Flame Scorpion

I know this was discussed again and again, but although the choosing of a domain name should take you very few time it is very important. You will have to spell your domain name thousand of times, you will have to write your domain name million of times. Your visitors will hear, read or type your domain billion of times.

I write about this because i’ve seen some examples of  website that after they went popular they changed their domain name. [Read the rest of this entry…]

How can a mailing list help your business or website ? How hard is to build mailing list ? How much i will earn from a mailing list ? Let’s try to answer to these question.

First of all you must think that your visitors are not robots, they are humans. They need a reason to do something. You can’t just pop-up the flash banner asking them to enter their e-mail. They won’t. [Read the rest of this entry…]

I know this has been discussed over and over last few years on the Internet, but with the increased number of internet users i keep getting the same question again and again.

What i want to point out is when someone ask what is better: blogger or wordpress, he refers to the remotely hosted version of wordpress ( found at wordpress.com ), and they are unaware about the possibility to have a self hosted blog. [Read the rest of this entry…]

I like WordPress and i like the way i can do things in WordPress. This is the reason i always look for ways to do greater things with WordPress. Few weeks ago i proved that you can make a full featured Social Bookmarking Website with wordpress. Today i will show you how you can build a Social Network with WordPress. Really!

The theory behind a social network is huge, but WordPress makes everything so simple: just install a plugin and you’re done. That plugin is called BuddyPress and it is very customizable.

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When you start your website you certainly go for a shared hosting plan. It is very cheap these days and you’ll find it perfect for your start-up. But what when your website grows ? You start to search for alternatives but there is no way to pay a dedicated server ? A VPS is the perfect solution for you.

With a VPS you can have your own dedicated RAM and your own dedicated disk space. Probably you are familiar  with all shared hosting companies  that gives you unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited everything for practically free ? Well, they are just using marketing strategies. That disk space is not available to you, and they hope you will never use more than few GBs. When you use too much resources you are advised to move to a VPS or dedicated server. [Read the rest of this entry…]

Waiting to see which are the best themes of the moment ? WordPress recently upgraded to WordPress 3.0 and many users are wondering how old themes are working on the new wordpress.

The good news are that old themes are working perfectly with the new wordpress, but there are few disadvantages: Old themes can’t take advantage of new features added to WordPress 3.0. If you think about switching theme, now is a good moment to do it. [Read the rest of this entry…]

E-commerce is very popular these days. Every store want to sell products online but most of them are held back because they don’t want to deal with technical stuff.

The truth is that if you try to do the things old-school way you will find out how much work is involved in building an e-commerce website.

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Why wordpress is so beloved by non-tech people ? Because they never encounter errors like: “WordPress does not support your PHP version” or “To use wordpress you need to have PEAR lib installed, contact your web hosting provider for support”.

Some people may never seen this, but if you are used to install different kinds of open source software you encounter these errors frequently. [Read the rest of this entry…]

You probably heard about the dispute between creator of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, and Thesis framework creator Chris Pearson. The real issue is that the creator of WordPress have a point against Premium WordPress Themes.

Free is better. You like free stuff. You like when you go to KFC and you get a free garlic sauce for every menu you order. The truth is that it is not free, it’s price is included. [Read the rest of this entry…]

How many times you wanted to start your own Digg ? In case you don’t know digg is a social bookmarking website: Stories are submitted and others vote for stories they like. When a story reach a number of votes it gets promoted to the front page.

It is widely known that if you get on digg front page you receive tons of visitors ? Where are these visitors from ? They like stories recommended by others, filtered. If they are so popular, why not starting a social bookmarking website for a topic that you like for your own ? And why not using your favourite CMS: WordPress! [Read the rest of this entry…]