Archive for September, 2009

How to add Youtube videos to Myspace

This article basically explains how to add a video from youtube.com to a Myspace Blog.

This process actually only takes two steps; copy and paste. Thats it! First, open the page of the video you want add to your Myspace page on Youtube. You will see a place on the right hand side where the video information is listed. Right underneith the video information, there is two text boxes. One of them is called “URL” the other one is called “Embed” just copy the “Embed” box then go to your Myspace account.

After you log into your Myspace account, go to the “Blog” section. Then click the “Post new Blog” on the right hand side. On the page, enter your information like the subject and so on. Then on the “body” text box click: “If you can’t input your Blog, click here.” then just paste the code you copied from Youtube onto the “body” text box.

That is all you need to do to add a video from youtube.com to your Myspace. If you can’t figure it out feel free to comment it, I will do my best to help you as soon as possible.


( September 27, 2009 at 9:10 am) · Filed under Coding, General, , , ,

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Html Dividers

The dividers are used for breaking up pages and paragraphs.  This article will explain how to make a divider, set colors and size of dividers.

A basic horizontal divider code is <hr> which will appear like:


Yes!  It is a gray line going across a page.  But… you can make it funky with adding tags to it,  the tags you can use but not limited to is width,height,color and size.

A basic example would be:

<hr size=”6″ color=”red”>



( September 27, 2009 at 8:36 am) · Filed under Coding, Necessary Tags, , , , , , , , ,

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Robots.txt File

Today I was having troubles with my robots.tx file and wanted to write an article about it. Robots.txt is the file all the search engines look up on your site before indexing anything from your website.

My statistics showed that different kinds of search engines visited the site but I realized the pages weren’t appearing on the search engines.

Belows is an example of a correct robots.txt file:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

This tells all the search engines to index every page from your website.

Below is an example of a robots.txt file that restricts all the search engines from your site including Google:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

This tell all the search engines not to index the website at all.

If you want traffic then you have to let them index your pages. If you choose not to…then you’ll be nowhere to be found on the search engines.

How to make a robots.txt file

Making a robots.txt file is like the most easiest thing ever. All you have to do is make a new notepad file, name it “robots” and ut the code above in it; save it and uploaded to your main directory.

Google or any other search engines will automatically check for it.


( September 13, 2009 at 5:51 pm) · Filed under Traffic, , , , , , ,

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Header Tags

Header tags are the most useful and easier way to format your texts on a website. Header tags run from H1 to H6 as in:

Title 1

Title 2

Title 3

Title 4

Title 5
Title 6

H1 is the biggest and h6 is the smallest of the header tags. Header tags are better in search engine optimization and giving paragraphs a title. Header tags state that a certain word or words included inside the header tags are more important the normal text on a website.

Do NOT confuse the header tags with the head tag of a html website, these 2 different tags have different functions.


( September 12, 2009 at 4:55 am) · Filed under Html Tags, , , , , ,

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How to create a Message board

Creating a message board is very simple and easy, the message board that I will explain how to setup and use is SMF forum which is one of the most popular message boards.
SMF Forum

It has been many years since I have started using SMF forum on my sites, majorly because it is:

1. FREE!
2. Easy to install
3. Simple to operate
4. Tons of features

There are four basic steps to have a SMF forum get going;

1. Download the SMF files
2. Transfer it to your host
3. Install it
4. Open your browser and see how nice it looks!

First go to Simplemachines.org and find the package you want to download. Then of course download the files which will come in a ZIP format, once you downloaded the files extract it to get it out of ZIP format. After this step transfered it using FTP to the directory you want to install it, many people use directories like: www.web-address.com/forum or www.forum.webaddress.com

Once you have finished moving all the files to your webhost, go to the url which you have uploaded them to. A installation page will show up, follow the steps on this page until you complete the installation.

After the installation is complete, go to your forum address and watch it beautify you with its great features!


( September 12, 2009 at 4:52 am) · Filed under CMS, Forums, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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