XCloner: Backup Your WordPress Site to Amazon S3
The old-school way of backing up photo credit: jm3 Not backing up your website is like not backing up your computer—it’s a really bad idea. I’ve used all sorts of backup methods for sites I administer, but most have either proven to be clunky or expensive, especially if you like keeping multiple past versions of ...
Read MorePasspack: Great Password Management for Groups
photo credit: 28 misguided souls I like to use secure passwords—really long strings of characters that aren’t my dog’s name or the word “password”—but it’s hard to remember these things. Up until recently, I had a collection of .rtf files with all my password info in them. If I had to work with team members ...
Read MoreHow to Spend Next to Nothing on Your Non-Profit’s Web/IT Needs
After talking about tools like content management systems, databases, bulk emailers, measurement tools, web forms, and a bunch of other tools here on ReadyMadeWeb, it seemed like it was time to do an overview of these tools and outline how to run an entire organization using only ReadyMade tools.
Read MoreThree Tools for Website Data Collection Forms
Many programs—especially bulk emailers and payment systems—have their own form creators which will generate a form for your website, but that form is single-purpose, processing data for only that one program. Its great that services provide these form-creation features, but they just don't cover situations like automatically processing a payment, adding a person to your CRM, and placing them on a bulk email list.
Read MoreGive Your PHP Code Even More Speed with eAccelerator
Many of today's best open-source CMS systems are written with PHP, an incredibly popular and powerful scripting language. PHP's power lies in its ability to dynamically generate pages, eliminating the need to code pages by hand in HTML. However, that same dynamism is one of the chief disadvantages of PHP because of the processor power needed to generate pages on the fly. Thankfully, that disadvantage can be easily mitigated by using caching programs like eAccelerator.
Read MorePlugin Monday, er, Tuesday: Get the Speed You Need with WP Super Cache
In the spirit of the recent Daytona 500, this week we’ll be covering a plugin that will make your site speedier, WP Super Cache. Unlike other plugins that put more load on your server’s process and slow down your site’s load time, WP Super Cache make your site faster by creating static html files from the PHP that runs WordPress.
Read MoreUse CamTwist to Live Stream Your Desktop, SlideShow, or Movie
Services like Ustream.TV, Justin.TV, and LiveStream are no longer limited to streaming the signal from your web cam thanks to CamTwist. This free software will turns your desktop, a slideshow, or a video file into its own virtual web cam.
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 MoreRSS is Not Dead: Why Google Reader is a Great Tool
Whether you're a blogger or just a regular reader of more than one blog, by investing the short amount of time to setup and get into the rhythm of using Google Reader, you'll save time and give yourself a bunch of tools to do more with what you're reading.
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