Noumaan on Feb 28th, 2010Google Sites – Add Adsense to Your Google Site
Recently a visitor on our “Creating a Small Business Website using Google Sites” post, asked if they can add Google Adsense to a Google Sites website. The answer is yes you can add Google Adsense to your Google Sites pages. In fact it is simpler adding AdSense to Google Sites than adding adsense to sites [...]
Noumaan on Aug 18th, 2009Wordpress: Displaying External RSS Feeds
How to display an external RSS feed on your Wordpress blog without causing heavy server load. I wanted to display an external RSS feed on one of my blogs. There were many plugins to display external RSS feed as widgets on sidebar. There are also plugins that can display feed content inside a post or [...]
Noumaan on Feb 22nd, 2009Where to Find Free Clip Art
Searching the web for clip art is not as much trouble as it used to be. Now you can use Google Image search and in the Advanced Image Search you can select Clip Art from the Content types. But then not all the clip art shown in search results is available for you to use [...]
Noumaan on Feb 18th, 2009Securing a Wordpress Blog
Due to some troubles with a few of my Wordpress blogs. I have recently learned a lot about security and protecting my Wordpress blogs from hacking. There is no way to be 100% sure that your website couldn’t get hacked. However, using the best practices described below, you can make it very hard for someone [...]
Noumaan on Feb 4th, 2009Google Sites: Add a Mailinglist or Subscribe Link
Chris from “Sunclipies” asked me how he can add a subscribe box on his website which is created using Google Sites. Honestly, I never noticed that Google Sites lacks RSS feed as a feature. Since I had in my mind that Google Sites is a good place for small websites that don’t get updated as [...]
Noumaan on Oct 15th, 2008What to Publish on Your Small Business Website
This post is part of a series. To read more posts from this series go to “Creating a Small Business Website“.
Content is the king on web. No one is going to spend more than a couple of seconds on a website if the content is not useful to them. According to a research, people [...]
Noumaan on Oct 10th, 2008Choosing Right Content Management System
This post is part of a series. To read more posts from this series go to “Creating a Small Business Website“.
Content Management System (CMS) is an application or a software used to create, edit, manage and publish content in a consistently organized fashion. We will be using one to manage our small business website. [...]
Noumaan on Oct 5th, 2008Creating a Small Business Website
In previous posts we discussed how to make a small business website using Google Sites. Which gave me the idea that why not we discuss creating a small business website hosted elsewhere and using some other Content Management System. This gives you all the control on your website and the way you manage your content [...]
Noumaan on Sep 24th, 2008Mind Mapping – A quick How To
Recently I discovered a post by Darren where he advised bloggers to use mind mapping techniques for new blog post ideas. I had read about mind mapping before but never thought about trying it. But now that I am blogging regularly, sometimes it is difficult to come up with a nice post idea. The ideas [...]
Noumaan on Sep 21st, 2008Google Docs: Using Fonts for Other Languages
How to use Google Docs for with fonts for other languages. Such as Urdu, Arabic, Hebrew and Persian (right-to-left script) or any other east asian languages requiring complex scripting.
I write short stories for children in Urdu language. In order to use Google Docs with Urdu, I need Urdu fonts and I also need to [...]