I have finially added the very necessary contact page.

Now if you want to contact me regarding this site it is easy as pie.  When you use the form, which is a free Wordpress plugin from Mike Cherim, I get an email that I will be sure to respond to ASAP.  But I, like everyone, HATE spam so don’t try to sell me something.  You can always give me something for free and I will review it.  But I won’t give a recommendation to something that sucks

Happy Blogging

Today I found an interesting resource on cheap web hosting.

There are a lot of places that a beginner can get information on the different types of hosting that is available out there. A lot of those resources are too “full”. WebHostingRating articles is very well organized and has some great articles and tutorials.

I have had some time to browse through some of them and the following are some of the articles that I believe would be the most useful to the beginner:

Concept of Shared Hosting

Shared hosting is the type of hosting that a beginner is most likely to use. It is the most cost effective and easiest to obtain.

Intro to cPanel

cPanel is the control panel of choice when it comes to the backend of your website. It is very easy to use, but this article will help you get a head start when you have finially decided on the webhost that you are going to be starting with.

Fantastico Tutorial

Fantastico is known as a popular library for commercial scripts. It is commonly used as a third party add-on that works with cPanel. It was designed to automatically install applications into a website and eliminate the need to upload files through FTP. These scripts are executed from the administrative area of your website. Websites running Fantastico scripts are said to be installed by over 10, 000 servers. With millions of users on a global scale it is easily the most used product of its kind.

Myphpadmin

myPHPadmin is not something that the absolute beginner is going to be using, but take a read because you never know when you are going to have to use it to change a variable in one of you database tables.

Conclusion

All in all, WebHostingRating Articles is a decent new resource that looks like it is going to be growing in the future. Make sure to add its feed to your reader so that you will be notified when new articles are added.

Then when you have figured out what hosting is all about then you can go to the cheap web hostingpage and figure out what webhost you are going to go with.

Thanks to Sean Mulholland for pointing out to me while I was Stumbling that Mozilla has killed its own servers.  In case anyone out there didn’t know, the SpreadFireFox was trying to break a world record for the most downloads over the course of 24hrs.  I didn’t know that this was a Guiness Record but I guess it is.

However, the servers are DEAD, so if you were waiting for today to download FireFox 3, you are out of luck for now.

This is either a good sign, they have already broken the record, or a shitty sign that they are not going to be able to because their server admins weren’t up to the task.

All I know now is that I sent an email to the entire office at lunch today asking them to give Firefox a try and all I got was emails back asking if I got the URL right, that it crashed their computer or that it was just plain slow.

I am starting to get frustrated.

Everyone online is saying how great the new Wordpress uploader is, and all the stuff you can do and all of the media that you can easily integrate into you blog. Well I am here to tell you that it is all hog-wash. Well maybe only a little.

For those of you using a lot of images in your post, the image uploader has been completely overhauled as well. Namely, you can uplopad and insert multiple images at once via a new Flash-based uploader. This will gracefully fallback to the original uploader if Flash is not installed, so never fear. There is now a new “Add Media” link in the header of the post window that handles all this now. For those of you who want to debate the philosophical decision to include closed source Flash into open source, and GPL’ed WordPress, knock yourself out.

10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.5
I can’t get it to work.
All I get are errors, and I don’t know how to fix it. I have tried a couple of different plugins that claim to fix it, but no luck. What I really want is the ability to upload me image to the directory, and then resize it on the fly. Simply using HTML to resize the image is no good.

So my solution is to use my Flickr Account. I already have a pro account, so that is not a huge deal, but it just adds another way for visitors to leave since you have to link to the image that you are shows according to the Flickr TOS.

So I am crying out to all of my readers. Please HELP ME!!! I will give anyone that helps a month of free advertising space. Hell I will give you a total of 2 months of free space, either one 125×125 banner for one month or two banners for one month.

Make a comment if you think that you can help

::UPDATE::

My “new” buddy Ryan has fixed my problem for me, and it was VERY simple.  And for proof see the latest pic to my media gallery.

WTF, just when I want to do some Twittering and waste some time till I get tired enough to go to bed I find out that it is down for maintence. I am starting to wonder if these guys need to develop some ways to monetize the site so that they can get a better set up.

I am relatively new to Twittering, so I really can’t say if this is something that has just started to happen or if this is a regular occurance, but it is really affecting my ability to use the service…..

Wait a minute, maybe this is going to be a blessing in disguse, no Twitter means that there is one less thing out there that is going to distract me from making money…….Thanks Twitter

So I think that I am going to end this post with a picture of my cat. He just loves to sit on top of my computer while I work, which is one of the reasons that I can’t get an LCD.

Well I guess the fact that it would be too light and “The Cat” would simply knock it off the desk.