Facebook started allowing account holders to select a unique username as a facebook address.

This will make it easier for Facebook users to bookmark their profiles. You can also find your friends easier.

Instead of having accessing someone this way:

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=123456

Your profile address can look like this:

http://www.facebook.com/yourname

If you are a Facebook user, like many that I personally know, then grab your favorite name before it is gone.

Facebook will suggest some names based on your first name and last name. You can also pick something that is similar to your email, nickname, or other usernames you have used in the past.

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Today a customer asked me for EPP code to transfer his domain. I had to look it up as I forgot what it stands for.  EPP stands for ( Extensible Provisioning Protocol ), as per wikipedia:

“EPP is a flexible protocol designed for allocating objects within registries over the Internet.”

In other words, it is a uniform way to handle domain transactions and thus making it a lot easier to transfer domain names between registrars. It is also safer making the chance of your domain being stolen or hijacked minimal.
Different registrars use different names for EPP. I keep my domains at Godaddy.com and there, they call it Authorization Code. Other names also used are: EPP code, EPP authentication code, or EPP authorization code… They all mean the same.

To access your EPP or Authorization code at Godaddy, login to you account. Go to domain management, and click on the domain in question. A domain detail page will show all the options available to your domain.

For Security reasons, Godaddy doesn’t let account holders get the EPP code online. Godaddy.com will send the code to the administrative email on the account. All what you need to do is double check that you email is up-to-date before initiating a transfer.

Also note: Your domain has to be unlocked prior to transferring it. Also there are ICANN restrictions that will not allow you to transfer your domain, if it was registered or previously transferred within the last 60 days.

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According to a recent web usability study from Southern Illinois University, both men and women desire websites to be easy to use. Next on the men’s wishlist is faster downloading, women however opted for easier navigation and accessability over speed.

I personally favor women’s choices here, as I think usability can add a lot of value to a site and bring repeat visitors. A while ago, I mentioned easy steps that I think every site owner and specially WordPress site owner should consider. Check it out and let me know what you think. (7-key-features-your-wordpress-blog-should-never miss)

So, what is your wishlist?

To read more about the recent study, click here.

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I was surprised to read last week a news story from avast, warning about the increase of websites infected with the iframe tag or thread.

In the story they mentioned that high visibility sites like USA Today, ABC News, and Wal-Mart were affected.

This happened to one of my sites not long ago. Thanks to avast, I found about it quickly. I have outsourced a site for one of my customers, and asked the freelancer to load the site. After he was done, I went to take a look. Suddenly the popular avast alarm sound started and a panel showed a warning me about the web page.
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I’m a strong believer in backing up websites for 2 simple reasons.
1 - The time and effort spent in building a website has to be backed by something like an insurance. A backup plan should be exactly like an insurance plan, that you have to have to protect any valuable.

2 - No matter how a webhost providers promise to backup your data, there is no assurance that you will get it all back. Remember the terms of service that you have read and signed. You have to understand that in order for webhost providers to bring the prices down, they have to host hundreds if not thousands of sites to make up for the cost.
There is no way that they can provide a backup/restore plan for each site on the serve. Luckily there are simple and free tools that you can use and will help you backup all your sites.

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Having a Website is crucial for most businesses. An online presence can not only boost your business earnings, but by adding a blog you can create a feeling of loyalty and community that is hard to find elsewhere.

So, you’ve decided to go ahead and create a Web site and/or blog for your business but you’re not sure how to go about choosing the domain name that will be most beneficial for you and your business’ needs.

Following are a few tips that will make choosing a domain name a much smoother process:

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Have you ever thought to add a login panel to your site? I worked on one lately for a site with multiple contributors. With WordPress it is a simple task, that you might want to do, if you want your visitors to sign in for any reason.
Instead of having your visitors go to the WordPress login panel, you can save them the extra click by presenting a login form in the home page of your site.
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PayPal is known to be safe in general. If you have an issue with a transaction, PayPal provides the means to dispute it online through your account.

I got recently a security key and think it’s good investment any paypal account holder should have. Even if you don’t keep a lot of money in your account, it could still be a headache if your account for some reason got compromised. Remember, you might have your credit card account or even you bank account tied to your PayPal account.
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Believe it of not, Social Networks and Blogs are becoming more popular than email.

A recent study by Nielsen online reveals Social Networks ahead of personal email use.

Social Networks are also growing twice as fast as any of the other main sectors of the internet. Orkut in Brazil has the largest online members of any other network in the world and Facebook has the highest average time per visitor.

To learn more check on the report “Global Faces and Networked Places” in pdf.

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Are you having trouble installing wordpress? Are you looking for a quick way to install wordpress with all main plugins included? If so then I strongly urge you to try Expert Wordpress. Best of all it is offered for free.

Expert Wordpress was created by my friend Alex Sysoef and Dimitry Agadzhanov. Their basic offer which is free will allow you to install the wordpress package. And if you do not have any technical knowlege and want to build a blog site on your own, don’t worry, you’ll find it simple to install watching a video that comes with it.

You can use fantastio or the 5 minutes installation guide offer by wordpress (I also wrote about it). Expert wordpress will include a lot of plugins that you can activate if you choose to. Alex picked the most popular and robust plugin and I am sure there will be some of these plugins that will be very benefitial to your site.

I used the package to install a wordpress site and it worked fine for me with no issues.

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