As our site grows, we really feel the need to expand. You have a new whole fresh idea appropriate for your successful site and to its audience. To add new feature to a very active site may lead to disaster, specially if the feature you wanted is really huge. This is where the need of a subdomain arise. With the subdomain, you will not mess up your stable database structure, and you don't need to go offline while in development.

I found Drupal very light weight when used for a single-user blog. When properly configured, you will have fast loading blog. The default installation of Drupal is actually enough to handle your blog but to gain more control, we are going to tweak it a little so that Drupal will behave like a normal blog. This post will assume that you have a fresh installed Drupal site. If you want to know how to install Drupal, refer to my previous post, How to Install Drupal CMS to Your Server.

This discussion will cover the following: core modules to install, contributed modules to install, using the Taxonomy module, and harnessing the power of Views.

The following is a list of must-have modules for a Drupal powered websites. It doesn't matter what type of site you are running. May it be a blog, a picture gallery, video gallery, online magazine, intranet and corporate websites, e-commerce website, educational site, government websites, a forum, community portal, a technical site, news publishing, art gallery, directories, conference room, you name it. I may say, don't go with your site live without these modules installed enabled and properly configured.

In one of my previous posts, I discuss the theories and concepts on how to start your own website. In this post, you will be guided with specific actions. What to do first and what to do next in building your own website. There are four things we need to accomplish for us to run our very first web page.

1. Register a domain name for your website.
2. Get a web server to host your files.
3. Point your domain name to your server.
4. Upload your web pages.

The four steps above must be accomplished to successfully run your first website.

Do you need to have a live chat functionality for your online business? If you don't, you better start to give it some serious consideration. Online chat can turn your regular visitors into paying clients. With it, you can create a more personal connection with your costumers, consequently led to increase in sales. Do it before a competitor will start doing it. In most cases of online business, costumers are lost because of a simple unanswered question.

Unable to import that large MySQL database into phpMyAdmin? There are reasons why you simply can't import your large MySQL database; browser timeout, server timeout, file size limit, and phpMyAdmin limit are the most common. These are real pains that cannot be avoided specially in shared web hosting. But stop pulling hairs, there are many proven ways to import your large database. In this discussion, I will only share two ways in which I have a first hand experience.

If you notice, most of the websites are with www as prefix of the domain, i.e., www.rtfverterra.com and www.mathalino.com. This prefix of www for your domain name is not actually necessary for your domain name to work properly, meaning, you can go without the www prefix for your website. Check your website now, type www.example.com and example.com (replace example with your domain name of course) in different browser windows, make sure that you will not select any stored address in the address bar. If your website is accessible from two different address (with and without www), your site is not good for search engine optimization (SEO). Search engine will actually see this two address as two different websites, worst if your site will get penalize because of this. To avoid being penalize by search engine, all you need to do is to redirect one to the other. Here are the ways on how to do it.

You can read many articles about Drupal vs. WordPress when you try to Google it. They've been there for quiet a long time, but this "blah blah blah" is far from over because there are more and more people to eagerly try both CMS and write their experience about it. I am neither a developer nor a blogger. I develop website, yes, but it doesn't mean I'm a developer. I have my own personal blog, yes, but it doesn't mean I am a blogger. I played basketball, yes, but it doesn't mean I am a basketball player. Blogging is my hobby and web development is my passion, this post will try to compare my personal experiences among these two CMS.

One of my previous post discuss on how to start your own website. This post will give you an idea on how much a website will cost you.

Small business owners realize the importance of putting up a website for better exposure of their product and/or service. Those who successfully staged their online presence enjoys the many benefits of having a website. Still, many are not doing websites; one of the many factors is the cost, not because they can't afford it, but because they don't have any idea on how much it cost. This post will focus on costs in running small websites suited for small businesses.

Choosing which Content Management System (CMS) to use is as daunting as choosing which web hosting to go. Taking a pause and think for a while will pay off in the future. If you are going to search the web, this issue is almost as old as dot com era. Web developers, web designers, and online business owners, will need to choose for a platform to run a particular website. There are many discussion out there talking about this issue, and here am I adding a page in the web, hoping someone will be rightly directed.