Archive for March, 2010
How to publish your own electronic book (Ebook)
Electronic books (or ebooks) are quickly becoming extremely popular and they are making it much easier for anyone to publish their own book. Not only that, but major authors like Stephen King have published books in this format. Reasons to publish your own book There are two main reasons why you might want to consider [...]
In: Getting Started
List of free drawing and painting programs
Whether or not you have any artistic bones in your body (like me), at some point you’ll probably want to create or modify an image, especially if you run a website. This page provides a list of free programs you can use to create images, edit pictures, modify digital photos, create animations, or simply draw [...]
In: Getting Started
Free text to speech screen readers
We are in a pretty cool technological time where screen readers exist that can read aloud text on a computer screen. They are mainly used to help the visually impaired surf the web and access documents that the rest of can find. There are plenty of expensive screen readers, but this page will only list [...]
In: Getting Started
Free email clients
This page shows a list of programs you can use to read your email offline. They allow you to take the email form you mail server or Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your own computer using a facility called POP3 and respond offline. They also provide facilities for you to create folders and organize your [...]
In: Getting Started
Affordable web hosts
This article will provide you a list of affordable web hosts. For this article, I will consider anything under $20 dollars to be affordable for a basic site. I often only list their cheapest package on this page. You can click the link to find out more about the other packages if that host interests [...]
Beware of resource usage limits with web hosts
There are many factors to consider when deciding on a web host, which I examine in the How to choose a web host article. But the one thing that web hosts cannot provide any information on is resource usage limits. Disk space and bandwidth are not the problem One thing every web host will show [...]
In: Getting Started
How to put a search engine on your website
People love using search engines. Even on sites with clear and logical navigation, some people still prefer to use the search feature. Adding a search engine to your website is a nice convenience that many of your visitors will appreciate. If people are unable to find your content through your site’s navigation, having a search [...]
In: Getting Started
Free Perl site search engine scripts
Adding a search engine to your website is a great idea that people will certainly appreciate. Perl search engines work in a couple different ways. The first way searches your entire site for articles when people use the feature. This is easier to install, but can be slow if your site is big. The other [...]
In: Getting Started
Free PHP site search engine scripts
Having a search engine on your website is a great way to make it easy for people to find things on your website, and one to so that is by installing a PHP script. PHP search engines work in a couple different ways. The first way searches your entire site for articles when people use [...]
In: Getting Started
Free search engine hosts
The search engines listed on this page allow you to add a search engine to your website easily without installing any PHP or Perl scripts. These are all free services, and since they host the search engine scripts on their web server, all you have to do is copy and paste the HTML code they [...]
In: Getting Started
