Every business big or small has jumped onto this bandwagon and the trend has no signs of slowing down. It means if you’re not into it – you’ll be left out at speed.
If you run a small business especially a one-man operation, e-commerce may sound totally intimidating. It’s true especially if your company doesn’t even have website yet.
Tools are the most important items that the ancient humans used to climb to the top of the food chain; by inventing tools, they were able to accomplish tasks that their bodies could not, such as using a spear or bow and arrow to kill prey, since their teeth were not sharp enough to pierce many animals' skins.
Running a blog or e-commerce site usually requires the usage of images to increase its effectiveness.
This is more so true for an ecommerce site as it represents a normally physical outlet with goods people can see and touch. No website can fully match the real experience except trying to be close to that by displaying still images, sound or video. Using just a bunch of texts to describe a product may not be so appealing to most web visitors.
You have a blog which you post article quite frequently and it is getting a decent amount of visitors everyday. Now, you’re thinking if it is possible to generate some income out of it?
Yes, it is possible but the size of your income will depend on many factors including:
I love Ping.fm for I can submit a post to many sites by just sending to it. It then distributes it to many other sites automatically and these include Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook and lots of others. It’s also free to sign up and use.
In Drupal you start this by downloading and installing Ping.fm module.
Problem is, I’ve failed to get it to work until I got fed up and forget about it. I got this “Failed posting Ping.fm” error every time I wanted notify new post to Ping.fm.
The advent of CSS has made web layout tasks a lot easier than it used to be in the past. However one bugging problem for designers was how to achieve an equal height in a multi-column layout.
Recently I noticed that my site was showing some kind of error in place where OpenX was supposed to serve ads. As I had no time to troubleshoot, it was left that way for quite sometime.
This is what was shown in the OpenX ad zone, a phrase that says “$creative_html”. Hey, what does that mean?
There are several options at hand when it comes to creating, editing and publishing posts for your blog other than using the default built-in editor. You may go with desktop applications such MS Live Writer and Blogdesk.
If you prefer one that’s a Firefox Add-on, ScribeFire can do the job too and it does it quite well at that.
If you’re working on an eBook, report or software, sooner or later you’ll most likely need to have a cover to go with it among other things. In this case you actually have at least four options at your disposal:
1. Hire a designer
Perhaps one of the easiest but may not be the cheapest. As usual, head on to Elance.com or Guru.com to look for a suitable graphic artist. Typically quality can be the best if you’re willing to pay for it.
I know there’s no hard and fast rule on this subject. And for beginners this is even more trickier to choose which way to go.
Presumably when you just started off, money and time are not a luxury. Therefore they must be spent wisely or you may not achieve your desired goal in time.
Apart from being a free-version replacement for MS Office Suite, another remarkable feature of OpenOffice is the ability to convert documents to PDF format easily and elegantly.
While some people resort to virtual PDF printers route, OpenOffice offers a more straight-forward approach to having PDF formatted documents. Some people are rather confused having asked to “print” a PDF while all they wanted was to “convert” a document to PDF, not print. So using OpenOffice makes more sense in this regard.
While not as many as in the past, there are still a number of good FTP clients that are provided for free. Some have adopted option to upgrade for a paid version if you require more features.
Please carefully read license agreements for details as they differ from publisher to publisher.
While basic features are very much similar among all FTP clients, there may be some special requirements that you are looking for such as:
With this setup you’ll have a site using your own choice of domain name.
It can be in the form of “mysite.com” instead of having something like “mysite.wordpress.com”. Most people prefer the former as they believe it looks more professional. Do you think so too?
However there’s a price to pay for this advantage. One is the domain name registration which typically cost you around $9 per year depending on which TLD (top level domain - .com, .net etc) and which registrar you get the domain from.
A Content Management System or CMS is a software package specifically designed to manage a website, content publishing, internal processes and workflows.
Here are some of the popular CMS for online business including internet marketing:
WordPress
Joomla
Drupal
Content Management Systems (CMS) are seen across the Internet to help deliver an interactive and user-friendly web site experience more than ever.
Firstly if you’re on WordPress.com, there’s nothing to do as your blog is mobile friendly by default! You can even login as admin at http://m.wordpress.com from your mobile set. This is cool!
Now, what if your blog is a self-hosted one?
You just have to install one the many plugins available that will turn your site into a mobile version if it detects a mobile device or browser accessing the blog.
If you’re looking for an alternative to online image editor such as Photoshop and the like, here is one called Aviary.
It’s a free online service that allows you to upload your own image file, edit it and an option to save it online too. Apart from an editor, it also tries to build a community around its services too.
All my Drupal web-sites are built on a single installation of Drupal codes. This is commonly known as multisite configuration. One major advantage is that there is only one set of codes to worry about whenever it comes to site maintenance such as program upgrade etc. Those running more than just a handful of sites will appreciate this facility.
Having said that, all my sites above are top level domains. I have tried without success in the past to create sub-domain sites using the same multisite configuration above.
I have been using several video format converters in the past but I am most happy when I discovered this free one – Any Video Converter.
It is a all-in-one ripper and video converter tool. It is a video converter which converts almost all video formats including DivX, XviD, MOV, rm, rmvb, MPEG, VOB, DVD, WMV, AVI to MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, 3GP or FLV movie formats.
A new service called Buzz has been rolled out. It offers Gmail users to easily follow their email contacts and chat partners. Hmm, doesn’t that sound like… Twitter?
It depends on what you mean by that. If it is about your effort to make money in the online business, this article by Andrew may shed some lights or inject a fresh motivation to keep you going.
Tools are the most important items that the ancient humans used to climb to the top of the food chain; by inventing tools, they were able to accomplish tasks that their bodies could not, such as using a spear or bow and arrow to kill prey, since their teeth were not sharp enough to pierce many animals' skins.
It depends on what you mean by that. If it is about your effort to make money in the online business, 