Running a Website Basics

Ever want to add audio to a website, but don't want to embed a whole video frame to do it? Add an audio player frame instead! I wanted to find the easiest way to upload audio to my science fiction...

A web page is a place where you can easily display photos for your friends and family, present an idea or opinion, share information about a particular group, or market your business. With free...

The Web by its very nature is not private. While you can't create your own private network and have it on the web, you can utilize some tools to hide a web page from the public and essentially...

VBulletin is a community forum solution that provides both a user interface and back-end database, enabling people to offer forums on their own websites and blogs. With forum software, you can...

Bandwidth requirements vary depending on your network connections. By determining your overall network speed and the amount of bandwidth each application or program you're running uses, you can...

There are many web based design and hosting companies that provide both the place for your site to occupy, as well as the tools with which to build the site. Google Web Hosting is certainly one...

You can create a favi icon to make your website or blog stand out. A favi icon is the little image that appears in a browser address bar in front of a URL. Customizing this image can make your...

FTP stands for "File Transfer Protocol" and is a fast way to transfer files between a personal computer and a server that hosts a website. An FTP website is simply one that supports FTP transfers....

Creating a feedback page for a website is one of the first things the owner of a website should do, especially a website that provides a service, sells a product or is testing something that...

A basic aspect of running a website is making files available for download. Not every site needs downloads, but most will have a need at some point to make files downloadable. This is simple and...

By publishing your work on a website you can share or update information publicly on the Web. If you have an Internet connection there are a variety of ways to accomplish this task. Two common...

Do you want to put video clips up on your website but you don't know how? Uploading videos to your website is as easy as uploading any other type of file, and all it takes to embed the videos into...

When you are creating a website, you might decide you need to have some sections that are not exposed to the public. These pages can also be hidden from search engines so the only people or...

Website management is a constant task and one that can require a number of disciplines and code knowledge, depending on the kind of site and content management system used. Conversely, some hosted...

I wrote this article to help web designers and programmers interested in using the drupal open source content management platform. If you use 1and1 servers for hosting, then you will encounter a...

Creating a custom blog header can be overwhelming if you are unfamiliar with web design or HTML. It becomes increasingly difficult when the available tutorials are not written for beginners. ...

Are you a web site content manager? Do you use PDFs for presentations or papers at your job? Sometimes, you'll get a PDF that's too big to upload to your web site. Or you may have a larger PDF to...

Looking to reduce download times on the homepage of your web site? Here are some steps to shave off precious seconds from a user's download time on your site.

Follow these steps to add a domain name directive to your apache web server's configuration file. Details include: how to find the file, making a backup, editing the httpd.conf file and...

The JPEG file is one of the most common graphic formats on the Web today. Check out this article to find out why these graphic files are used and how they are beneficial.

You can add a Flash video to your website using the design tool Dreamweaver.This eliminates having to hand code the video into your website. You will not be able to add advanced options to the...

Adding a Flash or FLV video to your website is a process, that takes time and knowledge. Flash is a very popular way to view videos and it also gives you control over the video, so it is worth the...

Inside Logwatch, its common to see errors such as “BAD FILE MODE” appear at the end of the crontab section. it should also be kind enough to display which files it didn’t like and errored on. You...

Having music on a web page can be a double-edged sword. If done tastefully, playing MP3 files on a web site can add a nice touch to the page. On the other hand, more often than not, the use of the...

When a page that has been moved or deleted from your website shows up in a search or from a bookmark, the person requesting the page sees a 404 error, or a file not found error. You can create a...

Ever wish that you could really create a mood with your Web site? One way to do so is to upload background music. Here's how you do it.

Yahoo’s Geocities capabilities were the precursor to the popular MySpace online community. With Geocities, a person can create their own unique Web page and publish it for anybody to see. Within...

To keep all of your files in one place for your Geocities Web site, there is a File Manager. Just about anything you need to do to your files, you can do it here. Here are just a few steps to...

Your Geocities File Manager can have several subdirectories. At times, you may need to delete a subdirectory, either to make room for a new one or for reorganization. Here is how to delete a...

You have files saved to your Geocities File Manager. If you want to make changes, you can edit them pretty simply. Here are the steps to editing your HTML page with Geocities File Manager.

Sometimes navigating your Geocities File Manager can be a little tricky and you might need a little bit of assistance. Here is how to rename a file on your Geocities file manager in just a few steps.

You probably have a bunch of home videos that you want all your friends and family to see. Using the Internet to share your home movies is easier than ever. Now you can use your Geocities Web site...

A podcast is simply a series of audio files that you make available for others to hear. It is called a podcast because it is usually broadcast on a regular basis like a radio show, but listeners...

With Dreamweaver 3, you can specify "behaviors" (something you want to have happen, such as a sound playing), and events (the "trigger" that launches the action, such as moving the mouse over an...