Archive for 2009
5 Free Holiday WordPress Themes
Admit it — you love holidays. On November 1, you start planning your Thanksgiving menu, and on the day after, the Christmas tree is up and decorated. Your summer, which starts exactly on Memorial Day, isn’t complete without a huge fireworks display on the 4th, and at midnight on New Year’s Eve, your voice can be heard, above all others, singing “Auld Lang Syne.” So why not show your love for all things festive on your WordPress blog? Well, it’s with you in mind that we here at Web Hosting Help Guy present a special, holiday-inspired theme package. And we’re
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Website Security, Part 3 – Fixing A Hack
So it’s official – despite following the steps in Part One, and after determining the problem by following the steps in Part Two, you’ve finally come to terms with the fact that your site has been hacked. The only thing cheering you up at this point is the knowledge that you did all you could, but somehow, something bad got through. The question is, now what?
The first thing you’ll want to do is contact your hosting company’s technical support crew. They should have the knowledge
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How To Make A 503 Service Unavailable Page
It’s inevitable — at some point your site WILL go down. Ideally, the reason will be one of your choosing — you’re performing some sort of maintenance on it or adding some super-functional feature that will distance you even further from the competition. More likely, though, your site will go down because of server issues, heavy traffic, or even a hack or virus. And, when that happens, you don’t want Google’s search engine spiders coming around and crawling your site while it’s not looking its best.
That’s why you need to
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Website Security, Part 2 – Detecting A Hack
Say you run a website. You’re doing what you normally do; that is, trying to track results and seeing how you could do better from an SEO perspective. You go to Google, type in the keywords that usually show your site within the top results, and see something strange – there’s a link to your site, but instead of your keywords, it says something like “generic Cialis” with your URL underneath it. What the…? Now, you know for a fact there’s nothing about Cialis on your site, so you
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Website Security, Part 1 – Preventing A Hack
It’s a fact – hackers are out there, and they’re trying to get into your website by means that are growing increasingly harder to stop. For example, the recent “Gumblar” virus exploited vulnerabilities in popular software like Adobe’s ubiquitous Acrobat Reader and Flash Player. By finding weaknesses in these programs, as well as popular FTP clients like Dreamweaver, the hackers were able to inject malicious code in personal computers and servers alike.
The purpose? To inject hidden backlinks into websites, in order to affect search results for spamming purposes. Basically, infected computers and servers become
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