My friend Lynette just sent me an email letting me know about a recent issue with Blogger. Apparently, Google has been known to delete Blogger accounts that it marks as spam — including its own blog! Can you imagine?

If Google’s own blog is not safe, neither is yours.

My recommendation: Switch to the Wordpress platform. If you’re a Watersweb Hosting or Shop Kit Plus customer, you can easily add a Wordpress blog to your site. All you need is an extra database and you can just fill out a form in your cPanel to install the software.

And if you’re wanting your blog to look just like your site, my design partner Kristine can hook you up.

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A compressed file used on Windows. ZIP is the standard technology for data compression. On the Internet, larger graphics and programs are normally compressed as ZIP files before they are made available for download. This allows downloading to go much faster. After downloading a ZIP file, you need to use a decompression software (such as WinZIP, a free program) to “unzip” it and access the data. The technology is very useful when sending photos through e-mail.

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Occurs when an internet connection rapidly alternates between being “online” and “offline.” In most cases, contacting the ISP technical support will fix the problem.

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A programming language similar to HTML used to develop web pages. The main difference between XML (sometimes called XTML) and other programming languages is the ability to add customized tags to the web page design. XML provides a platform for developing websites that encompass the principles of Web 2.0. It is a lot more abstract and complex than previous programming languages, and its not quite certain whether XML will replace HTML entirely.

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My friend Kelly McCausey of WAHM Talk Radio and I are working together next month to flip a product selling website.

If you have an under-tooled website that needs a makeover, listen to Episode #192 of WAHM Talk Radio to learn how to have your website flipped for free!

Have any questions for me? Ask them here…

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These three W’s are short for World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is a global information space, and is also called the The Web. Text documents, images, multimedia and other types of resources are identified with URLs so that each can be found in a simple way.

The World Wide Web is actually the system by which information on the Internet is categorized and not the Internet itself. The World Wide Web is like the Dewey Decimal system for the Internet.

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A type of website that allows users to add, remove or edit most of the content very quickly and easily. The ease of interaction and operation makes wiki a tool for collaborative sites and communities. The term wiki can also refer to the software that enables users to participate in a website. The name comes from the Hawaiian term “wiki-wiki” which means fast.

Essentially, a wiki is an editable website that doesn’t require users to know HTML or any other programming language. Most systems have a record of changes, so that a page can be reverted to any of its previous states. Many wikis allow completely unrestricted access so that people are able to contribute the site without registering. There is no moderation before posting, but the content is often moderated afterward.

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This term can be used for a variety of individuals who are involved with creating and/or managing a Web site. A Webmaster is the person who maintains the content and functioning of a website. This can include receiving all of the feedback from Website users, maintaining graphics, supplying content updates and handling all programming matters.

A Webmaster may, or may not, have designed the initial layout of the website. Some larger websites have a Webmaster that handles the content of the site, and one that handles the more technical aspects.

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This is an alternate term for Internet marketer. A web marketer is an individual or company whose primary income comes from marketing products or services on the web. Marketing as business is very possible and popular online. Web marketers can make money by promoting other people’s products or their own.

There are a wide variety of techniques that a Web marketer can use to promote websites and products. Please see the entry for Internet marketing for more details.

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