What is an Open Source Project?
What is Open Source? Wikipedia defines open source by stating it “describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product’s source materials.” In other words, once the project is completed the source code will be made available to the public at no charge. Though free, the use of most open source projects are still bound by some type of agreement, or license. Common Open Source Public Licenses Some of the most common public licenses (out of a list of many found here, provided by opensource.org): GNU General Public License version 3.0...
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What is WordPress? WordPress blogs are a great way for you and/or your business to get a web presence quickly.When it comes to blogs, content is by far the most important aspect. Blog writers should take time and care to publish article and posts that are relevant to their site. Using a platform that allows for easy social network sharing is also very important for a successful blog. Smith-Digital uses WordPress for all of blogs that we develop. Being that WordPress is an open source platform, blogs can be setup quickly and are very cost effective. Plugins for social media sharing, as well...
Read MoreHTTP Status Code, Web Page Error Codes
HTTP Status Code Definitions – Web Page Error Codes We will discuss the common error codes associated with your website and web hosting account. The definitions for these status codes have been excerpted from the World Wide Web Consortium’s webpage; “HTTP/1.1: Status Code Definitions“. All credit for quoted information is assumed given to W3C. They are an excellent group. Visit the previously listed page for all HTTP status code definitions. 404 Not Found Error “10.4.5 404 Not Found The server has not found anything matching the Request-URI. No indication is...
Read MoreFOLLOW or NOFOLLOW?
Should I use follow or nofollow for my internal links? To follow, or not to follow… Links have several options that can be specified for search engines. One of those options is rel=”nofollow”, which instructs a search engine not to follow the link, but to continue on the current page. The questions has been asked “should I use follow or nofollow for internal links“? The quick answer is NO, you should not use rel=”nofollow”. Who says so, you may ask? See this video about Matt Cutts (from Google); he gives you an excellent answer in about 2 minutes. It is well worth...
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The acronym HTML stands for “Hyper Text Markup Language”. HTML has been the publicly known standard web programming language since the early 1990′s. HTML has had many different versions, and the language as a whole continues to be developed and improved upon. HTML5 includes abilities now to do things that used to only be able to be done by using a cascading style sheet (CSS) file.
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The acronym “CMS” in web design talk stands for “Content Management System”; the name implies the ability to manage the content on your website without much knowledge or understanding of HTML, CSS and other web programming languages. A CMS is useful for companies or individuals looking to regularly update their website on their own, without the assistance of a web designer or programmer. There are a number of open-source content management systems, including WordPress ®, Drupal® and Joomla!®
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