RvSiteBuilder and Templates

August 8th, 2009 | Posted under Computer Advice, Content Management Systems, FFmpeg Hosting, Miscellaneous, Software, Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

RvSiteBuilder and Templates

If you want to get your hosting services to the higher level, you have you have to differentiate yourself and level by providing the RVsiteBuilder as one of the value added service. With this, you will be able to save time and money and make your clients to get higher profit.

RVSiteBuilder is a great addition to any web hosting. It’s basically a sitebuilder. Take a look at what BounceWeb has to offer:
View Site Builder Templates

View Site Builder Demo

Blog component: It helps the users to maintain their online webblog, diary or a complete home page.
New step5 interface: with which you will be able to create and configure the website easily.
Help and shortcut menu: Each step contains the screenshots, shortcut menu and flash tutorials guide so that user will know how create DIY template, add Youtube etc.
New navigator system: this shows the suitable color scheme.

RvSiteBuilder Features

Tryout Module
It is a separate application, which runs on your own disk and allows the users to try out the RVsiteBuilder and there will be no need of buying a hosting account. Here, the users can try to test and if they are interested, they can buy a hosting account.  With the click of a single button, you will be able to create both hosting account along with data as well.

Customizable template
If the default templates do not fit in, you can download other templates, modify and can upload to the system. The templates that are uploaded by you can be used only you.

Completely integrated to cPanel
Based on your existing package, you will be allowed to control the user access of the RvSiteBuilder using the features of both RvSkin and WHM

Advanced WYSIWYG editor
Supports all the browsers with the equivalent gecko layout engine.
New website templates
Multi lingual support

Template
It is a standardized type of file used by the computer software as the pre-formatted example on the base of other files.

Some of the template categories include

Art and Gallery
Books
Beauty and Fashion
Family
Computer and technology
Travel and leisure
Restaurant and bar
Gifts and collectibles
Health and medical
Sports and Recreation
Hotels
Home and garden
Internet services
Music
Jobs and career
Pets
Industrial
Business
Hosting
Plain templates
Hosting

Some of the template styles include

Flash
Two tone
Bright
Vector
Monochrome
Contemporary
Clean
Cartoon
Nouveau
DIY templates

BounceWeb offers Web Hosting with RVSiteBuilder as standard on all our web hosting plans!

The future of PHP

July 25th, 2009 | Posted under BounceWeb Company, Software, Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

The future of PHP

Hi all,

If your have been surfing websites for a long time, it’s hard not to notice the “.php” extension at the end of your website link. PHP pages are a common part of web applications, and is one of the most popular web application languages used by developers worldwide. Although, there are far superior languages and development environments that have come up in recent times, people still prefer PHP to them, just because of its simplicity. The fact that it is easier to develop of PHP environment makes it a strong argument for developers to incline towards it.

However, like always, there has been a question over the future of PHP. While some feel that its time that PHP makes way for more advanced languages and development interfaces, there are also hardcore PHP loyalists who think that the simplicity of PHP cannot be replicated by any other language. So, where do we see PHP, a few years from now? Or rather, how will PHP develop itself in keeping itself updated with the changing requirements of the World Wide Web (WWW)? Read on and we will discover some valid arguments on the future of PHP.

PHP Facts and the Future

1. One of the advantages of the PHP language is its vast online community. There are around 20 million web applications that use PHP. Developers all over use the language to create scripts. Many useful software applications like video-streaming applications and content management systems are known to be based on PHP, the most popular example being Drupal. Although, developers in the community can add PHP scripts and suggest changes or add new features in the core PHP package, only about 450 programmers can approve such changes. The organization Zend looks after the packaging issues of PHP. So, in terms of development, there are enough developers, and also administrators who can protect the original package from getting dilute with sub-standard codes.

2. The fact that PHP has stayed at the top, and managed to fend off challenges from much hyped-up languages like Java and ColdFusion, it is safe to suggest that it will continue to do so in the future as well. As we recently saw, PHP came up with the Model-View-Container framework of its own in order to counter the threat from Ruby-on-Rails, it again goes to show how simple the language is, and how easy is it to replicate any new “technologically” advanced interfaces and frameworks that come up now and then.

3. Other languages like Java are considered to be superior because of its extended scope. PHP is generally viewed to be limited with web applications only. However, one can create standalone desktop applications with the help of PHP and GTK. Even some open source programming frameworks now support PHP projects in their tool. Thus, PHP is slowly and steadily coming out its web application boundary, to conquer the standalone application space.

Thus, it is pretty safe to say that, PHP, which is known to withstand the test of time, is good enough for the future as well. Simplicity, as they say, is very complex to achieve. And, PHP happens to achieve that very strongly!

BounceWeb offers PHP Web Hosting on all our Shared Web Hosting Plans!

Benefits of using cPanel with Fantastico

July 25th, 2009 | Posted under Content Management Systems, Software, The Internet, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

Benefits of using cPanel with Fantastico

Hi all,

If you have a website, and actively participated in its development and hosting, then there are high chances that you came across the magic software application called cPanel. cPanel is the control panel of your web hosting space, and it generally covers every customization option that you can probably think of with your site! There are certain basic features of cPanel such as the web based and FTP servers that help in uploading, and other manipulation operations associated with web based files. One can also change the setting of the applications used to develop the site.

However, in order to have the applications installed in the system without any fuss, cPanel has a magic solution: Fantastico. Like the name suggests, it is a fantastic script library containing nearly most of the scripts required to install applications in the website. So, if you are looking forward to install a blog application or a picture gallery to your website, look no further! CPanel along with Fantastico can do it in minutes. So, what are the benefits that one can get while using cPanel with Fantastico? Well, it is a win-win situation for both the viewers and the site developer, as it helps in making the website more efficient and interactive, and without stressing the developer!

cPanel and Fantastico Scripts

A few applications that make it worth to have a Fantastico enabled cPanel are:

a. Blogs – This is the latest mouthpiece of the netizens. Be it views or information sharing or just a glimpse of a new idea, all people do is blog about it. So, for website owners, its great to have a blogging application in their site! Though most blogging applications come embedded in Content Management Systems (CMS), we can also add standalone blogging applications through Fantastico scripts.

b. Content Management System (CMS) – This magic application can help you create a site in hours! Moreover, there are several options like changing, deleting, uploading etc that makes it more convenient. Therefore, most cPanels have options for installing a CMS to work upon. However, installing a CMS on a server is generally a highly complex process. With Fantastico, it is just a matter of couple of minutes!

c. Image gallery – Websites without images are unthinkable today, unless the website is highly content specific, and is required to be like that. Therefore, in most cases, we either need to provide a image tour or a tutorial to enhance the viewer experience. Coding and designing an image gallery on our own would be much more difficult than installing a third-party software application. If you choose to go by the easy path, then there’s Fantastico with its fantastic scripts.

d. Email lists – Websites need to be interactive. While forms can help, there are times when one needs to mail. It could be newsletters, confidential information or even user-generated messages. In case of mailing lists, if you are a member, then you can send and receive mails to other subscribed members in the last month. Fantastico has a few scripts that look after email lists and other mailing applications.

While cPanel provides all the functions that is necessary to build a website, the whole installation process is made easy by Fantastico scripts!

BounceWeb provides Fantastico Hosting with all of our Shared Web Hosting Plans!

PHP – Some features you didn’t know existed!

July 25th, 2009 | Posted under Software, The Internet, Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

PHP – Some features you didn’t know existed!

Hi all,

PHP or Hypertext Preprocessor is probably the most popular scripting language used for web applications. In fact, PHP along with MySQL, a database application software is the base of several web applications, running even today! So, what makes PHP so special? The features that PHP provides make it so popular among web application developers. Here, we shall discuss some of the lesser-known, yet extremely powerful features of the language.

PHP Features – Almost Hidden!

1. The PHP documentation – Not many programmers have been able to extract full use of the exhaustive online documentation in the official PHP website. With other programming languages, it has been the case that one needs to collect pieces of information from different websites and forums. However, PHP documentation is a complete manual, contain every single specification about the PHP programming elements. Each PHP function has a separate page allotted in the website, with all the reference associated with it. They come with practical examples. Moreover, unlike many other online documentations, there are several user comments that is also extensive when it comes to the amount of knowledge it imparts. Some even consider the manual to be more helpful than Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for PHP.

2. Arrays – People may argue that arrays are probably one of the most common things that any programming language offers. So, what is so special about providing arrays? However, what many developers do not know is how arrays can be used flexibly to use it in several ways. Arrays can be used accordingly to create lists, stacks, maps and other data structures, at the same time! The arrays are implemented in the core package of the PHP, and thus use the CPU resources well. Moreover, the array elements in PHP are ordered and so flexible that it makes some really difficult tasks to be carried out very easily.

3. Stream Handlers – Most people have no idea how powerful stream handlers could be! These handlers help you extend the file system with certain logic and happen to be extremely difficult to implement in other languages. It simplifies the life of PHP developers by allowing PHP applications to be easily read from and written to from containers, like we do with files. One of the most popular stream handler used by developers is the MS Excel stream handler. It helps in creating a MS Excel file from data collected, either through the web, or extracted from the database. Similarly, one can read from MS Excel files to add to the PHP page. This flexible interaction with other file systems make PHP so attractive to web application developers.

4. However, the greatest feature is how easy and modular is the code for understanding. Many would argue whether this is a feature at all, but however, when the code is easy to understand, even for beginners, it is definitely something to talk about. With a generally knowledge about programming knowledge (especially C language), almost anyone can read and understand the basic PHP codes. Moreover, the PHP community, being a open source one, is very proactive towards welcoming new programmers in the community by providing tips and tricks to code better.

BounceWeb offers PHP Web Hosting with high quality and low prices.

Advantages of Ajax Hosting

July 25th, 2009 | Posted under BounceWeb Company, Software, The Internet, Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting | No Comments »

Advantages of Ajax Hosting

Hi all,

As website users, we all want fast web pages. Generally, while submitting an online form, it takes a minute or two for the new page to load and the data to get stored in the database. How would it be if we could mark only a specific part of the web page that would reload and submit data to the server? If you are thinking on those lines, then we are talking about Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, or more popularly known as AJAX.

AJAX hosting has made websites interact with users in a faster way. It is possible to connect and communicate with the server while the user is typing on his keyboard to enter certain details. For example, prompting hints for form fields work on the above principle. So, it is quite essential for web developers to have Ajax applications on their websites. This hosting of Ajax based applications on the server is technically known as Ajax hosting.

Positives on AJAX Hosting

1. Faster web pages – As already discussed, the main argument for Ajax applications is the speed with which the work is done. The whole page doesn’t need to communicate with the server, and thus only the specific part of the application is loaded. So, the static portion of the website can be kept intact without getting reloaded every time. This becomes a great advantage when the Internet connection is very slow.

2. Lesser bandwidth – Less the amount of data transferred from the server to the client machine and vice versa, lesser will be the amount. Only a specific part of the data communicates with the server and the database directly.

3. Supports real time applications – Prior to Ajax applications, some of the facilities that we have now would not have been possible. Maps are generally good examples of such real time applications. The user is in a continuous activity of entering details and all this while the details get to the server, and the response comes within seconds. This is really a great advantage for real time application developers.

4. Integration with scripting languages – To communicate with the server, we may also need scripting language too. Languages like PHP, ASP, Perl, etc support Ajax, making them Ajax applications too. Integrating Ajax with these languages is pretty easy, thus it is easy to migrate to Ajax based applications.

5. Promotes structured web pages – The design, content and the interactive parts are generally well defined and thus they can be treated separately while developing the website. However, the degree of association can be specified by the web developer himself, thus easing ways of internal communication between website components.

Ajax has revolutionized the world of Internet. Its faster, better, more efficient and opens up avenues for many new & innovative real-time applications. Ajax web Hosting is slowly becoming an indispensable part of the web hosting process.

BounceWeb provides high quality Ajax Hosting

Advanced features of phpmyadmin

June 22nd, 2009 | Posted under Computer Advice, Software, The Internet, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

Advanced features of phpmyadmin

As you may accept realized, the PHP accent revolves about the axial affair of practicality. PHP is about providing the programmer with the all-important accoutrement to get the job done in a quick and able fashion. Five important characteristics making in PHP’s :
1. Familiarity
2. Simplicity
3. Efficiency
4. Security
5. Flexibility

Installing PhpMyAdmin Advanced Features

To install the advanced features of phpMyAdmin you have to create a special control database that PMA uses to store bookmarks and relationships etc… PMA comes with a script called create_tables.sql that include the relevant sql statements to set these tables up. Gradually, when you install phpMyAdmin directly from source, this create_tables.sql script can be found in the scripts sub-folder.
Instructions
Firstly, unzip and run the create_tables.sql file:
cd /usr/share/doc/phpmyadmin/examples
sudo gunzip create_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql.gz
mysql -u root -p < create_tables_mysql_4_1_2+.sql
Then setup a user/password for phpMyAdmin to use:
mysql -u root -p -e ‘GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE, UPDATE ON `phpmyadmin`.* TO ‘pma’@'localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY “password”‘
Then edit the config file, and uncomment the extra features options for your chosen server, and add the individual / password you setup in the previous step. If you haven’t edited this enter before you may requirement to also uncomment the rest of the server definition.
sudo vim /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php
Setting up foreign keys in phpMyAdmin?
InnoDB allows you to add a fresh foreign key constraint to a table by using ALTER TABLE:
ALTER TABLE tbl_name
ADD [CONSTRAINT [symbol]] FOREIGN KEY
[index_name] (index_col_name, …)
REFERENCES tbl_name (index_col_name,…)
[ON DELETE reference_option]
[ON UPDATE reference_option]
On the other hand, if MyISAM has main advantages over InnoDB in your context, why would you need to create foreign key constraints at all. You can handle this on the model level of your application.
Create a sample database using your PMA, into this database run the following SQL query:
CREATE TABLE `profiles` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`content` mediumtext NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

CREATE TABLE `users` (
`id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`name` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
`profile_id` int(11) default NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

Hopefully this helps you with a short intro to the Advanced Features of PHPmyAdmin

All of BounceWeb’s PHP Hosting Plans include PHPmyAdmin

Link Bid Script free directory script

May 24th, 2009 | Posted under Content Management Systems, Miscellaneous, Software, The Internet, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

One of the most effective ways to manage reciprocal links on your website it to have a script manage it for you. Its okay to place your links on HTML page but using a directory script like Link Bid Script will make adding new links to the reciprocal links section of your site more efficient and you can easily keep and eye on links partners that are still linking to you and those that have stopped linking to you. Reciprocal link facility is built into LBS.

Originally created as a bid for position script, LBS still excel at its original purpose, it currently powers thousands of bid for position directory on the Internet so if you want to start a bid for position directory, link bid script is not only the only free bid for position directory scripts out there, its one of the best. It is free to use, all you need to do is download, install it and you could be profiting from your own bid for position directory with a few hours. You can download link bid script from here: http://forums.linkbidscript.com/downloads.php

Whether you use Link Bid Script as a reciprocal link or as a bid for position directory, support is free from our support forum. The support forum also boast of various template and theme to help you make your LBS install more attractive to users.

Some of the features that make LBS a versatile linking script includes:

• Alphabetic or web directory style categories.
• Dedicated page for each listing.
• Search Engine Friendly.
• Supports instant activation.
• Support editor reviewed approval.
• Supports multiple payment gateways.
• Template based for easy customisation.
• User-friendly admin control panel.
• CMS powered, not need to modify files directly.
• Free to download.
• Free upgraded
• Free support.
• Add AdSense code easily.

Best four Download managers for the average geek

April 24th, 2009 | Posted under Software | No Comments »

Download managers we all need them. Can`t live without them, especially when one needs to get stuff from the net via a slow connection so how does one get about selecting an appropriate download manager? No sweat, pal, no sweat. I already did some researching so you don’t have to. Try out these hardy downloader’s. The only problem you might be facing is getting enough free space to accommodate all the downloading you are about to do

Down them all

This is actually a Mozilla Firefox add-on, but it sure comes in handy when one needs to download stuff on the go. Its greatest strength is the fact that its an add – on and not a program per se, meaning that as long as one has Firefox running you can easily set it up regardless of computer restrictions put in place by your boss, network admin, whoever who would let you install programs on the PC. Get it running and you will be downloading stuff in a jiffy – long live Mozilla Firefox

Download accelerator plus

A great program that lets you download stuff accelerated speeds. Its only drawback is that it is resource heavy and tends to slow down the system a bit. It has a great interface and what’s more, it allows one to search for downloads from specific sites at a click of a button

Free Download Manager

It’s a good download manager made better by the fact that it’s free. Free-free. A light program that gets the job done easily and quickly. It has an appealing interface that is easy on the eye and does not bog one down with endless options and choices to make. It will suffice for the average geek on download patrol. It also comes with a neat download basket where one drags and drops a download link and it starts downloading. Neat

Internet Download

The IDM, as it so fondly known, takes the day when it comes to download managers. Its relatively light but surprisingly robust downloads with a simple enough interface, its efficiency is made better by its simple straightforward menus which enable one to make changes easily and rapidly it also comes with a drop basket enabling one to easily download explorer menus, making it easier to start downloads. What more can I say wait, did I mention that it can be obtained for free?

You go find out its golden goodness for yourself pal. It makes me want to cry with joy.