Joomla is probably the mostly used Content management system worldwide at this time. I came across Joomla about six months ago and i just made about 3 sites using that. This software has a lot of extensions and plugins/extensions to make it functional in many ways. So if you have’t used it yet, i would recommend you to give it a try. You can get it from Joomla’s official site.

A site made using Joomla consists of two major things, if you are going to migrate your site from one server to another i.e. Joomla files and Database. So its quite simpler to switch server if required. Simply download all of your files and upload to new server and export your database and get it up on your new server. This is four step procedure that makes your site up on new server BUT all this can take a lot of your time.

Another way to accomplish this task may be to use a component. If you search through Joomla extensions, there are many components availale with both commercial and free license. You don’t need to spend money for this simple thing. One extension i found useful is Joomla Pack. It can not only be used for migration but you can use it for your regular backups as well. So the whole thing is divided in two steps:

1. Taking Backup

2. Uploading Backup file to new server

Taking Bakup:

After you have downloaded and installed the component, simply go to components in navigation bar and click JoomlaPack to open component page.

There you will some buttons and configuration details. Your temp folder located at ‘administrator/components/com_jpack/temp’ must be CHMOD to 755. This is the destination folder where backup files will be stored. You simply need to press ‘create backup’ button to start making backup file.

 

After pressing the shown button, it will intimate not to browse anywhere else and click to backup your site. A bar will start running on the screen showing the back up process is in process.

 

After the backup is complete you can download it from JoomlaPack options page easily by going to Backup Files Administration. This process will only take about 5 minutes + download time at your internet speed. You can do it on daily basis to make sure that your precious articales are not lost.

Uploading to new Server:

Simply Upload the archive file to new destination where you want you site to run. In Cpanel there is option of unzipping the archive file. Make use of it and unzip your backupfile. It will be along with installation folder. Simply Install the Joomla site as you had done before.

Most important thing is that you must use the older login details. While installing on new server DON’T use a new password. It’s not gonna work with that.

Delete the installation folder (hmm it’s quite obvious) and one more important thing is that you must recheck your Global settings after successful installation.  It makes the whole process over. 

Apple Computers
It was the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn”t suggest a better name by 5 O”clock.

CISCO
It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco.

Compaq
This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

Corel
The name was derived from the founder’’s name Dr.Michael Cowpland. It stands for COwpland REsearch Laboratory.

Google
The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named ”Googol”, a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros.After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ”Google”

Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in ”mail” and finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters “html” - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.

Hewlett Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ”Moore Noyce” but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Lotus (Notes)
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from ”The Lotus Position” or ”Padmasana”. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Microsoft
Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the ”-” was removed later on.

Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

ORACLE
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

Sony
It originated from the Latin word ‘’sonus” meaning sound, and ‘’sonny” a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SUN
Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer; Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.

Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book ”Gulliver’’s Travels”. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

First practical Step for creating a website is to register a domain name. Domain name is infect the address of your website and its also reffered to as the name of website. Visitors use this address to open and visit your website so choice of a domain name is to be done carefully.

Targeting Keywords:
Most important thing while choosing for a domain name is to decide whether you want to brand your product or need some Search Engine traffic. By branding means that whether its a specific name of your product/company etc or may be your own name. For example Yahoo and Google were not dictionary or keywords to specify what they are, but now those are known as brand names. So your have option to select domain name having a brand name. But a better option is also there and that is to choose your keywords you are going to target.

Search Engines, now a days, give importance to domain name and a domain name having search terms in it gets more trafiic from Search Engines. Its fact that people search through topic and keywords so its better to use at least two major keywords you are going to target.

Country Specific or .net, .info etc
Mostly Domain Names used are .com but you must know that there are a variety of other options available. You can register .net .org .info .mobi .tv .co.uk .pk and many other domains as well. But don”t think that i am suggesting you to do so. Most of the people are only used to go for .com domains. As a webmaster you must know that if you right a domain name in adress bar of Internet Explorer or Fire Fox and press CTRL+ENTER, it automatically adds .com in the end and opens site. And in Opera, you just enter the ravianz and press enter, it will automatically take you to ravianz.com! So after knowing the above facts you must realize the importance of a .com domain. There is no harm in registering .net or some other as well to avoid competetion on the same keywords.

Length Of Domain Name:
you can register a domain name of upto 63 characters but it does”t mean that you go for all the 63 character. A domain name should be easy top remember and its length should never be more than 15 characters. Try to keep it even lesser. Keep in mind that space, underscores or many other symbols are not allowed. You can only have dashes or hyphens in domain names.

Hyphens in Domain Name:
You can have hyphens in domain names but keep in mind that visitors can easily forget about hyphens. Its not easy to remember those. Even people like me don”t like underscores in email address. A Hyphen is always difficult to type. Dont get suprized, people are too lazy to go beyond the three basic rows of key board where all of alphabets reside.

But a hyphened domain name is preferred by search engines. SE’’s consider a hyphen as a space (logically) and hence they get to know what are the keywords used in the domain name. But it may not matter a lot because you are loosing the returning visitors who were not able to land at your site because they forgot about presence of hyphens. So better option is to register a non-hyphened domain name but the best option is to regieter both and use hyphened domain names on internet to advertise or get back links.

Deleted Domains:
A large number of website are registered daily and a large number of websites are expired or deleted as well. These are deleted because either the person who registered it, no longer needs it or the product is out of bussiness and sometimes owner was too lazy to get it renewed within time. In such domain names, people might have invested time and money so it may be useful if you find a good old deleted site. You can have some built-in gifted backlinks as well. You can find some at deleteddomains.com

Spelling Of Keywords used:
One important thing to be kept in mid is that you use the correct spelling of the keywords used in the domain name. Your visitor are not going to remeber the spelling if you just tried to make verbally the keyword. I would give example of a site Walpaperz.com here. If you pronounce this word then its no problem but after some days when you again wanted to visit some wallpapers there, you may end up in typing wallpapers.com!! So avoid in creation of your own spelling and follow the dictionary.

Use of ”the”, ”my” or plurals:
If your desired domain name is already registered, it happens mostly, then you can use some additional words with the domain name. Most important and commonly used is ”the”. One example of such a website is TheDesktopFun.com. But if you have used such an additional word then don”t be shy and advertise it completely including the additional word as well. Another commonly used word is ”my”. Its upto your own convinence that you use such words or not but its better not to use though in some case it can be very successful if adding such a word makes your site SE friendly and easy to remember as well.

Another options is to use plurals of one or more keywords used in the domain name. Its not good to use plurals as people can easily forget to put an additional ‘’s”. But again its matter of your own satisfaction. I just wanted to tell you an option and its pros and cons!

And History is made by Australians today! They defeated English team with 5-0 in Ashes. Its first time in history of Ashes that Australia has white washed the England team. I said History of Ashes as ”Ashes” has its own history. No matter what was the reason for calling it as Ashes, its one of the best and awaited event of Cricket after World cup for an international cricket fan. No wonder for Australians and England fans its more than World Cup or Champians trophy.

Last time, back in mid of 2005, England had defeated Australia probably after 17 or 18 years. They were naturally very happy and enthesiastic about it. And according to many fans and critics, this was the major reason of such a big defeat this time. There may be many reasons for such a ”marvelous” and hiostoric defeat but top 5 reasons of white wash described by an Australian fan John are quite true and impressive.

Not only Australians but any fan of cricket would never forget such a marvellous series which is last test series of the Great Australian bowlers Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. Both of the big names had already announced retirement from test cricket. Shane Warne, who had already left One Dayers, completed his 700 test wickets in this series and he is no doubt the leading wicket taker at the moment. McGrath has his own magic which can”t be forgotten easily. His accuracy with ball in both line and length is his key to succes and to keep line and length accurate you have to be a class player.

England is a team which has probably never won any big event of cricket despite being the poineers of this game. They have reached in finals of World Cup many times but always lost it. Last time they had lost the final in 1992 to Pakistan in Australia. In a Champions trophy final, they were in winning position over West Indies but last pair of West Indies batting line up had shattered their hope to get it. Lets see what happens in future!!!

As Australia and England are rivals and any game between them is important, same or may be even more strong is the case with Pakistan vs India. So there must be a special name given to some series played between Pakistan and India as well.

If you are a regular Internet user and have joined forums, you spend your time on Orkut and Yahoo Answers then you should try MyLot as well. Mylot is a social community site just like Orkut or hi5, it has useful discussion system like Yahoo answers but there is a difference and the difference is that they pay their members to post. Yes its true that they pay you for your participation in discussions. You only need to join and participate there. You can join them by clicking here.

After you have joined you will be asked to login after account activation via email address. There are a lot of discussions going on and you can only respond to those when you are logged in. Basic theme is that you are paid to respond to those discussions. You can either give a response to any discussion or comment on any of the given responses.

MyLot team has designed their own Rating System that they call as ”rds” and it gives you option to rate positive or negative any of the response or discussions. Once you are in you will easily come to know that this rating system does matter and you can have good rating by posting useful words for others.

Their software evaluates the value of your response according to there algorithm and you are paid for each of the response you make there. There is another feature that can be attractive for many users and this is about uploading favourite pictures. Like wise Orkut, you can have your pictures uploaded there. Again you are paid for uploading pictures.

If you are Orkut crazy then i would tell you that there is another feature of making friends and that’’s quite similar to HI5 and Orkut. You can send messages to your friends and have option to comment on the pictures uploaded by your friends.Their

minimum payout is 10USD and once you reach at threshold, they send you money. To receive money you have two options available. First is paypal and if your country is supported by Paypal, then its recommended option. Simply go to Paypal and if your country is not included in Paypal supported list then other option available is e-gold. Its world wide supported and anyone can register there. Once you have set up account at paypal/e-gold, go to your MyLot profile and enter required information about sending money.

In the end I would say that, though MyLot pays you, don”t expect some very easy and large figures of dollars. Its easy but will take your time. More you spend time, more you will earn. But this may be a suitable option for you anyway so don”t think — get a free account at MyLot

First of all EID MUBARAK and happy new year to all of you.

I’d been thinking to have a blog for a long time but due to many reasons at many times it was not getting feasible for me to make and start my blog. But atlast now i”ve started one. Let me hopeful that i get some readers and visitors here as well. No blog or website can be run without the audience and for blogs response of readers in form of comments is always awaited.