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Netgear ReadyNAS Duo RND2000 Network Storage Server RND2000-100NAS 699

NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo 2-Bay Desktop Network Attached Storage RND2000

• The easiest website design program available. Quickly and effortlessly create professional looking websites without having to know any HTML or coding. SiteSpinner is a completely visual, drag-and-drop website creation tool. Click, place and move any object in the SiteSpinner work-window using your mouse, and position it on the page exactly where you want it. SiteSpinner truly is 100 percent WYSIWYG – What You See I What You Get.
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• One-click publishing. Once you have designed your new website, SiteSpinner takes the frustration out of publishing it to the web. Uploading is made easy – simply click the Publish function and the SiteSpinner Publisher takes care of uploading all your pages and images to your webhost and ensures that all your links are working. What’s more, if you do not already have a web host, you get a year of free webhosting with SiteSpinner.
• Search Engine Friendly Websites. SiteSpinner is one of the few visual website creation tools to produce industry-standards compliant HTML websites. The sophisticated HTML web pages created by SiteSpinner ensures that your web pages are easily indexed by all major Search Engines. What is more, SiteSpinner includes professional Search Engine Optimization software to ensure your site gets top rankings.
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Incredibly Easy to Use – SiteSpinner makes it simple for anyone to design and publish professional looking websites quickly and easily. Truly uncomplicated drag-and-drop design lets you position text, graphics, Foreign Objects such as Flash files, exactly where you want them.

The ‘Everything You Need Website Design Suite’ – SiteSpinner is an all-in-one website creation package – easy enough for beginners, but with powerful features that you can grow into. SiteSpinner’s advanced graphical work-window enables precision drag-and-drop layout, including the ability to easily ‘center’ a website with the click of a button. With the built-in word processor and spell-checker, integrated image editing and graphics creation capabilities it’s easy to build professional looking websites without having to know any HTML.

Industry Standards Compliant, Search Engine Optimized Web Pages – SiteSpinner’s advanced functions enable you to create customer feedback Forms, Frames, Special Effects such mouse-over effects, drop-down navigation menus and more. Don’t want to start from scratch? SiteSpinner comes with a number of quality Templates to help you get started quickly. Once your site is done, the built-in Publisher uploads your website with a single click – your files are automatically published to your webhost.

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Customer Support is always here when you need it – we do not disappear. Our Community Forums are an active and lively mix of new users and Gurus with many years’ experience and who are always willing to help out. SiteSpinner comes with advanced Tutorials, Online Help and a printable PDF manual. SiteSpinner also comes with unlimited, direct online support.

SiteSpinner

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The Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Official Documentation books covers all aspects of using and managing for the world’s most popular web server.

Apache HTTP Server 2.2 Official Documentation – Volume III. Modules

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Managing and troubleshooting Web servers is an integral part of every IT professional’s job. Apache is an open source Web server that has captured 63% of the more than 18 million Web servers currently in place. This guide provides the in-depth information, skills, and techniques needed to effectively maintain an Apache Web server.

With Linux growing rapidly in popularity as an enterprise solution, companies now more than ever are looking for IT professionals who are Linux certified. Designed and developed by the industry-leading members of Sair, Inc. and its advisory board, the Sair Linux and GNU Certification program provides IT professionals with a clear path for improving their Linux skills and knowledge base, while giving employers the means for ensuring the competency level of their staff. The LCE books in this series of study guides help readers master the areas of expertise necessary to pass the certification exam for becoming a Linux Certified Engineer (LCE). Readers will also get prep help through lab exercises and sample questions from the LCE exam.

Sair Linux and GNU Certification Level II, Apache and Web Servers

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Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. If you want to create an engaging web site, this thoroughly revised, completely updated edition of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides tools, techniques, and expert guidance for developing a professional and reliable web presence.

Whether you want to build a personal web site, an e-commerce site, a blog, or a web site for a specific occasion or promotion, this book gives you detailed instructions and clear-headed advice for:

• Everything from planning to launching. From picking and buying a domain name, choosing a Web hosting firm, building your site, and uploading the files to a web server, this book teaches you the nitty-gritty of creating your home on the Web.
• Ready-to-use building blocks. Creating your own web site doesn’t mean you have to build everything from scratch. You’ll learn how to incorporate loads of pre-built and freely available tools like interactive menus, PayPal shopping carts, Google ads, and Google Analytics.
• The modern Web. Today’s best looking sites use powerful tools like Cascading Style Sheets (for sophisticated page layout), JavaScript (for rollover buttons and cascading menus), and video. This book doesn’t treat these topics as fancy frills. From step one, you’ll learn easy ways to create a powerful site with these tools.
• Blogs. Learn the basics behind the Web’s most popular form of self-expression. And take a step-by-step tour through Blogger, the Google-run blogging service that will have you blogging before you close this book.

This isn’t just another dry, uninspired book on how to create a web site. Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual is a witty and intelligent guide you need to make your ideas and vision a web reality.

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Get everything you need to plan and launch a web site, including detailed instructions and clear-headed advice on ready-to-use building blocks, powerful tools like CSS and JavaScript, and Google’s Blogger. The thoroughly revised, completely updated new edition of Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual explains how to get your site up and running quickly and correctly.

5 Tips for Budding Web Site Creators
By Matthew MacDonald

These days, aspiring Web site creators like you pick up a lot of Web-design theory before you start working on your pages. But as deadlines loom and the value of “do it right” falls victim to the imperative to “do it right now,” even the best of us sometimes toss good practice out the window. That’s perfectly understandable and no cause for panic—after all, if Web weavers waited until their pages were perfect before uploading them, the Internet would be a very lonely place indeed. However, sometimes innocent-seeming shortcuts can cause headaches later on. Here are a few pieces of Web advice that site creators ignore at their own risk:

1. Always include a doctype. Web browsers can translate two languages into Web pages: old-school HTML and today’s XHTML. You have to tell the browser which language (called markup) you use, and you do that with a document type definition, better known as a doctype. Doctype is arcane code that looks like this: < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN” "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> If you forget to include a doctype, your pages will appear annoyingly inconsistent. That’s because some browsers, including Internet Explorer, switch into a backward-compatibility state known as quirks mode when they encounter unidentified markup; in essence, they attempt to act like an outdated browser from the 1990s. Common problems that result include text that appears at different sizes in different browsers and layouts that wind up in different configurations depending on your browser.

2. Keep formatting instructions out of your markup. In a rush, it’s easy to get lazy and apply inline styles (or even worse, formatting tags like < font > ) to a page’s XHTML or HTML. But it’s rare for a web site creator to use a particular format just once. Most often, you’ll use a design–say for a column, heading, or note box–elsewhere on the same page or on another of your site pages. To ensure consistency across your site and to make it easier to fine-tune the look and feel of your pages, move all your formatting instructions to a central location: an external style sheet. That way, when a browser processes a page, it grabs this central set of instructions and applies them to the page (see the illustration for the sequence of events).

4. Think twice before you adopt copy-and-paste design. Typically, Web sites use the same page design across all their pages. For example, noodle around Amazon and you’ll always see a menu header at the top of the page and a sidebar on the left. There’s a very special circle in Dante’s Inferno reserved for Web developers who try to achieve consistent design by copying and pasting their XHTML from one page to another. It’s almost impossible to manage or modify this mess across all your pages without making a mistake, even if you have a small Web site. If you need a repeating page design, pick a suitable solution from the available options, each of which comes with its own caveat. Your can use server-side includes (which require Web host support), page templates (provided you have a Web design tool like Adobe Dreamweaver or Microsoft Expression Web), frames (which can exhibit quirks), or a Web development platform (if you’re willing to take a crash course in programming).

5. Keep an eye on your visitors. Is anyone here? There’s no point in having a Web site if you’re not willing to pay attention to what content draws and keeps visitors and what falls flat on its face. Remarkably, the best way to do that is with a free yet industrial-strength service called Google Analytics. You simply copy a small bit of tracking code to each of your pages and within hours you’ll be able to answer questions like “Where do my visitors live?”, “How long is a typical visit?”, and “What pages are their favorites?”

Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual