ASP Resources

September 19th, 2008

ASP stands for Active Server Pages. It is basically a server-side scripting language designed for the Windows Platform, although it is now available on Unix/Linux systems, however PHP is the more popular choice for this platform. Below you will see some greate ASP resources. ASP is a useful language to learn. You should also learn how to use the .Net platform.
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Ethan Web Development

DHTML Tutorials

September 19th, 2008

Dynamic HTML is the future of web design. The articles found here should give you a good into to the world of Dynamic HTML:
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Learn PHP

September 19th, 2008

Many websites these days — especially open source websites like WordPress, Moodle, Drupal, phpBB and others — are written in PHP. I think the PHP language is awesome. Personally I prefer PHP over Java or Python.

If you own a website that is written in PHP learning a bit about PHP can help you better implement plugins and modules and will come in very handy in troubleshooting issues when they arise.

Here are some very useful PHP educational and tutorial links:
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Ethan Web Development

SQL Tutorials

September 19th, 2008

Every dynamic website must access a database. SQL is very widely used and is easy to learn.. If you work with databases in any capacity knowing SQL can help excel at your job and make a few good impressions on your boss.

If you want to build a website or have one already, I am almost certain that the back bone of your website is its database. You can learn how to write queries against any database using the links below for free:
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Publicize Your Website Online for Free

September 17th, 2008

You may be under the impression that you must spend loads of money to advertise your blog or business website online — Not exactly true.. Have you heard of the Million Dollar HomePage (www.milliondollarhomepage.com)? Do you remember the unbelievable publicity it had? Well, all of that publicity was absolutely free of charge and was driven by individuals and social media websites.

Yes, you can advertise your website for free! This article has some useful tips, more will come so keep an eye on this category.

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Ethan Online Advertising, Online Marketing ,

Predictions on Domain Name TLD Popularity

August 22nd, 2008

As you must have noticed, good dot com (.com) domains are scarse forcing many to purchase these domains in the secondary market and almost always pay more than $100 per domain. So, we all know how good the .com TLD is.

A few years ago, there were fewer TLDs. Life was simple and straight forward.. Now, between the country-specific and industry-specific TLDs there are hundreds of TLDs to consider when shopping for a domain name. This can be confusing especially for newbies.

Let me talk a little about the most famous TLDs and share my future predictions, for the next 10 years to come, let’s start:

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Ethan Domain Names ,

We are retiring AdSense Referrals, Finally!

June 30th, 2008

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t make 1 cent from the Google AdSense Referral program. So, when I got the email today from Google about retiring their AdSense Referral program I was not surprised a bit.

In case you did not get this email from Google, here you go:

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Ethan Adsense & Adwords

Mashup of Gmap into your Drupal website

June 11th, 2008

Recently I had to setup a Drupal website (Drupal 5.7) that needed to display pages with a location and a Google map. I could achieve that by editing node.tpl.php but I wanted to use Views and Panels instead.. Here are the instructions on how to get your Gmap view to work with the Views module and the Panels module.

Before we start I assume that you have installed the Views, Panels2, Gmap, and the Location modules.

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A New Google AdWords Policy Change Will Affect You!

May 27th, 2008

As if paying for increasingly pricey Google Ads wasn’t enough, yet again Google has announced a new policy change that will likely prevent you and me from getting the top Ad spots through their AdWords program.

For a long time, the Internet has acted as a leveling force where one person could compete with large corporations for Internet real estate, traffic, sales and ads. The recent Google strategy and vision will definitely have a negative impact in this arena. In the coming weeks, as this strategy is rolled out, Ads will be scored and ranked similarly to web pages. The new strategy relies heavily on the speed of landing pages (landing page load time).

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Ethan Adsense & Adwords