geeky tutorials, tips, guides and reviews
Most of us know about it, and not many people like it – the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA for short) is one of the most talked about pieces of law talked about in geeky circles in the past few years. How much do you really know about it though? Thankfully, I have found a great guide for both newbies to your digital rights and experts.
Have questions about web hosting, and need some help? On the Web Hosting Show’s web site, I have setup a form you can use to submit your questions and get your web site mentioned on my podcast.
All you need to do is visit the Submit a Question page, fill the form out, and then tune in to the Web Hosting Show each time a new show is released and your question will be answered and your web site will be plugged!
What can you ask about? I’ll answer anything that is even remotely related to web hosting. Maybe you could ask about search engine optimization techniques? Perhaps you need to know how to install WordPress? You might even want my recipe for poor man’s pigs in a blanket (white bread and Vienna sausages). Give me your questions, and I will give you the answers.
Since I have both podcast #190 and podcast #200 coming up this month, I would really like to have a slew of questions to go through, so I can help each and every one of you.
Far from being just another off topic service, in a world filled with them, the new Web Hosting Show Coupons and Deals page will deliver, and impress you. This was a quick project I cooked up over the weekend, to better serve the public at large by delivering a better way to keep track of the latest coupons, deals and special offers from the entire web hosting world out there.
I have collected my fair share of web site designer icons over the years. Since they are free to use, they are good to keep handy, cause you never know when they might be needed to add a little extra something to your own online designs. Here is my own collection of free icons (over 1,000 of them) they I have found over the years.
Free Vaga Icons – this set of 60 semi-transparent .png icons are all 16×16 in size are are ready to be download and used for free!
On the Web Hosting Show podcast, we have done a lot of talking recently about web hosts that use Twitter, and how they use it. Some use it for support, others use it for marketing, and the best ones use it for both. Who are the most popular web hosts on Twitter though?
To put that question to the test, I thought I would compile a list of all the web hosts on Twitter that have over 1,000 followers. Out of nearly 100 web hosts on the Web, here are the 25 that made the cut.
There you have it, 25 of the most popular web hosting companies that are on Twitter right now. You can find a list of nearly 100 web hosts on Twitter on the Web Hosting Show’s web site. Did your web host make the cut?
Having worked in the world of support for many years, this “cheat sheet” just made me giggle. The xkcd web comic series has pretty much hit the mark when it comes to how you can really solve 95% of the problems out there.
For those of you who might not have noticed, one of my other projects – WebHostingShow.com got a little ‘bit of a face lift yesterday, mainly as far as the logo goes. This did give me an excuse to spruce up a few other features that are well worth checking out too.
How do you like that new logo, by the way? It was designed my my good friend and graphic design specialist, Sean Barton. I’m personally pretty proud of it – as it is pretty much the logo I always wanted for the show, but never had the time or the skill to put together. Want to learn more about the web hosting industry? The web hosting show is both a podcast and web site dedicated to helping anybody from novices to experts learn more about how to make the web hosting world work for them. If you haven’t before – be sure to bookmark WebHostingShow.com, subscribe to the e-mail updates, and add the RSS feed to your favorite news reader.
Over on the Web Hosting Show, I have been talking all week long about our good ‘ol departed friend, Geocities. After looking back at what went wrong, and what was or was not done, one thing can be said for certain. The main reason Geocities fell is because they failed to innovate.
If you too want to follow the rise and fall of this free hosting giant, check out these articles and be sure to download the accompanying podcast too.
You might have heard of Geocities in passing, however if you are new to the Web, or the way things once were – all this concern about a free hosting service might be a little confusing. So I figured, what better way to pay tribute to the web host that once was, than to give you a history lesson in Geocities.
Saving Geocities for Future Generations
In an effort to save the content that was on Geocities, a group calling themselves the Archive Team is working hard to save the Web that way it once was. Time to pack away the animated gifs, blinking text, and web rings into their own individual boxes, so that someday we can look back what was once considered, “cool” in web site design.
Alternatives to Geocities Hosting
With the word that Geocities would be closing, “sometime in 2009” many of the Geocities users are looking for other places to host their content. Even though Geocities is closing the door on it’s free hosting, there are still many free hosting alternatives to Geocities.
The reasons as to why Yahoo! dropped the ball with Geocities will be a great debate over the next year or so. However, I feel the main reason Geocities ended up fading off into the sunset is that Yahoo failed to evolve the product into what people needed.
For more web hosting podcasts, interviews, tips and more be sure to check out WebHostingShow.com. It is tons of fun!
Here are all the Web Hosting Show podcasts I have produced this year, thus far. Hope you will take a few minutes and check it out. I work hard at putting something out that anybody can learn from – no matter if you are a web hosting novice, or the most knowledgeable guru on the block.
Going all the way back to 2005, there are over 180 podcasts in all uploaded on the site, and ready to be listened to. If there is ever a topic you would like to hear more about – I am all ears, and always welcome to feedback.
Sharing your images has never been easier with the thanks of imgur. No, this isn’t just a tribute to the fact that all the good names are taken. Imgur makes image sharing as easy as it can. You have a browse box, where you can select your picture from, then you continue. The requirements are it has to be under 2MB, and in the jpg, gif, or png format.
Have any more questions? The FAQ would be a good place to start. Overall I like easy, I like simple so I like imgur for free photo sharing.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
