Hostmonster has given its hosting control panel (cPanel) a new look! It now spots a much more pleasant-looking and user-friendly interface.
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Hostmonster Control Panel New Look
August 10th, 2007Amazon FPS / Payments – Another PayPal?
August 6th, 2007
Amazon has launched the Amazon Flexible Payment Service (FPS) which is an extension of the existing Amazon Payments. With this service, we can look forward to third-party merchants offering online payments via Amazon’s reliable and scalable payment infrastructure.
You Might Want to Know This If You’re Blogger
June 25th, 2007There’s a few interesting developments in the blog authoring scene within the last month or so.
Here, we’ll take a look at a new WordPress release, a desktop blogging tool and a new Windows browser.
Unbeatable Value Web Hosting for Your VRE
March 5th, 2007It’s March 2007 and it came to my attention that my hosting company (Hostmonster) is now offering an irresistible deal.
Hostmonster is now offering 200 Gigabytes of hosting space and up to 2 Terabytes of transfer. As before, you’ll get one free domain name, unlimited add-on domains, unlimited subdomains, cPanel and Fantastico (for automating installation of WordPress, Joomla, etc).
WordPress 2.1 “Ella” Released
January 25th, 2007
The latest major release of the greatest blogging engine WordPress 2.1 “Ella” is now available!
It includes tons of new features, including over 550 bug fixes.
How to Increase Blog Search Engine Traffic by Porting to WordPress
November 7th, 2006Here’s a story of how Chris Pearson apparently increased his search engine traffic by 455% in just one month (from September to October).
He made two simple changes:
- He ported his blog from MovableType to WordPress
- He based his design code on the Cutline framework
» Read more: How to Increase Blog Search Engine Traffic by Porting to WordPress
Google Wants Feedback on How to Improve Measuring AdSense Success using Google Analytics
October 31st, 2006If you are both a Google Analytics and Google AdSense user, Google is seeking your feedback on the following:
- Which Google Analytics reports do you use most often in conjunction with your AdSense account?
- Which reports or metrics would you most like to see added to Google Analytics to help you succeed with AdSense?
Google has created a topic thread in Google Group “Anaytics Help” for users to post their feedback.
WordPress 2.0.5 (Ronan) Released
October 28th, 2006Hi blogging folks! WordPress 2.0.5 (a.k.a. Ronan) is out and is available for immediate download. This release comes with 50 or so bug fixes.
Would I upgrade from version 2.0.4? Probably no. [Update: Oh well, I might consider upgrading. Thanks Brian. 
] I’ll wait for the next major release.
Useful links:
Blog More Efficiently with Firefox 2.0?
October 25th, 2006Finally, Firefox 2.0 Final Release is now officially available for download!
I did a small test against IE7 by loading an existing post for editing inside WordPress admin and this is what I found:
- Firefox 2.0 consistently outperforms IE7 by 2 to 3 times when loading the Write Post page for editing. (30 seconds vs 1 minute is definitely significant!)
- IE7 pegs at 100% CPU utilization 5 to 6 times longer than Firefox 2.0 during the page load phase.
- Firefox 2.0 has a smaller memory footprint than IE7.
Why is WordPress Better Than Blogger?
October 23rd, 2006Are you still building websites the old, hard way?
If you are, then stop. Most experts agree that the best way to build content websites (especially if you’re into Google Adsense) is by using WordPress. Not surprisingly, this blog is proudly powered by WordPress.
I’ve included an excellent article by Gobala Krishnan on WordPress vs Blogger right below. Read on…
