From the monthly archives:
Welcome back!
Last year, on 12th November, I launched my blog. It’s been 1 year since then.
Happy Birthday to my blog.
-Mahesh.
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In the old days –really not so long ago- if you wanted to get a website designed and developed you had to hire a website development company. Well you still can if you need to, but with all the resources and tool currently available there is no reason that you can’t develop you own website that looks as good as the pros.
Many of the web hosting companies that are out there today offer free software that makes putting together a snazzy looking website as easy as one, two, three….literally. They actually take you step by step and help you with your website development.
Take for example Yahoo Sitebuilder. This is free when you use Yahoo Small Business to host your website. Sitebuilder takes you through the process of first choosing a template for your website’s pages and shows you where to plug in text, pictures, and anything else you want to have on your website. And this is merely one example that I thought of off the top of my head.
Why do it yourself? Just as in auto repair or mowing your lawn, if you do it yourself, you save money. This can be a wonderful thing when you are first starting your small business as you will need all the money you can get and you know as well as I do that you will find something related to your business to spend the savings on.
As your business gets bigger you can either change up your site as you go or hire someone down the road if you find yourself not having the time for it. But when you first start out, there is no reason why you shouldn’t do your own website development.
Read reviews of the best website builder services.
This is a guest post by Jason Kay. He is the webmaster for CheapHostingSites.org, which allows consumers to compare cheap hosting solutions.
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Google launched a brand new version of its social networking site, orkut on October 28. I got the invite to use the new version about 5 days back.
I got 10 invites from orkut to give away. I used 7 of them and now I have 3 invites left, which I’ll be giving in a give away contest here.
All you need to do is follow me on Twitter and tweet this: (Follow me @MaheshKukreja)
New #orkut #interface launched : http://bit.ly/1chIic RT to get #invites (via @MaheshKukreja)
And comment below with your tweeted link..
3 winners will be selected randomly using Random.org
You can check all the features of new orkut here.
Best of Luck to all participants.
P.S. The contest will end on 13th November, 2009.
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Sometimes, it may happen that your Wordpress blog gets hacked and the hacker changes your administrator password. He may also change your e-mail address. In this case, you cannot reset your password directly from “Lost Password”. But don’t worry, I’ll tell you a way to reset your Wordpress password and also your e-mail address directly through phpMyAdmin. Resetting Wordpress administrator password is very easy through phpMyAdmin.
This can be done through cPanel of your host.
(Edit the default WordPress table prefix “wp_” if needed)
Once you click on browse in your wp_users database, you will be shown the users on this blog. Scroll down to the ID which says user_login as admin(by default). Once there click on edit button, the edit button will appear as a pencil logo.
Once clicked on edit, you will be taken to a page that appears as below. Here the third field user_pass will have MD5 hashed password under the value column. This value is not in plain text. Wordpress, by default, hashes the password to MD5 salt for security reasons.
If you want your Wordpress administrator password to be “password“, change the value of user_pass to 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 and click the Go button and then log in to WordPress using your new password..
If you want your password to be different, you can use online MD5 hash generators to generate hash of your required text. You can search Google for “online MD5 generator”, etc.
Example: http://www.adamek.biz/md5-generator.php
Also, if you want to change e-mail address, you can edit value of user_email row.
If you want to change Wordpress username, check this tutorial!
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Here is the coupon code for NameCheap.com for November 2009.
Coupon Code: AUTUMNLEAVES - $8.81 domain name registration at NameCheap.
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