Haloscan is a free and useful commenting tool that can be easily installed on any weblog or webpage. Several of its features are: comment moderation, ability to ban offesinve comments by single IP or an IP range, a fully customizable comment window, worldwide time-zone and language support and hundreds of user-submitted templates to choose from. It also has a comment dashboard and is able to handle gravatar support.
The internet was first designed with the machines developed for humans who had to adapt to standards that were more or less limited by the way machines were out together. The term micro-format is a revolutionary way of looking at the web which as we know has evolved a lot since it’s inception. The new way developers look at the internet/web is with the people who use them in from of the machines which we do our work making them more human-like and acceptable as technology for people. The web has been doing well, as far as serving us able to give us what we need and serving the many businesses who fund the infrastructure at which we work in, call it a win-win battle. But there is a very much important factor that has to evolve that has to do with our very human nature, we all differ from one to another in terms of preference. Read the rest of this entry »
Not all web pages have to be as serious as hell to get the attention of your customers and followers for there are a lot of funny ones that do make the cut by using rather unorthodox pages that whilst their bizarre forms still keep the customers rolling in as can be seen on this site. Call them guerrilla designs or rogue themed ones but they are interesting enough to get people interested to dig deeper and even get onto your services or whatever you may be marketing. Professional sites promote using professional themes and methods accepted and quite standardized in the industry. But for freelance works and sites that are for public consumption, the sky’s the limit when to comes to design. Read the rest of this entry »
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There are several free web site counters available on the Internet today. Its an easy way to keep track of the number of guests and visitors on your web site. The free web site counter is a simple small script in which it keeps a count of the visitors and remembers their profiles, the pages that they actually visit and the configuration of their systems. In this way, the free web site counters help you understand more your most likely visitors in the future. It also is a good way to know the likelihood of your site being popular. Most of the the web site counters display a small web banner ad or a counter image. These counters are customizable by the web site owners to fit its genral appearance. Web site counters help in creating an effective presence on the internet. What you can do is to check on the counter regularly so that you can browse through the information it has gathered from its guests so that you can analyze how to make them come back to your site.
One of the leading providers of audience engagement and media distribution services for blogs and RSS feeds is Feedburner. It helps bloggers, commercial publisher and podcasters promote,deliver and profit from their site content on the web.
Feeburner offers the largest blog and feed adevertising network, bringing together an unprecedented caliber of content coming from the world’s most recognized media, individual publishers around the world and A-list bloggers. The most useful tool is its ability to allow readers to subscribe to the site and be updated with new posts from the site owner.
