[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Everyone already knows – news about his death spread around the world quicker than a wildfire. It was a feeling that many of us will never forget. For me – it happened on the train ride home from the office, as I updated my Blackberry News Feeds and saw it. Gizmodo’s post – […]
Author Archives: Michael Boguslavskiy
$1.99 Domain Names at Namecheap
Namecheap has been running alot of domain name specials lately tied into the amount of likes their Facebook page has. Back in July Namecheap ran a campaign where they attempted to attract 5000 new likes to their Facebook page – and provided they achieved this goal – they would offer all of their Facebook fans […]
StatCounter Launches Redesigned Site
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]StatCounter has been around for a while now, focused on offering in-depth traffic information about your website completely free of charge. Over the years the user community around StatCounter has greatly grown – and with this came the requests for new features and functionality; and ofcourse StatCounter listened. Roughly 9 months ago StatCounter launched a […]
Recent Downtime
As you probably noticed the past 36 hours our site has been either down, or displaying an error 403, or some other weird message. Yesterday, September 28th at around 3pm our server had crashed, and complications upon complications started to pile up as we started fixing everything. Please take note that the recent downtime played […]
iPage Hosting On Sale at $2.95/mo
For the next 24 hours, or more correctly 23 hours as of this post, iPage is offering their “iPage Essential Hosting Plan” at 63% off the usual price of $7.95/month. That means you can now get unlimited disk-space, bandwidth, and emails – for a mere $2.95/month with a 2-year contract. A 1-year contract is still […]
StartLogic Offering 50% ProLogic Hosting Plan
For a limited time only, StartLogic’s ProLogic Plan is on sale for $3.95/month. The ProLogic Plan Features: Unlimited Storage and Bandwidth Space Unlimited Email Addresses Per Domain Name Option of Shopping Cart Integration $100 of Free Ad Credits for Google, Yahoo! and Bing This offer ends September 30th – so you only have 9 days left to jump […]
Creating Custom Error Pages
One of the most common uses for a .htaccess file is to create custom error pages. The Apache server comes pre-installed with several different error pages, the problem with them is that they are quite frankly…. ugly. In order to use custom error pages we just need to add the following line(s) to our .htaccess file (for […]
Creating a .htaccess file
Before you can start using any htaccess commands and functions, it is important to know how to create a .htaccess file. Surprisingly this actually causes people lots of problems. Most Operating Systems, Windows in particular, will not accept the file name .htaccess when you go to try to save the document. This error seems to […]
$1.99 .US Domain Names from Namecheap
Namecheap always has some pretty awesome coupons on their domain names, the latest one being $1.99 .US domain names. You get the first year registration of a .us domain and a free email account, plus you can register up to 5 domains per user account. Act fast as the amount of available domains is limited. Simply head on over to Namecheap and use […]
Night & Day Detection
If we assume that people’s interests vary according to the time of day, your website might be well served by promoting different kinds of content depending on whether its day or night. For example lets say we have two articles, one about the sun eventually burning out, and one about the Hale-Bopp comet. We can […]
Google Updates Reconsideration Procedure
If your site isn’t appearing in Google search results, or it’s performing more poorly than it once did (and you believe that it does not violate Google’s Webmaster Guidelines), you can ask Google to reconsider your site. In the past you would receive notification that your reconsideration request has been received – with another notification once it was […]
Twitter Launches Web Analytics
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]Most businesses with any online presence, along with bloggers and webmasters, are aware of the benefits that Twitter can have on your business. There are SEO benefits, marketing and promotional benefits, and customer relationship benefits to name just a few. Fact is that you’re business or website has probably been mentioned on Twitter […]
5% Off Shared Hosting at SpeedySparrow
[frame align=”left”] [/frame]To be honest I had just recently discovered SpeedySparrow Hosting – and I am already in love with them. I first discovered SpeedySparrow through Sean’s and Eric’s posts over on the WebHostingTalk forums. What really caught my eye was that Sean and Eric would often help out and provide solutions for users of […]
Make Life Easier With Custom Photoshop Actions
Once you start working with Photoshop for some time you’ll find that your projects require many of the same, repetitive, actions and tasks. By creating custom actions for your more routine tasks, you’ll have more time to focus on your image. Creating a custom action is relatively easy, so in this tutorial I am going […]
Getting Ready For Video (Video Filters)
Just as in print, not all the colors you see on a computer monitor can be reproduced correctly on video. If you are preparing overlays or graphics for TV or video, you can use the NTSC filter from your Video submenu to make your graphics broadcast safe. Take a look at the following graphic before […]
Google Reworks Internal and External Site Links
Most of you by now probably utilize Google Webmaster Tools, and if not you really should be. For those who do use Webmaster Tools, chances are you have noticed that Webmaster Tools will only recognize internal links to your site if they exactly match your setup domain. For example http://www.rapidpurple.com links will not be displayed […]
10% Off On VPS Hosting at myHosting
The new coupon code for the month of September from myHosting offers you 10% off on your 3 or 6-month VPS subscription. Use Coupon Code: 10off36 to receive the discount. If you’d rather get something free, rather than something discounted, consider the vps123 coupon code which offers 3 months free for an annual signup, 4 months free for a […]
New September Coupon from E-Releases
eReleases, a leader in press releases services for businesses, bloggers, and website owners, has released their September coupon good for $50 Off Any Press Release Order. For The Discount Use Coupon Code: Sapphire11BZ. eReleases.com ensures that your press releases will go out to the major news publications in the nation, such as: USA Today, The New York […]
New September Coupon from Namecheap for .com/.net/.org/.biz
To welcome in September Namecheap has released their new coupon code, HOTNCOLD, offering discounts on new one year memberships of .com/.net/.org/.biz domains. The coupon drops the price for .com and .net to $9.10/domain – as opposed to the original $9.98; while the price for a .org or a .biz will drop to $8.81 compared to […]
The Pen Tool
The pen tool is an extremely valuable feature in Photoshop – however often overlooked by most people due to a simple lack of understanding how all of it’s components really work. I will attempt to breakdown the various options and features of this tool and hopefully help to provide a better understanding for what it […]