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How to Choose a Good Password

I know that coming up with a good password can be difficult, so here are some guidelines to use.    Choose a password that is at least six characters long. This should be long enough to discourage a brute-force attack. Currently, the maximum password length on many Unix systems is eight characters, but if you want to add a few more characters to make it easier to remember, go ahead. Just bear in mind that anything after the eighth character will be ignored (so ``abnormalbrain'' is the same as ``abnormal'').    In general, a good password will have a mix of lower- and upper-case characters, numbers, and punctuation marks, and should be at least 6 characters long. Unfortunately, passwords like this are often hard to remember and result in people writing them down. Do not write your passwords down!   The license plate rule: take a phrase and try to squeeze it into eight characters, as if you wanted to put it on a vanity license pla...

Encourage Visitor Engagement on Your Website

One of the most important features for small business websites to possess is a properly implemented "hello bar". I believe this is extremely critical, as it tends to be what will directly affect how interested a visitor will remain once entering the site. This content management system can help guide your visitors to where they wish to go, is unobtrusive and is available in a variety of designs. Why let the most important part of a webpage go to waste?   So, we have seen that these plugins represent a handful of the most powerful means by which a small business can begin to expand in 2013. However, once the business begins to appreciably grow, it is always best to allocate these to a dedicated individual who can focus on how to improve and accentuate their effects. I'm protected by SpamBrave

WP-Optimize

This simple but effective plugin allows you to clean up your WordPress database and optimize it without phpMyAdmin.   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-optimize/   my motto is "Keep it simple" and "don't leave anything for tomorrow that can be done today."   Regards Gerald Crawford   Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27-0720390184 (mobile) E-mail: gerald@webcraft.ws I'm protected by SpamBrave

Don’t Make Me Keep Clicking

Then there was the site that was a guide to hotels. While they had lots of great information on the showcased hotels, it took way too many clicks to find it all. For instance, if you clicked the "Bed and Breakfast" link on a top-level page, rather than taking you to a list of the B&B's it took you to a page describing what bed and breakfasts were all about. And even when you clicked a particular city link within the B&B section, you still were not taken to a page that provided the lists of B&B's in that city. Instead, you got a whole lot of information on how the site reviewed and rated the B&B's that they were eventually going to show you. If you didn't leave in frustration at that point, you could then click through and find the listings and the reviews, which were great. But many users probably didn't make it that far and Google eventually stopped ranking the site as highly for important keywords such as "...

Identify Your Target Audience

Marketing segmentation which helps you to arrive in desired website design is: Age group: Define clearly to whom you are intending to present your products or services. Education: Whether you are aiming at school children or college going student or professional, their educational background will help you to come into the conclusion about the lucidity of the language to be used during website design. Technical knowledge: If you are dealing with some technological services then analyze which type of technical knowledge your end users possess as this will help you to analyze about their strengths and abilities. Graphical orientation: Judging the taste of the customers will help you to arrive into the correct graphical orientation to drive sales to your website. So when the web developer clearly outlines all these aspects of website design by studying the target audience all other things become easier. Like the screen resolution, graphics format, fast load...

10 Reasons Why Bloggers Need WordPress

In this age of the Internet, blogging has become quite the trend. People are able to share many things thanks to blogging, be it information on news and current events, reviews and thoughts on the latest gadgets or movies, or even simply just treating it like an online diary, writing down whatever comes into mind or whatever that person was up to, for all to see. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging tools available and here are 10 reasons as to why bloggers need it for their blogging needs: 1) It's free. WordPress is open-source and is free to use. Meaning that there's no problem when it comes to costs for having or maintaining a blog, because you don't even have to pay for anything at all. 2) It's easy to get started. It only takes as much as 5 minutes to setup your own blog with WordPress. Furthermore, once you spend more time using WordPress, you'll be able to easily make a quality blog in a few hours or so. 3) ...

Google+ Communities - Time to Get Your Feet Wet

Don't worry, the water's nice. The majority of people you'll find in the communities are quite friendly and engaging. Don't be afraid to hop in and share your opinion. Of course, proper etiquette is required. You don't want to join a community just to spam them with links back to your blog or website. This shows a lack of regard towards community spirit and the forum environment. Forums are built for the exchange of ideas and opinions. You want to give as much as you share.