Check out Your Website's Alexa Rank

Do you have a website or a blog? If you do, you can check out how your website ranks globally or locally in the Internet by checking your website's Alexa ranking.

To check out your website's Alexa ranking for free, go here:
http://www.alexa.com/



Currently, these are the top 5 sites globally:
1. Google
2. Facebook
3. YouTube
4. Yahoo
5. Live

Aside from finding out your website's Alexa ranking, you can also monitor your website's data statistics and install their customizable Alexa toolbar for your Internet browser.

You can also check out the most popular or hottest web pages in the Internet on their list of hot topics.

Error 623

Recently, I came across a new error while using my internet browser (Mozilla Firefox). Whenever I opened it, the error would always pop-up and the browser would crash.

To solve it, I did various things:

1. I reinstalled the browser. After I reinstalled it, I ran the browser. Unexpectedly, the error still popped up.

2. I searched the Internet and tried finding how other people solved it. Luckily, I found out how at Microsoft Support.
( Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320693 )

Error 623: The system could not find the phone book entry for this connection.

I read about it there and did these steps:

1. Go to Start > Control Panel > Network and Internet Connections
2. Select "Set up or change your Internet connection"
3. Under the connections tab, select "Never dial a connection" (if you use DSL)
If you use dial up connection, select your dial up connection and click the "Set Default" button. Click apply and Ok.

After I did these, the error did not pop up again. If you also happen to encounter errors on your Windows OS computer, try visiting this site: http://support.microsoft.com/

If you don't find the answer there, you can still search for the solution through the thousands of websites out there.

Plants vs Zombies

Need a break? Try the game, Plants vs Zombies.



Your objective:
Protecting your brain from zombies who want to eat it


How:
Raise an army of plants on your lawn, backyard, and roof to fight them off !!


With its simple game play, easy to follow guide, and adorable graphics, this game will surely keep you entertained for hours.

Plus after you complete the game, you will get to listen to their Original Sound Track: There's a Zombie on your lawn. There are also mini games that will be unlocked after you complete the adventure.

Want to try the game? There is a free demo available at their official website:
http://www.popcap.com/games/pvz

Shorten that URL!

Do you use twitter and post tweets regularly with links on it? Or do you post messages on blogs and forums and sometimes add links on your posts?

You will notice most deep link URLs being usually long. By using these tools, you can shorten them:

1. bit.ly


2. goo.gl


Using them is fairly easy. You just paste the URL that you want to be shortened on the input box, and click the shorten link.

Aside from giving you a shorter URL, it also provides stats on how many people have clicked the link. So if you want to post links, try using these tools.

Sinking Cities

Did you know that there are over seven cities that are said to be sinking? According to an article that was just recently featured in Yahoo, these cities are:

1. Bangkok, Thailand










2. New York, America











3. Houston, Texas









4. Shanghai, China










5. New Orleans, Louisiana











6. Venice, Italy










7. Mexico City, Mexico












You can read about the article here:
http://ph.news.yahoo.com/mb/20101011/tel-seven-cities-you-should-visit-before-8a1add4.html

Let Your Site Go Mobile!

Do you have a favorite site? Or even better, do you own a site yourself?

As an online visitor or website owner, you could only view it through your pc or laptop online.

But that is all in the past. Now, you can visit your favorite website anytime or check your very own website anywhere. How? By going mobile!!

If your phone can access the web, you can check the latest changes on your site with the browser on your phone. But that is not all there is to it.

If you have a website, you can let it go mobile!

How? There are lots of ways. You could have someone do it for you or you could make it yourself.

One good place where you can build your mobile site for free would be at widgetbox. There is no cost Only a small ad will be displayed on your site. Plus, if you become a premium member, the ad on your site will no longer be there.

This is just one of the options you have. So if you want to show your site to your friends or family, create a mobile website. Show it to them anytime and anywhere on your phone and have them be astounded with your great website.

Meta Tag Your Site

In designing a website, you will work with a lot of tags such as the Meta tags.

Examples of Meta tags that you should consider placing in your website are:

meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"
meta name="keywords" content="keyword,keyword,keyword"
meta name="description" content="A short summary about what the site is about"
meta name="robots" content="Index,Follow"

Here is a short description for the Meta tags:

1. The content specifies the information for that meta tag.
2. The keywords attribute of the tag lists the keywords for your site. When users type in a word in the search engine, your site may appear on the search results if the word used are these keywords.
   
3. The description attribute is used by search engines as the summary that will be shown below your link in the search results.
4. The robots attribute determines which pages of your website the search engines can crawl in.
   

Whether the website is just for fun or for business, take your time in finishing it. Meta tag it. Optimize it. Create elegant designs. And lastly, add useful stuff for your visitors.