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I imagine everybody has their own favorite whois tool. I like Network-Tools because the page isn’t clutter with ads, most everything you want is there: ping, lookup, whosis, trace, DNS records, HTTP Headers.

Network-Tools

Originally posted 2003-03-14 16:32:44. Republished by Old Post Promoter

South Korea wants to ban unsolicited commercial email between 9pm and 9am.

South Korea mulls spam curfew

Originally posted 2004-02-29 20:56:16. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Copyright 2005 Elaine Currie

Internet Forums are highly popular, they cater for all tastes and deal with every topic imaginable. People visit Internet forums for a variety of reasons, the most common being the search for information or entertainment. The Internet forum is a safe environment if you behave sensibly but you can find yourself in dangerous territory if you ignore the following warnings.

Don’t Join Internet Forum Flame Wars

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Originally posted 2005-09-17 04:36:57. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Author: Abdillahi Abdillahi

Everyday hundreds of web sites are launched by people all over the world .There are millions of reasons which make us launch new websites.Let me mention three of them in here by supposing .

1 : If you have any kind of business then sooner or later you will need a web presence in order to boost your business and to offer your services to people from all over the world .

2: Lets suppose you work for a company and that company asked you to make a website for them or make one for boosting business and communicating well with your co-workers.

3: Maybe you go to school and your school asked you to make one for them or for their journal or maybe you want to make one for your favorite movies etc .

So like I said there are millions of reasons but those three are some of the main ones. Today in this article I will try to explain all you need to build your home on the web today . Believe it or not within 24-hours you could have a website up and running .Lets get started then .

What are url , website, servers, intranet, internet, http,www and domain names, WYSIWYG?

You might already know the basics and the answers of the above questions but I will still write up a short introduction and answers to them so if you don’t know it can then get you started.

Url : stands for Uniform Resource Locator and it tells the web browser what to do and where to go when you type it into the address bar of your web browser.

Website: is a location on the world wide web(www) and has a start page or home page which is the first thing you see when you visit it.It contains many files and owned by an individual or organization. And today you are going to make one

Servers : are like the normal computers but they have a lot of disk space and are connected to the internet 24-hours a day , 7 days a week, 365 days, a year . Servers serve data such as web pages , pictures , applications and run many different types of programs in order to handle many different types of files.

Intranet : is more like the internet but restricted to a certain organization .Organizations exchange information easily using intranets. They can do anything that can be done on the internet like participating in discussion groups, viewing documents and revising them etc.

Internet :is a global network which is connected to millions of computers and it is not owned or run by a special company and it has vast collection of resources, information.

HTTP: stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is a set of standards and tell the servers how to handle web pages , for example when you type a url into the address bar it then tells the domain name which you typed to serve(display) a web page .

www: stands for World Wide Web and is a system of internet servers that support documents formatted in special way. Documents are formatted in HTML (HyperText Markup Language) which can link to other documents,audio and multimedia and graphics.

Domain Name : is the name of the server hosting the website . There are many different types of domain names such us .com for commercial , .net for networks and ISPs(Internet Service Providers) ,.gov for government sites , .edu for educational institutes and .org for non-profit organizations . The most widely used one is the .com one.

WYSIWYG: stands for what you see is what you get and applications which have WYSIWYG enable you to see what is displayed on the screen exactly when you print the document or publish it. There are many WYSIWYG editors which enable you to easily create a website and the best and most popular ones include Microsoft® FrontPage® and Macromedia® Dreamweaver® MX . If you know how to use Microsoft® Word® then you can use those two because they are more alike .

That was a short explanation of some of the things you will need to know when you want to build your website . But you can search the internet and get more information and definitions about what is covered in here and what is not .

Prepare your site files.

Most of the time when I make a website for a client or a friend they don’t bring everything that is needed to get the website up and running. It is better it prepare all the files which you will use for your site in a specific folder in your personal computer. Prepare all the files you need before you start making your website.

Plan the Concept of your Site

That is right. You need to plan the concept of your site before you go into designing it. You can make a sketch of how it will look and then try to implement that .When making the concept your site it is better to use real text that will appear on the site so that will help you a lot .

Start Designing Your Site using WYSIWYG editor.

Now that you have prepared and planed the concept of your site then it is time to start designing it .You can use any WYSIWYG editor to design it.If you don’t want to start designing it but you want something ready that you can change the text then you can buy a professional template which will cost you like $10-$30 .

Also there are many free templates which you can use . Just make a search in Google™ and you will get millions of sites for downloading free site templates .

Shop for hosting and domain name

Now that you have built your site and it is on your personal computer then you will need to rent a remote server and get a domain name so it can be accessible to all people from the world. Before you start shopping for hosting you have to make a list of what you want like special features, bandwidth , storage space etc. If you are building a small personal website then I guess 50 mb space and 1-5 Gigabyte of data transfer . Of course you can later upgrade to a bigger plan.

Also hosting companies many other features along with space and bandwidth such as control panel where you can manage your website easily .If you don’t want to get a professional hosting or you can afford it then you can get free hosting which some companies offer and is ad supported and has a lot of restrictions.

Also you will need to register a domain name for your site . Domain names cost from $6.00 to $35 yearly . There are many great domain registrars which you can use to register your domain name. If you don’t to register a domain name then you get a sub domain but you will have to make sure that your hosting company can offer you a sub domain which will be like the following your-site-name.hosting-company-site.com When you register your domain name you will have to wait 24-48 hours before it can be fully working . But before that you can still upload your site files because your hosting company will give you an IP which you can use for uploading your site files.

Conclusion

There you have it. Just follow them well and You could be running your own website within 24 hours. Of course this was a short article but at least it provides you some of the basic information you need to know. Also you can visit many sites online which can provide you a more detailed tutorials and website enhancements. Until next time, try to build your home on the web today and good luck .

About the author: Abdillahi Abdillahi is a web designer, founder and president of http://kooshin.com , a company providing affordable web hosting and web design solutions to small to medium sized businesses and individuals. For more information , please visit http://kooshin.com

Originally posted 2005-03-30 17:35:46. Republished by Old Post Promoter

2RSS is a RSS feed directory, software listing, in their own words (they need an about page):

2RSS.com :: RSS feeds, RSS directory, RSS software, RSS scripts, RSS articles, RSS syndication, XML, RDF, news and more.

2RSS

Noted via ResearchBuzz

Originally posted 2004-01-22 09:35:03. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Author: Jesse S. Somer

Can the Internet foster intelligent conversation and help to form new ideas and moral beliefs?

A weird thing happened yesterday as I walked through my university campus. A young man approached me from a political organization that obviously was canvassing for new members. This is nothing new as there are always people attacking me for one cause or another. I am very interested in the ways in which life and human society works especially in the realm of spirituality and morality. However, I have to admit that I’ve never really gotten much out of politics, or economics which politics seems to be mainly focused on. For some reason I got into a conversation with this fellow and the resulting experience affected me profoundly.

I don’t know if his political group is relevant to this article but I will mention it is based around a U.S. Democrat named Lyndon Larouche. The guy was telling me in detail about how the present world economy based around George Bush’s American system is destined for failure and causing much trouble in the world. This I agreed with wholeheartedly as I can’t condone or imagine spending huge amounts of energy on killing people in a war as being a positive act.

He also mentioned one of my favorite human rights activists: Martin Luther King Jr. The guy was saying that under current conditions the ruling fascist ‘Empire’ is suppressing individual thought and creativity and that the masses of the world had become mindless cattle. He said that the key to evolving a new morally upstanding world society we will need individuals to once again think for themselves and change the current economic structures that control life on earth. He used a lot of big economic-type terminology so some of what he said went over my head, but I generally took the guy to be a nice, intelligent person who believed passionately about what he did. He gave the impression that people like King are the great transformers of beliefs in society, and that only truly awakened souls will be happy when they die.

I try not to take myself or life on Earth too seriously as this has caused many problems for me in the past. However, I do think that life and love are very important ideas to focus on when one is growing spiritually. I decided to sign the group’s list and get a little bit more information so as to really make up my opinion about these matters that I know so little about (economics and politics). Here is where the story goes strange. I wrote down my name and my email address and the fellow asked if I’d put down my phone number as well. I said that as I am a writer I don’t like being interrupted by the phone ringing and that I’d rather communicate via the Internet. This is when the trouble began.

The man was visibly upset and said that the Internet was not a good place for people to exchange ideas and have conversations. I laughed and replied that the Internet is very young and how could he judge it so harshly in such a black and white manner? He ironically sounded a little like the fascists that he disliked so much when he retorted that no great ideas had ever come from people on the Internet, and for that matter, a ‘real’ conversation between people had to be conducted face to face. Well, I could have mentioned that on the telephone you cannot ’see’ anyone’s face, but I thought I’d try to explain my position on the matter a bit more positively.

I told him that the Internet was just a simple tool of communication that was bringing individuals closer together. You can see someone across the world with a web cam whilst hearing his or her voice perfectly. I then mentioned that the Internet was doing exactly what he felt was necessary for society to flourish in the future; it is giving voice to individuals’ ideas like never before in human history. The guy was then really starting to lose his cool and was getting quite upset. I then thought I’d mention the idea that the Web was dissolving the concept of national borders as anyone could talk to anybody else freely with the simple realization that all people are the same. People are no longer forced to think of other nationalities as separate ‘types’ of people that one should steer away from.

By this time the guy had become very irate and said vehemently that there is nothing wrong with having separate nations. He then contradicted himself and agreed with me by saying that the ‘Empire’ only wanted to ‘divide and conquer’ and split countries into even smaller entities that could then be taken over. I replied softly that that process inevitably produced more unnecessary borders between fellow humans.

The main point that stuck with me after the conversation ended was the fact that it was the mentioning of the Internet as a positive medium for communication and enlightenment that so severely upset the guy. I guess no matter how knowledgeable about the world and sure of yourself that you are, if there are things that you are still unaware of, or in this case close-minded to because of some irrational fear; like a link that snaps in a chain, so will your peace and calm will be shattered by ignorance and anger.

Spirituality and morality can be discussed on many different mediums…Politics and economics must be the same.

About the author: Jesse S. Somer M6.Net http://www.m6.net Jesse S. Somer is an individual soul who may not know a lot, but knows that the Internet could be a great factor in the process of bringing humanity together into one big family here on Earth.

Originally posted 2005-03-30 16:29:57. Republished by Old Post Promoter

How to Find Information About People on the Web

Author: shuth

The web has made it much easier to get information about people, including old friends and classmates, old boyfriends/girlfriends, ancestors, celebrities, politicians, public figures, criminals, and even your next-door neighbor. There are various opinions about this new flow of personal information. Most of us seem quite pleased to be able to get the information we need, but we’re not necessarily happy if others can get the goods on us!

What follow are a few tips about finding people via the web. It can be harder than you think. Although many people access the internet on a daily basis now, they often use screen names that are known only to their friends. Other people, particularly women, tend to change their last name once or more often during the course of their lives.

Who is relatively easy to find on the web?

• People who have become famous.
• People who post on the internet under their real names.
• Academics and other people who publish articles and speak at conferences. Professors also tend to have personal web pages.
• Self-employed consultants and other people who own their own businesses.
• Senior management of companies, especially public companies.
• People active in community organizations.
• Anybody with a career that causes them to get written about, cited in articles, or quoted in the press.

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Originally posted 2005-04-29 17:30:24. Republished by Old Post Promoter

I’ve downloaded software from Tucows than all the other shareware websites combined. Tucows has added an Online Services directory. Everything from Dictionaries to Web Promotion. As with the shareware the Tucows editors offer their familiar one to five cow rating and a bar indicating how popular the service is with their users. (Via ResearchBuzz)

Originally posted 2004-03-25 10:25:24. Republished by Old Post Promoter

Handy advice for lazy people like myself. Though I’ll invest more time in Mozilla Firefox after the 1.0 release.

Optimizing Mozilla Firebird

Originally posted 2004-02-15 17:48:10. Republished by Old Post Promoter

I’m getting more and more of these at the email address listed in my domain registry entry. Used to be I only got them at the weblog’s address and only from scam weblogs.

My name is [Mr. Email Robot], and I’m the owner of [getrichquick.spam]. I wanted to let you know that I’ve just placed a link to edifyingspectacle.org.

A link back to my site would also be nice.

Often the link is to an individual entry, probably one that matches some keyword they covet, not to the domain’s index page.

One possible explanation for the increase is that in the latest Google shuffle a couple of my weblogs went up to PR 6 and PR 7. I won’t deny that I took perfectly childish pleasure in seeing my Page Rank rise. I’d always been delighted to have a PR 5.

I had to fire up Internet Explorer so that I could use Google’s Toolbar to see my pages Page Rank. If you don’t or can’t run IE you can’t use the Google Toolbar. Top25Web.com is kind or canny enough to offer you an online tool for viewing Page Rank:

The Google PageRank Value Report will return the Google PageRank values for the list of urls you enter into the form below. Put one url per line, and include the ‘www.’ in the domain for best results.

Google PageRank Report

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Originally posted 2004-03-20 07:07:58. Republished by Old Post Promoter