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Search engine optimization has become one of the most important and blatantly juiciest parts of the Web 2.0 movement.  Since massive changes in the way search engines work and with the help of Googles part in sparking the movement there has been a wildfire of new strategies for reaching the #1 spot on search engine result pages.

Some can agree that back in the day when AOL 3.0 and Dial-up was running the show that the most important parts of a website that mattered were speed, optimization, and relevant material.  One: I didn’t want to wait 20 minutes to download these 100+ pages of Goldeneye 007 gameshark codes; Two: I didn’t want to spend 5 minutes waiting for a website to load and then find out it’s not what I was looking for.

The Website Grader gives your website a score by, you guessed it..grading and giving scores to various categories and sub-categories of your website (or someone elses) for a complete average.  Basically, you end up with a test score.

The various subjects and categories it grades on include but are not limited to:

• Content and Blog Analysis, Grade, and Recent Articles with Retweets and Inbound Links.
• Optimization Tips based on Metadata, Headings, and Image Summery showing how many images your page contains.
• Domain information.
• Promotion and Marketing information including del.icio.us bookmarks, Link Tweet Summary, and a Twitter Grade.

Each of these, including the ones I didn’t mention can all contribute to the usability and promotion of your website which could ultimately lead up to more traffic and useful input.  Keep grading, keep optimizing.

http://www.websitegrader.com - The Website Grader

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Apache is probably the number 1 web service hosting software ever created.  With that said I get a lot of people always asking how to install it or some variation of.  Here’s an easy tutorial on it using CentOS 5.4 Linux using a Rackspace Cloud Server…

1.    SSH into your Server

2.    Make sure you are root user.

3.    Update Yum with command : # yum update

4.    Download and install Apache with command : #  yum install httpd

5.    Set chkconfig run levels to ensure that apache starts up even if the system is rebooted with command : # chkconfig –levels 2345 httpd on

6.    Start Apache or httpd service with command : #  service httpd start.

7.    Flush your IP Tables and add port 22 for SSH (unless you changed it’s port) and also allow port 80 for apache/http connections.  I have also deleted the “RH-Firewall-1-INPUT” chain and set the default INPUT policy to “DROP”.

#  iptables -X RH-Firewall-1-INPUT

#  iptables -F

#  iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 22 -j ACCEPT

#  iptables -I INPUT -p tcp –dport 80 -j ACCEPT

#  iptables -P INPUT DROP

#  service iptables save

8.  Congrats, you now have a basic apache install.

Notes : Apache’s configuration file is /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and the default place to put all of your websites files are in /var/www/html/

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Hey guys,

Just working on a new theme for the site and I’m getting really close to being finished.  Keep back for updates.

If you want an email or some kind of notification of when I’m done about to go live with the new design, shoot me an email or leave a comment.

All done.  Let me know what you think; comments, suggestions, etc.

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Find and replace.  It’s one function that should be in any text-based application.

It’s uses : Endless.

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Color schemes are one of those things you just have to get right.  You can sit in your room and play around with different colors for hours before getting the right mix for your website, painting, colored drawing, etc.

Now, this is mainly a webmaster resource since it contains hex codes for the colors but it has many other different applications as well.

It’s free, accepts donations, and works great.

Give it a try : ColorSchemeDesigner

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