Mongolia
.mo Macau
.mp Northern Mariana Islands
.mq Martinique
.mr Mauritania
.ms Montserrat
.mt Malta
.mu Mauritius
.mv Maldives
.mw Malawi
.mx Mexico
.my Malaysia
.mz Mozambique
.na Namibia
.nc New Caledonia
.ne Niger
.nf Norfolk Island
.ng Nigeria
.ni Nicaragua
.nl Netherlands
.no Norway
.np Nepal
.nr Nauru
.nt Neutral Zone
.nu Niue
.nz New Zealand
.om Oman
.pa Panama
.pe Peru
.pf French Polynesia
.pg Papua New Guinea
.ph Philippines
.pk Pakistan
.pl Poland
.pm St. Pierre and Miquelon
.pn Pitcairn
.pr Puerto Rico
.pt Portugal
.pw Palau
.py Paraguay
.qa Qatar
.re Reunion
.ro Romania
.ru Russian Federation
.rw Rwanda
.sa Saudi Arabia
.sb Solomon Islands
.sc Seychelles
.sd Sudan
.se Sweden
.sg Singapore
.sh Saint Helena
.si Slovenia
.sj Svalbard and Jan Mayen Islands
.sk Slovakia
.sl Sierra Leone
.sm San Marino
.sn Senegal
.so Somalia
.sr Suriname
.st Sao Torme and Principe
.su Former USSR
.sv El Salvador
.sy Syria
.sz Swaziland
.tc Turks and Caicos Islands
.td Chad
.tf French Southern Territory
.tg Togo
.th Thailand
.tj Tajikistan
.tk Tokelau
.tm Turkmenistan
.tn Tunisia
.to Tonga
.tp East Timor
.tr Turkey
.tt Trinidad and Tobago
.tv Tuvalu
.tw Taiwan
.tz Tanzania
.ua Ukraine
.ug Uganda
.uk United Kingdom
.um U.S. Minor Outlying Islands
.us United States
.uy Uruguay
.uz Uzbekistan
.va Vatican City State
.vc Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
.ve Venezuela
.vg British Virgin Islands
.vi U.S. Virgin Islands
.vn Viet Nam
.vu Vanuatu
.wf Wallis and Futuna Islands
.ws Samoa
.ye Yemen
.yt Mayotte
.yu Yugoslavia
.za South Africa
.zm Zambia
.zr Zaire
.zw Zimbabwe
Domain Parking Tips
Buy good domain names – not just names that sound good to you, but names that are keywords which occur in daily SE searches. For this you could use specialized keyword analysis software like Wordtracker. For example; keywords like freegames get actually typed in with extension. People actually type in freegames.com or porn.com. I know that such names are already taken and would cost a fortune to buy, but there are still thousands of search queries which people still type in. Your job would be to research and find these. Needless to say, make sure that you don’t end up buying domains with lengthy keywords as very few people are going to type in buytoysinwestvirginia.com. Your better bet would be buytoys.com. Or wvtoys.com.
Knowledge is power. Read… Read and Read. Also, ASK whenever possible. But only ask when you are sure that your answer is nowhere to be found. That helps you engage in self study and lesser reliance on other people. Sometimes, the person who may guide you, may actually not be an expert. You could end up getting wrong information and wasting time on fruitless endeavors. Always try to find out information yourself first and only when you have reached a dead end …then ask someone. Why? Because if you try finding information yourself, you most likely end up reading a lot of related information which you never knew existed in the first place. This helps you increase your knowledge. For example, you wanted to know some medical keywords and you ran searches on forums and search engines, while searching, you might end up finding that there is a new lesser known keyword that pays much more and is a better niche to target. In my initial months of domaining I first started reading every recognized forum and made various searches for my related information. I didn’t know what a keyword was and didn’t even know what PPC meant. I have yet tons to learn and very less time on hand. Work HARD today, and you WILL reap the benefits of your domain tomorrow!
Ask people how things work. If you park your domains, ask your account manager if in doubt. This helps you establish a better relationship with your domain parking company and also makes sure that you understand their parking system well. Be in regular contact with your parking provider to find out vital information on upcoming upgrades/feature updates they are planning. This helps you gain an advantage in advance. For example, you might learn that your domain parking company is introducing new templates or getting a new feed targeting Europe in a few weeks. This knowledge can help you plan your domain portfolio in advance to gain maximum returns.
Don’t just give up on any parking service in 10-15 days just because you ended up getting 3-8 cents. Try to figure out what could be wrong on your side. Maybe you need to use better keywords? Maybe you need a change of template, a nice header? Try it all out before you move. And always make a note of changes made to your domain and the resulting change in CPC & CTR if any. This can help you lock in your best performing keyword and template. It takes time but its worth it.
Moving from one parking service to the other is time consuming and with no success guarantee. Its better to have solid built up stats from one service which can eventually also help sell a domain name based on steady revenue stats.
I sometimes notice that new domainers seem to lack patience to do all this and just throw out broad questions like “tell me the best keyword for this domain”.. you give them an answer and they are gone. Then, they come again after 20 days saying ” now tell me what should i do with this domain’s keyword”. The learning potential here is very minimum and the person isn’t even understanding if the keyword being given out is relevant to his domain.
Try keywords which
1) Have a better CPC value &
2) Which are relevant to your domain’s theme
3) Which bring up related ads which a visitor might be interested to explore
If any of the above 3 combinations don’t match, you will end up getting a low CTR. Sometimes higher paying keywords bring up ads which are so boring and hopeless in ad content that nobody would be interested to click on them. We have to realize that we already have a disadvantge of having a parked domain page. It should be our endeavor to use empathy and look at our own domain landing page as a visitor and check to see if we ourselves like what we see. Once you have these solid principles in mind, you will start seeing a better CTR and resulting payoffs.
Sometimes it is better to target a lower paying keyword with better ads and CTR, simply because you atleast make some money rather than nothing. Makes sense right?
Domain age and SEO, Is it very impotant ?
For traffic, on it’s own at least, in my experience,I don’t think so. Having a ten year old domain that Google knows nothing about is the same as having a brand new domain.
Rankings in Google come down to opportunity and TRUST.
I also hear if you have no credit history AT ALL, you’ll find it hard to get credit, because of a lack of, well, trust built up over the years, that you can actually pay back.
Likewise, do you trust someone implicitly you met in primary school and haven’t heard of in 35 years?
People judge each other by their actions over time, so would it be reasonable to think Google going into 2010 is the same?
In a better situation, you trust a friend you’ve known consistently for 10 years. Other folks cite them as trustworthy. As you get to know them better, you believe in them more.
A 10 year old site that’s constantly cited by, year on year, the actions of other, more authorative, and trusted sites? That’s valuable.
But that’s not the age of your website address ON IT”S OWN in play as a ranking factor. A one year old domain cited by authority sites is just as valuable if not more valuable.
Perhaps Domain age may come into play when other factors are considered – but I think Google works very much like this on all levels, with all ‘ranking factors’, and all ranking ‘conditions’. I don’t think you can consider discovering ‘ranking factors’ without ‘ranking conditions’.
Some rankings may improve over time if a site is highly relevant (I’ve seen this) and has done nothing to break Google’s ‘trust’ but perhpas this is just because Google is getting better at finding relevent content?
It’s worth noting that this slight ranking improvement probably gets beat down anyway as competitors concentrate on geting more weighty benefits to their site (ie links from other trusted sites).
I work with a lot of domains over 10 years old, and this age metric doesn’t stand up wel, on it’s own, to more likely rewarding Google ranking factors. For instance – I’ve got an exact match domain I made 3 months ago on page two of Google for it’s main term with one link.
I think you’ve really got to be thinking like a Google engineer when considering ranking factors and under what conditions they may be of benefit to your seo, or to its detriment, while it can be fun to surmise about these factors.
Domain and SEO : The Ten Factors
1. Domain age; (NOT ON IT”S OWN)
2. Length of domain registration; (I don’t see much benefit ON IT”S OWN even knowing “Valuable (legitimate) domains are often paid for several years in advance, while doorway (illegitimate) domains rarely are used for more than a year.”) – paying for a domain in advance just tells others you don’t want anyone else using this domain name, it is no indication you’re going to do something Google will reward you for iMO).
3. Domain registration information hidden/anonymous; (possibly, under human review if OTHER CONDITIONS are met like looking like a spam site)
4. Site top level domain (geographical focus, e.g. com versus co.za);
5. Site top level domain (e.g. .com versus .info);
6. Sub domain or root domain?
7. Domain past records (how often it changed IP);
8. Domain past owners (how often the owner was changed)
9. Keywords in the domain;
10. Geo-targeting settings in Google Webmaster Tools (YES – of course)
I considered doing something similar in 2010 as the above, but you’ll get more benefit from Google sticking to the simple stuff than trying to identify for sure if anything but the very obvious is at play in Google rankings:
* How Niche You are
* How Relevent You Are
* Better Crap Links You Have
* More and Better Quality Links from real sites wether they are relevant or not
Perhaps what I am saying is I focus on other more obvious ways to improve rankings. I try and do what others have done only better. None of these signals on it’s own regarding domain age or registration is a sign of trust Google would take on it’s own merit.
Domain name whois privacy
If you have a domain name online, your personal information, including e-mail address, phone number, home address all the boxes for all to see who knows a simple WHOIS search. For many it is a disturbing piece of information is rather, it is important for the security you need. You can avoid that the data will go to the public, if a registration of a domain name if you know how. The odds areregistration web site has security features that make it difficult for people to see your data. You need to find the security settings or how to prevent your data to go public.
Sometimes you have to do to pay for it, but it is not always the case. In an era where information about almost anyone or anything related, it is reassuring to have some ‘more security.With the online WHOIS easy to find just about anyone can find personal information about you, because you register a domain address. Some sites are better domain registration to protect the privacy of their customers, but do not want to take any risk when it comes Data protected in full by typing into the wrong hands.
E ‘is extremely important for the site you go to vote searchRegistering a domain name ending in. Usually pretty sure that the choice of traditional, highly promoted online and on TV, but it is not always a guarantee of excellent service. They always want more than the company’s word on how good they are. Read the reviews of people who are considering the use of you have the registration page is a good idea. In this way you will get a more realistic perspectivewhat they want and whether or you can trust them.
These reviews are unbiased and written by people who are paid to say positive things the company over. Web Site Policy “Privacy” in the domain registration that you believe the election is very important for many reasons. Some sites have absolutely no qualms at all to sell or give your information to other companies. You need one hundred percent sure that yourThe information will be protected in line as soon as the registration of domain A. You must pay for it or not, you should always make sure you’re protected. Finally, it will give you peace of mind so that you can rest easy knowing your data is safe.
PLEASE NOTE THIS PRIVACY FEATURE DOES NOT APPLLY TO .co.za DOMAIN NAMES
How to Snatch A Good Desired Expiring or Expired Domain
The first question someone might ask is “why would I want to grab an expiring domain name?” We will show some of the many reasons why you might want to do this, as opposed to coming up with a new name and registering it. First, due to companies going out of business, sometimes very good domain names become available. If you were starting a business selling widgets would you rather have the domain name widgets.com or imsellingwidgets.com? While really prime domain names are rare to crop up and can be very expensive, they could be worth it for your business.
Another reason you might want to buy a existing domain name is that it has a track record. It is well known that search engines consider new web sites as less trustworthy and rank them lower than established web sites. If you could pick up a domain name that has 5 or 10 years of history behind it, then you are that much farther along in the search engine ranking game. If the site you pick up happens to have a lot of links to it you will also benefit from these links when the search engines look at your site. However, is must always be taken into account that history can work against you. Before trying to snag that perfect sounding web site, you must research it and make sure it is not subject to penalty by the search engines. Perhaps the previous owner violated search engine guidelines, promoted spam or ran a less than honorable web site. Your new business would not want to inherit this history.
When you find that perfect sounding domain name — check it out. Go to the search engines and type in the name in quotes and see what comes up. Look at how many web sites link to the site. Check out the quality of the links. Links form major web sites are a great thing. Links form less than reputable web sites are a problem. Of course if you find no links to the web site that will limit the value of the site in terms of history and search engine performance. Is the site listed in the DMOZ or Yahoo directory? If so, that is a good thing however, it will often drive up the price of the site. Go to alexa.com and check out the site there. See how many links they report for the site. Then click on the way back machine tab and take a look at the history of the site. Look at it year by year and make sure the site was always a legitimate web site.
If you’ve ever had a domain name before, you know that it has an expiration date. If you don’t renew it, you lose your rights to the name. However, what is not obvious is that domains don’t expire when you think they do. There is a very complex process in place that dictates how domains expire, how they drop and how they become available. Figuring out when “the drop” occurs and being able to grab the name is the key to a successful capture. For 40 days after you think that your domain expires, it goes into “expired” status. During this time the original owner can register the name again without penalty and nobody else can grab the name. After 40 days the domain goes into what is known as “redemption”. The domain is still not available to anyone else but the original owner can still get it back — but only after paying a significant fee. Domains in the “expired” state quite often are renewed and they only get to this state because the owner forgot or procrastinated to renew and there is no penalty to renew. Domains that reach the “redemption” state usually are not renewed.
After the “redemption” phase, the domain enters what is known as the “locked” phase which is the actual deletion phase of the process. This phase is 5 days long and the domain is released for registration starting at 2PM Eastern time of the last day of the deletion period. The release phase lasts from 2PM until 5PM but the actual time when any particular name gets released is unknown. You must keep applying constantly in the hopes that you catch your domain. The entire domain cancellation process takes 75 days from the day the domain was listed as expired.
In theory, if you go to any registrar and try to register the name during this time period, you will be able to get the name. However, the reality is that there are likely many people trying to grab the name by working through companies specialized in grabbing domain names. They have sophisticated computers that pound away at the registrar of the name over and over again in order to catch the instant the name releases and is available. The odds of anyone being able to do this on their own are minimal.
Catching a expired domain during “the drop” is one of the things in life that require you use a service company. In all likelihood, you simply cannot do it yourself. Most of the domain companies like Godaddy offer backorder services. For a nominal fee they will attempt to acquire an expiring name for you. The success rate of these entry level backorder services is dependent on the amount of interest in the domain. If the domain is interesting to lots of people and some of them decide to use the high end domain snatching companies the entry level services will likely fail. Unfortunately, the higher level services come at a much higher cost. While the cost of entry level services is less than $20 the entry cost of a higher level service is at least $60.00. However the cost doesn’t stop there. These services do not use a first come first served business model. What they do is grab the domain and then auction it off among the people who expressed interest in it. In the end your perfect domain name could cost you hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars. Fortunately, you can decide up front what the most you want to spend is. You can bid that amount and if you get lucky you get your domain name.
The following three companies comprise the high end of the domain name drop grabbers: snapnames.com, pool.com and enom.com. Each of these companies uses a propriety network of partners and systems to try and grab a expiring name as soon as it is released. It is impossible to tell which of these companies will be the one to succeed but if the domain is even the slightest bit interesting you can bet all three will try and grab it. So for you to grab that perfect name it means signing up with all three of these companies and backordering your domain name with them. Fortunately, signing up and placing a bid is free, you only pay if you win the name. In this way you pretty much insure that you will be in the running for the name once one of them captures it. Once the domain is captured a 3 day auction typically starts. You can bid whatever your maximum is and it will automatically increment your bid to just above the previous highest bid up to your maximum. Some of these companies will sometimes even run a second runoff auction between the two highest bidders in order to squeeze as much money as they can out of you. In all of this keep in mind that the company that grabbed the name got is for just a couple of bucks in cost. Every penny between that and what you pay is their profit. They all have a vested interest in getting as much money as they can for the domain name.
All of these companies also offer listings and searches of expiring domains which you can browse for free until you find that perfect name.
Is it all worth it? You have to ask yourself if the domain you are wanting is worth the price. If the answer is yes, than the above process and enough money will likely get you your domain name.
Tips for choosing a new business domain name
If you intend to buy a sizeable number of domains, try to ‘park’ them with one single domain name company. Domains are far easier to administrate and keep up-to-date if they are in a single place you trust. again, for this reason, having a single domain name supplier will help.
How To Display Error Messages in WordPress
One question we get a lot at WebDevnet is what to do when you receive the dreaded WordPress White Screen . WordPress by default hides all error messages from displaying. This is for security reasons as error messages can actually help hackers penetrate your website.
So how do you display error messages in WordPress? Easy! Just add the line of code below to the top of your .htaccess file in the root directory of your WordPress website.
php_flag display_errors on
That’s it! Error messages will now display across your entire WordPress website.
Another method used to display WordPress error messages is the WP_DEBUG flag:
define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true);
Just drop that line of code in your wp-config.php file and errors will start displaying.
Remember to only use these techniques to help troubleshoot errors and remove it as soon as you are done , otherwise you will compromise the security of your Blog.