Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

Filed Under (Internet) by lugnutz on October-4-2009

Do a search on Google for “Wordpress vs. Joomla” and you will receive in return almost 16,000,000 search results. Why? Because there has been an on going conversation amongst web designers and developers on which is the better content management system. As a web designer who is experienced in constructing websites with both systems, I will try to give you some guidelines to make it easier for you to decide.

Overview of Each System

Typically when visitors want to learn how to make a website they immediately turn to Wordpress and it’s easy to understand why. Wordpress is widely known in the blogging community and the easiest way to put up your own website and and start publishing to the web with minimal difficulty. Although Wordpress has the stigma of just being a “blogging tool”, recent improvements have began to shed a new light on the popular content management system. Since Wordpress is already configured as a blog, it can be setup in a matter of minutes. Plus cool features like pinging services, multiple author profiles, trackbacks, image galleries, video/audio embedding and commenting are already built into the system.

Joomla has been labeled as the more powerful, perfect for businesses content management system, but has a steeper learning curve. Because it takes time to become a expert in navigating the Joomla administration area, it is widely thought that this system is best for developers. Joomla is not as user-friendly as Wordpress, but has a large capacity for development and customization. This cms has all the same add-ons as Wordpress but also includes a much more control over administrator and author rights for publishing.

Usability

Let’s face it. Wordpress is easier to use than Joomla. The html editor, template editor and WYSIWYG make it a painless experience to add new content. Both systems work very similar, but Joomla can be harder to understand when trying to add simple functionality. Adding images, static content, frontpage items and organizing your information architecture is confusing. But the worst part is that in Joomla, if you create your sections, categories and content wrong, it’s not so easy fixing it after the fact.

Versatility

Joomla and Wordpress allow you to construct the site you want, because they are both completely customizable. Wordpress has been thought to be used only for blogging, but with the growing presence of premium themes, you now have the ability to create more than just a blog style. Joomla also offers a blogging system within it core files, so not matter what type of website you want to construct, either system will work just fine.

SEO

To sum up the differences between Joomla and Wordpress for SEO, Joomla default settings create outrageously ugly URLs, even worse titles and duplicate content everywhere. Wordpress is known for being much more search-engine friendly out-of-the-box and that makes Google happy! Despite the short comings of Joomla there are tons of plugins that can be integrating into the system to make it much more search-engine friendly.

In Conclusion

No matter which cms you choose, Wordpress or Joomla, you can’t go wrong. Both systems allow you to create a website with little to no web skills, but are also powerful enough to expand to a website which can receive millions of hits per day. The biggest deciding factor is you. If you don’t mind learning new things, being baffled, but learning tons along the way, choose Joomla. If you just want to create a website and get started quickly with a system that is user-friendly out-of-the-box, use Wordpress.



Filed Under (Internet) by lugnutz on October-2-2009

HyperTracker Review

What did you want from your internet advertisement?

That is a simple question and will produce a very simple answer.

Let I guess your answer.

“You want to make a good ROI from your advertising investment”

If you are an internet marketer, you known the steps to get success on this.

You should have a good combination of …

* Product / Service
* Search engine friendly web pages
* Mystery sales letter

This can bring you a huge income if you have all of the item listed above.

But I have one question to ask to you.

Did you get the most out of them?

Most internet marketer didn’t get the most out of their product simply because they are lazy to do performance tracking.

That is very easy when you familiar with it.

With performance tracking on your advertisement campaign, you can see how effective your campaign is.

The best thing is that you can point out which part made you lose your money and which part made a good ROI for you.

Then you can optimize the campaign to get the most out of your advertisement campaign.

From now on, I really recommend HyperTracker from http://www.HyperTracker.com because it’s simply easy to use effectively and suitable for internet advertisement.

I have written a short brief HyperTracker review below.

Just relax and read on and you will be ready to optimize your internet advertisement campaign.

HyperTracke was designed based on the simple word. “Make more, spend less”

It is what everyone want from their own business.

Here is a quick short and sweet brief review of HyperTracker.

HyperTracker’s features.

* Easily to use
* Track and view the entire lifespan of your advertisement campaign
* Advanced security and protection
* Track for unlimited campaigns
* Count unique visitors number on each campaign
* Collect clicks, sales and actions for each campaign
* See which ads generate the best sales, comissions for each campaign
* Set email alerts
* Graphical analysis presentation

Conclusion

I can tell you that if you want to squeeze out the most of your advertisement campaign. You have to consider on some ad tracking software. And I fully recommend you to go with HyperTracker.

I hope you find this HyperTracker review useful for you.

More information on HyperTracker.

Hope you are doing well.



Filed Under (Internet) by lugnutz on September-29-2009

Zug, at ZugGaming.com, was kind enough to send me a copy of his World of Warcraft Gold Mastery Guide for review and I’ve been reading it over for the last few days.

I’m even using his “Tuesday Techniques” which I think will turn a tidy profit.

All in all I’m quite pleased with the guide and have no problems recommending it. I would like to see videos of some of the Auction House stuff, but it’s easy to read, well laid out, well written, and full of good tips and useful info.

You can snag your copy here, or read on to see more detail on what’s included in Zug’s guide.

Zuggy Gold Mastery Guide is actually six guides in one. You get guides for grinding, cashing in on professions, limited items, daily quests, auction house mastery, and a tools and tips guide.

The Grinding Guide - Grinding is the most common way to make WoW gold and Zug included plently of recommendations here, including maps marked to show specific locations. Also included are a number of tips for more efficient grinding, including beverage recommendations (Mountain Dew, of course.)

While grinding is a tad on the dull side (Ok, a LOT on the dull side) it’s a proven method for making gold and is the method of choice for a lot of players.

The Limited Items - If you’ve read any of my previous gold posts you’ll know that I’m a fan of limited items. Buy ‘em cheap and sell ‘em high. Zuggy’s Limited Items Guide is a pretty complete listing of vendors, their general location, and which item(s) you want to look for. While it’s easy enough to look up locations on Thottbot, exact locations would have been a nice addition to the guide.

Still, this list makes it easy to get on your epic mount and make the rounds of the vendors, then mail all your goodies to your banker for resale at large markups.

This works because many people aren’t interested in wasting time looking for vendors and checking to see if they maybe have that item in stock, this time. So you provide the convenience of easy availability and they pay you more than retail for the favor.

The Professions Guide - Yes, they can be used for making gold, some of them anyway, rather than burnng through your existing cash stash. Enchanting, blacksmithing, leatherworking, and others (in addition to the gathering professions) are covered here. Note - this isn’t a profession leveling guide. You’ll have a chance to grab one of those when you grab his guide.

The Dailies Guide - All 70s know to do their dailies for easy gold, rep, and loots. Which ones are the best though? (yeah, I know. Quel’Danas.) zuggy gold guide lists all the dailies by area, notes which ones are worth doing and how much you earn from each. He also includes links to WoWhead for each quest if you need info on who, what, and where. Very nice.

The Auction House System - This is where the real gold is made in WoW, through mastering the Auction House. Zug covers which addons you need (Auctioneer, Gatherer, and others.) as well as how to install and use them to best effect.

He does a great job of covering how to use Auctioneer and uses screenshots to good effect. Videos would have been a nice addition here and I asked him about that. He agrees that it’s a good idea so I think current buyers of zuggy gold guide will see some nice updates and stuff coming up, rather than having a forgotten product.

Tips, Tools, and Tricks - this one’s a catch-all for stuff not mentioned elsewhere, including the right way to make a bank alt, as well as leveling and more profession notes.

So why not just BUY gold? Ever read that Terms of Service agreement that you automatically click “agree” to when WoW is updated? Buying gold, items, accounts, etc is prohibited, so Bliz will ban your booty if they find you’re buying stuff you shouldn’t. Still, it’s your account