EASY TECH ONLINE - Basics With Easy Steps for Novices

Submitting Your Site to Web Search Engines

Below is a list of web search engines that will accept your URL.  Follow the directions at the site to go through the process of submitting your site to be listed with the search engines.

You can also check to see if your blog or website software automatically submits new sites.

Google - http://www.google.com/addurl.html  
Yahoo - http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/
Altavista - http://www.altavista.com/addurl/  
AllTheWeb - http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php  
Dmoz - http://www.dmoz.org/help/submit.html  
Webcrawler - http://www.webcrawler.com  
Dogpile - http://www.dogpile.com  
Metacrawler - http://metacrawler.com  
LookSeek - http://www.lookseek.com  

10 Tips to Get Help With Your Blog or Website

1. GETTING HELP. You can turn to the menus at Help, Support, Forums, FAQ's, and search the internet as well for answers when you need help.  You might want to print out the help steps.  This prevents confusion and avoids slowing down your computer from having too many windows open at once.
2. HELP MENUS The menus work the same way an internet search box works.  You type in a word or phrase related to the problem and related articles pop up.
3. FORUMS. If you are having a problem someone else has probably had the same problem sometime too.  Under "Forums" you can enter in search terms such as "uploading pictures" and you'll see the questions and answers from other bloggers. 
4. EMAIL SUPPORT - Be sure to try the other help and support options before using email. Telephone support may also  be available, depending upon the software.  
5. FAQ's - FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS - This support function has a search box, enter a term or phrase, and related answers pop up.   
6. INTERNET HELP - Other bloggers and articles can be found on the internet, not just at Wordpress, because often blogs that discuss Wordpress.
7. SEARCH YOUTUBE.COM for a solution if you think there might be video tutorial on it.  For instance, search for "wordpress posts" and you'll find a lot of tutorials.
8. SEARCH ASK.COM - Use the search engine at ask.com.  Just type in your whole question or the keywords in it to get a list of with answers related to it.   
9. WIKIPEDIA.ORG - Search the Wikipedia for definitions and other information by entering keywords
10. REFDESK.COM - List of hyperlinks to tutorials, definitions and internet resources can be found there.

An Introduction to Web Site Traffic and Free Analytic Software to Measure It

There are a variety of free website analytic softwares that you can use to measure your blog or website traffic.  

This is useful because you can get data that helps in the continued development of the site.  Which topics are most popular?  Least popular?  Where do the visitors come from? 

REWARDS OF HAVING TRAFFIC ANALYTIC SOFTWARE

• OTHERS ARE READING YOUR CONTENT. Checking the traffic analytics also provides a feeling of reward when you can see that others are reading your material.
• CUSTOMERS AND BUSINESS CONTACTS.  For a business blog or website the traffic analysis is critical because visitors may become customers or business contacts.

A few of the many topics measured by a traffic analysis of the website include the following.

• VISITS - the number of visits
• UNIQUE VISITORS - individual visitors might click to go off the site and come back
• LOCATIONS - (city and country) of visitors
• REPEAT VISITORS
• NEW VISITORS
• TOP LANDING PAGES - which pages bring in the most visitors
• TOP EXITING PAGES - from which pages are visitors most likely to leave the site
• KEYWORDS - searches that led visitors to your website
• TOP CONTENT - articles most viewed
• TIME SPENT ON SITE - length of time your visitors stayed
• PAGEVIEWS - how many web or blog pages were viewed, and much more.

Several of the many free softwares you can try include the following.  If you wish to have additional options you can upgrade to a software that charges a fee.

Sitemeter.com

Google.com/analytics

Statcounter.com

Video Tutorial: How To Use Free Screen Capture Software from Google's Cam Studio To Make Software Video Tutorials

Video Tutorial: How To Make Videos With Sony Vegas Movie Studio - 45 Minute Video Tutorial

MAGNIFY THE SCREEN FOR EASIER VIEWING OF THE VIDEO:  To see this video in a larger format for easier viewing click the tiny icon of a magnifying glass in the lower right hand corner of your screen.

Sony Vegas Movie Studio has come out with version 8 now, but this tutorial for version 7 is still very useful.

Free Web Building Tutorials at w3schools.com

Free web builder tutorials with a wide variety of classes are available at w3schools.com.  The classes offer a Beginners Primer Tutorial for Web Building as well as one for a Developers level.  The HTML class has the student open notepad and practice entering code step by step.  This type of learning by doing is effective, and the step by step approach is low stress for novices.

Many of the classes are not for the novice, but are for those who would like to advance their knowledge and have a challenge.

Classes include:

HTML, XML,

Browser Scripting - Javascript, HTML DM, DHTML, VB Script, Ajax, E4X

Server Scripting - SQL, ASP, ADO, PHP,

.NET - .net Microsoft, .net ASP, .net Mobile

Multimedia - Media, SMIL, SVG, Flash

Web Building - Browsers, Web W3C, Quality, Semantic, Careers, Hosting, Certification

News - Betas, etc. 

How to Create a Free Website, or Online Store with Office Live, No HTML Needed

At officelive.com the Microsoft Office Live Small Business offers an easy, free way to create a website or online store.  The software uses the Microsoft type icons and it's click and create.

You don't need to write any code or understand technical terms. The webs are not ad supported, the way many of the other free web creators are today.  Your website won't have ads suddenly popping up on it. 

If this is your first website you can create one for practice, delete it, and use what you learned to create another one.  It's a good place to go for practice and experience.

Office Live Small Business includes the following.

• Free website
• Custom Domaine
• Free email
• Low cost e-commerce online store software
• Contact Manager software, marketing, customer tracking, storage for documents
• Analytics to Evaluate Website Traffic
• FAQ's, Community Message Boards, Resource Center, How To articles

Wordpress 2.5, March 2008, Video Explains Wordpress Dashboard Changes

March 2008 - Wordpress. 2.5 has arrived. This video reviews the chaneges in the dashboard and explains what's new.

How To Blog Using Typepad

Video - How To Install Wordpress.com