How To Create An Addon Domain

by Bill Stevens on November 12, 2008 · 1 comment

in Blogging

When you sign up for your own web hosting account you typically receive x number of free additional domains.  This means you can host other websites (domains) on your one web hosting account.  These are called Addon Domains or Sub Domains.  We’ll be discussing Addon Domains for this post.

For example, with my HostGator account I pay for one site [...]

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An Introduction To DotNetNuke

by Bill Stevens on November 11, 2008 · 2 comments

in Web Development

DotNetNuke is a Content Management System or CMS. It is written in the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET programming language.

A Content Management System allows you to get a professional website up and running quickly.  It provides functionality to easily manage the users of a website, the content, design aspects, and many other attributes of a website.

With DotNetNuke, it’s not [...]

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10 Social Media Resource Tweets

by Bill Stevens on November 1, 2008 · 1 comment

in Social Media

Here are 10 tweets from Twitter on Social Media including statistics, links, tools, people and opinions.

1. Report: Social Web Usage Tipped in 2008 by ReadWriteWeb in care of a tweet by lizstrauss

2. Social Media Now 10.31.08 by Social Media Club in care of a tweet by jfouts

3. 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professional and Journalists [...]

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Loops are things in programming languages and operating systems that process stuff. Loops do what they sound like. If you were to run around in circles you are also looping around in a circle. So, if you can imagine running around in circles in the same spot, you have the ability to process stuff while you [...]

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Thesis Theme 1.3 for WordPress

by Bill Stevens on October 29, 2008 · 0 comments

in Wordpress Themes

Hey, it’s WordPress Wednesday and I got more on the Thesis Theme for WordPress.  Now, I’m not trying to stick to a strict editorial schedule but since it’s Wednesday and I’m trying to update my Thesis theme I thought I’d write about it.

Shortly after I talked about some of the stuff I would like to see in the Thesis [...]

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Searching Windows Vista begins with the Start Search box located on the start menu.  This little search box is pretty powerful.  Working in Windows Vista recently, I found myself paying more attention to the Start Search on the Start menu.

The Start menu search box offers fast results by returning categorized, matching results as you type.  The search box searches [...]

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Thesis Theme 1.2 for WordPress

by Bill Stevens on October 20, 2008 · 1 comment

in Wordpress Themes

The WordPress Thesis theme is now at version 1.2 and there are a few changes as well as a bit of an overhaul in the plumbing - the guts of the theme.

While upgrading, if you follow the instructions by renaming your current thesis theme folder to something like thesis-old and then copy over the new thesis to the themes [...]

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Learning Ruby On Rails

by Bill Stevens on October 16, 2008 · 0 comments

in Web Development

What is Ruby on Rails?  Ruby is a programming language and Rails is a framework.  What the heck’s a framework?  Well you’ll find it through the resources listed below.

At the Ruby Programming Language website they describe Ruby on Rails as:
A dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is [...]

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