Drawing on the Web

I’ve switched most of my hosting from Powweb to Hostgator .

My sites moved to Hostgator include:
DrawingOnTheWeb.com (this site)
TerrysComputerTips.com
blog.TerrysComputerTips.com
PCRepairSite.info. I’ve still got some more to go…

I’ve noticed a lot more speed in my page delivery, download speed on files and, especially, anything that requires MySQL database access. WordPress blogs run much faster now!

Hostgator has a 20% off special running until February 1st, 2008 — coupon code NEWYEAR It’s good for the initial purchase, e.g., for 3 years on a 3-year purchase or 1 month if you purchcase monthly hosting. I went for the 3-year “Baby” hosting package, which has 600GB space, 6,000GB monthly throughput, and a lot more. They even offer reseller hosting — and the coupon code works for it, too!

As always, I recommend purchasing your domain name from someone other than your web host (even if they’re willing to give it to you for free). I use GoDaddy for all my domain registration.

As you know some of the best ways to get traffic to your site is through the search engines. And as you know search engines love blogs.

If you know how to use blogs you can easily get more traffic to your website just by posting your keywords in the title and having your blogs indexed.

Other ways to get traffic to your site is to use popular free traffic exchanges. They come in many forms such as start (homepage) exchanges, safelists (opt in email ads), toolbar ads systems and ad forums.

If you are looking to kill 2 birds with one stone, you can advertise for free on a new BLOG that actually allows you to place your ads for free on their site.

The reason this is good because you get all the benefits of placing your ads on a BLOG and you all get to advertise for free.

Most people would look at this as a no brainer. Although most webmaster do not like people to advertise on the blogs, this site was made just for that.

It is free to join and thousands are flocking to this service to drive huge traffic to their sites in ju8st days by simply posting one little ad on their home page.

Check out Free Web Advertising at  http://www.free-advertising-blog.com/Advertise-Free/167

I wrote recently that I had just signed up for Callwave’s Fax to Email service. I’m impressed by it.

Recapping the information about Callwave:

CallWave Fax to Email lets me have a local fax number — in whatever area code that I desire — that receives faxes, turns them into Adobe Reader PDF files, and emails them to me.

I get all that for $7.95 per month, with an unlimited number of faxes received (some of their competitors have higher prices AND limits on how many faxes you can receive!). CallWave offers a risk-free trial — try it for 30 days. If you don’t like it, cancel it before the 30 day trial is up and owe nothing.

Amazingly, this whole service costs much less than a phone line would cost, plus, I don’t to worry about the machine itself, paper, ink or toner. PDF’s are easier to keep, too — of course I can print the PDF if I really want a hard copy.

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AdsenseAccelerator has been upgraded to handle Adword keywords in multiple languages and for multiple countries.

The other good news — the doors will open Wednesday, September 26th, to add a few more members.

Sign up for AdsenseAccelerator for better keyword research — frequency, bids,  competing ads, and now more languages and countries info.

AdsenseAccelerator Opens Again to New Members on Wednesday September 26th!
…for a few more members.
The Last few times it has opened to add new members,
it sold out in less than a week.
Don’t miss your chance to use AdsenseAccelerator!
If you’re too late, sign up for the Waiting List…

I finally found the web design book for which I had been looking. No, not an HTML book, not a CSS book, nor a JavaScript book. Not Web 2.0. Not Ruby on Rails or Ajax, either…

It’s actually a book to lead we non-artistically skilled web designers through a quick graphics and art education — complete with plenty of pictures and walk-through how-to examples.

Take a look at The Principles of Beautiful Web Design. I think you will like it as much as I do.

Powweb is still running their “coupon” special — not really a coupon, though — you just have to sign up via the Powweb special discount page.

Powweb’s regular web hosting price is $7.77 per month for their “One Plan” package - It’s a great package (I’m using it!) with 300GB space, 100GB throughput per day (per DAY, not per month!), FrontPage extensions, POP3 mail, webmail, SMTP (outbound) email, install wizards to install blog software, photo galleries, ecommerce shopping carts and more.  Plus, get a free domain name for a year!

If you don’t want to use the wizards, you can download server packages like WordPress from elsewhere and then upload them yourself to get the ultimate in control. Apache, PHP, Perl, MySQL - the big packages that let you do everything you need to do — without Windows servers!

See all the Powweb services in the One Plan here.

Their special is $5.77 per month — and you can get it on their main page — but you can get another $10 off the total by using this special Powweb discount page