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WordPress: 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 … Continue reading

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Securing 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. … Continue reading

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Google 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 … Continue reading

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What 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 … Continue reading

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Choosing 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 … Continue reading

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How 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 … Continue reading

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Planning 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 … Continue reading

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Creating 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 … Continue reading

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Mind 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 … Continue reading

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HowTo: 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 … Continue reading

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