Drupal

Drupal’s beginnings started out the same as some of the other well known and successful websites of today. It started as a seemingly insignificant idea with meager beginnings. In a small apartment during college that Dries Buytaert created what would become one of the most popular open source content management frameworks of today. It was … Continue reading Drupal

vShare

A video hosting service allows individuals to upload video content to share or place on a website. Users generally will upload through the hosting service’s website, mobile or desktop applications or APIs. The type of video content uploaded can be anything from short video clips through full length movies. The video host will then store the … Continue reading vShare

Boonex

Boonex is a private company that has focused solely on social networking software since 2001. The company’s main product is BoonEx Dolphin which is used by over 150,000 webmasters around the world and can boast that it is used in all languages, niches and localities. Dolphin, thought of as the world’s best community management systems, … Continue reading Boonex

WordPress

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS). Currently WordPress is the most popular blogging system, which is being used on more than 60 million websites, including 19% of the current top 10 million websites.   Founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little launched WordPress on May 27, 2003 as … Continue reading WordPress

cPanel

cPanel is a Unix based web hosting control panel that provides a graphical interface and automation tools designed to simplify the process of hosting a web site. cPanel uses a three tier structure which makes is possible for administrators, resellers and end-user website owners to control the various aspects of website and server administration through … Continue reading cPanel

Subversion Hosting

Subversion is a free/open source Version Control System (VCS), which means it manages files and directories, and the changes made to them over time. This gives you the ability to recover older versions of your data or examine the history of how you data changed.   Subversion has the ability to operate across networks, which … Continue reading Subversion Hosting

Canonical URLs & Preventing Duplicate Content

A canonical link is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent issues with duplicate content. The canonical URL tells search engines which version of a URL to index. One page may be associated with many different URLs. A search engine will attempt to identify the canonical, or authoritative URL for each page. Unlike duplicate content, … Continue reading Canonical URLs & Preventing Duplicate Content