Thank God I’m Ok!

Last night I almost have an accident. I thought I'll gonna die from that moment. I was passing by near the office of LTO with my motor bike. A cat passed by and I slow down so I can avoid it so I stepped on my break then I lost my balance and I almost hit a tree but luckily I got back to the road with a small scratch on my left foot. It's my lucky night because I'm driving slow, no vehicle is following me and I just got a little scratch.  From that moment, I really started to think different things. What if something happen to me, what will happen with my family, my wife and my son. Will my life just end here and then I just said o God not yet but if you really want it then so be it!

Life is really unpredictable! You don't know when will you'll be taken away from this temporary form. Sorry if I post this on this blog, I guess I just want to take away the feeling of fear of what happen to me. Maybe God has so many plans for me and I'll be careful next time and will try to wear a helmet .

Don't worry guys (if somebody out there cares), I'm Ok! I'll try to continue posting different tips and tricks on different things in web designs and programming.

I really earn from blogging

Wow, I've just received my first payment from SMORTY via Paypal. I'm really excited when I received the notification from Smorty that they've already send their payments in my Paypal account. Well it's just the beginning and I hope that this year I can really manage to increase my Pagerank of this blog (and then earnings). Eventually if the earning will get going, I can get my own domain and hosting so I can establish my own website.

Guys, beginning bloggers and wants to earn from simply posting your web logs, well start now. Just to make it easy for you to start with earning in blogging, follow this basic guides:

1. Start signing-up for a blog account. Blogger.com and i.ph are some of the free blog hosting account you can try.

2. Learn SEO or Search Engine Optimization. This will let you understand how to increase your PageRank. High PageRank = Better Earning Opportunities. Read my Basic Tips on SEO and Web Design for SEO starter.

3. Update your blog weekly. Search for new topics. Updated blogs earn more audiences and value from search engines.

Well that's what I can advice for now. Good luck guys!

Ashop Commerce

Are you planning to build or start your own online business but don't know how to start because you don't know or have a little knowledge on the technical aspect of the online transactions? Are you planning to sell something on the internet but don't know where or how to start? or maybe you want a shopping cart for your website but don't know where to find a reliable and user friendly shopping cart software for your online store? Well, make your plans happen with Ashop Commerce! Ashop Commerce provides a world class ecommerce software, internet programming and digital imaging that caters small to medium sized businesses predominantly in the United States.

Ashop Commerce shopping cart software does not require you to have HTML or programming knowledge to take full control of it. It's easy to to set-up with less expense to your business. Ashop Commerce designs the shopping cart software to be spider-friendly (search engine friendly) to make your online store visible to major search engines. They also provide latest and free SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tools and tips so you will have a knowledge on making your online store be seen by your clients.

If you want, you can try their ecommerce software for 10 days. They provide absolutely free without any credit card details trial of their professional ecommerce software. Try it now and start earning today!

Building your own site using CMS!

There are several ways of building your own site. One way is using an open source web content management systems and open source blogging tools.  Web Content Management Systems (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a website. It allows several users to publish contents such as images and multimedia resources in a website. These are the list of those tools and CMS that you can use that I've already tried my self. I'm recommending that you try it!

1. Wordpress Blog Tool and Weblog Platform - this is commonly used by bloggers. Wordpress requires you to have a web server that supports PHP and MySQL. I think this is the simplest tool I've ever used . You can download the source from http://wordpress.org/download/. You can download wordpress theme from http://themes.wordpress.net/. Latest Wordpress version: 2.3.1 Requirements:   PHP 4.2 or greater,  MySQL 4.0 or greater, Recommended Webserver: Apache or LightSpeed. Website: www.wordpress.org

2 . Flatpress - this is another open source blogging tool. Unlike Wordpress, this does not require you to have a MySQL support on your web server. It writes it entries on  text files. You can easily customize its theme just as like Wordpress but still this is under development and not a replacement for Wordpress but at least if you have a web server that does not support MySQL (like our website ) you can use it instead of Wordpress. Download at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157089. Latest Flatpress version: 0.705 Crescendo. Requirements: PHP4. Website: www.flatpress.org

3.  Joomla - this is another powerful open source web content management systems that is used all over the world. Here in the Philippines, Visayas Local Government is currently using this open source CMS to their Municipality & City government websites. It has a rich and advance features that allows you to control the appearance of your site. Like wordpress, you can easily customized the theme of the site. It also has a feature that shows the status of each page in the site. Joomla is also good in archiving your web content. You can download it from http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/frs/. Joomla Stable Version: 1.013, Release Candidate Version: 1.5 RC4. Requirements: PHP & MySQL. Website: www.joomla.org

4. Drupal - Drupal is another open source content management platform that also allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize content on a website. Download site: http://drupal.org/download. Latest Drupal version: 5.5, Release Candidate version: 6.0 RC1. Requirements: PHP 4 or higher (for PHP5.x Drupal 5.x is recommended) and MySQL. Website: http://drupal.org/

These are the CMS I've tried. If you want more information regarding Open Source CMS, there's a site for comprehensive information. Visit it at http://www.opensourcecms.com.

To help you study this CMS, you can deploy temporarily these CMS to some free php hosting sites so you will not spend while studying these CMSs, like the site that I'm currently using. Sign-up at http://www.freeweb7.com/ or http://www.hyperphp.com for a free PHP with MySQL web hosting site. Good luck!

If you want for any assistance on installation or configuration of this tools for your website or you want me to do all this stuff for you, simply contact Filipino web designer & programmer from Capiz, Philippines (that's me) via email my address fbaguyo@hotmail.com. It's my pleasure to serve you.

Google Text ad Trojan

I found a news from reuters.com about the Trojan software that attacks Google Text ads (last December 19, 2007). The said trojan software redirect queries meant to be sent to Google servers to rogue server, redirecting to malicious sites instead of the sites from Google. Google said that they already look on this matter. What a relief!!! I started to become paranoid again that I might have it on my blog and I checked it immediately after I read the article and updated my anti-spyware and anti-virus immediately. Better be ready than to be sorry guys! 

Now be informed read this article on  http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL191003420071219.