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
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.
New features in MySQL 6
July 25th, 2009 | Posted under The Internet, Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »
New features in MySQL 6
Hi all,
For normal users, identifying with MySQL is not very common. A HTML file or even a PHP file could be understood to be something related to web pages, but however, MySQL doesn’t ring a bell in the minds of most people. For developers, the scenario is completely different. MySQL happens to be one of the best things that could happen to the World Wide Web, and developers know it very well! The database software is the backend of most web applications, thus accounting for its unfamiliarity with normal web users.
Databases are used with the purpose of storing user information and other data in the server and are useful for maintaining the application. Server-side scripting languages like PHP and Perl can access data from the database and represent them in web pages for public display. However, the storage and the communication with the database are not very simple. Databases need to be very secure applications themselves, and under no circumstances should data be modified or deleted without proper authorization. The fact that MySQL is used as the database application for over 30 million web applications puts an end to all questions over its integrity and efficiency.
Sun Microsystems, the owner of MySQL software, does a good job in adding new features to the core package, and publish it as a new edition. The latest version family under release is the MySQL 6.x. There are some extremely promising features in the latest package that has the potential to redefine the way web applications are made. Here, we will discuss some of the features that have been newly introduced in MySQL 6.x.
MySQL 6 Features
1. Supplementary Characters: MySQL has always been a supporting different improvement of Unicode character set. Previously in its older editions, it has supported two character sets of Unicode: utf-8 and ucs-2. These are good enough till the Unicode version 3.0 where the code values range from 0 to 65535 and are encoded with a maximum of 24 bits. However, in the latest version 5.0 there are 99089 characters that are defined. All these characters cannot possibly fit into the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) as in version 3.0. Hence the additional characters are called supplementary characters. MySQL 6.x has taken a step ahead to support these supplementary characters, along with supporting utf-8, utf-16 and utf-32 too. The other reason why the change has been inevitable because Windows Vista, the latest operating system by Microsoft supports supplementary characters.
2. Online backup – Backup is an important aspect of any database software. Data cannot be lost under any circumstances, and thus backups come in handy in case some unforeseen incidents happen with the original database. The online backup database can read one or more databases into a backup image file. Similarly, the image file can also be written on to one or more databases. Therefore, in case a database is lost, all one needs to do is to make use of the backup database. However, the word “online” does not refer to the fact that the backup image resides on a web server, but only means that there would be “no blocking” during the backup process.
BounceWeb offers the latest MySQL Hosting and once MySQL 6 comes out, our Shared Hosting Plans will have it available.
Fantastic Features of Fantastico
July 25th, 2009 | Posted under Content Management Systems, The Internet, Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »
Fantastic Features of Fantastico
Hi all,
Ever wondered how your favorite web applications get added to the website so easily? Well, there’s a commercial script library, known as Fantastico that executes script from the control panel of the website. According to the official website of Fantastico, it is operating on over ten thousand servers and is used by a million users all over the world.
One may add several popular and useful systems with the help of Fantastico scripts and it includes shopping cart software, wiki sites, blogs and photo sharing applications. So, what is it that makes Fantastico so fantastic? Read on, and we will discover.
The vast range of software applications that Fantastico scripts support is a big argument for its popularity. We’ll discuss some of the scripts available in Fantastico that make it so indispensable for website control panels.
Fantastic Fantastico Features
i. Blogs – Blogs have become an integral part of any community-based websites, especially after the advent of Web 2.0. Writing blogs or even commenting is a sign of collaborative approach towards the Web content creation, which happens to be the essence of Web 2.0. There are certain blog applications that are supported by Fantastico scripts.
While some applications provide features like multiple blog support, advanced search options and search engine friendly links, others provide future post option, bookmarks and many more. Wordpress arguably the most popular blog application also provides password-protected posts, cross-blog tools, multiple author facility and many more.
ii. Content Management Systems – Content Management Systems or CMS is the future of web development. People no longer write codes from the scratch to make websites. CMS provides in-built templates for adding content and customizing the features. With plug-ins, modules and extension, developers can also add new features.
A few CMS that are supported by Fantastico generally have the features of search engine friendly URLs, online help, rich text editors, user-made templates, third-party applications and many more. The script library of Fantastico also supports Drupal, the most popular CMS.
iii. E-commerce – This is becoming an important part of the World Wide Web with each passing day. People are now shedding their inhibitions and transacting online for purchasing or even managing financial accounts. E-commerce comes with the added benefits of real-time transactions, dealing from your comfort point, etc.
E-commerce applications supported by Fantastico include shopping carts where one can add unlimited products and categories and many payment gateways with easily modifiable designs. These shopping cart applications also come with a certain modules that can be installed for enhanced functionality.
iv. Image sharing applications – The web is the newest place to share things ranging from documents to images to videos. With higher bandwidth available, people are now more eager to upload images on to the WWW, so that others can view and appreciate them.
Fantastico features a host of scripts for applications dealing with Image galleries. Most of these applications allow both web-based and FTP uploads, along with unlimited uploads, search features, thumbnailing pictures and other specific customization options.
Fantastico scripts do a lot more than what is mentioned above. However, one would argue in Fantastico’s favor that it makes adding web content a lot easier, and thus the whole web designing process truly becomes fantastic!
BounceWeb offers High Quality Fantastico Hosting with all of our Shared Web Hosting plans!
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
Green Web hosting
July 25th, 2009 | Posted under Miscellaneous, The Internet, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »
Green Web hosting
Hi all,
In today’s world, green is the way to go if you are looking for global recognition. People are now concerned about the environment and are taking adequate steps in order to protect it, and prevent further damage. The world of Information Technology, especially web hosting is also a part of it.
We have often heard people say that there is no end of information. And, with the trend of digitizing each and every information in various formats, the need to store them has led us to run servers with huge memory space and fast processors. However, such servers consume a lot of power, and thus have a direct impact on the environment. In case of website hosting, servers are known to be use up a lot of power. Thus, the concept of green web hosting grew!
Green web hosting is a new concept wherein web-hosting companies would take up their social responsibility of conserving energy. Generally servers are kept in fireproof, flood-proof, electrically insulated environments, which happen to consume a lot of energy. Thus, the process of website hosting has a great impact on the environmental resources! However, with this new concept, now we will have sustainable websites run on servers that would take initiatives in carbon offsetting, and specifically use renewable sources of energy to satisfy its needs.
Some web servers are already known to run on solar as well as wind powers, and according to the statistics, they have been working as efficiently as they used to when conventional sources of energy were used. These web-hosting techniques are committed to the social change, and thus help in making the web world a sustainable place! There are other ways to address the environmental concerns. Even if it is not possible to make the web-hosting technique completely carbon-free, its effect can be neutralized by planting trees for each website that is hosted. This might seem simple, but it helps in denting future impacts on the environment.
Another aspect that most green web hosting companies take care of is reduction of the environmental footprint. Certain simple measures can be taken in order to serve the purpose.
1. Web-hosting companies can use servers that are energy-efficient. Energy saved is as good as energy produced. Thus, green web-hosting companies should look for energy-saving servers only.
2. Generators are used to provide backup to servers. Generally, diesel generators are used everywhere. However, green companies who promise to provide sustainable websites should be using propane gas generators instead.
3. Such companies should also be able to recycle their resources. A green web-hosting company should ideally generate its own energy through renewable sources of energy, such as solar and wind energy. Even the offices of such companies must run on solar energy too.
Green Web-hosting is the new direction of future web hosting. With more and more people joining the World Wide Web, the need to store more information will increase exponentially. Unless, all web-hosting companies own such green business techniques, it is difficult to provide such huge amount of energy!
BounceWeb is proud to say we are a Green Web Host with great Green Web Hosting. We take the enviroment very seriously and run our servers on 100% solar and wind power.
Installing FFMPEG, Mencoder, GPAC for 3gp video conversion server for CentOS
July 2nd, 2009 | Posted under FFmpeg Hosting | No Comments »
Installing FFMPEG, Mencoder, GPAC for 3gp video conversion server for CentOS
# install dependencies
yum -y install gcc gmake make libcpp libgcc libstdc++ gcc4 gcc4-c++ gcc4-gfortran subversion patch zlib-devel
# get encoding software
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20071007.tar.bz2
wget http://ftp.penguin.cz/pub/users/utx/amr/amrnb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2
wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gpac/gpac-0.4.5.tar.gz
tar xf gpac-0.4.5.tar.gz
tar jxvf amrnb-7.0.0.2.tar.bz2
tar jxvf essential-20071007.tar.bz2
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk mplayer
# install encoding software
mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mv /usr/local/src/essential-20071007/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
chmod -R 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mkdir /usr/local/src/tmp
chmod 777 /usr/local/src/tmp
export TMPDIR=/usr/local/src/tmp
cd /usr/local/src/amrnb-7.0.0.2
./configure
make && make install
cd /usr/local/src/mplayer
svn update
./configure
make && make install
cd /usr/local/src/ffmpeg/
./configure –enable-libamr-nb –disable-mmx –enable-nonfree
make && make install
cd ./gpac
./configure
make && make install
# update library links
echo /usr/local/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ffmpeg.conf
ldconfig
Make mobile-friendly view on your Joomla hosted website
June 22nd, 2009 | Posted under Computer Advice, Content Management Systems, Web Design Tutorials, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | 1 Comment »
Make mobile-friendly view on your Joomla hosted website
With the number of mobile devices going past the number of desktop machines by a large margin, making a website viewable in a mobile phone is of utmost importance. However, making mobile-optimized website views are not easy because of the phone screen size. For the millions who use their cell phones to browse the web, it is a pain to zoom in and out to check things or access the mail. Moreover, the limited speed is a big factor as pages having a big size will take huge time to open, and may not open at all.
In general, mobile viewable sites should be trimmed off extra scripts, images, and should concentrate on the content representation than the design. However Joomla, one of the most popular Content Management System (CMS) has a solution to all the problems of mobile browsing with the help of its extensions, namely PDA Plug-in and iPhone Auto-template Switcher and many more. Joomla is a web-content management system that is structured into different extensions. Once an extension is added to the core part of Joomla, a new feature of that extension starts working.
The PDA Plug-in comes with two different files – the original plug-in and a template. Both of them have to be installed and then some options needs to be set on the Plug-in Manager console. Some web developers like the idea of giving the users a choice between the regular version and the mobile-optimized version while the site is being visited from a mobile device. These options can be set from the plug-in manager, and if a choice is being provided, the control panel of the web space must be configured likewise. The template view of the Joomla extension would let you manipulate how the site would look on a mobile device. You can set the modules that would come up in the mobile-optimized website, with the minimum number of modules being one and the maximum being five. However, the challenge for the extension right now is to support newer mobile platforms that are being launched currently.
The other extension that was mentioned earlier takes care of the problem mentioned above. The iPhone Auto-template Switcher is specifically made for iPhone, which have revolutionized the process of mobile Internet browsing. Although it is targeted to the iPhone users at large, it is not exclusively for iPhone. Its basic functionality is that it can toggle between three different templates according to user preferences and browser choices. It currently supports the popular Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and the iPhone browser. However, users of a few other browsers can also use it. The installation to Joomla is very simple, but you need to make some modifications in the core Joomla package and also install templates since the original extension does not come with one.
Joomla has certain other extensions like simulators to help one see whether the plug-ins are working properly or not. Besides, they also have a huge collection of mobile optimized templates to choose from. Mobile websites have definitely become easier to make, courtesy Joomla!
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