I get lot of comments and mails regarding which webhosting to choose from. I am using hostgator hosting and I am satisfied with them. I will advise hostgator shared hosting if you want to host some blog or small sites. But if you want some big sites like video sites, image hosting sites, arcade/game sites, then I will suggest you to go for dedicated hosting accounts.

Hostgator also provides SEO hosting - what it means is you can have different ip addresses for each websites. So it is similar to like having different hosting accounts but at a much lower cost. They are preferred by SEO professionals and companies having many websites.

So website hosting type depends on what type of site you host, bandwidth, web space, addon domains etc. There are various hosts offering similar types of hosting and similar prices, but choose the one having best web hosting rating. If you have more problems, let me know.

Entering the Internet market involves a lot of challenges and questions.

• Can you afford interactive Web 2.0 web design?
• How much programming should there be?
• Do you want colocated server or a managed server for your site?
• How do you perform your search engine optimization?

All this is to be considered! Therefore most internet businesses are searching for the full-service companies that can provide all services under one roof.

What these companies do first, is devise the overall strategy of running your business online. As Jeff Thompson from BIT Studios, leading Chicago web design firm company points out, planning always comes first. This is like a standard business plan in many ways only that it is for WWW. Without a comprehensive chart that will consider all specifics of your venture, your efforts are useless. His statement is backed up by the director of Netstrategies – a DC web site design company who also believes that it’s the solid backend programming that matters most out of all elements in the equation.

After determining what kind of website you need, these guys proceed with design mockups, then with backed web programming if needed, hosting and eventually search engine promotion strategy. As Val Zamulin from Seologist – Toronto SEO company says, the last bit is probably the hardest as it doesn’t really depend on the company alone but rather on the algorithms of major search engine robots and only a small number full service web companies cover the last item

Today I was looking for some coupon codes to renew my hosting and domain names. If you search the internet, you can find coupon codes for almost anything that is sold on internet - ranging from electronics goods, web hosting, domains, health items, sports goods and more.

Some of the currently working discount coupons helpful for webmasters are :
1) Get .info domain names for 99 cents per year - So almost free from dotster domain registrar. Use Coupon Code: 99infodot to get this deal. I am sure you will buy 100 info domains with this excellent discount coupon.

2) If you want to go for cheap and reliable hosting, look at 1&1 hosting company. Currently they are offering a huge discount of 20% with the use of coupon code 1&1 .. The coupon expires Jan 31st - so hurry before the discount goes away.

You can find coupon codes for almost anything on CouponChief.

I am glad to announce the first Free to use wordpress theme - Design being sponsored by blog latest updates

FEATURES of Notepad Revolution Theme !

Tested om IE6,7,FF,Opera,Safari
2 columns - Sidebar Right Side
Compatible with latest wordpress script

CSS and XHTML valid
Banner PSD included - so that you can edit your banner

Notepad Revolution theme for Wordpress is specially designed for those who want a nice looking profesional theme but could not afford to pay for one. The colors are soothing to the eye and everything is placed in right spot.

The theme works perfectly under Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer and other major browsers. If you find any bug, let me know.

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The Theme Can be downloaded from following places :

BlogFlux

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The theme is free to use .. But the footer links should remain intact.

If you use the theme or have any problem, please post your comments below. Thanks.

Keep watching this space for more free theme releases.

I have seen lot of newbie webmasters doing some aggresive SEO for their sites which can infact lead to banning of their site by search engines. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) needs to studied well and according to latest search engine guidelines.

Some of the Dont’s for SEO :

Dont use blackhat techniques
Dont link on bad neighbourhood
Dont do aggressive link building
Dont use link farms
Dont stuff your content with keywords/footer words aggresively
Dont use duplicate content OR article marketing with same content everywhere

Some of the Best tips you should keep in mind :

Content is the king. Keep the keyword limit to 3-5%
Use different anchors for link building
Do link building slowly
Do link building from related niche sites
Meta-tags are still important
SEO friendly url structure
Use title tag and alt tag for links and images (google images is a good source of traffic too)
valid Html/PHP/CSS coding
Use robots.txt and sitemap files

These are some of the Do’s and Don’t you need to follow for doing SEO for your site. If you can’t, hire some reliable seo services.

Nowadays, social networking websites are very numerous and most of them use the same concept or, in other words, business model. The user signs up, creates their profile which they use in order to interact with other users, with a couple of more options that make each social networking website unique, Facebook has its applications, MySpace has its music and fame, but today I would like to review a very special website that has just come out to life, I am talking about SocialSplash.com.

SocialSplash is unique in the sense that it does not just offer the user the option to meet other young people from all over the world; it does something no other social networking website does. Other than the ability to communicate with friends, share photos and videos, create blogs, use the forums to discuss current issues and events, create and join groups, play flash games, takes quizzes, and even create funny pictures using the great option of SplashPix.

In addition to all these great options, SocialSplash.com gives back to the user, unlike all other social networking websites, you earn the so called “Splash Points” which you can convert into gifts. I have never come across such a great concept offered by a community website like that. Whatever you do on the website, like uploading photos, creating a blog or a group, or even use the forums, you get Splash Points, and the more you collect, the better, because if you get a good number of points you can get a gift from the Splash Store.

Tell me of any other website that does so much for its users, giving back in such a great way. If you check out other websites, you will see that they only profit for themselves, you get nothing in return, now you might think that SocialSplash.com is a new place and does not have enough users you can hook up with, but just give it time. I bet this website will not take much time to be known all over the internet just as MySpace and Facebook did. Well, facebook took more than 5 years to become famous among college students and then was open for the public, but I am pretty sure SocialSplash will not take that long and you will soon discover how spread it is.

What other website lets you play flash games while chatting with your friends, or creating funny pictures. Of course, all these features are just a few of what Social Splash is offering to their users, you will discover more if you sign up now and check it out for yourself.

SocialSplash.com has the power of Youtube, Facebook, Myspace, your own blog, your own photo album, all together in one place, PLUS the fact that you can do all these fun things while getting Splash Points that you can exchange for cool gifts such as gift cards for major stores or MP3 players and many other electronics. I say, you must check SocialSplash.com now, and I think you will get hooked on it the first time you visit it.

I think this blog needs a new wordpress design. I know branding your blog with a custom template helps a lost in boosting your popularity, but currently I am not in a situation to hire a designer to create a new custom design and then a coder to make it a wordpress template. A new custom wordpress template can cost around 300 - 500 USD depending on the designer and coder.
So I am in search of some nicely designed free wordpress templates. I want a template with features like 3 column (to place some 125×125 banner buttons), header changeable, widget ready template and more.

The current theme which you are seeing is an adsense ready template from Doshdosh.com - though I have made some modifications like custom header, widgets and removing some adsense codes.Though you can get free wordpress themes, but it can’t be better than a new custom design. Because if a free wordpress theme is like a custom design used by shoemoney or johnchow, then wordpress designers will face a serious scarcity of designin job.

If you know any such 3 column free wordpress theme or if you are selling a custom wordpress design ( not very costly ), then let me know. Thanks.

You must be knowing that I posted an article when I bought my Sony Vaio laptop before 2 months. But these days I am consistently having battery performance problem. Even with a fully charged battery, I cannot keep my laptop running for even 2 hours when I am out. I do keep my laptop in power saver options and with minimal brightness display.

I also followed following tips to save battery life :
- Charing fully and discharging fully for max performance
- Decrease display brightness
- Detach Externally attached devices like USB harddrive
- Run minimal programs

Even though my batter is not running adequately to give me a runtime for at least 4 hours as indicated in various sites. I am thinking of buying a new sony laptop battery but I am afraid if it will also have such problem. I hope this is not a common problem with all sony batteries. Any advise please - post your comments here..

There has been a great development and technological innovation in the field of televisions. The home is becoming a home theater with plasma and HDMI TVs.

I am also thinking of buying a new plasma tv with all the latest features like high clarity, HDMI technology, bright resolution, memory card and USB support, inbuilt DVD/CD player, digital dolby sound, cost effective etc.. I don’t know much regarding which TV to buy and what features are enough for a person like me who is a novice confused webmaster of blogconfuso and has no time to watch TV.:mrgreen:

I have read some reviews on plasma TVs from various sources like magazines, newspapers, television and internet sites. From them I conclude that LG, Samsung and panasonic are the leading players. But I am still confused on which one to buy - I am about to go for Panasonic full HD plasma. Also, there should be good customer service and product warranty before you suggest me something via blog comments.

I am thinking of doing some higher degree courses on webdesign and development in US. There are lot of future scope and opportunities in this field and also you can see my blog is not well designed

I tried to learn from various tutorial sites, blogs etc, read lot of books and e-books on designing and photoshop subjects but still I am a newbie in this field.

I read a lot about CSS (Cascading style sheets) but always confused a lot. I recently found some good web design and development schools on http://www.selectitschools.com/ - can anyone suggest which one is the best out of it ?