Improve website Quality and Performance

HTML 5 in Web Pages and Mobile Technology

2013-01-27T19:49:00.000+05:30

Hypertext Markup Language is principally second-hand to plausibly formatting a meticulous webpage via signify detailed semantics to the intact satisfied. HTML5 is the most recent description of HTML and XHTML. HTML5 brings in new elements to structure the web pages as compared to HTML4 which uses common structures such as: – header, columns etc.

These new elements are: header, nav, section, article, aside, and footer.

Now, each of these elements serves a unique purpose:-
‘header’ denotes the inclusion of heading, sub headings etc. which is more specific.
‘nav’ signifies both the website navigation as well as the navigation of the table of contents.

‘section’ element corresponds to a broad category of a web page.
‘article’ element symbolizes a particular section of web page such as: blog, news, testimonials etc.

‘aside’ element is used to include the content that may relate to a specific section of a document or a web page.

‘footer’ element is used to indicate important information like copyright data, the author’s name, links to other pages etc.

HTML5 brings a whole new dimension to web world. It can embed video on web-pages without using any special software like Flash.

Not only videos, HTML5 is said to be capable of playing video games on the browser itself (8-bit games have been tried on it).

Besides this, HTML5 is considered to be flexible to handle inaccurate syntax. HTML5 specifies the rules related to the parsing and lexing as compared to HTML4. This means that even if there is an incorrect syntax, similar result is produced by various complaint browsers.

Furthermore, HTML5 denotes to scripting of API (application programming interfaces) including new APIs like:-

Drag and drop
Database storage offline
Editing of the document
Canvas 2D APIs, etc.

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How to improve Software Testing skills

2011-10-08T12:42:00.005+05:30

Hello friends, "How to improve Software Testing skills" - this is the question raises immediately in your mind after succeeding in getting a Software testing job. Before we get into this part in detail, let us see what are all the precautionary steps, one must have to become a Basic tester. Here are some fundamental ethics to become a professional software tester.

Ask questions about the software to the corresponding developer / tester.
Attend meetings with your peers (Who are involved in the project)
Sharing of application knowledge makes you feel little more comfortable.
Do not get anxious about setting-up a Test environment.
Write testcases as per the requirement; as well as maintain your own testcase (Unofficial) which will have some in-depth concept testcase which might not be covered in testcase requirement.
Create your own technical test datas (Positive & Negative)
Create your own rules on testing the application including crashing it with some ASCII data inputs. .
Assume as if you have paid money for the company to build this project.
Once you complete the testing, share the modules with your peers, so that they can find some bugs if you have missed any and do it vice-versa.
Try to understand the application codes, so that this can be helpful for you to raise the bug.
A programmer really wants “bug list”, but it will be easier for programmers if a bug is raised with the following details in clear manner:

a. Bug summary
b. How to reproduce the bug?
c. What would be the reason for this bug?
d. How this can be fixed? (Use this only if you have understood the code)

Learn the new concepts in software testing, but do not force it into your work environment until it is needed.
A tester should play around with the Test datas to find the bugs. (As simple as that)
A professional tester should not get upset if an issue is missed, instead he/she should able to root-cause the bugs.
A software tester should enjoy testing the web applications, standalone applications, or even some ad-hoc applications.
Testers should spend some time everyday on puzzle-solving games to sharpen their brain.

Improving software testing skills might look a bit difficult, but this is easier when we are following all the above points in our day-today working life. So professional s/w testers, and future software professional testers, always enjoy your work and stay happy with the successful outcome of your project.

Android vs iPhone - Easy comparison report

2011-04-19T14:58:00.004+05:30

Android vs iPhone

Advantages of Android

SMS delivery report - for the IPhone you need a third party apparently
Notifications without INTERNET - one of the biggest drawback of the IPhone is that you cannot have notifications without Internet -> the notifications are stored on the Apple servers
Can install applications from any site - IPhone applications can only be installed from the Apple store (unless the phone is jail broken)
Multiple physical menu buttons - used for navigation and quick shortcuts, allows greater screen size (no more software menus)
Physical menu button allows recent 6 tasks (like ALT+TAB in Windows) - absolutely useful
The Home screen is organized in 3, 4 or 5 virtual screens, the rest of the applications lie in a list - usability, quick to access most used apps - on the IPhone there are "limitless" virtual screens on Home
Can install on the Home screen - widgets, shortcuts, folders
Physical keyboard - on some models
Open source OS
Can install different/homebrewed firmwares
Can install home brewed apps
Background apps/ multitasking
can make own application to hook into anything - calling, traffic, media, encryption, etc
Dev SDK is free and cross platform. IPhone is for $100+ and only works on MAC.
Programming is done in Java, bridges exist from J2ME, C#, etc. IPhone uses Objective C
Programming - can run interpreters. IPhone only allows running Objective C byte code
Easy access to the SD card (both from computer and from the phone). can copy MP3s, read ebooks, etc
Cheaper than the IPhone
Easy removable/replaceable battery.
5 mega pixel camera + blitz/flash + More

Advantages of IPhone

Screen brightness/clarity
Bigger sofware keyboard - because of the wider screen
Great 3D apps and harware
Easy data synchronization
Proximity sensor - saves battery and "locks" the screen
Zoom using two fingers - pictures, browser, etc - though some Android phones also support multi touch

Thank you for comparison:

Source: http://adrianvintu.com/blogengine/post/Comparison-of-Android-vs-IPhone.aspx

Display favicon in Internet Explorer

2010-12-10T10:49:00.005+05:30

Hi friends,

A website favicon will not play a major role for improving website quality. But though, many like to play with it just as an design representation when our website browser is minimized to 'Start bar'. Lots of questions raised by many people for the solution.

Website Favicon will be displayed in Mozilla Firefox by just uploading it in the root path. But in Internet Explorer browser, the website favicon will not be displayed until the favicon dimension, favicon size, and the favicon format is accurate.

Here is the solution for making your website favicon to be displayed in Internet Explorer (IE) browser too.

Steps to display Website Favicon in IE browser:

1. Create your website logo in .jpg/ .gif/ .png image type.

2. Dimension of the logo should not exceed 50 x 50 size.

3. http://www.prodraw.net/favicon/index.php - Open this website and convert your logo as favicon.

4. Download the converted logo. (favicon.ico)

5. Upload the 'favicon.ico' into the root path of your website.

6. Clear the stored cookies and delete the cache of your IE browser and check the favicon.

That's it. You are done. Your favicon will be displayed in any browser including IE browser.
Hope you are now resolved your Website Favicon issue in Internet explorer.

For any other queries, please leave me a comment.

Have a great day ahead friends.

Advantages-of-JOOMLA

2010-03-31T14:55:00.005+05:30

Main advantage of using Joomla is FREE: JOOMLA is a free open source, open source content management system. JOOMLA is available to anyone under the General Public License (GPL) license. Why would a person outsource their website programming to software professional and pay out a mammoth amount when he/she can do themself in a very specialized and professional comportment?

Advantages of JOOMLA:

Large number of Modules: Any CMS system is becomes competent if it is supported by modules to enhance their inbuilt capacity. Joomla has more than 2000 modules currently showing online.

Available in Many languages: Joomla is one of the few CMS which is multi-linguistic. You can design your website with different languages using Joomla.

Maintenance: It can be bit of a task when it comes to managing a website. Even tech savvy professional find it difficult to maintain a website. Let alone a lay man. But websites designed by Joomla are not at all difficult to maintain as it is quite user friendly.

Easy Updations: Joomla is a self-updating application. You do not have to be on a look out for individuals or software to keep updating Joomla. A person with good knowledge of Joomla can look into updating the application on their own.

Advanced Joomla applications, We can find even more features which make a Joomla powered website more fun to work with. Since Joomla offers so many valuable advantages, people all over the world have well accepted it to create small time websites to large complex corporate websites or portals and community portals for gaming, blogging and profiles.

Advantages-of-DRUPAL

2010-03-31T12:07:00.002+05:30

Drupal is in fact great for administration web sites, setting up web logs, and wide-ranging web-pushing bits and pieces. Regrettably, we cannot use it entirely for Content Management System because of advanced thinking of Users, but as a special tool or clerical tool for public who primarily interact in the course of the website quality and performance improvement.

Advantages of Drupal:

• Macintosh and Windows support for content editing.
• Content authoring with flexible access controls.
• User Registration and Profiles modules.
• Forums, Blogs, Newsletters, Wikis, Quizzes, Polls, Sweepstakes, and etc.
• Calendar / Event module.
• Gallery / Slideshow module.
• Built-in caching.
• Out-of-box RSS feeds.
• Role-based permission system.
• Browser-based Administration rights.

Also over 1,500 more modules, more features can be added!

In addition, Drupal offers strategic capabilities for search engine optimization and infrastructure flexibility which is designed to be standards compliant helping not only to boost your search engine rankings but be accessible as well.

* Friendly URLs – Drupal uses Apache’s mod_rewrite to enable URLs that are both user- and search engine-friendly, which can help your search rankings.

* Permalinks – All content created in Drupal has a permanent link or “permalink” associated with it so users can link to content freely without fear of broken links.

* Taxonomy and Tagging – Drupal enables you to define hierarchical categories that can be used to tag and organize content, as well as fields for content authors to apply free tags. Tagging content can help enhance your site’s organization, enable related content linking, and assist in the definition of meta-keywords that can boost search rankings.

* Google Ajax Search Module - The main googleajaxsearch module allows the addition of inline searches over a number of Google services (Web Search, Local Search, Video Search, Blog Search, and News Search).

* Platform Flexibility – Drupal was designed from the start to be multi-platform. Not only can it can be installed on either Apache or Microsoft IIS, it can also run on Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows, and Mac OSX platforms.

Web 4.0 - A New Web Technology

2010-01-08T13:58:00.003+05:30

Web 4.0 technology?

I know this will be the question rising in our mind immediately. If there is a solution to our practical problem, then there will be an upgradation to it too. Similarly when there was solution given in the form of “Web 2.0”, then came Web 3.0 as a update of Web 2.0. Now there is again an update to Web 3.0, i.e. “Web 4.0”.
Before we get into it, let us go for a small introduction on How the Web 2.0 came?

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WEB 2.0 definition:

The web 2.0 is more a innovative method of using the internet than a real fruition of its interior explanation.

Fundamentally the web 2.0 points to an superior way to carve up information, pool resources, commune and interacting with machines through source codes. Web users turn into a kind of a website’s topics and information.

Web 2.0 is a fantastic solution for speeding up some of these areas like, Social networks (Twitter, Tinypic, Picassa and etc…), video sharing sites (uTube, 3gpvideos, and etc ), Wikipedia, Blogger, Wordpress and etc are major blog websites started using Web 2.0. It is also the vicar of Website techniques. Web 2.0 is the era of RSS (Really Simple Syndication), XML and Web API.

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WEB 3.0 definition:

The web 3.0 - “A Semantic web”

Arranging / Ordering / Structuring data find on the internet to make it obtainable and practical by programs and software. The intention is to make the web readable by machines too instead of making it readable only by humans.

Resource Description Framework (RDF) also the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and notations like RDF Schema (RDFS) gives the stipulation of metadata data model.

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) are between the web 2.0 and the web 3.0. Most websites are already started using these technologies to exhibit vivacious contents. Flash animations are already taking benefit of this technology to launch higher animated content without the heavy weight of accustomed “movie files”.

From above elucidation, we all could understand the Web 3.0 increased the website speed, website quality a lot. Still, these improvement does not overcome the website scripts like jquery, mootools and daemons source codes etc and exact solution to this in (Web 3.0) is not achieved yet. All web users will agree this technical drawback. To overcome these script works, we need some more improvements on Web 3.0 concepts, I.e. Web 4.0.

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WEB 4.0 definition:

The web 4.0 - “A Symbiotic web”

The Symbiotic web, once the metadata are prearranged like it did on web 3.0, Human mind & Machines (Binary language) can interact in Symbiosis using this Web 4.0 technology concept.
In simple words, A machine can also be clever on reading the contents and animations, and react in the form of executing and deciding what to execute first to load the website fast with superior quality and performance and build more commanding interfaces.

The Web 4.0 is still a subversive thought in progress. Clear definition of the Web 4.0 is not into the internet till now. But we hope, it will not take more days. We are very close to the future web technology called as “Web 4.0”.

My justification on WEB 4.0 technology:

Web 3.0 + Artificial Intelligence = Web 4.0 technology

Conclusion:

No matter what the technology improves, we still need to understand the website user’s needs and make them happy and satisfied on using our website. So, instead of just making the website as visual treat, deliver the business points clearly and user-friendly and stay away from slow loading website.

If your website does not have any script work / flash animation, do not consider about this web 2.0, web 3.0, web 4.0 or web 100.0 (might be in future) etc. Just carry on with your good contents / topics on websites.

37 easy ways for Website-Blog Promotion

2009-11-18T16:22:00.011+05:30

Introduction:

The most significant and economical approach is to rank high for your preferred keywords on the main search engines like "Google"/"Bing"/"Yahoo" and etc in "organic" or "natural" searches (as disparate to paid ads). Search engines send robot "spiders" to index the content of your website or Blog, so let us begin with steps to prepare your Website-Blog pages for optimal indexing. The strategy here is not to ploy the search engines, but to leave them abundant clues as to what your website or Blog is about. This approach is called "Search Engine Optimization" abbreviated as SEO.

1. Write a Keyword-Rich Page Title: Write a descriptive title for each page -- rich in keywords you want people to find you with -- using 5 to 8 words.

2. Write a Description META Tag: Some search engines include this description below your hyperlinked title in the search results.

3. Include Your Keywords in Headers: (H1, H2, H3). Search engines consider keywords that appear in the page headline and sub heads.

4. Position Your Keywords in the First Paragraph of Your Body Text: Search engines expect that your first paragraph will contain the important keywords for the document.

5. Include Descriptive Keywords in the ALT Attribute of Image Tags. The ALT attributes do help get your images ranked higher for image search.

6. Use Keywords in Hyperlinks: Search engines are looking for clues to the focus of your webpage.

7. Make Your Navigation System Search Engine Friendly: You want search engine robots to find all the pages in your site.

8. Create a Site Map. A site map page with links to all your pages can help search engines (and visitors) find all your pages.

9. Develop WebPages Focused on Each Your Target Keywords: SEO specialists no longer recommend using external doorway or gateway pages.

10. Fine-tune with Careful Search Engine Optimization:. Frankly, this kind of SEO fine-tuning is time-consuming, painstaking work that takes a lot of specialized knowledge.

11. Promote Your Local Business on the Internet: These days many people search for local businesses on the Internet.

12. Promote Your Video, Images, and Audio Content: Google's "universal search" displays not only webpage content, but also often displays near the top of the page relevant listings for images, videos, local businesses and audio clips.

13. Submit Your Site to Key Directories: Since a link from a directory will help your ranking -- and get you traffic. A directory is not a search engine. Rather, it is a hierarchical listing of sites sorted according to category and subcategory.

14. Submit Your Site to Trade Organization Sites and Specialized Directories: Some directories focused on particular industries, such as education or finance.

15. Request Reciprocal Links: Find websites in your general niche and request a reciprocal link to your site.

16. Write Articles for Others to Use in Websites and Newsletters: You can dramatically increase your visibility when you write articles in your area of expertise and distribute them to editors as free content for their e-mail newsletters or their websites.

17. Issue News Releases: Find newsworthy events and send news releases to print and Web periodicals in your industry.

18. Begin a Business Blog: Want links to your site? Begin a business blog on your website, hosted on your own domain.

19. Become Part of a Social Media Community: Some of the best online communities for business include Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.

20. Promote Your Site in Online Forums and Discussion Lists: "Old school" social media.

21. Ask Visitors to Bookmark Your Site: It seems simple, but ask visitors to bookmark your site or save it in their Favorites list.

22. Include Your URL on Stationery, Cards, and Literature: Make sure that all business cards, stationery, brochures, and literature contain your company's URL.

23. Promote using traditional media: Don't discontinue print advertising that you've found effective.

24. Develop a Free Service: It's boring to invite people, "Come to our site and learn about our business." It's quite another to say "Use the free kitchen remodeling calculator available exclusively on our site".

25. Install a "Signature" in your E-Mail: Program to help potential customers get in touch with you.

26. Publish an E-Mail Newsletter: While it requires a commitment of time, creating a monthly e-mail publication is one of the most important promotion techniques.

27. Aggressively Ask for E-Mail Sign-ups: If you want to get subscribers to your e-mail newsletter, you'll need to work hard at it.

28. Send Transactional and Reminder E-Mails: A transactional e-mail is sent to an existing customer to initiate, remind, confirm, or thank the person. Be creative.

29. Send Offers to Your Visitors and Customers: Your own list of customers and site visitors who have given you permission to contact them will be your most productive list.

30. Exchange E-Mail Mentions with Complementary Businesses: You might consider exchanging e-mail newsletter mentions with complementary businesses to reach new audiences.

31. Announce a Contest. People like getting something free: If you publicize a contest or drawing available on your site, you'll generate more traffic than normal.

32. Devise Viral Marketing Promotion Techniques: So-called viral marketing uses existing communication networks to spread the word exponentially.

33. Advertise in an E-Mail Newsletter: Some of the best buys are small text ads in e-mail newsletters targeted at audiences likely to be interested in your products or services.

34. Begin an Affiliate Program: Essentially, a retailer's affiliate program is a CPA program that pays a commission to other site owners whose links to the retailer's products result in an actual sale.

35. Purchase Pay Per Click: (PPC) ads with Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing, or Microsoft AdCenter.

36. List Your Products with Shopping Comparison Bots and Auction Sites. If you're an online merchant, you'll want to consider this.

37. Rent targeted, commercial e-mail lists: The last Website Blog promotion technique I will mention is renting targeted e-mail lists to send mass emails simultaneously.

Conclusion:

Anyways you have to have patience for promoting your Blog or Website. By following the above mentioned website promotion strategies the time taken for Search engines to crawl your Website or Blog will be reduced. Once your Website or Blog reached the top in search engines, do not settle in happy, you have to keep on working in these 37 Steps to promote Website-Blog and keep your Website or Blog position in same position I.e. Rank 1.

Software Bug Tracking – When BUGS can occur?

2009-10-14T14:27:00.005+05:30

Following are the list of BUG types and the reason that BUG can occur. The main disadvantage of a BUG is, making a website quality to down, and making customer to stay-away from the software or website. Some may continue using defect-ful software or website because of no option.

Different types of BUGS are:

Fuctionality bugs
User interface bugs
Boundary value related bugs
Calculation bugs
Dead Lock bugs
Version control bugs..
Critical bugs
Fatal bugs
Usability / Suggestion bugs
Hyperlink bugs
Database bugs
GUI bugs
Error handling bugs
Control flow bugs
Interpreting data bugs
Competibility & intersystem bugs
Hardware bugs
Logical bugs
GUI related bugs
System related bugs
Software service pack bugs
Browser Compatibility
Functional bugs
Security bugs
Access Control bugs
Integration bugs
Boundary value bugs
Configuration bugs
Hardware failure

To reduce these kind of bugs in the Software or Website to improve the Quality, we need to concentrate on the above mentioned scenarios to make sure that the developed website of software is not affected by BUGS. Proper testing methodologies with sequential texting process can be used to make this confirmation.

Website Quality and Performance can be improved, if the testing phase is executed with good Web-Based / standalone / Networked Software Bug Tracking System. Example: Mantis. BugTracker, BugZilla and etc are all open source software tools, whcih can be used to track the raised software bugs till it gets fixed and closed.

Google rankings change when 100 Result per Page

2009-10-08T10:32:00.006+05:30

Why Google rankings changes if 100 results per page option is used?

Google is always been using this algorithm to make faster outputs.

Google Algorithm:

If a person searching for a keyword with an option 10 results per page, Google algorithm crawls the results through a variety of different data centres that will have very little different cached copies of the index page.

In real-time, there can be a possibility of more than one data centers be crawled during searching, so the result might vary accordingly.

Assume that, if you are using an option 100 results per page, in which the possibility of using more than ten data centers.

So if you do the first search and the data center has your page at 15th position, the webpage will not be in the first ten results.

If you do a second search for page at 3rd position and that data center has your page at 13th position,

Webpage result will not be listed in the second ten results either and you will think that the webpage result has been gone backwards, even though it's around 18th position. Although Google Algorithm takes care of crawling your website, it is highly recommended that the website a person creates should be unique and must have rich contents.

List of GOOGLE DATA CENTERS

Rich contents, Website Quality and Website Performance makes easy for Google Algorithm understand our website motto as well. Data center is a mediator for Google Algorithm and our website. Through this Data Center, our website got listed in the website ranking result. Above mentioned are some of the common and highly used Data Centers used by Google.

Cookies and Session - in Detail

2009-09-30T17:05:00.003+05:30

How to set cookies?

setcookie('variable','value','time');

variable - Name of the cookie variable
value - Value of the cookie variable
time - Expiry time;
Example: setcookie('Test',$i,time()+3600);

Test - cookie variable name
$i - value of the variable 'Test'
time()+3600 - Cookie will expire after one hour.

How to reset/destroy a cookie?

Reset a cookie by specifying expire time in the past:
Example: setcookie('Test',$i,time()-3600); // already expired time

Reset a cookie by specifying its name only
Example: setcookie('Test');

Default session time in php?

The default session time in php is until closing of browser.

How to get the value of current session id?

session_id() returns the session id for the current session.

Different Types of CODING Errors

2009-09-30T16:47:00.005+05:30

Here are three basic types of run time errors in PHP:

1. Notices:

These are trivial, non-critical errors that PHP encounters while executing a script - for example, accessing a variable that has not yet been defined. By default, such errors are not displayed to the user at all - although you can change this default behavior.

2. Warnings:

These are more serious errors - for example, attempting to include() a file which does not exist. By default, these errors are displayed to the user, but they do not result in script termination.

3. Fatal errors:

These are critical errors - for example, instantiating an object of a non-existent class, or calling a non-existent function. These errors cause the immediate termination of the script, and PHP's default behavior is to display them to the user when they take place.

Internally, these variations are represented by twelve different error types.

Conclusion:

When these types of errors are found and rectified by the s/w developers or s/w test engineers, our website-quality automatically comes upward in the quality website list.

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Differences between require and include, include_once?

2009-09-26T10:02:00.002+05:30

Anwser 1:
require_once() and include_once() are both the functions to include and evaluate the specified file only once. If the specified file is included previous to the present call occurrence, it will not be done again.

But require() and include() will do it as many times they are asked to do.

Anwser 2:
The include_once() statement includes and evaluates the specified file during the execution of the script. This is a behavior similar to the include() statement, with the only difference being that if the code from a file has already been included, it will not be included again. The major difference between include() and require() is that in failure include() produces a warning message whereas require() produces a fatal errors.

Anwser 3:
All three are used to an include file into the current page.
If the file is not present, require(), calls a fatal error, while in include() does not.
The include_once() statement includes and evaluates the specified file during the execution of the script. This is a behavior similar to the include() statement, with the only difference being that if the code from a file has already been included, it will not be included again. It des not call a fatal error if file not exists. require_once() does the same as include_once(), but it calls a fatal error if file not exists.

Anwser 4:
File will not be included more than once. If we want to include a file once only and further calling of the file will be ignored then we have to use the PHP function include_once(). This will prevent problems with function redefinitions, variable value reassignments, etc.

Cookie Injection - Website Hacking

2009-09-01T15:13:00.002+05:30

Cookie hacking or editing can be very fun and can open a lot of doors. First we need to open a browser window and go to a site that uses cookies. Not sure if the site is using cookies here is some code that will let you know if the site is using cookies. Type the following code in a empty address bar.

Code: javascript: alert(document.cookie);

This code is very similar to the code we learned in the basics section. What it does is open an alert box that outputs the cookie file information for the current site. With this little piece of code you should start to see the power of the alert command.

Now that we have seen what data the cookie has in it, let’s change some things. On the site I used when I executed the code above I got “PHPSESSID=5b391ba8c4969af84eb426d469abba1″. The follow code is the code I used to change my cookie value. Depending on your cookie you may need to edit the code or the following code will just be appended to the end of the cookie.

Code: javascript: void(document.cookie=”PHPSESSID = hacked”); alert(document.cookie);

In the code above the PHPSESSID value is changed to hacked and then an alert box is output showing the change to the cookie.

Notice the void command after the javascript declaration. Void is used to return a null value so the browser will not be able to load a new page. Cookie editing can open many doors in the following example you will see how you could hack your way into a website with poor authorization.

Let’s say you find a site that has restricted access to several pages. You check the cookie from the site to see if it is doing anything. The cookie outputs this: loggedIn=no. If you change that value to yes you could get access to the restricted pages without logging like a normal user. The following code changes the cookie value and displays the new value:

Code: javascript: void(document.cookie=”loggedIn=yes”); alert(document.cookie);

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Javascript Injection - Website Hacking Technique

2009-09-01T14:50:00.005+05:30

JavaScript injection is a amusing practice that allows you to modify a websites content without leaving the site, reloading the page, or saving the site to your desktop. JavaScript injection can be extremely constructive when you need to alter hidden data before you send it to the server. Let us start in simple with some basic JavaScript injection techniques.

Basic JavaScript Injection Methods:

JavaScript injections are executed from the address bar of the browser. To start our execution, Open the website http://modifiedmotorbikes.blogspot.com.
After complete loading, remove the existing URL from the address bar.
That means, delete the http://modifiedmotorbikes.blogspot.com from the address bar.

JavaScript injection code is executed in the empty address bar using the javascript: protocol. In this tutorial we will go over the basics of JavaScript injection. If you are a JavaScript expert this might be below you but a reminder is for all time fines.

The two most widely used injection commands are alert(); and void();. These commands will get you through most situations. For our first injection script we will open an alert box. Open the web browser of your choice and delete everything from the address bar. Go to http://modifiedmotorbikes.blogspot.com website, clear the website URL and type the following code in the empty address bar.

Code: javascript: alert(“Congratulations! You are an Expert”);

What we have done is told the browser to send an alert box with some string text.
Even though this is very simple and great little trick you will see its actual usage when the knowledge increases in you.

With the JavaScript: protocol you can run as countless commands as you would like.

Enter the following code in your empty browser address bar to test more than one JavaScript injection command.

Code: javascript: alert(“Congratulations!”); alert(“You are”); alert(“Expert”);

In this code injection you will see three different alert windows pop up one after the other.

Thank you for spending your valuable time.
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Website or Database Hacking

2009-08-18T12:13:00.004+05:30

SQL Injection:

SQL Injection involves entering SQL code into web forms, eg. login fields, or into the browser address field, to access and manipulate the database behind the site, system or application.

When you enter text in the Username and Password fields of a login screen, the data you input is typically inserted into an SQL command. This command checks the data you've entered against the relevant table in the database. If your input matches table/row data, you're granted access (in the case of a login screen). If not, you're knocked back out.

The Simple SQL Injection Hack

Click on here to view the sample SQL hack

Automated Injection:

There are tools to automate the process of SQL Injection into login and other fields. One hacker process, using a specific tool, will be to seek out a number of weak targets using Google (searching for login.asp, for instance), then insert a range of possible injection strings (like those listed above, culled from innumerable Injection cheat-sheets on the Web), add a list of proxies to cover his movements, and go play Xbox while the program automates the whole injection process.

Remote Injection:

This involves uploading malicious files to inject SQL and exploit other vulnerabilities. It's a topic which was deemed beyond the scope of this report, but you can view this Page if you'd like to learn more.

SQL Injection in the Browser Address Bar

Injections can also be performed via the browser address bar. I don't mean to have a pop at Microsoft, but when it comes to such vulnerabilities, HTTP GET requests with URLs of the following form are most often held to be vulnerable:

http://somesite.com/index.asp?id=10

Try adding an SQL command to the end of a URL string like this, just for kicks:

http://somesite.com/index.asp?id=10 AND id=11

See if both articles come up. Don't shoot your webmaster just yet if it's your own site and you get two articles popping up: this is real low-level access to the database. But some such sites will be vulnerable. Try adding some other simple SQL commands to the end of URLs from your own site, to see what happens.

As we saw above, access to the database raises a number of attractive promises. The database structure can be mapped by a expert hacker through ill-conceived visibility of error messages — this is called database footprinting — and then this knowledge of table names and so forth can be used to gain access to additional data. Revealing error messages are manna - they can carry invaluable table name and structural details.

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XML vs dHTML

2009-07-29T17:53:00.004+05:30

XML
Advantages:

> XML is used for organizing.

> XML has a language markup just like HTML, using tags and whatnot.

> The tags are made up by the user (So is a real tag in XML), thus not much
memorization is required.

> XML is commonly used for RSS feeds, and other feeds accepting XML. It is a simple way to streamline news and updates.

Disadvantages:

~ XML does not "build" like HTML does.

~ XML is just a bunch of tags and words until put into a feed that churns XML into user-friendly data.

~ CSS cannot design XML, since XML does not initially "output" anything but the raw source.

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dHTML
Advantages:

> dHTML is the combination of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to make dynamic user interfaces, such as web navigation menus and user-friendly maps of a sort.

> dHTML is not a new language, so there's no more memorization needed.

Disadvantages:

~ dHTML uses JavaScript, which is sometimes disabled on web browsers (And CSS, which could be turned off, but rarely is).

~ Creating a dHTML interface is risky when it comes to browser-compatibility.

~ Many browsers tend to display different things when poorly constructed.

Click here to read HTML vs XHTML

Conclusion:

I have mentioned all the important features as well as disadvantages of the above markup languages, even though each has several options, only the real-time website applications choose which one to be used and for what reasons. Choosing a perfect markup language improves a website quality and performance highly.

HTML vs XHTML

2009-07-29T11:59:00.010+05:30

HTML
Advantages:

> HTML is highly flexible.

> Interact with CSS, JavaScript and Applets.

> Universal and can be erudite easily.

> As programming languages are usually exclusive to a certain area/expertise where as HTML is convertible / compatible to morph into XML.

> HTML is good in flexibility.

> Can carry out with scripts and applets and create user-defined HTML XML devices from scratch either for embeddable applications, web interactive, scripts, anything.

Disadvantages:

~ HTML is a simple language to most, but poor (Or even the best) markup structure by the user / webmaster can result in multiple browsers displaying the markup differently

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XHTML
Advantages:

> Sustainability: Using XHTML now instead of HTML makes any future transition of the website easier.

> Extensibility:
Using namespaces XHTML documents can be supplemented with other forms of markup, such as MathML (Math Markup Language) and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)

> Compatibility:
Because XHTML documents are written according to the rules of XML, it is not difficult for XML-processing programs to convert an XHTML file to another format (e.g. PDF, RSS or RTF).

> Efficiency:
Once browsers offer support for XHTML documents and the strict rules of XML, they will become faster. This is the price of a quickly but chaotically expanding internet.

Disadvantages:

~ Limited Practical Usage: Currently, there are scarcely any web browsers that offer reimbursement when receiving and doling out XHTML documents; the most frequently used browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer) does not even support XHTML.

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Google Sandbox - Definition

2009-07-27T16:30:00.002+05:30

What is Google Sandbox?

The Google Sandbox is a allegorical idiom coined by Search Engine Optimization’s and Webmasters, not connected with Google Limited, to make clear why the majority of fresh websites encompass extremely pitiable rankings in Google Search Engine results. The survival of Google Sandbox has not yet been clearly proved but there appear to have some changes to Google Algorithm for a while around March ‘04 that denies top ranking for recently launched websites. However, there are exceptions and many WebPages have made it to the top of the Google Search Engine results in spitefulness of the sandbox, but the sandbox seems to be expected page rank dampening perception.

In November 2003, Google implemented what was generally known as the "Florida Filter", a filter added to the Google Algorithm to lessen spam. The "Florida Filter" proved to be a tragedy as it wiped out many small online shops but didn't fight spam producers as much as it was likely to. Spammers and link farms generate zillions of websites and millions of links every day unfavorably affecting the Google Search Engine results rankings of certain rightful websites. Google might have firm to keep away new websites from receiving good page ranks till they proved themselves.

Google Sandbox Algorithm

Google has been preservation lofty position capability of recently launched websites for 2 to 4 months. The fine is applicable to new websites only and doesn't have an effect on domains that are 4 or more months mature and have good quality backlinks. The Google Sandbox cause also does not affect new website quality pages on lengthy repute websites.

Following the recently launched websites prove their value by increasing good quality website backlinks and use some time on the websites they are set a weight and eventually the Google Sandbox result goes away.

Google's spiders may pickup your site through an inbound link or you may have submitted your site to Google but almost all newly launched websites successfully get into the sandbox. Although there are some exceptions mostly all new sites are relegated to the sandbox for sometime.

How to track if a website is in Google Sandbox?

1. If the page is in the Google Sandbox, Google does not give the website a pagerank.

2. A "link:www.website-quality.blogspot.com" or "site: http://octosearchengine.blogspot.com" search on Google does not come back with any results. i.e. Google result does not show cryptogram of any other websites with any linking to your website nor displays pages related to the website quality and performance.

3. No website pages other than the index / homepage are listed. Sometimes even the homepage will not be listed in the Google Cached pages.

All depends on the quality and performance of the website launched.

Expensive Automation Testing Tool failure

2009-07-15T11:13:00.002+05:30

In 1996, one large company set out evaluating the various saleable automation tools that were available at that time. They brought in eager technical sales staff from the various vendors, watched demonstrations, and performed some fairly thorough internal evaluations of each tool.

By 1998, they had chosen one picky vendor and placed an initial order for over $250,000 worth of product licensing, maintenance contracts, and onsite training. The tools and training were distributed throughout the company into various test departments--each working on their own projects.

None of these test projects had anything in common. The applications were vastly different. The projects each had individual schedules and deadlines to meet. Yet, every one of these departments began separately coding functionally identical common libraries. They made routines for setting up the Windows test environment. They each made routines for accessing the Windows programming interface. They made file-handling routines, string utilities, database access routines--the list of code duplication was disheartening!

For their test designs, they each captured application specific interactive tests using the capture\replay tools. Some groups went the next step and modularized key reusable sections, creating reusable libraries of application-specific test functions or scenarios. This was to reduce the amount of code duplication and maintenance that so profusely occurs in pure captured test scripts. For some of the projects, this might have been appropriate if done with sufficient planning and an appropriate automation framework. But this was seldom the case.

With all these modularized libraries testers could create functional automated tests in the automation tool’s proprietary scripting language via a combination of interactive test capture, manual editing, and manual scripting.

One problem was, as separate test teams they did not think past their own individual projects. And although they were each setting up something of a reusable framework, each was completely unique--even where the common library functions were the same! This meant duplicate development, duplicate debugging, and duplicate maintenance. Understandably, each separate project still had looming deadlines, and each was forced to limit their automation efforts in order to get real testing done.

As changes to the various applications began breaking automated tests, script maintenance and debugging became a significant challenge. Additionally, upgrades in the automation tools themselves caused significant and unexpected script failures. In some cases, the necessity to revert back (downgrade) to older versions of the automation tools was indicated. Resource allocation for continued test development and test code maintenance became a difficult issue. Application / Website quality and performance affected rapidly using this automated testing tool.

Eventually, most of these automation projects were put on hold. By the end of 1999--less than two years from the inception of this large-scale automation effort--over 75% of the test automation tools were back on the shelves waiting for a new chance to try again at some later date.

How to fool Google Adsense Algorithm?

2009-07-14T16:09:00.004+05:30

Hot topic now-a-days is "How can i earn money by cheating/fooling Google Adsense?". This question raises immediately on each and every website owner's mind after launching a website/blog and got approved by Google Adsense.

This mindset is very dangerous, that it can be related with a small story

"Cannot wait for one golden-egg / day, and deciding to fetch all Golden-Eggs at a time by Killing a Golden-egg laying Duck to become millionaire in one day".

The above story would be funny if you take it as a story, If you think in other-way, no story would be serious as this is. In real world every person is dreaming about millionaire without patience.

Be patient, be positive, make your website popular, attract your visitors, the earnings will flow in automatically. Do not try to fool Google Adsense, since it follows a very high secured tracking algorithm.

The following are the known ways that a Google Adsense tracks your account:

1. Stores your ipaddress.

2. Google products like Gmail, calendar, Orkut etc leave footprints that can track you.

GOOGLE CHECKS WHO ARE YOUR GMAIL AND ORKUT friends AND IF THEIR CLICKS INCREASE RAPIDLY BEYOND A LIMIT, GOOGLE FLAGS YOU AND MOVES YOUR WEBSITE INTO GOOGLE SANDBOX.

3. I format my system and install a new XP or VISTA, still Google can detect u. Your LAN card and other hardware have a unique fingerprint that Google uses.

4. Impression and click ratio (Click through Rate)-IF it’s abnormally high, Google flags you.

5. Location of clicks—if from a very small area, Google detective sets in.

6. Change in behavior of visitors. For example a visitor with a gmail id XXXXX visits many sites but just clicks ads in one site. Enough for Google to track.

With these methods and more which Google alone knows, trying cheat Google is too risky especially as they don’t give your earnings up to that period also. They will return your hard earned money to the advertisers.

Behind all these Google Adsense algorithm efforts, there are lots of human brains spent each and every second. Trying to fool Google Adsense algorithm is nothing but trying to fool a collection of human brain.

When a website is popular, then Google Adsense will be very easy to be flown in your account. But making a website popular, you need to improve website quality and website performance in a dramatic way.

Website Quality Assurance - In Detail

2009-07-10T12:14:00.003+05:30

The term website quality assurance, when applied to websites, describes the process of enforcing quality control principles and functioning to advance the processes that are used in producing the website and its workings, communications and content. When website quality assurance is well implemented, a website quality should see progressive development in terms of both attenuation rate of defects and general increase in website usability and performance.

Quality assurance should function as a "tone" for the user, a reminder to the designers and developers that the site is designed for users outside the office. Quality assurance as ombudsman would be a positive force for a quality user experience. If you are limited in what you can accept responsibility for, document those limits. For example, if you can't test data or middleware, announce that fact whenever you provide test results for the website quality. Even the best designed and developed sites will experience problems and failures, so a good quality assurance team should set expectations -- for the entire web site team and with management -- for what QA can effectively accomplish.

Focus on Improving Processes

The key to understanding website quality assurance is, understanding the emphasis on process: quality control focuses on what comes out of the web site creation process (creation, development, publication -- whatever term you prefer that describes the process that results in the web site). Quality assurance focuses on what goes into the creation process as well as on the process itself with the goal of improving the quality of output by improving everything "downstream".

Quality assurance looks beyond the structured testcases used by website quality control because these testcases are necessarily limited. Quality assurance focuses on more than a site's ability to meet a specific benchmark; quality assurance aims to make the site better so tests are passed more consistently, so that the benchmark can in fact be refined, and so that problem areas can be eliminated.

Quality assurance should be involved in the development process. QA should review new designs before they are finalized with an eye towards usability and user experience factors; heading of problems before they become real improves quality immediately and reduces problems "downstream”. Quality assurance should be involved in customer service and user-support communications, especially with a commerce site, so that usability defects can be reviewed. With user input, QA can refine user scenarios to better match "real" behavior. There is no substitute for user comments.

Following any major phase of your website, perform a postmortem analysis: review the success of the changes, redesigns, scheduling, file transfers, etc. What could be made more efficient? Which processes could be smoothed out?

6 ways to evaluate Website Quality

2009-07-07T16:56:00.004+05:30

From time to time someone request a quick look of the website quality. Our expert judgment may be inadequate; we must prop up it with several pages information. How to write such paper, where the information takes from? Basic information can be gathered from free to use online tools. Below is the catalog, composed with a view to quickly obtain data for basic website quality rating.

1. Evaluate Standards

The webpage which fails to comply with the standards could have different errors, which are very difficult to predict. Starting from the problems in different browsers, to poor Google indexing. With the help comes the W3C, which sets standards and provides ready to use tools:

* HTML, XHTML - http://validator.w3.org/
* CSS - http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
* FEED (RSS or ATOM) - http://validator.w3.org/feed/

2. Evaluate Design

The design has many meanings, here it comes mainly about how the site will be looked in different environments. Is not too wide, too high and looks the same in Firefox or Opera.

* Plenty of browsers, systems, etc - http://browsershots.org/
* Look at webpage in different resolution - http://www.markhorrell.com/tools/browser.html

3. Evaluate Performance

Underestimated but very important issue: the speed of page loading. We can have beautiful graphics, animations and great scripts but the user may not wait for full page load. Remember that we need to count the full load, not just the size of the HTML source, but also images, flash, ads, scripts and dynamic content via AJAX.

* Popular, cute tool - http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
* Overall page performance - http://site-perf.com/

4. Evaluate SEO Quality

Search engine optimization is a difficult and lengthy process but most mistakes are the same, easy and crucial errors that substantially reduce the Google ranking. The following tools, which very quickly learn us problems at the site in terms of SEO:

* Complete SEO Analyzer - http://www.seoworkers.com/tools/analyzer.html
* Google Webmaster Guidelines - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769

5. Evaluate Linking

Dead links are strictly connected with bad SEO score. Good to have many inner and outer links, but not too many and all must live :) Google Webmaster Tools are very useful particularly for the analysis of the number of links from other sites.

* W3C Tool - http://validator.w3.org/checklink
* DeadLinks - http://www.dead-links.com/
* Google Webmaster Tools - https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

6. Evaluate Accessibility

Accessibility lies close to the Usability which is hard to check by machine. We have standards for websites accessibility and tools to rate it.

* Great, visual tool - http://wave.webaim.org/
* Compliance with standards - http://www.contentquality.com/
* Standard - http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/
* Standard - http://www.access-board.gov/508.htm

Conclusion

The above list is not comprehensive and thorough but gives a elevated prospective to rapidly confirm whether provided website has the basic and crucial defects and the website quality is improved noticeably

Mercury Quality Centre

2009-07-07T14:18:00.002+05:30

Introduction:

Testing Tools - Test Management

Mercury Quality Center is a web-based test management tool. It gives you a centralized control over your entire testing Project. It can make the task of the testers and managers easy by giving an easy interface to manage and organize activities like Requirements coverage, Test Case Management, Test Execution Reporting, Defect Management, and Test Automation. All these activities are provided from a single tool, which is web-based and can be accessed from any where.

Mercury Quality Centre can be divided into two parts. One for tool administrator and another for tool user. These two parts are called Site Administrator Bin and Quality Centre Bin. These parts are discussed in more detail in the next section.

Site Administration Bin ( SABin ) : This is an important part of the software and also starting point for the usage of Mercury Quality Centre project. All the administrative activities like creating the projects, assigning users to the projects, creating specific roles etc. is done from this area. This section is also used for configuring your application with the tool. For example, if you want to use the Winrunner or Quality Test Professional ( QTP ) scripts from Quality Center, you need to specify it here. If you are using Winrunner, you need to make sure that backward compatibility property of the application to true. SABin can also be used to configure the mail servers. Password for site admin is defined during the installation so make sure that you remember the password during installation.

Quality Center Bin ( QCBin ) : This is how user interact with tool. QCBin interface gives functionality of creating test plans, defining requirements, creating test cases, creating test labs, associating requirements with defects in essence, everything that as a tester or test manager you need to do in your day to day activity apart from execution.
This article will start off with the explanation about SABin and then move towards using Quality Center using the QCbin.

Quality Centre is installed as a service in your windows environment. Before start working on it, make sure that Mercury Quality Centre service is running. As mentioned earlier, Quality Centre can be accessed from web browser using http://:8080/sabin/SiteAdmin.htm format, assuming that Quality Centre is listening on default port. This page is the starting point and gives a login screen where you need to provide admin credential which were used during the installation of Mercury Quality Centre. Once you are logged on to the SABin, you can perform all the administrative tasks mentioned above. You can also verify your licensing information, information about database etc. using SABin.

After you are done with defining your projects, user etc. it is time for QCBin to come into the picture. This is the most common interface used by the customers or users. Quality Center provides the role based accessed to the Projects. For example, A Test Manager can create projects and Test Lead can prepare test plans and tester can write the test cases. This role based access makes it very easy to control access to various artifacts of the project and also distribution of responsibility among team members.

There are four distinct things which can be managed in Mercury Quality Centre -

Requirements
Test Plan
Test Lab
Defects

These four items can be termed as the 4 pillars of the Quality Process for any organization. Each of these components sections contain information about different projects created using SABin.

Source: http://www.testinggeek.com/index.php/testing-tools/test-management/85-mrecury-quality-centre-introduction

A perfect Quality Center and application managaement tools makes the Website Quality a lot better.

Choosing Quality Website Hosting

2009-07-03T12:19:00.012+05:30

Recently i went through an article posted by "David Nelson". This was an useful stuff by him.
Mentioned information will be helpful when you choose the Webhosting plan and its Quality of measuring.

Article starts here...

" This guide will instruct you on how to find quality web hosting. There are a number of different factors you'll want to consider when looking for quality web hosting.

Here's a breakdown of the most important features of a quality web hosting plan:

Allotted bandwidth

This really depends on how much traffic you are going to get. It's a lot harder to get traffic if you are selling a product, so if that's you, you won't need much at all to begin with. On the other hand, if you offer lots of free content and/or you're going to have (a) bulletin board(s) and/or a popular blog (Web Log) you'll need more traffic. 10 gigabytes per month is probably more than enough for most sites starting out. However, you want to have an inexpensive upgrade path should your site suddenly get really popular.

Cost per megabyte

if you go over allotted bandwidth You don't want to get locked in for expensive bandwidth add-ons should your site start getting really popular. Make sure the web site hosting company you choose has good prices for buying bandwidth in bulk. It pays big time to shop around on this one - sooner rather than later.
Pre-installed software & scripts Make sure the web site hosting you choose has a good collection of pre installed PHP scripts. Important scripts are things like: form emailers, ezine managers for your mailing list, autoresponder scripts, content management systems, shopping carts, web calendars, tell a friend scripts, and the like. Shop around and do some thorough planning on this one too.

Customer support options / response time

If you email the sales team, and they take a week to get back to you, move on. If there's no 800 number, forget it.
Setup Fee Shop around and you'll probably find a few quality web hosting companies that don't require a setup fee.
Do they require a contract Also, shop around and try not to get locked into being with one company outside of a month to month agreement. This way, if you don't like the service, it costs nothing to pack your bags and get out of Dodge.
Disk space For most smaller sites, 100 megabytes of storage is plenty. However, like with bandwidth, make sure that it's cost effective to upgrade the disk space before you sign up.

SSH/Telnet access

If you or a programmer you've hired is going to be developing custom PHP or Perl scripts for your site, this is extremely useful. It also comes in handy if you are trying to debug php or cgi script installations that you're trying to install. SSH is MUCH preferred over Telnet, as telnet does not encrypt your password, sending it in plain text over the network. This means advanced net types can see it if they use packet sniffing software.
Cron Daemon support

I recommend quality web hosting with cron daemon support. This will let you automate certain tasks, such as batch emailing everyone on your email list. A lot of PHP and CGI scripts require cron to function properly.

POP Mailboxes

Allotted You don't need that many POP mailboxes unless you are a fairly large organization. I'd say 10 is fine for most small ventures.
Virtual Server Support (Host Multiple Domains) This is a great feature that you should put some thought into when deciding what is and what isn't quality web hosting. You can save significant money by hosting 6-10 sites with unique domain names on one account. Big savings!

PHP Support

This is extremely important. PHP is much faster than Perl/CGI, and the majority of linux web applications these days are written in PHP. Don't get web site hosting that doesn't support PHP. Also, make sure they have a large list of PHP modules installed, so that php scripts you install on your server will work right.

Perl/CGI Support

This is somewhat important, if you find a cgi script you like that doesn't have a PHP counterpart. However, Perl/CGI (even though I love it esp. w/ mod_perl) is outdated and runs much slower than an equivalent PHP program.
mySQL Support mySQL is the most popular open source database, required for most PHP and Perl applications. PostgreSQL is also very good, but not as widely used as mySQL.

Web Based Control Panel

I consider this a must to be considered quality web hosting. The ability to log in, edit passwords and user accounts, email settings, cron jobs, and your database server is pretty much essential to getting anything done on your site. I wouldn't recommend buying web site hosting that doesn't have a quality web based control panel. "

Article ends here...

Source: "http://www.expertwebinstalls.com/how_to_choose_quality_web_hosting.html"

When choosing the right Web Hosting and platform, the Website Quality automatically starts increasing. Web Hosting technology is an important role whenyou are eager to build a real quality website.