Migrating to a New Hosting Service Made Simple by CNET
Tom Merritt shows you how to migrate your website to a new host in this video from CNET. Tom uses a WordPress blog as his example and show you all the steps in the process from FTP and database backup to hosting configuration and DNS changes.
Read MoreUsing Mass-Follow Tools to Increase Your Twitter Followers
When you follow someone on Twitter, by default Twitter sends an email notifying them that you're a new follower. Sometimes this results in someone looking at your profile, checking out your previous tweets, and following you back. So, following people can result in increasing your followers, especially if you can figure out a way to follow people on-mass.
Read MoreDistribute Videos on the Web and to iTunes & TiVo with Blip.tv
For anyone creating long-form videos such as recordings of lectures, conference presentations, panel discussions, or other lengthy and large videos, Blip.tv is an excellent and cheap means of hosting and distributing your video.
Read MoreGoogle’s Move to Abandon IE6 & the Case for Web-Based Software
Google has already announced its intent to stop supporting Internet Explorer, so the email I received today from the Google Apps support team was entirely unexpected, but it did contain some interested bits of information that I did find surprising. It also illustrates why the ReadyMadeWeb IT mantra, "Software should be handled by software experts," is so spot-on.
Read MoreLearning About the Demographics of Your Visitors Using Quantcast
Unlike Google Analytics or other analytics packages, Quantcast combines direct measurement of your site's traffic with what's known as "panel data," which is data collected from surveys of Internet users. By combining these two data sets Quantcast is able to tell you not only how many people are visiting your site, but also things about those visitors like their income level, age, sex, educational attainment and other useful info. This information is useful to you if you want to sell advertisi ...
Read MoreTwo New Plugins from ReadyMadeWeb
Because PHP Code Widget has some security risks and isn't the ideal solution for using Monday's plugins as widgets, I decided to create a couple of very simple plugins that will create widgets for both column-list categories and column-list links. Check them out on our new Plugins page.
Read MoreBroken YouTube Counters, a Commom Problem with No Solution
Yesterday I was involved in publishing a video a to YouTube that had some major PR power behind it—outreach to top bloggers as well as radio and TV exposure—so the video got a ton of views. While the traffic to the video's landing page skyrocketed, the view count of the video stayed stuck at somewhere just above 300 views for several hours. Comments kept pouring in, the ratings number climbed, but the views stayed stuck.
Read MorePlugin Monday: WordPress Mobile Edition
As a follow-up to my post about the iSite's iPhone and Android app-building service, I wanted to cover an alternative way to bring your WordPress-based site to mobile devices. WordPress Mobile Edition by Crowd Favorite is very quick and easy way to create a very stripped-down, simplified version of your site for mobile devices.
Read MoreLearn SEO Basics from Google
While ReadyMadeWeb works hard to provide you with a knowledge of best practices for SEO, the folks at Google are certainly better equipped to tell you how to best interact with their own search engine. Check out the SEO for Beginners Guide at the Google Webmaster blog or watch the very comprehensive video below on search-friendly web devlopment to get the real insider perspective on SEO.
Read MorePlugin Monday: PHP Widgets, Category Columns, & Link Columns
Today's Plugin Monday is focused on sidebar widgets. A plain vanilla WordPress install has a nice set of widgets for the sidebar, but they are fairly limited in how they're presented to the user. Here are three plugins to help with both the form and function of your sidebars.
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