We’ve all been there – you have a great idea for a website, but all the good names are already taken. Don’t despair, there a lot of free (or almost free) tools that can help you find great memorable domain name without breaking the bank. Check out the list of resources below and feel free…Continue Reading
If you are looking to build a blog or web application that requires a MySQL database, you will first need to create the database in order to use it. In this guide I will show you how to setup a MySQL database using the GoDaddy Hosting Control Center. This is the control panel associated with…Continue Reading
In order to install WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or any other dynamic content management system (CMS) you must first have a couple of things ready. First, you need a web host that will host your files on the web, second you will need a domain name (www.yoursite.com) and third you will need a MySQL database. This…Continue Reading
Unless you left one of the Meta widgets enabled on your WordPress website you will probably have a hard time signing on to your site if you have never done it before. The Meta widget I’m referring to is one of the default widgets that you will find on the sidebar in a default WordPress…Continue Reading
If you’re a business owner in the beginning stages of your website or if you’re a developer working on a large application for your website, a virtual private server (VPS) often works well to get you off the ground. However, if your goal is growing your business, adding a large amount of dynamic content and…Continue Reading
Are you looking for a way to combine CSS files without having to rely on a website or a WordPress plugin to do it for you? If so you are going to love CSS Mixer. It is free, easy to use, and gets the job done. CSS Mixer provides a GUI (graphical user interface) to…Continue Reading
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could test new plug-ins or a new design without ever touching your Live WordPress installation? Sure, you can create a mirror of your site on a test.yourdomain address, but why run the risk of crashing the server hosting your website if one of the plugins you are testing goes…Continue Reading
I recently committed myself to post a minimum of two YouTube videos for some of the more popular how-to’s on GilsMethod.com. As a result of this greater involvement with YouTube I stumbled across the Creator’s Corner which has a ton of useful information for YouTube creators like myself. Among the tools I discovered was a…Continue Reading
Now that you’ve picked out a domain and hosting plan for your website the next thing you need to do is actually access the server. In order to access the server you will need to have your user name and password as well as a FTP program to connect to the server. In the guide…Continue Reading
Building and maintaining a website requires several major decisions – what will the site look like, who’s the audience and what should it do? One important question that’s sometimes saved until too late, though, is what kind of hosting plan is right for the site? That answer isn’t always as easy as it seems –…Continue Reading
Did you know that Microsoft offers free SEO advice for websites? Well it’s not direct from Microsoft, but indirectly through a free SEO Toolkit you can download right now. The IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit from Microsoft offers webmasters a set of tools to help analyze how optimized a website is for search engines. If…Continue Reading
Have you ever wanted more control over the formatting of a blog post? You can accomplish this by using applications like Word, Windows Live Writer, and others. However before you can use any of these applications to publish to WordPress you will need to enable remote publishing using XML-RPC within WordPress. The how-to below will…Continue Reading
How many times have you sent friends a 20 minute YouTube clip for 5 seconds worth of humor, 10 minutes into the video? I know I have, fortunately the folks at Google provide YouTube users with a set of parameters that control when a video begins. These parameters can be used in two scenarios, the…Continue Reading
If you’re building up an extensive collection of movies in the new Blu-ray format, chances are that you’ve spent a couple of bucks putting it together. To help protect that small fortune that you call a movie collection, there are a couple of apps out there that will help you backup these discs so that…Continue Reading
If you are looking for a quick, easy and FREE method to convert your favorite movies and TV shows to a format you can take with you anywhere, you need to check out BDlot Video Converter. BDlot Video Converter is part of a greater suite of applications that allows you to convert videos to any…Continue Reading
With the imminent launch of iOS 5 for the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is moving forward with its new music offering for iTunes, Match. iTunes Match stores your entire music library in iCloud (another new service from Apple debuting this fall). When you store your music in iCloud you can access it from anywhere…Continue Reading
One of the settings I always enjoyed in Outlook is the ability to customize work hours so that my available time (work time) would appear on the calendar as a reminder not to schedule anything past a certain time. Google has taken this concept event further and now allows users to hide those morning and…Continue Reading
Just the other day I needed to print a monthly calendar in Mac OS X and realized that I had never done it before. When I opened the print dialog box I was amazed at the number of options available to print a calendar in iCal. So I decided to write this guide to help…Continue Reading
Have you ever found yourself looking for a particular set of files that are either named similarly or are of the same file type? Rather than perform a search in Mac OS to locate these files each time you want to access them, you have the option of creating a Smart Folder to simplify this…Continue Reading
