Do you have a WordPress website that is turning into a pain to manage? It may be because you have poor plugin management. Plugins in WordPress are meant to make your life easier but if they incorrectly managed they can create the opposite result.
Understanding the different kinds of email when choosing your hosting provider
When choosing your host you may need to consider email. This is because hosting providers offer the option to host email associated with your domain. Sometimes people will choose to host only their email if they want a professional looking email address but without the need to bother with maintaining a website.
Not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy, right? Some, like Adobe Photoshop, are superb tools for anyone to use. But, the fact that these tools are proprietary can drive open source fanatics up a wall. It’s not the price of the software that makes the real difference (although Read more…
WordPress is by far the most common blogging platform online. It powers 22% of sites on the Internet; no other content management system comes close to its widespread usage. It’s free. It’s robust. It’s highly extensible, making it a developer’s playground for plugins, so site owners can customize and tweak Read more…
Drupal is a free, open-source content management system and content management framework used by just over 2% of websites worldwide. The creation of Dries Buytaert, Drupal is used as the back-end system for sites of all kinds, ranging from blogs to whitehouse.gov. Drupal allows web developers to build on the content Read more…
If you’re a web developer, you might look for a web host who can supply the widest assortment of frameworks, languages, and scripting options possible. If you specialize in software development, you may look for hosting that offers that specialty on a server designed to uphold that development. For instance, Read more…
VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) is a fairly complex telephony technology that requires quality of service, traffic management, and security from any web host. These same needs are what makes many providers hesitant to offer the service. Additionally, the provider must have the expertise and resources to not only implement Read more…
Ruby on Rails (often called “RoR” or simply “Rails”) is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology, which is often utilized by web developers for its suitability for short, client-driven projects. A good Rails host Read more…
Where are the women in the Web? In April 2007, Jeffrey Zeldman bemoaned the lack of women in the IT force, the lack of women speakers at conferences (including his own An Event Apart), and the lack of any information at all on the Web design industry. But, over four Read more…
If you’re in your late teens or older, you probably know how dramatically the Web hosting industry has changed since the dawn of the twenty-first century (a mere eight years ago). Web 2.0 was born, and it spawned children named Tweets, Apps and Blogs. Broadband crawled the globe, and wireless Read more…