Within the last couple of weeks, I have taken a new writing job over at The Hosting News. This is a little ‘bit different beat that my usual posts I write because I am doing news coverage for them rather than opinion or tutorial based content.
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Gallery: Open Source Photo Albums
Looking for a great photo album organizer to put on your website or to base your website on? Gallery is a great open source script that will let you get that job done. It looks great as a stand alone website, and it also blends in seamlessly into your current website design too.
7 Successful Forum Hosting Rules
Building and hosting successful forums on your website can be a lot of hard work. Just like you would do if you were building a house, you have to build your forums with a good foundation. Here I have for you seven different successful forum rules you should keep in mind when you either set up a forum script, or look to redo some of your forums to make them easier for users to navigate through.
Apple TV Giveaway
Over at the Web Hosting Show website, some of you might have noticed I have a little giveaway going on there. Just in case you missed it though, I thought I would share it here. Want to win a free Apple TV? All you need to do is subscribe to Ping! Zine, one of the greatest web hosting magazines out there today. Check out the details on how to get your chance at the free Apple TV over at WebHostingShow.com. A free magazine subscription, a chance to win a free Apple TV, does it get any better?
20 Best Multimedia Plugins for WordPress
WordPress is a great publishing platform to use when you want to circulate your own collection of video or images on the Web. Thanks to a few great plugins, you can take your dull text-based blog and really snaz it up with some great internet imagery. Want to great a photo gallery? Want to plug YouTube into your web site? I have collected twenty of the best multimedia plugins for you to use with your own WordPress powered web site.
Page Flip Image Gallery – Flipping Book plugin helps you to create Image Gallery with Page Flip effects on your WordPress blog.
Post videos and photo galleries – Post your videos and photo galleries/flash slideshows easily and in seconds.
NextGEN Gallery – NextGEN Gallery is a full integrated Image Gallery plugin for WordPress with a Flash slideshow option.
WordTube – WordTube is your Media Center plugin for WordPress.
Help With Rounded Corners in CSS
With web site design, setting up the cool rounded corners can sometimes be a pain to figure out. So that is where cool tools like the simply named Border Radius come into play. It was built to make the process so much easier.
Give Me Your Hosting Questions
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.
The Best Coupons and Deals in Hosting
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.
Free SFTP and FTP Browsing for Windows
The WinSCP program (for Windows users) is a great alternative FTP client you should really try out. Totally open source, this program makes it safe when copying files between a local and remote computer.
I really like it when any FTP program can give me better integration with my operating system, and WinSCP does do that and more. You can create your standard shortcuts to it, add it to Window’s “Send To” context menu, and it can also be setup to be the default handler for SFTP and SCP URL addresses.
The WinSCP installer can also install drag&drop shell extension to improve WinSCP capability of downloading files using drag and drop.
Not sure where to start, after you downloaded it? They have a plethora of guides and useful tutorials to help get you setup. So next time you are looking for a free FTP program, and you have tried the other popular names out there, give WinSCP a shot. It might be the free FTP program experiance you’ve been looking for.
Bonus: Need more help? Check out the FTP FAQ from the Web Hosting Show!
25 Most Popular Web Hosts on Twitter
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.
- WestHost Web Hosting (WestHost) on Twitter = 1,804 followers
- softlayer_news (softlayer_news) on Twitter = 2,609 followers
- Sustainable Websites (sustainableweb) on Twitter = 2,946 followers
- Surpass Web Hosting (surpass) on Twitter = 1,960 followers
- Slicehost (slicehost) on Twitter = 3,500 followers
- Six Apart (sixapart) on Twitter = 15,401 followers
- SiteGround (SiteGround) on Twitter = 1,132 followers
- Site5 Web Hosting (site5) on Twitter = 1,010 followers
- PinchHost (PinchHost) on Twitter = 8,891 followers
- mediatemple (mediatemple) on Twitter = 8,571 followers
- GoDaddy.com Guy(GoDaddyGuy) on Twitter = 3,060 followers
- lunarpages (lunarpages) on Twitter = 1,528 followers
- linode (linode) on Twitter = 1,655 followers
- LiquidWeb (LiquidWeb) on Twitter = 12,734 followers
- Laughing Squid (ls_hosting) on Twitter = 1,079 followers
- Joyent (joyent) on Twitter = 2,350 followers
- JaguarPC (JaguarPC) on Twitter = 4,637 followers
- Sunil Saxena (inmotionhosting) on Twitter = 1,259 followers
- HostGator.com (hostgator) on Twitter = 4,668 followers
- Hostcats.com (Hostcats) on Twitter = 1,299 followers
- 123-Reg (123reg) on Twitter = 1,677 followers
- Gary Jones (bluefur) on Twitter = 46,671 followers
- dreamhost (DreamHost) on Twitter = 2,934 followers
- FireHost Inc. (FireHost) on Twitter = 3,783 followers
- INSANE Deals Only @ (HIVELOCITY) on Twitter = 6,508 followers
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?
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