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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 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 6th, 2008How to find a Good and Reliable Webhosting

This post is part of a series. To read more posts from this series go to “Creating a Small Business Website“.
There are thousands of companies out there offering cheap and affordable web hosting but not all of them are good. It is important that you go with a company that offers reliable and affordable [...]

Noumaan on Oct 5th, 2008Planning 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“.
It is an old technique but still effective, get a pen or pencil and a peice of paper and write down your plan. Since we are talking about putting your ideas on the paper, [...]

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 16th, 2008HowTo: Add Spam Protection to Forms

While looking at the visitors log I discovered that someone came searching for “anti-spam for html form pages”. They landed to the page where I talked about the missing spam protection feature in Google Docs Forms. So I guess they must be disappointed to read that post as it doesn’t have the information they were [...]