How to Get the Case Off Your PC!

This is the first step to servicing, upgrading or removing PC hardware from your PC. Refer to my other articles on adding, upgading or removing just about any piece of hardware. First things first, get that case off your PC. This is usually done by removing the screws on the back. Don’t remove the ones [...]

Search Engine Position Report

Since search engines are the first stop for people on the Internet looking for goods or services, the position your website appears in search results is an important factor. If your URL shows up far down the results list, the chances of the consumer never finding you increase incrementally. Once you achieve a high search [...]

Create ASP in Minutes

DBxtra goes ASP Getting to the information hidden within corporate databases has always been a problem for all levels of an organization. IT shops are constantly being pushed to produce more while having little time to accommodate reporting requirements. This translates into deadlines being pushed back, insufficient turnaround times, outdated information, and lost opportunities. DBxtra [...]

Keeping Track of Your Link Exchanges

All of us want to increase traffic to our web sites. It helps our search engine rankings, and provides us with potential new customers. One of the best, and certainly least expensive, ways to do that is by exchanging links with sites similar to our own. However, you don’t have to accumulate very many links [...]

Python and Ruby: the Newer Alternatives

Thanks to the nature of open source, almost anyone can write a programming language and get a significant number of people to use it: and plenty of people have. Two of the newest and fastest-growing players when it comes to open source web languages are Python and Ruby. Neither of them were web languages originally [...]

Basic Website Design Principles

One thing that sometimes escapes web designers is the need for the end product to be focussed on the customer rather than on what the web designer can provide. While new whizzy things are nice they can be at best unnecessary and at worst so distracting from the purpose of the website that the true [...]

Getting the most form your Web Site

In today’s business environment, the online business has begun to play a major role and having a website for your business has become an issue of paramount importance. Not only having a website, but online business needs a marketing plan, a plan for the website itself and involves a lot of thought process. The very [...]

It Is The Little Things

It is the little things that can affect visitors perception of your web site. Recently, I crafted and sent off a proposal to a potential client regarding a writing project and some web page assistance. There are several things on this persons site that need attention, common things I have observed on other sites too: [...]