Backups: Another Reason to Use Media Temple
I like Media Temple because they give their users a great balance between control and ease of use. Their line of dedicated virtual servers are not only priced right—from $50 to $150 per month—they also offer you everything from complete command-line control to a great control panel in the from of the Plesk 8.6 interface. Today I wanted to highlight how much I love their backup utilities.
Read MoreMonitor Your Web Server Using Your iPhone
Default monitoring tools from many hosting services leave a lot to be desired. You have to log in to the server to use them, they're often several clicks deep into your control panel, they rarely display everything you want to see, and most importantly, they're not on your iPhone.
Read MoreWhat You’re Missing If You’re Not Using Feedburner
Feedburner—owned by Google and part of its suite of services—is the premier RSS feed tracking service. If you're not using Feedburner, here's five reasons why you should be.
Read MorePlugin Monday: Microkid’s Related Posts & the Importance of Curation
Veteran WordPress users know that there are a ton of related post plugins out there, but few of them do a decent job. That's because most related post plugins rely on searching through your database of posts, finding similar keywords to those used in whatever post is currently being viewed, and serving up those related posts on the fly. This not only makes for pretty poor results (are any of these posts really ever that related?), all of those search queries slow down page load time and put a ...
Read MoreThesis by DIYthemes: The Better Way to Customize WordPress
If you're a WordPress user and you haven't heard of Thesis, the innovative theme by DIYthemes, you should definitely check it out. Thesis may not be the most striking theme you've ever seen, but that's not the point. Thesis isn't about design, it's about creating an innovative framework for others to build upon.
Read MoreGmail vs. Outlook: The Real Question is Cost
Mashable recently asked its readers if they preferred Gmail or Outlook. Unsurprisingly (considering Mashable reader base of bleeding edge early adopters), Gmail trounced Outlook with a whopping 70% of the vote. Outlook had 19% while 11% of voters declared the two email solutions equal.
Read MoreApplying Your Own CSS Styling to DISQUS
If you're using the DISQUS comment system for your website or blog you may have some styling changes you've always wanted to make, but haven't figured out exactly how to do so. Thanks to Adam Karas—the author of the only comprehensible guide on styling DISQUS—you no longer have to live a with a half-styled site.
Read MoreSEO Best Practices: Make Your URLs “Pretty”
As I said in the previous post in this series, a lot of what used to be regarded as very potent SEO magic simply doesn't have the same impact it did even a few short years ago. For example, Google now completely ignores the keywords meta tag because it has been abused to the point of being totally useless. Instead of paying attention to gimmicks, search engines are focusing on getting better at analyzing the real content of a page as well as in the quality of the incoming links to that page.
Read MorePlugin Monday: MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer
As I've said in previous posts, update services or "pinging" services are an important features of all blogs and you should take advantage of as many of them as you can find (ReadyMadeWeb's list contains just over 240 update services). Yet, if you find yourself frequently editing published posts, you may be harming your blogs digital reputation.
Read MoreGoogle Releases New Analytics API Features
Google has released a whole bunch of changes to the Analytics API such as access to advanced segments, goal-related data, and custom variables, along with several other new features. It’s worth checking out all the changes over at the Google Analytics Blog.
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