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#053/20-Dec-01
POOR RICHARD'S WEB SITE NEWS
Geek-Free, Commonsense Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web Site
Editor: Peter Kent
Top Floor Publishing
http://PoorRichard.com/
60,000 Subscribers in More Than 100 Countries!
~~~ IN THIS ISSUE ~~~
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The New Education Site
Forcing a Browser Reload
Picking a Hosting Company is Almost Impossible!
.chat, .family, .church? The New.net Domains
Poor Richard's Web Site and Other Top Floor Books
Book Reviewers Wanted
BizBlast Reminder
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**** IF YOU FIND THIS NEWSLETTER USEFUL ...
FORWARD IT TO FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES ****
{{ The New Education Site }}
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My new eduction site, currently at http://www.NetBizCoach.com/
is moving along. I hope to launch on or around Jan. 7th. There's
already a lot of information at this site, but for the moment there
are still many gaps to be filled; so don't be surprised if you run
across [TBA] markers indicating missing information.
If you'd like to get a discount on the subscription when it
finally goes live (at _least_ a 50% discount to the first 1,000
subscribers), send a blank e-mail and I'll contact you when
it's ready: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Low-Cost, High-Impact Ways to Use the Internet to Market the Best
Product on Earth -- YOU. Read the new book, "Poor Richard's
Branding Yourself Online"
"Loaded with wisdom served up in an exceedingly readable style."
--Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the Guerrilla Marketing series
http://PoorRichard.com/brand/
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{{ Forcing a Browser Reload }}
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"Sometimes you want to ensure that every time a browser loads a
page, it loads the very latest version. Let's say you have a page
with important information that is updated very frequently --
several times a day, for instance. If you don't force a browser
reload, most people who come to the page a second or subsequent time
will see the version of the page that was there the first time they
arrived."
[continued here:
http://NetBizCoach.com/public/how_to/pages/tips+tricks/reload.htm ]
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FREE BOOKS! BOOKS ON SALE!
Buy any 2 books from the Top Floor Web Site you'll get "The
CDnow Story" FREE!
"MP3 for Musicians" is now 50% off! Pay $13.98, save $13.97.
See http://TopFloor.com/
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{{ Picking a Hosting Company is Almost Impossible! }
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Selecting a hosting company is so incredibly frustrating. I've been
looking for a company I can use for my new education site that I
would feel comfortable recommending to members. In order to do that,
the company has to meet these criteria:
* It has to have a wide range of services associated with its
shared-hosting plans, targeted at people running businesses who need
to work online but don't have the time, skills, or inclination to
install and run everything themselves. For instance, see these
service menus:
http://www.aitcom.net/virtual.htm
http://cihost.com/?zone=products/shared_unix_hosting
* The services need to be well documented and easy to use
* The servers need to be reasonably fast
* The servers need to be reliable, with 99.9% or better uptime
* The company must have good support, including telephone support
It's incredibly hard to find a service that fits all these criteria.
I'm currently using AIT ( http://AITcom.net/ ) -- they have a great
list of easy to use services and good documentation. But when I test
their servers (I'll explain how in a later article), the are often
rated slow. And the last few days have been terrible, with the
server on which my site is hosted dropping service intermittently
... totally out of service for a number of hours.
My Top Floor Publishing site ( http://www.TopFloor.com/ ) is hosted
with a company called BigBiz ( http://www.BigBiz.com/ ), which is
actually very good. Their servers are very fast, and reliable. But
it's a small company, so it doesn't fit some of the criteria above
-- the services are relatively limited, and there's no phone
support.
If anyone out there believes they've found the service that fits my
criteria, please let me know! In the meantime, I'll continue
looking.
{{ .chat, .family, .church? The New.net Domains }}
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You may have seen advertisements promoting a variety of unusual
domain names -- .agent, .golf, .church, law, .love, .ltd, .club, and
so on. They're even available in various languages. You can get
.love, but also .amor, .amour, .amore, and .liebe
These domain names can be bought from New.net. But why don't we hear
much about these domain names? Are they for real? Yes ... but ...
[continued here:
http://netbizcoach.com/public/how_to/domains/new.net_domains.htm ]
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Promoting your Web site online? It doesn't mean just search
engines and banner ads. You need to know about these low-cost yet
effective promotional techniques that really do work!
http://PoorRichard.com/promo/
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{{ Poor Richard's Web Site and Other Top Floor Books }}
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Top Floor Publishing now has thirteen books in print:
Poor Richard's Web Site Marketing Makeover: Improve Your
Message and Turn Visitors into Buyers
http://PoorRichard.com/makeover/
Poor Richard's Creating E-Books: How Authors, Publishers, and
Corporations Can Get Into Digital Print
http://PoorRichard.com/ebook/
Poor Richard's Home and Small Office Networking: Room-to-Room
or Around the World
http://PoorRichard.com/homeoffice/
Poor Richard's Branding Yourself Online: How to Use the
Internet to Become a Celebrity or Expert in Your Field
http://PoorRichard.com/brand/
Poor Richard's Internet Recruiting: Easy, Low-Cost Ways to
Find Great Employees Online
http://PoorRichard.com/recruiting/
Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: Create a Web
Community for Your Business, Club, Association, or Family
http://PoorRichard.com/communities/
The Official Miva Web-Scripting Book: Shopping Carts,
Feedback Forms, Guestbooks, and More
http://TopFloor.com/miva/
Poor Richard's Web Site, 2nd Edition: Geek-Free, Commonsense
Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web Site
http://PoorRichard.com/
Poor Richard's E-mail Publishing: Creating Newsletters,
Bulletins, Discussion Groups, and Other Powerful
Communication Tools
http://PoorRichard.com/website2/
Poor Richard's Internet Marketing and Promotions, 2nd
Edition: How to Promote Yourself, Your Business, Your Ideas
Online
http://PoorRichard.com/promo/
The CDnow Story: Rags to Riches on the Internet
http://TopFloor.com/cdnow/
MP3 For Musicians: Promote Your Music Career Online
http://www.TopFloor.com/mp3m/
MP3 and the Digital Music Revolution: Turn Your PC into a
CD-Quality Jukebox
http://TopFloor.com/mp3/
... we also carry the following books by Peter Kent
Making Money in Technical Writing: Turn Your Writing Skills
into $100,000 A Year
http://TopFloor.com/techwr/
The Official Netscape JavaScript Book
http://TopFloor.com/books.htm
Order direct from the publisher, and you'll get a 100%,
1-Year Guarantee. If you feel the book wasn't worth the
money, send it back for a refund!
And remember, these books are discounted at the Web site, and
you pay just one shipping cost regardless of how many books
you buy!
{{ Book Reviewers Wanted }}
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Do you review books for newspapers, magazines, newsletters
(electronic or paper), Web sites, or other media spots?
If so, perhaps you'd like to review one of Top Floor
Publishing's recent books:
* Poor Richard's Web Site Marketing Makeover: Improve Your
Message and Turn Visitors into Buyers
* Poor Richard's Home & Small Office Networking: Room-to-Room
or Around the World
* Poor Richard's Internet Recruiting: Easy, Low-Cost Ways To
Find Great Employees Online
* Poor Richard's Building Online Communities: Create a Web
Community for Your Business, Club, Association, or Family
Or perhaps you'd like to review "Poor Richard's Web Site:
Geek-Free, Commonsense Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web
Site, 2nd Edition"? Or maybe one of the other books mentioned
above?
Contact Top Floor's Marketing Director, Missy Ramey, at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Include your full mailing address, the
name of newspaper/magazine/whatever in which the review will
appear and the probable date of publication, and the editor's
contact information.
{{ BizBlast Reminder }}
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IMPORTANT-->: PLEASE NOTE: Despite the fact that two of my
IMPORTANT-->: books, published early last year, mention
IMPORTANT-->: BizBlast, I am no longer associated with the
IMPORTANT-->: services marketed under the BizBlast name,
IMPORTANT-->: and no longer promote those services.
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