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Archive for September, 2007

Website Content

Website content is the most important aspect of a website design, even more important than the graphics of the website. Most of the website developers concentrate their efforts on the graphical presentation, giving low attention to the content of the website. This results in low visitors, as visitors may be impressed by the graphics, but lack of proper information will wane their interest.

The basic objective of a website is to deliver some information to the customer or user, & this can be done effectively with precise content. A good content not attracts customer, but compels him to visit site again. It is the content which brings users to site through search engines like yahoo, google, etc. Search Engine optimization done on content also increases the visitors on the site.

Following care must be taken while writing content

1. No spelling mistakes: Use spell check while writing content, two-three mistakes on a page may ruin your reputation.

2. Fresh Content: Keep adding fresh content as possible, so that search engines will notice your site more often.

3. Paragraph: Don’t write mass text without any space, make a paragraph of 3-4 lines, so that visitor can read better, one paragraph may lose his interest.

Focus more on content. A good content can work wonders for a website

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Installing Ruby on Rails and Gems on Windows

There are enough tutorials around on how to install Ruby on Rails and Gems on Linux; but the question is, how do you install them on Windows?

1) Install Ruby using the one click installer. You can get the latest version of the installer from here; the installation is simple and only takes a few clicks.

2) Open the command shell (’Start’ >> ‘Run’ >> ‘cmd’), and navigate to the ruby ‘bin’ directory. normally this will be ‘C:\ruby’ and run ‘gem install rails –include-dependencies’; this will install rails.

…and there you have it! You have install Ruby on Rails abnd Gems on Microsoft Windows!

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Tweaking cPanel For Lower Memory Consumption

Do you find that your VPS or dedicated machine is regularly running out of memory because of cPanel? The following tutorial will help you overcome this, and help you to make your machine run faster.

Stopping SpamAssassin

This program isn’t overly important to the stopping of spam. To turn it off do the following:

Go to WHM > Server Configuration > Tweak Settings > Disable Spamd

And:

Go to WHM > Service Manager > Disable Spamd

Stopping Mailman

If you or none of your customers aren’t running any mail listings through cPanel, it would be a good idea to disable Mailman.

Go to WHM > Server Configuration > Tweak Settings > Disable Mailman

Never Use Tomcat on a VPS

Never run TomCat on a VPS because of it’s high RAM needs.

Disable CatchAll

If you’re undergoing a mail attack, catch all can use up many resources + storage. To disable do the following:

Go to WHM > Server Configuration > Tweak Settings > Change to :fail:

Tweak Apache

Apache can be quite a memory consuming monster on it’s own. To tweak, do the following:

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

(Press ’shift’ and ‘i’ to enable inserting/editing.)

Change the following settings:

MinSpareServers 2
MaxSpareServers 5

StartServers 3

Save the file by pressing ‘esc’, then type ‘:wq:’, then hit return.

After that, restart Apache: /etc/init.d/httpd restart

All that should reduce your memory useage by a large amount.

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