Google Site Search offers new Index Now Option
Google Site Search is a hosted indexing solution that provides public businesses with access to Google’s search functionality and technology. For a while now however customers have complained about how slow the actually indexing of pages were especially for individuals with websites who often get updated with hundreds of pages at a time and need the information on these pages accessable to website visitors and potential customers as quickly as possible.
Now the Site Search is getting a much need speed boost with the introduction of On-demand Indexing, which lets users refresh search results for Web sites with the click of a “Index Now” button. Read more
Using Twitter to Enhance and Promote your Website
Twitter is a web 2.0 micro blogging service with a big focus on social networking. Users of the service have the ability to write and receive short messages called “tweets”. You can decide to receive updates from users by following then from their profile page and users wishing to receive your updates can do the same. Updates can be sent and received via the Twitter website or through RSS, email, cellphone messages and a host of third party services.
Twitter was created in 2006 and in recent months have exploded to become a very useful tool for having a presence on the web. Creating a profile for your website and publishing updates related to the content of your site can go a far way to creating relationships with your visitors as well as allowing them an alternative way to acces your website.
Be Careful of Repetitive Strain Injury
Repetitive Strain Injury can be caused by the repeated use of any tool or equipment or by any motion that involves doing the same action repeatedly. RSI affects various types of persons but this entry will be focused on computer users.
Repetitive Strain Injury Explained
Repetitive Strain Injury is a serious problem among computer users, especially typists, web developers and other computer related professions that involved using a computer for extended periods. RSI affects a user when the tendons, muscles nerves, and other soft tissues in the hand, fingers, wrist elbows and shoulders are strained due to repeated and prolonged use of the keyboard and mouse. The stress of these parts combined with bad posture and improper keyboard and mouse use can be dangerous.
Caribwebdev.com one year old
It’s been a year already since the Caribbean Web Development Blog has been online. The team would like to take this opportunity to thank all our visitors through the year for visiting our blog and we look forward to making useful and quality web development related posts for many years to come.
Beta version of Google Chrome Browser launched
Google has official released their own web browser named Chrome. Google Chrome is an open source web browser which intends to provide greater stability, speed and security than existing browsers, while still remaining a simple efficient and easy to piece of software with a minimalistic user interface.
Google Chrome Logo
The Beta version of Chrome for the windows platform was launched today in 43 different languages with Linux and Mac OS X versions coming in the very near future.
Technical Terms and Abbreviations Explained - Spam
Spam is any unwanted or unsolicited message sent through an electronic messaging system. Spam may be in the form of email messages, cellphone text messages, instant messages, blog posts, wiki entries or any other way of electronically transferring or transmitting a message.
Spamming is a problem that costs internet users and companies billions of dollars each year. This cost takes the form of loss of man hours, acquiring extra epuipment to combat spam, identify theft, fraud, deceptive marketing, virus infection and more.
Software Download Record for Mozilla Firefox
From 18:16 UTC on June 17, 2008 to 18:16 UTC on June 18, 2008, 8,002,530 people downloaded Firefox 3, the latest version of Mozilla’s popular web browsing software allowing Mozilla to claim a place in the Guinness book of World Records for the most downloaded software in a 24 hour period. Firefox 3 boasts a long list of upgrades especially as it relates to a secure experience while browsing the internet.
Mozilla is looking to gain market share in the web browsing market from it’s main rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer who recently released a beta version of their upcoming upgrade and other browsers like Safari and opera.
What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting is provided by a web hosting service, this service allows organizations and individuals to have their websites accessible on the internet or World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide their clients with space on their various types of servers so that the information stored on a website can be accessed from anywhere in the world at any time of day.
Types of Web Hosting
Free Hosting - free hosts provide clients with a limited amount of web space, bandwidth and features. Most free hosts will show banners, pop ups and other kinds on advertising on the website hosted for free.
Shared Hosting - multiple websites are hosted one one single web server and share the resources of that server such as CPU, disk space and RAM.
Dedicated Host - Clients are given full control over their sever and has all administrative and root access rights. They can install, uninstall and customize their server to their needs and clients are responsible for the security and maintenance of his/her own server.
Virtual Dedicated Host - one server is virtually “split” into multiple servers but unlike shared hosting each owner of a virtual space is given full access rights over than space and can use it however they please.
There are many other types of Web Hosting available, these will be looked at in future articles as well as more in depth features related to web hosting.
Firefox 3 release candidate 1 launches
After many months of development, beta testing and according to Mozilla over 14, 000 updates the first release candidate of Mozilla Firefox web browser is now available for download and testing. Download and evaluate the latest beta version of the popular open source browser in your native language at the Firefox website and be sure to read the official RC1 release notes.
Release Notes Excerpt
This Firefox 3 Release Candidate is a preview release of Mozilla’s next generation Firefox browser and is being made available for testing purposes only.
Preview releases are published to collect feedback from Web developers and our testing community before advancing to the next stage in the release process. The final version of Firefox 3 will be released when we qualify the product as fully ready for our users.
TNX.net - Online Text Link Advertising Platform
TNX.net is an online text link advertising platform that’s offers website publishers the opportunity to monetize their websites by placing text links ads on them while at the same time offering a huge marketplace for advertises who wish to place links on TNX.net member sites in order to improve their ranks in search engines and improve traffic to their pages.
Registering for TNX.net is a quick, simple process and registering right now has many bonus benefits as seen here on the digitalpoint forum. Publisher and Advertiser registrations are incorporated into one easy process so once you register for TNX.net you get both advertiser and publisher privileges as seen in the sidebar of all user pages after registering and logging in.
