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Lately, I’ve been kind of swept up by this craze to own one of those ‘netbooks’, those ultra-portable and cheap notebooks. I was keeping my eye on getting an MSI Wind, and hoping to get in touch with various PC providers to find out when the product will be available.

So I went to check out three retailers and their website and found their published email contacts. Instead of calling them on the phone, I decided to drop them an email instead. Imagine my surprise when two out of the three got bounced for various reasons, and one just went missing into the ether.

Let’s look at where each of these companies went wrong.
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Designing and building a website is one thing, but maintaining the site is definately something else. I’ve met many website owners who thought that getting someone in to build up a website and turn it on is all there is to running a website.

What a hard lesson that was for them when it turns out that getting a website started was the easiest part of running your own website. Thankfully, there are a great many wonderful tools out there that webmasters have been using to help them manage their sites.

Here are some of the webmaster tools that I use everyday and definately can’t live without.

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It a real challenge to get your own website going these days, especially when you’re clueless about the website ’stuff’. Gone are the days of just creating some HTML pages, put in some graphics, and linking the pages around. These days you’ll be bombarded with so many acronyms and technologies you probably don’t even know where to start.

So what do you need to know if you’re planning to start a blog site?

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The other day, a friend of mine told me that she’s looking to setup a website for her small business in adventure trekking. She asked me to help her look at some website quotations she received from a few local web design companies. Promptly after I agreed, 2 quotes and her to-be-website sitemap arrived by email.

In her email, she asks which is the better quotation? When I went through what she sent me, immediately alarm bells were ringing.

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One of the most frustrating thing about using open-source applications is that you never know what are some of the default obscure settings the application comes with. It doesn’t help when I add my own stupidity into the equation.

I found out today, 3 months after this site went live, wondering why it still hasn’t been indexed by the big ‘G’. It turns out that Wordpress, by default, has the privacy setting turn on, preventing search engines like Yahoo and Google to index the pages on this site! Doh!

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