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The Webmasters Must Have Software Toolkit

on August 21, 2009 - 0 Comments
Categories: software, tools

The focus on this list is for the beginning webmaster starting out with all 100% free software and using a windows based PC.
FTP Client: The best choice here is Filezilla. Filezilla has now been around for many years and has the benefit of being free, and is continually being updated. I have used Filezilla personally [...]

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Some thoughts on TypePad

on April 5, 2009 - 2 Comments
Categories: software

Being a fan of WordPress for it’s well written, and very active development community for code, plugins, and themes, and also because it is free and open source. I have always been a little mystified why anyone would want to use typepad, because it is missing many of those components listed above.
The big questions for [...]

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Get Addicted to Smush It

on November 3, 2008 - 0 Comments
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Smush_it update: Smush_it is now a Yahoo tool and can be found here: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/smushit/
Smush_It will smush a few extra bytes out of your images to make them smaller. In my experience it  shaves a little bit off each image, but if you add up  a few “k” off each image, it could add up to [...]

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Monitor your Sites

on September 15, 2008 - 0 Comments
Categories: software

Now that you have your websites up and running it’s time for some essential tasks. One of the most important tasks to do with your website is to monitor it.
How will you know if you website goes down? It could be hours, it could be days, but if you are not able to check [...]

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Secure Contact Form to Prevent Spam

on July 29, 2008 - 0 Comments
Categories: code, software

If you are looking for a secure and reliable contact form for your website. Please check out
www.dagondesign.com/articles/secure-php-form-mailer-script/
The emphases here is on secure, many times these scripts are terribly exploited by spammers, this one seems to be well done. I use this very form on many sites, and it works fabulously.
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CubeCart Review

on June 30, 2008 - 0 Comments
Categories: ecommerce, software

If you are looking for e-commerce software to meet these goals:

SEO friendly (keyword, and urls)
Easy to use (template driven)
Low cost (under $200)
Ownership (not leased or rented software)

Then I would recommend using CubeCart. I found this CubeCart review very helpful as well.

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