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Content Management System

Content Management Systems

A Web Content Management System (CMS) is an online website that is used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text. For example your typical news media website might have articles, videos and archives, forums etc, and a CMS, enables the owners of the website to manage these through the...
Search Engine Optimisation

Search Engine Optimisation

Search Engine Optimisation usually abbreviated to SEO, is the art and science of increasing your website’s ranking in search engine organic results, thus increasing the volume and or quality of traffic to a website, from the organic or algorithmic search engine result pages (SERPS). The Search Engine Results Pages (aka SERPS), have different sections that are worthy of mention. These include the...
Drupal CMS

Drupal CMS

Drupal is a free and most importantly Open Source Content Management System (CMS), written in PHP and MySQL. It is used as a back-end system for many different types of websites, ranging from small personal blogs to large corporate and political sites. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including Types of websites that have...
Logo Design and Branding

Logo Design and Branding

Only a good logo can deliver the results you desire. If your logo has been intelligently designed keeping in mind the essentials of a good logo design, there is no reason why your business will not get the attention and profits you crave. First and foremost, essentials of a good logo design demand that it should be designed keeping in mind the business needs, aspirations, industry and a perfectly...
E-Commerce Applications

Skeptical about E-Commerce

As with the majority of the population, many people are skeptical of using e-commerce as a safe and viable way of shopping online, that is unless it is your favourite pizza and garlic from the local Pizzaria down the road. In recent years, and with all things in technology, the amount of trade conducted electronically has grown exponentially with the widespread increase of internet usage. The...
What's the deal with Twitter?

What's the deal with Twitter

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users...
Social Networking

Taking advantage of Social Media

To cover the basics, social media and networking is the connection of people and or organisations by broad or specific types of relationships of interest. Facebook connects those that are interested in staying in touch with family and friends, with unique on the side niche communities, that enable them to connect to and interact with communities that they are interested in, such as the local...
Web Browser Compatibility

Web Browsers and Your Website

If you have ever surfed the net, watched a video on YouTube, done your internet banking, or checked your emails online, you have used and experienced the web through what is known as a Web Browser. In fact you are using one right now! Basically it is a window, which allows you to 'browse' the web. Most half savvy users, will be aware of what a web browser is, or have been told by a friend, to...
Intro to PHP and MySQL

Intro to PHP and MySQL

So basically, these two topics are quite complex and indepth topics in themselves, but this article will give a very light introduction to what these two web technologies involve. PHP is a 'serverside' language, which means that it is run on the computer that you are requesting the web page from. So if you visit a website such as amazon.com, you are requesting the website from a computer in...
Open Source Solutions

Open Source Free Software

Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials—typically, their source code. Some consider it as a philosophy, and others consider it as a pragmatic methodology. Before open source became widely adopted, developers and producers used a variety of phrases to describe the concept; the term open source gained popularity with...
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