Doug Hockinson's goal is to assist small businesses by optimizing and leveraging their website's exposure in order to increase sales, generate new leads, and disseminate information about goods and services in a cost effective manner. Services include web site hosting...

Your website may (or may not) require a communications protocol called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), also known as Transport Layer Security. SSL certificates encrypt data exchanged between the web server and the user's computer. SSL certificates are found on most eCommerce websites and others where user-submitted data must be safeguarded. SSL certificates are also recommended for file...

Registering a domain name is a simple process. Locate a domain name registrar such as...

I recommend clients begin using Google Gmail because the benefits of a free Gmail account are terrific. Gmail accounts come in two flavors, basic personal email accounts, or small business accounts (Google Apps) where the MX Record for your domain is pointed to Gmail and the site owner furnished with an administrative interface for managing multiple email accounts. Those who register for a...

PHP and MySQL are software applications residing on most web servers. MySQL is a database and PHP is a very p...

This content management system includes a typical eCommerce style User Registration form. New users can register for access to view content which is only available to logged-in members. A user name must be created when registering. Email addresses are not employed as a user name for log-in purposes because email addresses are...

This CMS features a Lightbox 2 photo gallery and/or FancyBox photo gallery. Below is an image of the default upload form for Photo Gallery pages. This form appears automatically below each gallery when the webmaster or another authorized user is logged into the...

Every night, this CMS will automatically generate a new time sensitive XML sitemap which is used by Google and other search engine robots to properly index content residing in the primary database table. The XML Sitemap Example demonstrates that the appropriate time stamp is extracted from the main database table when the sitemap is updated. Both Change Frequency and Priority are configurable on a per page basis although the default set...

A link to a dynamic Site Map or index of web page content is typically inserted in the page footer. New pages will automatically appear in the auto-generated Site Map and include text used in navigation links as well as page headlines. The administrator of this content management system can use the built-in Go...

Every night, this CMS automatically exports MySQL data from the main tables of this content management system. Backups are usually retained on the server for 7 days before being automatically deleted. Backups are usually emailed to the webmaster's Gmail account on Sunday night (for off-site storage purposes). Backups of all MySQL database tables can be manually downloaded from the websit...

A major reason behind using PHP scripting language to deliver website content is GZIP compression. When page content is assembled, the web page is created on-the-fly, and PHP can compress all the required data before sending content to the web browser. GZIP compression can often achieve a 66% reduction of transmission time, whi...

WYSIWYG editing is achieved using a popular Javascript based editor called FCK. Authorized users will find that after logging into the CMS, links to the WYSIWYG editor will appear in the page footer. Clicking one of the editor links will launch the currently viewed page in the WYSIWYG editor. Buyer be...

Spammers seek out forms on the web and attempt to transmit all manner of junk mail, including ads for porn and Viagra. Doug's forms generally prevent form spam without using cryptic CAPTCHA images to display phrases as distorted images, which are difficult to read. The key to generating new web forms is to first define a database table in great detail. When that is complete, then there are several progr...

Google Webmaster Tools tells me that one of my personal websites currently: (1) is visited each month by more than 7,000 different users, (2) returned in Page 1 of Google search results for 300 different phrases, (3) receives...

My primary focus is on a custom content management system which offers a wide range of features and is deployed on more than 100 websites. Each web page is comprised of text or HTML markup entered in various fields in a MySQL database table. The...

The following is a sample photo gallery. This CMS includes Lightbox Photo Gallery...

6 methods of display are available. The first row of thumbs do not display a title attribute....

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