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There are so many positive things come from having pets. Beside that, there are some important things that we have to consider. Here are 10 things that will help you make a more realistic decision.
-> Pet's type. What kind of pet do your children like? Small, big, cute, brave or what?
-> The children age. Two years old or younger children may not look after pets well. In many case, it isn't wise to buy a hamster for 2 years old children who are still adapting with their surroundings and may not know how to take care it.
-> Cost. Not only for the purchasing, but also for the treatment. Some pets are very cheap to be bought like hamster, guinea pig, gerbil, bird, fancy rat, fancy mouse, fish, rabbit or ferret. But beside its price, you have to consider about its stable, feed, bed, vet cost and holiday treatment.
-> Time. How long do your family have to spend for the pets. For small pet, you have to take it out of stable and play with it for about 2 hours.
-> Security. Is your family secure from the pets, or the opposite?
-> Room. How wide the room you need for the pets? Even small pets like guinea pig, fancy rat and ferret need a big stable to be happy. They also need sport room outside stable.
-> Effect for the surroundings. What are the impacts for family, friends, neneighbors and other animals in your house?
-> Holiday. Who will take care the pets when your family is on holiday?
-> Death. Can your family accept when the pets (moreover your lovely cats) die?
-> Pets's habbit. Some like to sleep all day and hamster can be very crowded at night.
Every money-making bloggers want their blogs to have high-traffic. Sometimes, I'm anxious how many professional bloggers have many visitors everyday. Their blog are friendly with search engine, especially google, so that many people are brought their pages. My friend then told me something about SEO. What is SEO? Copied from Wikipedia, Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. In other words, SEO techniques are the way how to get visitors to our blogs as many as possible.
How to do SEO? Okay, there are many ways to optimize your blogs. But based on article Ways Of SEO I've read, there are seven most recomended ways. First, give what search engine want, let search engines indexed easy and quick. Select keyword(s) or statement of keyword and rational distribute in your article. Update your website content daily, at least 3-5 days. Marketing your websites. Hire expertinafield. Link to other website. And the last, use easy-to-remember domain. Using some software about SEO will also support the optimizing process.
Every google searchings for any keywords will only show 10 results per page. In fact, most people will only see page 1 and 2 from the result. And if they haven't got what they won't they will usually change the keyword. Do you think your websites will appear on the top 20? That's why you have to learn SEO. You have to make your websites more friendly with search engine.
When I was browsing, I found a good article about how to choose a great domain name. Well, I like this kind of article because I'm now parking my domains on a domain parking site and it's quiet profitable. I'm going to buy some new domains to be parked. Choosing domain name for domain parking can be dificult because the domain must have wanted keyword on search engine. And these are some tips I got from the article:
1. Be easy for Web searchers to find. Yap, friendly and easy to remembereddomain name will have more chance to be clicked on search engine.
2. Help market your product or service. Don't just have a unique domain name, if it's used for a company, it must be suitable with the company's name.
3. Serve as a strong trademark, so competitors won't be able to use it or something similar.
4. Be free of legal conflicts with other trademarks. Don't be fear of other trademarks that has similiar name.
5. One website, many domain names. Other domains that have similiar and more attractive name with your domain can sabotage yours. But you can have the best of both worlds you can claim several domain names and route them all to a single website.
6. Generic names. A generic term can make a great domain name, because lots of people are likely to find your site.
7. Ordinary or Common Names. Many excellent domain names are made up of ordinary words. You should choose a domain name that is ordinary or common for your visitors.
Having many blogs isn't as easy as you think. Some days ago, I just bought two domains. What for? Actually, I'm now learning how to be an internet marketer because I want to make more money from it. I'm a mad-money student, aren't I? Well, my plan is to make two new blogs and increase their pagerank up to 3 and make more money from them. But, the fact is, I can't do it as easy as I thought before because managing three blogs (including this one) is harder than only one. Then, I start learning SEO (Search Engine Optimization) how to increase blog popularity quickly.
Someday, I read an article (I forgot where is it from) about Web directory. Have you heard about it? Copied from Wikipedia, a Web direcotry means a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. Why and how is it advantageous for bloggers? Basically, the purpose of a web directory is to collect information about blogs include the link. If we have submitted our blogs to website directories that have high pagerank, it means they've linked our blogs and increase our blog popularity. Some web directories need reprirocal link from our blogs so it's profitable for them.
In fact, submitting our blogs to website directories is effective in increasing pagerank, especially SEO friendly web directory. Two of the most awful website directories are DMOZ and Yahoo directory. DMOZ is a multilingual open content directory of World Wide Web links owned by Netscape that is constructed and maintained by a community of volunteer editors (wikipedia). Many bloggers said that submitting blogs to DMOZ is hard. Yeah, I think so. Compared with other web directories, DMOZ might be the most wanted one, but it's also the hardest. And Yahoo! Directory is the rivals of DMOZ, it's also a powerful web directory.
Buat para blogger, banner sebenernya (menurut gue) punya dua fungsi. Yang pertama pastinya buat promosi alias nambah trafik. Yang kedua buat keren-kerenan, hhe. Oke gue tau yang kedua mungkin nggak buat semua orang, tapi sewaktu awal-awal gue ngeblog dulu (sekitar dua taun yang lalu), gue kagum sama blog-blog yang punya banner. Mikir-mikir gimana caranya bikin banner, akhirnya setelah nyari dari Tante Google, ketemu juga cara-caranya. Maksudnya cara masukkin kode html-nya.
Nggak semua blogger pastinya bisa bikin banner-banner-an, atau mungkin juga nggak sempet, tapi pengen buat banner. Nggak usah kuatir, banyak kok generator-generator (ini istilahnya apa ya?) yang memudahkan kita membuat banner. Ada yang berformat gambar, ada juga yang berformat flash. Yang mana yang lebih keren? Umumnya flash menurut gue. Keuntungan lain pake banner flash adalah, memorinya lebih kecil, jadi nggak begitu bikin lelet.
Salah satu banner generator yang mau gue bahas di sini adalah FlashVortex.com. Di sana, sebenernya kita nggak cuma bisa dapet banner gratis, tapi juga menu, teks, button sama jam. Tapi di sini gue mau ngasih cara bikin bannernya aja. Ini dia langkah-langkahnya.
1. Pergi ke FlashVortex.com pastinya.
2. Klik pilihan 'banner' di bagian atas.
3. Pilih template yang mau digunakan (keren-keren loh), klik di tulisan 'CLICK HERE TO EDIT THIS'.
4. Isi tulisan yang mau di pasang di blog. Biasanya 1-3 itu konten blog dan yang keempat nama blognya. Kebanyakan pake huruf besar semua.
5. Edit-edit yang emang pengen diedit. Tapi kalo gue mending default.
6. Klik 'Generate'.
7. Copy kode di bagian easy ke blog. Atau kalau yang 'Advance', harus di upload ke direct hosting dulu, terus baru dimasukkin ke blog.
Ini contoh banner gratis versi blog gue yang gue buat.
Selamat mencoba!
Finding suitable web hosting isn't an easy job. You have to pay attention to the price and the quality. Don't believe in any web hosting easily because not all of them will might give you what you want. Many people get interested to a web hosting they think good and in the reality they don't get the best they should have.
So how to find a good web hosting? Actually, there are some criterias you should check before buying it:
1. Reliability and speed of access. Not only reliable and fast, the web hosting must guarantee its uptime (time when it is functional).
2. Data Transfer (Traffic/Bandwidth). See how many people wil download from your site, choose the most suitable one. Don't believe any commercial web host that advertises "unlimited bandwidth". They have to pay for the bandwidth, and if you consume too much, you won't get your site up anymore.
3. Disk space. Suit your disk space requirement with the web hosting. If you need it only a little, for blog maybe, you can buy web hosting with less space (it will give you cheaper cost). But if you need more, choose a web hosting that have a lot of space you need.
4. Technical support. Make sure the technical support function 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. You will need their help if you get problem with the web hosting.
5. FTP, PHP, Perl, SSI, .htaccess, telnet, SSH, MySQL, crontabs. If you are paying for a site, you really should make sure you have all of these.
6. Email, Autoresponders, POP3, Mail Forwarding. After you have your own site, you might want your email with your own domain, like email@yourdomain.com, etc. Make sure the web hosting provide this facility.
7. Control Panel. Choose the most comfortable control panel for your easy.
8. Multiple Domain Hosting and Subdomains. If you need to have multiple or subdomain, check does the web hosting provide one?
9. Server. Check is the operating system and server sophisticated and reliable?
10. Price. The most important one, suit your money with the price. Or maybe you're confused of looking for the compatible one? Best Cheap Web Hosting will help.
11. International. Which web hosting will you choose? The local or USA one? If your target is for local people, local restaurant delivery service maybe, you can just use the local one. But hosting it in USA has the advantage of faster access.
Well, that's all I can write for this time. I may miss some parts (I'm just a human) and for the next, you should read people experience about the good webs hosting.
Here I found a good article from Web Articles, tips for making your blog succesful. It's written that one of the most successful approaches to getting your web site to rank well in the organic search results is to create a blog. A blog allow you to write fresh content continually everytime. You can write anything there, education, photograph, entertainment and many more.
After your blog is created, of course you want your blog to be succesful. Providing many fresh and wanted contents, visited by many people everytime, be the first on Google or other search engine. Don't worry if your blog is hosted by blogspot.com or wordpress.com, it doesn't mean you arem't better the other use custom domain.
In this article written that a blog should used by experienced writers with industry knowledge. Your blog should be maintained by a high-level individual who understand what the blog's topic is. Having an administrator will make your blog more monitored.
One way to make people more interested in visiting your blog is by holding contests or giveaways. For example you make a poll that ask them what your top selling product will be for any given week. Each guess counts as one entry in the contest. You can select the winner at random from the correct answers and give the top selling product or some other incentive as a prize.
The other way to keep your visitor is using RSS. It allow your readers keep update of your posts. Another approach to attracting new readers to your blog is by breaking news or piggybacking a news story that affects your area of expertise.
And the last from the article, an effective way too, is through participation on social media Web sites such as Flickr, StumbleUpon, Digg, Technorati, MySpace, YouTube, Bloglines, and others. Invite your friends to visit your blog!
BUSY! One word that atomaticaly expected from your lips when asked how you feel when move to new house. Your brain start running everywhere thinking about furnitures that have to be moved. You are confused how to start, and finally, you do many mistakes. Here are some tips from me if you want to move to your new house.
Make planning
Organize or check what you have to prepare before and after move. It's better to choose on the holiday to move.
Leave obsolete furnitures
Don't waste your time and energy for furnitures that you won't use later. Because that, throw furnitures those aren't proper tu use.
Put in furnitures to the boxes
It's time to box! Do packaging long time before move. Use exact matter package. Strong cardboard box with exact isolation will make you easier in moving them to the truck (see budget van lines) or in the opposite. Make sure the box is in clean and closed condition.
Choose the exact moving service
If you want to rent moving service, consider the experienced and bonafide one (see moving quotes, one way truck rental, movers, moving companies, movers and moving software) as the most important to help you in the move day, to avoid time and money improvidence. Choose big truck (see budget van lines) so that you don't have to carry again and again.
Arrange the furnitures position
When arranging furnitures in the truck, make sure the last one is the one you need firstly. And your logic will be needed much in arranging them.
Kali ini gue mau kasih tau cara posting gambar pakai fasilitas image map di blog. Buat yang nggak tau image map apaan, image map tuh kayak tag gambar di facebook. Jadi kalau ada foto orang bisa ada keterangan atau link khusus. Di sini gue bakal tunjukin cara pakai Dreamweaver.
1. Buka Dreamweaver. Pilih 'File' -> 'New...'. Di window 'New Document' yang muncul pilih 'Basic page' di bagian 'Category'. Di bagian sebelahnya, pilih 'HTML'.
2. Bakal ada halaman baru yang bakal dibuat, tapi sebenarnya kita butuh kodenya doang. Kalau di situ cuma ada kode atau deasain aja, pilih 'split' buat yang menampilkan kode dan desain.
3. Pilih 'Insert' -> 'Image'. Pilih gaambar yang diinginkan. Di window yang muncul klik ok aja.
4. Setelah gambarnya ada klik gambarnya. Di bagian 'Properties' ada kotak namanya 'Map', pilih yang bentuknya kotak, atau sebenarnya apa aja sih cuma enakan yang kotak.
5. Seleksi (tandai) bagian gambar yang bakal di map. Setelah di tandai (yang berwarna hijau transparan), balik ke 'Properties'. Di bagian 'Link', tulis alamat link yang dituju dan dibagian 'Alt' keterangannya. Buat kalau mouse diarahin ke bagian map bakal muncul keterangan, tambahain 'title="keterangan" di bagian kodenya (di kode mapnya).
6. Kopi kode gambar plus mapnya di post blog (bagian html-nya).
Ini contoh gambar gue sama kakak gue yang udah di-map. Coba arahin mouse ke kepala gue (kiri), di situ ada linknya. Terus ke kepala kakak gue (kanan). Buat yang mau analisa kodenya bisa liat di bawah.
Posting ini sebenarnya khusus gue buat buat anak-anak Smansa Bogor yang nggak bisa masuk situs-situs yang diblock sama pihak sekolah. Situs-situs yang diblock itu misalnya Facebook, Friendster dan Youtube. Nggak jelas alasannya kenapa situs-situs tadi diblock, padahal paling sering dibuka sama anak-anak.
Langsung aja, ikutin langkah-langkah di bawah ini:
1. Pergi ke sini.
2. Di baris 'IP' (paling kiri) pilih salah satu alamat (yang angka-angka nggak jelas dan banyak) beserta 'Port' di sebelahnya. Copy keduanya ke Notepad biar gampang.
3. Buat pengguna Firefox pilih 'Tools' -> 'Options...'. Di window 'Option' (kotak yang tiba-tiba muncul) pilih 'Advanced' . Cari tab yang namanya 'Network'. Di kotak 'Connection' pilih 'Settings...'.
4. Bakal muncul lagi window yang namanya 'Connection Settings'. Pilih 'Manual proxy configuration:'.
5. Di kotak 'HTTP Proxy' masukkan alamat IP tadi dan di kotak 'Port' masukkan alamat 'Port' yang ada di langkah 2.
6. Klik 'Ok' dan sekarang kita (kita? elo aja kali sama kebo) bisa pergi ke situs yang diblock.
Untuk cara yang lebih gampang bisa langsung pergi ke situs proxy gratisan kayak Vtunnel atau Gigaunblock.
Catatan: cara di atas mungkin bisa memperlambat atau mempercepat akses internet sebelumnya.
