DNSTC Development Blog

Monday, January 21, 2013

30 Ways to Promote Your Web Site Off-Line

There are many different creative ways to promote your website off-line. Most of which should be done anyways; however, we have compiled a list of different things you should consider to help get the word out about your web site. Before you begin implementing any of these ideas, you should first make sure that you are proud of your web site and that it has information on it for people to contact your or find our more information about your products and/or services.

Should You Have A Search Option?

I get this question sometimes from website owners. Should our website have a search option? Well, my answer is this, If your website has enough content to provide a search, then you should have one. If you site only has a few pages of content, then having a search option is overkill. That is just common sense.

I was in a meeting last night and an interested topic came up that I never really thought about before. That is having multiple websites for your business. Let me elaborate just a little more.

Facebook Open Graph META Tabs

Facebook will be around for a while, and the following META tags are needed on webpages in order to have control over images, text descriptions, and URLS when people share or like web pages on Facebook.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
      xmlns:og="http://ogp.me/ns#"
      xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml">
  <head>
    <title>The Rock (1996)</title>
    <meta property="og:title" content="The Rock"/>
    <meta property="og:type" content="movie"/>
    <meta property="og:url" content="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117500/"/>
    <meta property="og:image" content="http://ia.media-imdb.com/rock.jpg"/>
    <meta property="og:site_name" content="IMDb"/>
    <meta property="fb:admins" content="USER_ID"/>
    <meta property="og:description"
          content="A group of U.S. Marines, under command of
                   a renegade general, take over Alcatraz and
                   threaten San Francisco Bay with biological
                   weapons."/>
    ...
  </head>
  ...
</html>

You can find out more details here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraphprotocol/

Friday, January 4, 2013

7 questions to consider about your website

This article is for business (or website) owners. Throughout the years, I have created websites for company’s from scratch, redesigned websites that already existed, and with some have just made a few suggestions. No matter what project I encounter, I always tell the owner that the primary goal of any website should be that it is your “digital” sales force out there on the Internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

IP Tables–and removing blocked IP

We have been doing a lot of work lately with the firewall and IPtables. I came across this blog site that is very handy when it comes to easily explaining Linux command line commands. This site was extremely useful for removing IP addresses that got blocked do to people forgetting their passwords and trying to log in too many times.

Here are some of the commands:

List IP’s that are being blocked with the line numbers:

iptables -L INPUT -n --line-numbers

Once you have the line number you can delete the entry

iptables -D INPUT 10

Saving the iptables listing

service iptables save

For the complete blog page and other great Linux stuff, visit:
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/iptables-delete-ip-address-subnet-from-linux-firewall/

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

EXIM Cheat sheet

I Found a great web page that gave a nice cheat sheet for EXIM commands. I wanted to document this page since I will be using most of the commands to develop an monitoring system that I can use on my phone and desktop widget.

The page is located at: EXIM CHEETSHEET