Small Business Hosting: Internet Web Hosting Secrets Revealed » Cast http://sbhosting.com Internet Web Hosting Secrets Revealed Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:13:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Episode 114 Tom Fiedhof Talks About Drupal http://sbhosting.com/114/ http://sbhosting.com/114/#comments Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:10:51 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=358 I talked to Tom Fiedhof and he gave us a great introduction to Durpal. Drupal is a contact management system similar to Joomla. Tom uses Drupal to create web sites for small business with his company ActiveLAMP. If you’re not familiar with Drupal or have always been wondering what it was all about this is a good place to start learning what Drupal is all about.

Links

Drupal

Acquia

]]> http://sbhosting.com/114/feed/ 0 WordPress.org Vs WordPress.com With Douglas Welch http://sbhosting.com/wordpress-org-vs-wordpress-com-with-douglas-welch/ http://sbhosting.com/wordpress-org-vs-wordpress-com-with-douglas-welch/#comments Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:08:17 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=341 On this episode I talk with Douglas Welch about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org and when you might want to use WordPress.org vs WordPress.com.

WordPress.com is hosted and managed by automattic (the company behing wordpress). If you choose WordPress.com you don’t install or control the software.

WordPress.org is the home of the open source wordpress software. This is where you get the software that you install on your own site so you are responsible to manage the software yourself.

Links

WordPress.org

WordPress.com (Here’s their explanation of the difference)

Douglas Welch (computer and new media consultant)

New Media Interchange (Doug’s New Media Group)

LA Friday Coffee (Doug’s coffee meetup)

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]]> http://sbhosting.com/browser-compatiblity/feed/ 0 Email Address Management http://sbhosting.com/email-address-management/ http://sbhosting.com/email-address-management/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:40:17 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=336 Yes you need to manage your email address. In this episode Gerry and I cover the subject of email address management. You need to be careful who you give your email address to in order to protected it from unwanted spam. We cover ways to avoid problems with your email address.

]]> http://sbhosting.com/email-address-management/feed/ 0 Email Harvesters – Protect Your Email Address http://sbhosting.com/email-harvesters-protect-your-email-address/ http://sbhosting.com/email-harvesters-protect-your-email-address/#comments Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:23:59 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=331 It’s important to protect your email address to minimize the spam that floods into your in box. On this episode we help you understand what email harvesters are, the way they work and how to protect yourself from them.

]]> http://sbhosting.com/email-harvesters-protect-your-email-address/feed/ 0 SEO – Ashley Berman Hale http://sbhosting.com/109/ http://sbhosting.com/109/#comments Wed, 06 May 2009 14:09:29 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=313 I got the opportunity to have a great conversation with Ashley Berman Hale. During out conversation we discussed various topics to help local businesses to understand SEO and web promotion.

We talked about many SEO related topics including:

Building Web Sites

  • Should you use CMS or not
    • Which CMS’s are available
      • WordPress
      • Joomla
      • Drupal
      • Other
Site Content and SEO

  • site structure
  • natural linking
  • usability
  • information architecture

Getting ranked locally

  • Edit you own local search listing

I’ve listed some of the resources we discussed here:

Webmaster Help Forum

Local Listing Info

Add your business to Google local search at the Google Local Business Center

MSN Local Listing Center

Yahoo! Local Listings

Below you’ll find the info for Ashley Berman Hale

You can contact Ashley at Ashley’s LinkedIn page

]]> http://sbhosting.com/109/feed/ 0 Silver Stripe – Interview with Sigurd Magnusson http://sbhosting.com/108/ http://sbhosting.com/108/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:11:21 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=295 Glenn interviews Siguard Magnusson from the SiliverStripe project. SilverStripe is a newer open source CMS that has been getting increasing traction since it was use to host the Democratic Convention Web Site.

This CMS is backed by a company also called SilverStripe. The company is located at silverstripe.com while the open source project is located at silverstripe.org.

In this episode Sig (Siguard) give us an overview of what SilverStripe is, where it’s positioned in the CMS community and how it can help a small business with their web site.

]]> http://sbhosting.com/108/feed/ 0 Google Analytics http://sbhosting.com/107/ http://sbhosting.com/107/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 03:33:48 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=292 Glenn and Gerry introduce Google Analytics a free tool used to analyse the effectiveness of your web site. This is not mean as a tutorial, but simply an introduction and an overview of valuable tool available to small businesses.

]]> http://sbhosting.com/107/feed/ 0 Choosing a CMS http://sbhosting.com/106/ http://sbhosting.com/106/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:57:11 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=285 As a small business owner you might be in a position to choose a CMS (Contact Managment System) yourself, but you should have an idea of the options available to you so you can my more informed about this impact of one choice or the other. In this episode Glenn and Gerry discussus varius options available for a CMS.

]]> http://sbhosting.com/106/feed/ 3 CMS Overview http://sbhosting.com/105/ http://sbhosting.com/105/#comments Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:47:04 +0000 admin http://sbhosting.com/?p=280 In this episode we give you and overveiw of just what is meant by the term Content Managment System (CMS).

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