Before we learn about setting permalink in wordpress, it’s better if we make the same perception first regarding what permalink is. Permalink comes from the phrase “Permanent Link”, is a human-readable URL structure that point to specific content of a weblog and/or forum, from the frontpage to the archive. Actually, there’s no real folder or file name as seen on the browser’s address bar.

By default, wordpress set permalink with a very simple structure. It consist of the main domain, followed by the post ID number.

http://compexplorer.com/?p=13

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Before installing wordpress on a PC, let me show you about the importance of installing wordpress in it. For years, Wordpress can be described as one of the most popular blogging platform. It’s really user friendly and has a lot of amazing features, including thousands plugins created by many people around the world. Many hosting provider helps their customer by giving auto-installation of wordpress, mostly included in fantastico in their Cpanel. Follow the instruction in your Cpanel-fantastico, and your wordpress will be ready to use in minutes.

Can you use your wordpress offline? In this case, the answer is NO. You must fully connect to the internet. What should I do if I want to make some preview, experiment, or editing my wordpress template before launch itu worldwide?  Well, the easiest way is by installing wordpress in your local PC/Laptop. How?

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What is the meaning of Private Whois Domain?

Let’s make it clear. I believe that most of you have your own registered domain. It’s easy to buy a domain, especially a common .com, .net, .info, etc. All you need to do is find an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, most of web-hosting provider also act as ICANN registrar/reseller, and buy a domain for only (average) $8 – $15 per year.

But, do you ever notice that your personal data will be available to see by everyone right after you register the domain? Yes. Your full name, your address, your email, even your phone number are immediately made available to everyone. This case happen because registration of domain use a standard public domain registration. Private Whois Domain is the only way to keep these personal information secret.

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Favicon, comes from “Favourite Icon”, can be simply described as an icon of a website, normally in 16×16 or 32×32 pixels. It can be a standar favicon image, transparent favicon background image, or  animation favicon image. We can see favicon of a website in mozilla firefox and opera browser (sometimes i.e), bookmark pages, etc.

Nowadays, favicon is not only a common icon, but it also a brand of a website. For example, , will make everyone thinks about google. So do this icon, , will refer to yahoo by everyone’s thought.

How to create a favicon in your website?

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Base on my previous post about choosing a web hosting provider, I think it’s better if I write the list of some recommended web hosting provider. These lists may not be the best in the business, but they (almost) pass all criteria as a good web hosting provider. Most of all, all of these provider give a very cheap but reasonable price. The company must be a well-known company (run the business more than 4 years, got some hosting awards from neutral institutions, etc), and I’ve checked their server’s uptime report closely (all of them reached more than 99,90 % in the last 3 month).

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Currently, there are so many web hosting provider in the world. All the providers claim themselves as the best one, with unbeatable prices. If we want to buy a good hosting plan, we have to make sure that we buy it from the perfect web hosting provider that can be trusted, reliable and consistent in providing services.

Before we start searching for the right web hosting, please identify our actual needs first. What kind of features that we really need? What web programming language we will use? How many email address and how much capacity? Do we already have a domain? How many databases that allowed? And many more. All these questions will help we choose the best web hosting for us.

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Before we go further, it’s better to know what exactly W3C is.

W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) is an international organization, with more than 400 members, and their main job is developing web standards. W3C also engages in education and outreach, develops software and serves as an open forum for discussion about the Web.

W3C validity, mainly covering the validity of syntax in the markup language (XHMTL, HMTL, etc), CSS, and (sometimes) RSS/Atom Feeds. With the W3C guidelines, all syntax will be more structured and read  perfectly by all browsers.

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Affiliates program from some products, of course, can gain us a profit. We can receive a very big commission if people buy a product from our referral. Moreover, sometimes an affiliate program gives us a bonus discount on the entry through our affiliate. Really fun, isn’t it?

Unfortunately, the link provided by the affiliate sites are often less harmonious. For example:

<a href=”http://www.blabla.com?a=12345″>blabla</a>

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When entering the affiliate marketing business, sometimes we forget some potential things (some of them could be fatal) that can reduce our possibilities to get success in this business. Here are the common mistakes :

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