Uploading A WordPress Website From A Local To A Remote Installation

If you’re working on a local website for development and need to upload it either to go live or because you need to show a client or other team members your work, you’re going to need to upload your WordPress website. This is more complicated than moving from a sub-directory to the root directory, and involves moving three things: WordPress itself — you’ll need to install this in the new location; The database — which you can move using phpMyAdmin; Your theme files, uploads and plugins. 1. Turn Off Permalinks Turn off pretty permalinks in the “Permalinks” screen, which you’ll find in the...

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Using Black Hat SEO Techniques in a White Hat Way

Black hat SEO involves using marketing techniques which are against the search engine's guidelines. Employing these tactics can result in your site being penalized or banned from the index.  The thought of being banned from Google often results in people rejecting black hat methods outright without taking the time to think if these methods could be modified in an acceptable way. By using black hat ideas and then altering them to stay on the right side of the search engine guidelines, it is possible to benefit without as much risk. 1. Expired domains Website owners often lose interest...

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Display Video Thumbnails With Drupal Media Module

The Media module is great for managing media files such as images and videos on a Drupal website. Today we discuss video handling, specifically how to display a video thumbnail. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to display a thumbnail for videos that are hosted on YouTube and Vimeo. Then, we'll look at how to change the video "preview" view mode. Getting Started Before we begin, download and install the following modules: Media (7.x-1.3) Media: YouTube Media: Vimeo Ctools Views If you use Drush, run the following command: $ drush dl media media_youtube media_vimeo ctools views Step...

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Maximize Your WiFi Range for Free

If you have Internet access set up in your home, you can get the most out of your plan by maximizing your WiFi signal. Here are some handy (and free) tricks to boost your reach. First, increasing your signal is as easy as moving your home router. Instead of placing it by the TV or cable box, move it to the best place the the house: the attic. It has the least amount of walls and other obstructions, and is a central spot. Additionally, since radio waves spread laterally and down, your attic can be an ideal place for your router. Need an extra signal boost? Use an aluminum can. Start...

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Earn You Money With Your Smartphone

Smartphone applications have the power to make our lives easier and often more enjoyable. Many also facilitate you earning money directly through your smartphone. Here are five free apps that can lend a hand to your bank account: iBotta. Using iBotta, You pick the products you are going to buy on your next shopping trip and earn money by completing small tasks associated with those products. Tasks include earning $0.50 for answering one question about the product, or earn $0.25 for reading one fact about the product. Also, you can often score $1.25 for posting...

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How do I manually install Flash Player on my Android device?

Flash Player for Android is no longer available for download from the Google Play app store, but Android users can still download and install Flash Player from the Archived Flash Player Versions page on the Adobe website.  To do so, please watch this instructional video or follow the steps below: Make sure your Android device is connected to the Internet. Open the Settings menu. Select Security (or Applications, on older Android OSs). Place a checkmark next to the "Unknown sources" check box. Tap OK to confirm your selection. Close Settings. Launch the browser. Search for "flash player archive page" or navigate directly to http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions. html On the Archive page,...

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30 best new SEO tools

Richard Baxter of netmagazine.com on building the perfect toolkit for SEO and digital marketing You’ve heard the saying, 'A poor craftsman blames his tools'. In our world, it’s more like 'really awesome tools make me look good to my clients', or similar. Making sure you use the best tools is critical to being thorough, competitive and exceptional at your craft, but staying up-to-date is pretty difficult. I’ve been working in the trenches of the SEO industry for 10 years, watching different tools come and go, all gaining in complexity and usefulness as time goes on....

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12 iPhone Tricks You Didn’t Know You Had

Secret and lesser-known features are a great way to make interacting with your iPhone more productive and fun. Let us know in the comments which feature you were most surprised/excited to learn about. Let’s start with something simple. When taking photos, it is important to remember that despite the advanced eatures that come with the iPhone camera, it is still an iPhone. There are times when photos become jittery, but one way to lessen the possibility of blurry photos is to take photos by using your headphones as a shutter button. When in the camera app, simply press the center...

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Windows 8 makes creating a home or small business network easy. Here's how to set one up

In this article, we'll take you through the steps required to connect two Windows 8 machines together in a homegroup. When a set of instructions such as File>New>Open are given, it means you click File and then will see the option New; click >New and you will see Option, which you should then click. Creating a Homegroup Before getting started, your computer has to be connected to a network. The connection can be wired or wireless, but make sure you are connected to your home or office router first. In the Windows 8 Start screen, begin typing "Control Panel" until the...

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Three tips for Windows 8 newbies

“How do I find my programs?” is a very common question. People see the Windows-tiled Start screen and aren’t able to find the Start menu on the desktop, so they feel lost. If there’s no tile for it, it can be extremely difficult to locate and run the program that you know is on your machine. The solution is amazingly simple. Just start typing. With the tiled Start screen visible, just start typing the name of whatever program you’re looking to launch. In the example above, all that I’ve done is type two letters: “c” followed by “o”. (I’m looking for Control Panel.) On the left, Windows...

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