This is a follow up on the previous post. I did a how-to article on how to hookup Confluence and JIRA installation on Amazon EC2 to Zoneedit.com dynamic DNS, in order to keep the same domain name after each time the server is rebooted.
Here it is: Confluence, JIRA on Amazon EC2 with Zoneedit.
waix.info now has a new look. I’ve run this web site for a number of years and it gets quite a number of waix searches from Google and other search engines. The old web site was using a wiki and I found that not many people were keen to add their listings to the site. The system is now ported to WP and has a WAIX Directory section. If you are an ISP on WAIX or if you have a web site that is hosted with one of those ISPs, please add your web site to the WAIX directory.
Are you sick and tired fiddling with flash drives just to get a few files home and back? There is a much simpler solution – Gmail Drive. All you need is a free GMail account. And a simple, very light, program running on your computer. I have a friend who’s been using it for 3 years, non stop, and it hasn’t crashed ones or caused any problems.
So, there you are. Once installed, you’ll see “Gmail drive” inside your “My Computer”. When you copy a file there, it sends an email to your gmail account with this file as an attachment (you can see that email in your gmail inbox). Nice.
Have you heard about Ideas meetings? It’s on again in Perth: http://webindustry.asn.au/ideas5/ Highly recommend.
Mathletics Online Math Tutor www.mathletics.com.au lets children compete in Math againts their peers worldwide. This is rather an amazing system (used by my son). It allows kids from different countries to compete against each other in real time.
For more info visit Mathletics Math Tutor at Education Review.
This is a Media Release from Fast Hit.
Businesses feeling the pain of the economic downturn are re-evaluating the importance of an on-line presence to increase their reach and accessibility.
Guennadi Moukine, managing director of web and email hosting company FAST.hit, said having a website was now a necessity for most businesses – from large telcos to small retailers. But websites had to have a clear purpose and effective structure to deliver good business results.
Mr Moukine said a report by on-line content delivery service Akamai indicated that on-line shoppers were only willing to spare four seconds to explore a new website.
“If a site is too slow or too hard to navigate, people just don’t bother and move on,” he said. “You may not be aware of how many potential clients you may be losing just because your web site does not pass the 4-second attention span challenge.”
Mr Moukine said simply having a website would not result in a miraculous sales increase or reduced operating costs. But companies that followed common sense and simple guidelines were achieving amazing results around the clock by running well designed and structured web sites.
FAST.hit worked closely with many Australian web development firms and web site owners to provide quality web site hosting, backup, email and troubleshooting services and had identified the following basic rules for a successful on-line presence:
1. Purpose – determine exactly what you want to achieve with your web site. If it is sales, make sure it is easy to browse your products and complete the transaction. If it is information, make sure that the web site has your contact details on every page. Make it easy for people to follow.
2. Usability – build a relationship with the company that hosts your web site. When something goes wrong and you are unable to contact your web developer, your host may be your saviour.
3. Speed – you may not be aware that your web site is hosted overseas. Apart from support and security issues, this has an impact on speed. Move your web site to a local hosting company with a proven reputation, uptime and good back-up procedures.
4. Reporting – make sure your site has good reporting tools (eg. Google Analytics) that show the pages people enter and leave your web site. Use this information to improve it.
5. Optimisation – think of the keywords people would use when searching for your products on search engines. Use these keywords in the web site text. Talk to your web developer or hosting company about what else can be done to make your web site findable on the Net.
FAST.hit provides shared, dedicated VPS and co-location services from Perth and Sydney datacentres to businesses across Australia.
It is also a strong supporter of the web community and a platinum sponsor of the WA Web Awards held in Perth this week (www.wawebawards.com.au)
There is a new domain extension that is now open for all to register – .asia domains. It’s $27.50/yr and you can register it from our domains web site: http://domains.fasthit.net/
