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Swap Servers Like A WordPress Pro In Less Than 30 Minutes

If you spend much time working with WordPress installations, eventually you will need to migrate a site to a different server. ...

How to Use 301 and 302 Redirects Efficiently in WordPress

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Tools for Creating WordPress Plugins

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How to Improve Your Website Speed with CSS Sprites

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Improve Your Website's Loading Time by Leveraging Browser Caching

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How to Improve Website Speed by Enabling Gzip Compression

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Essential SEO Tips for Your Wordpress Site

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How to Generate Website Screenshots Dynamically on a Linux Server

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How to Generate Animated Thumbnails for Your Video Gallery with PHP

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Go Daddy has launched a new “Cup of Coffee” advertising campaign in India with the tagline “Get a Web presence in the time you finish a cup of coffee” to illustrate how quickly a business can establish an online presence.

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Posted on May 24, 2013 in News

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Go Daddy has teamed up with Locu, developers of an online menu management system, to integrate Locu with the Go Daddy Website Builder to include menu creation and publication features for restaurant owners who are looking for an accessible way of establishing or building an online presence that features on-the-fly menu changes and Takeout order service.

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Posted on May 22, 2013 in News

Swap Servers Like A WordPress Pro In Less Than 30 Minutes

If you spend much time working with WordPress installations, eventually you will need to migrate a site to a different server. Here is one time-tested method that you won’t hear about many other places.

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Posted on May 22, 2013 in Tutorials

How to Setup a Virtual Web Server with CentOS 6.x and VMware Player

Using a production server to test new softwares and applications is not always a good idea. The same thing applies to server updates. You must ensure your website will be compatible with the components that you are updating. In this tutorial, you will see how to use VMware to install a virtual web server running on CentOS 6 with PHP and MySQL.

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Posted on May 22, 2013 in Tutorials

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Posted on May 21, 2013 in Articles

How to Create a MySQL Database in cPanel, Plesk, and DirectAdmin

A common task of webmasters and developers is database creation. Since most web hosting control panels provide a wizard that simplifies the process, creating a database is not complicated. In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a MySQL database using the three most popular control panels: cPanel, Plesk, and DirectAdmin.

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Posted on May 20, 2013 in Tutorials