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Simple Tips for Creating Attractive Contact Page

Contact pages can often be just as important as a website’s homepage. A good contact page is essential for maintaining relationships with your visitors. It is the channel your users and clients have to communicate with you. It can help a lot in increasing the sales and conversation rates of a website. However, sometimes, most of the users ignore this feature in a lot of websites.
Following are some of the simple important tips will definitely lead you to design a perfect, elegant and attractive Contact page. Let’s put that right.

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Business Hosting

Important Factors To Consider Before Selecting A Web Host For Your Business

Choosing the right hosting company for your websites can be a difficult endeavor, especially if you have little experience in this domain.

When you need to choose a hosting service, I think most of us will look at price first and then at host specification packages. Although the price is also an important factor, however, it should not be the first.

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Configuring Apache/PHP/MySQL for Low Memory (RAM) VPS

As you known, I’ve moved from HostGator to DigitalOcean for two months and I shared some tips to build your own perfect LAMP server optimize for WordPress. With the VPS expansion you can now get a (very) small virtual private server (VPS) for a very affordable price. However, when you get a server with something like 256MB or 512MB RAM and a portion of CPU power, using default MySQL/PHP/Apache settings is a pretty bad idea. Currently, I’m running 3 websites with DigitalOcean‘s lowest plan: 512MB RAM/1 CPU. Not sure for load, but lets say 5-10k visitors per day.
If you follow my guidelines in previous post, RAM usage will be increase up to 400 MB then running out in 1 – 2 weeks even you turned on swap. How to minimize memory usage on LAMP to prevent your server crash?
I’ve setup a working VPS Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, LAMP server in 512MB of memory and it hasn’t gone into swap yet. It typically runs in just over 256 – 378Mb of memory and performs really well. So I thought I’d share the process of setting it up.

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Best FeedBurner Alternative Services after its shutdown

Top Best FeedBurner Alternative Services after its shutdown

Why are we looking for Best FeedBurner Alternative Services?

Since July 1st, 2013 Google Reader has been shutted down. What’s about FeedBurner? Will FeedBurner shuting down after Google Reader is gone? If you run a blog there are a lot of things to know about and consider doing with this change coming up that you’ll want to take care of in the next couple months.
After your FeedBurner feed is not working anymore, you’re not alone and you basically have two choices – switch to your blog platform’s atom feed for free (no analytics), or switch to the alternative services like: Feedblitz, FeedPress, FeedCat …

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Best 15 Free Android Apps for Blogging on go

Best 15 Free Android Apps for Blogging

Now, mobile devices has becoming basic necessity of life. At one point or another, almost all of us have tried blogging in some form. Thankfully, that Android device which you have in your pocket is a valuable tool to help you no matter what your needs are. In this article, you’ll learn about some useful apps to maintain your blog using a phone or tablet.

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Pattern Cooler

Top 10 Great Online Background Generator For Your Needs

We all know that backgrounds play a crucial role in a design. A lot goes in designing the backgrounds with different textures and patterns, choosing the right colors and a lot other factors. Not only the backgrounds but buttons, logos, scroll bars, texts, and a lot is important when it comes in designing and it does involve a lot of creativity and time to zero in the final one. While you could start every project by doing the same things again and again, the smart designers and developers know the importance of a well-developed workflow. One of the things that can accelerate and enhance your workflow are online generators.
I have listed all online free background pattern generators that can save you some time while providing great results.

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Project Management

10 Open-Source & free Project Management tools

Managing projects is not an easy task. In fact, the need to use project management software is increasing by the day. Project management software is a term covering many types of software, including estimation and planning, scheduling, cost control and budget management, resource allocation, collaboration software, communication, quality management and documentation or administration systems, which are used to deal with the complexity of large projects.
Good Project Planning and Scheduling tools let you plan efficiently and effectively deploy the organization’s resources when they are needed. In this post we review about free or open source Project Management software (available on some platform) that let you plan, schedule and efficiently manage your project cost.

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When Is It Time To Upgrade to a Dedicated?

When Is It Time To Upgrade to a Dedicated Server?

Shared servers are just that- shared. It means that if someone on your server has a spike in traffic to their website one day, resources may be taken away from your website. That is exactly what you are doing if you are on a shared hosting plan. Though sharing brings its benefits, the biggest one being low price, there are some situations where you need to consider upgrading to dedicated hosting.

15+ Awesome Firefox Extensions to Improve the FireBug

15+ Awesome Firefox Extensions to Improve the FireBug

FireBug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. FireBug lets you explore the far corners of the DOM by keyboard or mouse. All of the tools you need to poke, prod, and check your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including a debugger, error console, command line, and a variety of fun inspectors.

15+ Awesome Firefox Extensions to Improve the FireBug
15+ Awesome Firefox Extensions to Improve the FireBug

Well, it can do more than you could ever imagine with all these FireBug extensions which improved your work. FireBug extensions typically come in the form of Firefox add-ons. In this post, I have found 15 extensions that will boosts your web development speed!

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