Google Tips To Help Your Website Load Faster

Google Code logoIf you are a web designer, you might find this quite handy. Inside the Google Code area, Google have a section called ‘Let’s Make The Web Faster‘ full of tips on how you can optimize your site to load faster and provide a better visitor experience.

There are video articles to explain various things you can do and also software downloads to assist you.

Check out the following video to learn more.

How To Start Your Own Blog In Under 5mins!

Blogs have really exploded in the last few years and are a perfect solution for anyone wishing to have a web presence without the hassle and cost of a traditional website.

You can set up a custom blog on your own web host like I have done with this blog, it will require some technical experience to do. I’ll explain how I did it in another post.

However, the much easier option is to sign up at any of the following FREE blog service providers. You can then have your own blog up and running in under 5mins usually!

If you’d like even more options, check out this post from Mashable: 40+ Free Blog Hosts.

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How To Start A Website With No HTML Experience

If you’d thought you needed to get a web designer or learn how to use some tricky web page application like Dreamweaver or Frontpage, think again!

With simple drag and drop functionality, you can have a website up in a short time with very professional results.

Sign up for a free account and then start building at Weebly or BlinkWeb.

Weebly is great for general websites.
BlinkWeb is more useful for internet marketing ie. creating sales pages or squeeze pages.

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How To Embed SWF or FLV Video Into a Webpage or Blog

I came across this really great post which shows you how to embed swf video or embed flv video files into your blog or webpage.

With a little digging around in the html code, you can display video sourced from another site through a fairly nice looking and non-branded video player on your site!

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Why You Should Register Your Name As A Domain

Because you don’t want your name associated with porn sites! Or maybe you do?

One of the things I learnt at the World Internet Summit I attended last month was that they recommended you register your name as a domain.

It’s becoming increasingly more common that when people want to search for information on you, they’ll google your name.

Porn sites are crafty buggers where they might purchase ‘JoeBloggs.com’ and point it to one of their sites.

When someone searches on “Joe Bloggs”, they’ll find a porn site associated to it which is terrible if it’s a potential employer searching you out! Great if you’re in the adult industry already.

The only thing you can do to stop this is to buy the domain and to pay some exorbitant amount for it.

If you’re doing something where you interact with the public, better go register your name as a domain asap.

Even if you’re not, what’s a couple of bucks to claim your own domain? Just point it to your myspace or facebook page.

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How To Register A Domain Name in 3 Steps

Getting your own domain name is a fairly straight forward process once you know how to do it. It can be summarised in 3 simple steps:

  1. Find a registrar
  2. Select a name
  3. Pay for it

Step 1 – Find a registrar
There are many you can choose from, you only need to google ‘domain registration’ to be flooded with tonnes of options. The ones that are I tend to use are Namecheap, GoDaddy and RegisterDirect.

If you’re after an international domain like a .com or .net, use Namecheap or GoDaddy, they’re pretty cheap. If you’re after a NZ extension like .co.nz or .net.nz, try RegisterDirect.

There are slightly cheaper registrars for NZ domains elsewhere but I’ve found the user interface for RegisterDirect really straight forward and easy to use, plus they host email accounts too for you if you need.

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