Backing up and restoring your MySQL Database
If you’ve been using MySQL database to store your important data, it is imperative that you make a backup of your data to prevent any loss of data. This article shows you how to backup and restore data in your MySQL database. This process can also be used if you have to move your data to a new server.
Backing up your database
The quickest and easiest way to backup and restore your database would be to use MySQLDump. If you’ve got shell or telnet access to your server, you can backup MySQL data by issuing the mysqldump command. The syntax for the command is as follows.
Learn How DNS Work
May 31, 2008 by Jason · Leave a Comment
Domain name Servers (DNS) are an important but invisible part of the internet, and form one of the largest databases on it. Each machine on an internet is assigned a unique address, called an IP address, which is 32 bit number and is expressed as 4 octets. The method user to represent these IP addresses is known as dotted decimal Notation”. A typical address looks like this: 199.249.150.4
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Get Free Backlinks!
May 28, 2008 by Jason · Leave a Comment
Sending out link requests is a time-consuming business. So wouldn’t it be wonderful if other sites linked to you without being asked?
Sound impossible? Well, it can be done and here are ten strategies to prove it. Why not start 2006 by making sure you use them?
In a link building campaign, you have to find target Web sites in the first place, review them to decide if asking for a link is worthwhile, identify the contact person and send them a customized link request. If you can do all that in 15 minutes per request, you’ll be doing very well. On that timing, you’ll be able to send out 160 requests in a 40 hour week and with a success rate of say 10%, you’ll get 16 links for your efforts.
Updating custom vBulletin Skins is such a pain
May 12, 2008 by Brandon Sheley · 4 Comments
Updating vBulletin Skins
This is the part of updating a vBulletin forum that I never look forward too. I seen a tool posted in the forums called WinMerge, I can see how it would be helpful updating skins if I had another monitor of just more desktop space.
I’ll quickly go over what I do to update a vBulletin skin and the templates, maybe it well help a few out who don’t have a clue what’s involved in updating their skins. If anyone has a better way to update a style, or maybe some tips using WinMerge or another application, please share with us.
Okay, here goes…
Tips on Writing Effective Newsletters
April 22, 2008 by Brandon Sheley · 2 Comments
Tips on Writing an Effective Newsletter
I saw a request in the forums for a little tutorial on writing an effective newsletter, so I thought I would give it a shot.
I’ll spend a day or two writing and putting together the pieces our vBulletinSetup Newsletter. Articles and written and rewritten after thought of the whole layout may change with some event or special that we have to get out in the newsletter. I try to remove all spelling and grammatical errors and usually try to get a staff member or two to look over it before posting it live. Our newsletter page is a little out of alignment at the moment, but in the emails they look great. I guess I’ll just start listing off some tips and we’ll see how this goes.
How Google Analytics can make you more money
April 19, 2008 by Blake2181 · 4 Comments
Hello all again. I thought today I would write about how one can use Google Analytics to make more money with your advertising.
If you don,t know by now, Analytics is a free traffic tracking service from Google. It gives you loads of information on where you traffic is coming from, and where it is going. But, it is the best tool for increasing advertising revenue I have ever seen.
But, before we get into that you must learn two terms. The first being bounce rate. The Bounce Rate for a single page is the number of visitors who enter the site at a page and leave within the specified timeout period without viewing another page, divided by the total number of visitors who entered the site at that page. In contrast, the Bounce Rate for a website is the number of web site visitors who visit only a single page of a website per session divided by the total number of website visits. Basically it tells you which pages on your site keep your traffic flowing. The lower the bounce rate, the better the page is at keeping people’s interest in your site.
The second term which I am sure everyone knows is Unique Visits. A Unique Visit presents a single, unique viewer who has visited a web site within a specified time period. Now that you know what they are, lets explain how they can help you make more money.
CrossBrowserTesting.com – a great new resource for designers
April 16, 2008 by bdude · 6 Comments
I spotted a new site on the wire today, Cross Browser Testing; it is a site that helps you test your website across a variety of different operating systems and browsers.
Whilst there are services like Browsershots that let you take screenshots of your site in different browsers, Cross Browser Testing provides you with full interactivity, allowing you to test things like AJAX and JavaScript that you can’t do with a screenshot.
Cross Browser Testing provides a very wide variety of servers to choose from, from Windows 98(!) to Vista and Linux; and many browsers including Internet Explorer, Opera and Netscape.
I played around with the free 5 minute trial session available, and it seems like a really good option for those who need to test their sites in many different environments.
Here’s a screenshot of the vBS blog in Opera:
