File extensions are important attributes for the applications which allows you to process the information existing in a certain file. Practically, a file extension is the suffix added after the dot (.) sign and the operating systems use the letters contained in the filename suffix to assign a compatible application to open the file.
If you are new to cloud computing, it is a model which delivers the web platforms or software as services, such that anyone having just a modern web browser is able to deploy fast websites and applications, without buying and configure the necessary hardware or software. With more than 100,000 business applications already running on it, Force.com provides a set of tools and applications in the “cloud”, which speed up the development process up to five times and reduce the final product deployment costs with a half, as compared with JAVA or .NET platforms.
Alongside the new Google Webmaster Tools graphical user interface, a new useful feature was also launched: Change of Address. It allows you to notify Google when a website is moved from one domain to another, also permitting a faster update of the Google index. As a consequence, Google will update its index to reflect the changes of a website URL. The changes will stay in effect for 180 days, while in this period of time, the pages will be indexed with their new URLs.
The availability of WordPress version 2.8 was just announced. WordPress 2.8 code named Baker shows many new notable features and improvements of taxonomies, themes, widgets and speed of response. The administrator graphical user interface is similar with WordPress 2.7, but various tweaks were implemented into the newer version of WordPress, such as the possibility to install a theme contained in the theme directory with a single mouse click, right within the dashboard.
Page Speed is a Firefox add-on integrated with Firebug. It is capable to improve the current web pages loading speed according to certain rules. Page Speed optimizes page loading time which is measured since a user requests the web page and until the page is completely rendered by the web browser.
The latest Adobe hosted web service, BrowserLab, was launched as a free preview for webmasters who want an instant report about a certain website compatibility across multiple web browsers. BrowserLab is a tool for testing websites compatibility with various web browsers, providing multiple viewing options and comparison tools, alongside highly customizable preferences.
For beginners, it could be difficult to create a website from scratch by manually writing HTML and JavaScript code into a text processor window. Fortunately, automatic websites building tools makes easy even for beginners the rapid deployment of a simple website. A powerful and simple to use utility is CoffeeCup Visual Site Designer. It requires only drag and drop actions to add elements like images or text to a new page.
A widget represents a small application capable to run on your desktop. Opera Widgets are cross-platform and cross-device compatible applications that can be built only by using common Web technologies like HTML, JavaScript or CSS. Opera Widgets Software Development Kit (SDK) comes to simplify the widgets development process because it provides tools, libraries, documentation, and examples on how to make Opera Widgets for various devices.
After you have built a website, the next step is to show it to the world. Any successful website usually has a high traffic, reflected in a high number of unique visitors daily. In order to begin the creation of your website success, because just publishing it to the web is not enough, you should try to apply in practice the main principles of Search Engine Marketing (SEM). SEM offers basic strategies to attract more visitors to a website and in the same time to ensure a better website exposure over the Internet.
Starting from the idea of focusing user attention only over the playback of a movie published inside a web page, Paul Bakaus has made a media player called Uberplayer and coded with JavaScript, that does not show unnecessary elements during the video file playback. If an user runs a movie within Uberplayer, only a search interface and video information are shown at the top of the graphical interface. Uberplayer provides slide-in elements for controlling the video with the help of the mouse or keyboard.
Initially launched as a free social publishing website, where you are allowed to publish, discover and discuss original writings and documents, now, Scribd has also launched an online store with content corresponding to 90 different languages, for more than 50 million readers every month. Scribd has implemented an online publishing technology called iPaper, making you capable to almost instantly display online most of the common file formats in an elegant manner.
YouTube is a great source of video content for any website or blog. Every video published on YouTube website has an automatically generated HTML code, which can be copied and pasted into an existing website page in order to include and republish a certain video. If you want to create a full featured PHP video blog or website, there are available many libraries to simplify the YouTube video republishing process. A free library to display YouTube video galleries automatically in WordPress blog posts, pages or sidebar is TubePress.
Usually, in order to have a presence over the Internet with a new website, you must register and buy a domain name. As an alternative, free domain names offers you multiple possibilities to shorten an existing subdomain name or deploy a completely free website. Free domain names can be managed in a similar manner as payed ones, like the manual setting of Domain Name Servers, changing of current zone records or defining an URL forwarding method.
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