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 Just a simple Hostgator’s hosting overview before you decide which hosting company to choose.

How your site works

Your web site is made up of a group of files and directories, much like your Documents folder on your home computer. Only in this case, everyone in the world can see some of your files. To give you an idea of how the directories and files work, we’ll look at a view of the file manager.

Contents of /home/user/.

Above, you can see an example of the files and directories in your site. There are three main directories to be concerned with:

/home/user/ - This is your home directory. All of your files are stored within this directory. Files placed directly in this directory will not be visible on the internet. You will start out in your home directory when connecting by FTP, Web Disk or the File Manager.

/home/user/public_ftp/ - This is the directory used for anonymous FTP access. Any files in this directory can be downloaded by anyone if anonymous FTP access is enabled.

/home/user/public_html/ (www) - The public_html directory contains the files for your site. Files in public_html and any subdirectories of public_html will be able to be viewed by anyone on the internet.. (/home/user/www/ is the same directory as /home/user/public_html/).

When someone views a directory in your public_html area, they will see the index page for that directory. When creating your index page, you should use one of the following names (the first one found will be shown if the visitor doesn’t type in a specific page in their URL):

• index.html.var
• index.htm
• index.html
• index.shtml
• index.xhtml
• index.wml
• index.perl
• index.pl
• index.plx
• index.ppl
• index.cgi
• index.jsp
• index.js
• index.jp
• index.php4
• index.php3
• index.php
• index.phtml
• default.htm
• default.html
• home.htm
• index.php5
• Default.html
• Default.htm
• home.html

 Warning: When adding files to your site, it is important that you add them in the right place. For example, you will need to place files that you wish to be visible on the internet in public_html or a subdirectory of public_html. If you placed them in / for example, no one will be able to view them.

Getting Files to your site

For your visitors to be able to visit your site, you will need to add some files to it. You can add files through the File Manager and the Web Disk.

The File Manager

The File Manager allows you to view the files in your site as well as to upload new files and modify existing files. You can access it on the main screen of your interface through the File Manager area. Once inside the File Manager, you can click on to upload files to your site.

Web Disk

If you need to move a lot of files at a time, or find yourself often making changes to your site, you can set up a web disk to easily access your site. A web disk allows you to add a link to your home computer’s desktop that goes to our web site’s files. This means that you can view the files on your site just like you would the files on your home computer. The next step will allow you to create and set up your web disk.

FTP Accounts

You can use FTP to upload files to your site. To do this, you will need to create a FTP account to access your site with. You can do this in the FTP Accounts area which is linked on the home page of this interface. Then, you will need to download a FTP client that works with your operating system so you can connect to that account.

Web Disk Accounts

The Web Disk allows you to easily drag and drop files to your hosting account. Once your Web Disk is configured on your local(home) computer, you can then drag and drop files to it, edit files, or view file information, just like they are part of your local (home) computer.icon signifies your home directory which is /home/user.

Web disks are relative to your account’s home directory. The

Your Main Web Disk Account

This account provides access to your entire web hosting account. Click on “Access Web Disk” to set up the web disk on your computer.

This is a little trick to view file properties faster with only 2 clicks of a mouse (to view file properties normally it takes 3 clicks).

To view file properties for a single file or a group of files you have to:

1. Select them;
2. Right click on them;
3. Select properties;

Hovewer this method is sometimes very time consuming, especially if you have installed many programs which has additional functionality while right click on the file. Read the rest of this entry »

This quite old white-hat SEO technique to increase your organic traffic from google SERP results.

If you cannot make it to the top and someone is to strong for you to compete in terms of SERP position you can try this little trick to make your page title stick out of the crowd. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you familiar with the situation when you see the html, php or any other language code on the screen but can’t copy it because it’s an image?

So typing the code down by yourself isn’t the best idea. At first you will waste your time instead of understanding more of the material.

You need some kind of OCR (Optical character recognition) software. Scanner isn’t needed because you already have the picture on your computer.

One way to extract code (or text) from the image is to use Microsoft Office OneNote program. It’s a great tool to keep your notes in one place and it has both the features to make a screenshot with one click and extract text from the image. Read the rest of this entry »

This post will explain How to setup multiple websites under Hostgator hosting account using cPanel.

I suppose you have your primary website running on Hostgator and now you want to open another great forum, e-shop, blog, etc.

Let’s start by buying a new domain name. I personally use Namecheap.com for my domain purchases and will use it as an example in this post. Go to www.namecheap.com and search for your website name if it’s available: Read the rest of this entry »

Have you got suspicious looking email or saw a link that seems to open a page fool of trojans or other malware? If you want to see how the page in the hyperlink looks like you can get a photo preview.

Go to “thumbalizr” and paste the link in box. You can take a screenshot or whole page from the top to the bottom. Select your choice and press “thumb it” button.

After a few seconds you will get a link to download images of the webpage. You could save it in various resolutions up to 1280 pixels width. Read the rest of this entry »

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I have some noname USB DVB-T tuner which fails to work with Alt-Dvb program, after some research I found the solution how to fix it.

If you try to run AltDvb program and it crashes with this error: BDA:Missing IID_IBDA_DigitalDemodulator try to fix it by downloading this additional BDA driver: alt-dev_bda2driver. Extract it’s contents and copy Dev_Bda2Driver.int and Dev_Bda2Driver.cfg files into AltDVB\Devices folder. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you ever checked your Internet Explorer bookmarks if they still work? Many bookmarks will expire over the years because some sites are shut down, others restructure their pages and forget to properly redirect. So you will end going to a page that does not exist anymore

Checking every bookmark by hand would be time consuming operation and very inneficient. You could use software to do that for you. AM-deadlink is a small freeware program released by Aignes and can scan all your bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera browsers

AM-DeadLink will detect all dead and duplicate links in your browser bookmarks. The program scans the list of bookmarks in chunks and writes the result of checking. It can be OK, error, redirected and other responses for a page. You can easily delete all dead links and clean your bookmarks. Read the rest of this entry »

Statcounter.com is a very good suplementary tracking system besides Google analytics for any of your project would it be blog, eshop, news site or other. The best feature of statcounter in my opinion is the ability to track particular visitor. You can view which keyword he used to get to your site, how long he stayed in every page visited and off course you can see the whole path of a visitor navigating through your site. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft is silently annoucing its new forthcoming version of Windows Live Hotmail. More security, more storage space, more speed and more new features.

Some improvements look like a try to even service with Gmail and other email providers. For example it is said in the footnote in gray letters that storage is growing along your with account age but it is not said how much space exactly Hotmail users will get. Meanwhile Gmail is still counting enormous space for you emails. As of today it is more than 7Tb.

Speed is most advertised feature for the new soon to be Hotmail. However who will notice 70% increase in signing-in, opening or viewing emails. This amount of increase would be huge improvement about 10 years ago when internet connection was slugish and there were no broadband connections for the majority of internet users.

Auto completion of email while typing in “to” field is cool but seems like it should be done years ago. Strange that such Ajax features were not implemented sooner.

The most interesting feature for me is the ability to start IM conversation right from the Hotmail page.