Whenever I have an idea for a domain name, my first instinct is to go on a website like namecheap.com and check if that domain name I have in mind is taken or not.

Now I understand if a domain name is still available for anyone to register it can be stolen before you have a chance to register yourself.

For example, just a few weeks ago I had an idea for a web hosting review website. The domain name I had in mind was epicwebhost.com, I like it because it was short, easy to remember and catchy. It was a perfect domain name for my web hosting review website, so I decided to check to see if this domain name is available over at namecheap.com.

The WordCamp Toronto 2010 will be open at the Centennial College Student Centre on March 27 and 28. Here’s a map on Google map.

More information can be view here on the WordCamp Toronto’s website.

The price will be $35 CND for one person. So, I’ll be going there to check out what it is all about and maybe I can pick up something from it.

Here is the schedule for the 2 days event for The WordCamp Toronto 2010.

Just two months ago (December 2009) this website www.keyframe5.com got hack by a spammer! I never thought I would end up as a victim, I always say to myself this will never happen to me.

Here is what I did to find out how my Wordpress website was hack and how to protect your Wordpress website from becoming a victim.

1. The fastest and easiest way to keep your Wordpress website protected from hackers and spammers is to always upgrade your Wordpress website to the latest Wordpress version.
2. Validate your CSS and source code with W3C.
   
   If some unknown html codes were added, you can easily pick it up the errors with W3C. If you don’t know how to validate your source code through W3C, you can still do it by remembering the amount of errors you have and later on when you check it again you suddenly have 100’s extra errors. Then that should tell you something is wrong.
3. Look at your web traffic statistic. If you notice a slow decline of traffic on your web site and you have a gut feeling something is wrong. Check and see what key words some of the people use on search engines to find your site. For example, I notice someone used the key word “3D penis mesh”. I know the word penis is not on my website anywhere (except on this page), but for some weird reason someone found my site with the word penis. That should be a good warning sign something is wrong.
4. Lastly, regularly check your source code. I check my source code all the time and I’ll admit I didn’t notice anything wrong when I got the hack but if you’re careful you might be able to find something out of the ordinary.
5. Yes, always upgrade Wordpress when in doubt.

Are you always on the road or for get to install your favorite a HTML Editor? Well, I came across this website called online-html-editor.org and it is free to be download. It is not going to put Dreamweaver or any other WYSIWYG HTML Editor out of business but this little software does a decent job for basic HTML editing.

You don’t even have to download it to your computer. You can just visit the website and load your html files while using your favorite internet browser. This HTML Editor is good enough for basic html editing, inserting images, formatting text.

Check out what’s new with Adobe Photoshop CS5 and while you’re here check out this software called PatchMatch. As I remember Adobe CS4 was just in the market not too long ago and I’m still using Adobe CS2.

I believe Adobe CS5 should be in the market in April 2010. For now, check out some of the new features for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and check out PatchMatch.

I recently have vista ultimate 64 bit on my new workstation and I couldn’t install all Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 separately on my Vista system. And I don’t want to setup my old system just to check the browser compatibility.

So I have been looking around for a few days and found this:
Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 – 8
You can download the .exe here (IE Compatibility Check) or go directly to this site to download the latest version here.

Intro and Splash Pages
The worst thing you could do is to have a Flash splash page and inside the flash object there is the enter link. This mean, the each engine spiders can not access the enter link inside the flash object. Therefore, your splash page with the flash object will be the only page the search engine spiders will index and not the other pages.

It is okay if you don’t care about search engines indexing your content, but for the rest of us this is the biggest mistake anyone can do with SEO. Your homepage is likely the highest ranking page of the entire site. Why put any splash page there? There is no use for splash pages, unless you want the users to have the options to select which language they prefer, but other than that I don’t see any good use of a splash page.

According to a recent poll, 12 000 web designers were asked “Do you think web designers required SEO?” 84% voted YES, 7% voted NO, and 9% don’t know anything about SEO. If you are among the 9% of the web designers that don’t know what SEO is, then this article will try to explain some of the basic things about SEO. This article will explain the do and don’t about SEO. Also the common mistakes made by many web designers and web developers.

Why you need to know about SEO?
1. SEO is not only for online web marketers. Web designers or the front-end web developers are responsible for SEO and how to setup web pages for SEO.

2. You probably lose a lot of traffic and visitors if your site is not search engines friendly. Keep in mind most people use search engines to search the internet, if your site is not search engines friendly, which mean you’re not listed on search engines high enough for people to find your site.

3. Also having SEO knowledge is a very valuable asset. You can sell your SEO knowledge to your clients.

The creator of flash xml editor version 1 has recently released his brand new flash xml editor version 2 with all the improvements from the last version. There are now tons of new features and it is easier to use with better UI.

The version is still available here. But why buy the first one whe you can get the newer one with more features?

You can check out the demo here.

I have been using this site for some time and it is working fine for me. The only downside is that it is not free after 5-10 uses. You will have to pay .05 cents per search once your free uses are up or wait 1 month for it to reset your free searches.