Articles Archive for January 2009
Programming / Coding »
If you are using GoDaddy web hosting and MailMessage in ASP .NET to send emails you might see this error message:
553 sorry, your mail was administratively denied
This seem to be a change GoDaddy made within last few months, I have no idea why.
Solution:
Problem seem to be the FROM email address. The FROM email address must be an email address with the hosted domain to avoid this error. For example if you have a hosted domain yourdomain.com, your FROM email address should be something like username@yourdomain.com.
Here is an example code:
MailMessage myMessage …
SEO »
Search engine optimization, SEO, is a time consuming process. Hard work and patience are virtue in SEO game. Lot of time webmasters get frustrated not having a better ranking in short time they would expect.
First lets take a look at the factors that could effect the time length for SEO results:
1. Is your site optimized well?
You gotta tell search engine bots what your web pages are about. A well optimized site would rank faster then a site that bots are getting problem crawling.
2. How competitive is your keyword
More the competition, …
Programming / Coding »
Ever wonder why web developers hate IE? Because Microsoft IE team seem to be intentionally disobey the browser standards. Lot of people believe Microsoft do it intentionally; and I am on their side as well.
If you have an absolute position div placed with bottom style, IE might show the div element 1px above where it supposed to be. Here is a code example:
<html>
<head>
<style>
.header { position: relative; height: 149px;background:yellow; }
.absDiv { position: absolute; bottom: 0; background:red;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class=’header’>
Bla Bla Bla
<div class=”absDiv”>La La La</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Problem
If you look at the output in IE6, you would …
General, Technology »
Microsoft is trying get a grasp in search business real hard. Their Live.com search engine is not getting much volume of search so far.
If you been looking at the recent tech news I am sure you have heard of these:
Yahoo rejected the Microsoft buyout offer.
Google rejected the search collaboration with Yahoo in fear of lawsuit.
Yahoo CEO Jerry Wang out.
Yahoo gets new CEO who got really no experience in search business.
Lets take a look at the December 2008 search volume for Google, Yahoo, Live:
Google 5,421,943,000 62.9% of total online searches
Yahoo …
Programming / Coding »
In ASP .Net lot of people think content pages load before the Masterpage (if page uses a masterpage). Thats not the case always. Look at the load sequence below for pages with masterpage:
1. Content page PreInit event.
2. Master page controls Init event.
3. Content controls Init event.
4. Master page Init event.
5. Content page Init event.
6. Content page Load event.
7. Master page Load event.
8. Master page controls Load event.
9. Content page controls Load event.
10. Content page PreRender event.
11. Master page PreRender event.
12. Master page controls PreRender event.
13. Content page controls PreRender event.
14. …
Making Money »
According to a recent nationwide survey from Guidance, 36% of online shoppers ran into problems with e-commerce sites when buying gifts during this holiday season 2008.
Common problems experienced by people were:
Slow web site : 34%
Crashed web site: 21%
Could not complete purchase: 19%
Site was temporarily down: 16%
Purchase didn’t go through: 10%
Thats a big problem for your e-commerce business
With all the hard work you do to bring in customers to your site who are really willing to make a purchase, these problems could ruin your whole efforts. It ruins …
Advertising / Marketing »
I have started the webmaster forum webcomsoForums.com on May 2008. Its been a lot of fun working with the forum; specially the fact that I can chat with lot of like-minded people. Forums are great to keep us informed whats going on in the industry we are in.
Marketing a forum is real tough. Specially new forum owners without any other established sites get real hard time marketing it. Main reason for that is, there are many other already established forums in the niche your forum is.
Problems with new forums include:
Not …
My Business News »
I been using BlogEngineWeb for a few years now for this blog. Unfortunately I was having hard time managing the comments. There was no built-in function to check which comments are waiting for moderation, all at once. I had to depend on the emails I receive on comment posts.
So I decided to use WordPress now. We have moved most of the blog entries. Unfortunately we can’t transfer any of the comments; apologies from me. We still have the blog as DOFOLLOW. Some posts are not moved intentionally.
The new theme is …