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Archive for June, 2009

HostIssues.com developed to help our services

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

After very useful review comments we found that Host Media UK needed a better way of getting information in case of a fail of the main US web servers.

As the Host Media UK website is on the main servers to allow examples of speed, features etc when a server restart occures and a short period where sites may go offline customers were unsure what was going on. This is also the case when a server is being upgraded, which mainly happens to our US servers as our UK servers are build based on the UK2 systems and dedicated servers.

If any of the US servers or dedicated servers go down and the Host Media UK website is unable to be accessed customers will be able to use HostIssues.com which is a phpBB3 forum where customers can see posts by the team or other customers regarding any issues. The site will continue to get improved with new features over the next few months. The site is hosted on our UK servers in London to make sure they are kept in a different area than the main network so all customers will have a way to contact the team or find updates on any matters.

Visit HostIssues.com

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Returning to Website Grader – Peoples views

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Back in November last year we wrote a post about the online free SEO tool known as Website Grader, used by thousands of users the well used SEO tool has started to be come under fire from some SEO companies, web designers / developers and general internet service people.

The website is built to scan your website and detect as many variables as it can such as; Pagerank, Incoming links, Headings, Image alt tags, blog ranking, rss feed and many, many more..

We wanted to share our findings and give a range of links to other blogs that have their own opinions. We hope to be able to offer all the views on this website and clear any mis-understandings that some users may have when using sites like these.

Are they doing anything wrong?

No is the simple answer, their website is a great tool and their are doing nothing wrong such as tricking people from what we can see and believe they are trying to create an online tool that will be able to offer a range of users / companies a helping hand in the SEO department.

Our thoughts…

Our team has been using Website Grader as a online tool for a good year and a bit now and as long as they keep up to date with new features we will continue to use them. Host Media UK has now got a score of 94/100 on the website which we are pretty happy with BUT want it a lot higher than that. We have found the website handy for giving our clients an idea of how our SEO work is getting on and how popular their website is getting (Along side Google Analytics of course).

It does target the non high usage internet user very well with its clean interface and compare tool which makes the site a bit more than just see your stats and be done with it. It becomes a more of a competition with your competitors to get your ranking better which we all here find fun some times and have a good laugh when we are a lot higher than other websites.

As I keep saying it is a tool, its meant to advice and not be taken as “My site is so much better than yours” as all designers / developers will know it comes down to many things to become high in Google (and other search engines).

We are not trying to persuade people to use this tool as each is to their own, but only trying to get a better view of how it works.

Articles on websites / blogs

http://www.wolf-howl.com/seo/why-website-grader-is-a-bad-idea/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/02/04/website-grader-gives-out-free-seo-tips/
http://doteduguru.com/id187-website-grader-free-site-audit-tool.html

Share your thoughts and comments about this issue using the comments box below.

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ASP.NET Variables

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

The one of the most important parts of any coding language is variables and how to set them.

For our example we are going to use a ‘String’, please see below our code:

<% String Title = “My Title”; %>

As you can see we are setting a string named ‘Title’ with the string of “My Title”.

Now we want to display (echo / print / output) this to the page:

<%= Title %>

If you wanted to just write some text to the browser, most of the outputs in ASP.NET you will be using the ‘Response.Write()’ command instead:

Response.Write(“My Title”);

Hope you find this helpful.

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Coldfusion DateFormat

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

The Coldfusion dateformat works in the same sort of fashion as the ASP.NET and the PHP date time function. As our team mainly works in Coldfusion we can expand alot more on this function that ASP.NET / PHP.

The code: (Use this code within a <cfoutput></cfoutput> tag)

#DateFormat(Now(), "YYYY")#

About the code:

As you can see all we start with DateFormat which states will want to have a date format (You can use TimeFormat to work with times). Next we are getting the current date with the Now() and then we have the formatting of the date, as we only want the year we are using ‘YYYY’ (Displays: 2009) or you can use ‘YY’ (Displays: 09)

Enjoy!

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ASP.NET DateTime

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

As you might have seen we posted a small post about PHP date formatting to help keeping your websites copyright year up to date.

Well as our development team has started working with ASP.NET we will be starting to add ASP.NET tutorials and articles for you to read. We do offer custom Windows hosting with both Coldfusion and ASP.NET. If you are interested please contact us.

Now for the code!

ASP.NET is easy to pick up as some of the basics are like PHP in some ways but sorry to say not at all like the Coldfusion coding.

Date and Time:

<%= DateTime.Now %>

The year for copyright:

<%= DateTime.Now.Year %>

Enjoy!

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Some updates to our website

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Over the past month we have been looking on improving our system for online ordering and the websites style. One of the major changes to the sites style is our new header images which have been taken by some of the best photographers in the world. We hope to have some more information on them in the upcoming month.

Whats next…

We are planning to improve our website even more with new features and updates to our blog system which will include some style improvements for better reading.

If you have any suggestions for improving Host Media UK please contact us.

Thank you.

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