Gmail Storage hit 6GB

Gmail storage today hit just over 6 GB of storage for their email accounts. Google Apps accounts sit at 6069 MB and Gmail accounts sit at 6073 MB.

Google Apps is a service that Google provide webmasters to administrate email accounts for their domain so that email is @yourdomain.com and is not hosted by your webhost so that your webhost space is not used for emails.

Google Apps comes in a variety of flavours but the two important ones are free and enterprise.

Free includes 1000 user accounts each with 6069 MB of storage for emails. The Enterprise editions include 25 GB of storage for each email account but comes at a price of $50 per user per year.

These services are continually being improved with Google continuing to create new software for use on the internet to combine with their email such as their online spreadsheet and word processor.

All of these services Google has created run off AJAX an extension of JavaScript(not Java) which allows parts of a page to be refreshed without the need for the whole page to be refreshed speeding up the delivery of data between server and client.

WeberTalk - An Upcoming IT Blog???

WeberTalk an upcoming IT blog was started in July 2007. It has great potential in the areas of promoting google services and promoting new features, creating forum signatures for free and maximising profit just for starters at the time being.

This is a webmaster blog for webmasters to find out about some services they may be using.

To find out more about WeberTalk and to visit the blog visit http://webertalk.blogspot.com/ .

Website Coding And Testing

When you create a webpage or website using standard html, css and other programming languages you should check your pages with W3C the standards Consortium for HTML and CSS by going to http://validator.w3.org/. This was set up to try and ensure that websites all reached a certain standard to ensure the best possible browser compatibility across different browsers such as Netscape, Firefox, Internet Explorer (IE) and other browsers.

This however is not where testing should stop as browsers like IE have not been built to deal with code in the right way or as set out by the Standards Consortium and this is why you should also check your that your website displays properly in 2 or 3 of the most used browsers.

Another point to think about before you start coding your webpages or website is what other programming languages you are going to use and what browsers you would like to support and how old the browsers you are going to support are. I would suggest you should support IE as a must, firefox, Netscape and Opera (the Mac browser) as a minimum and by testing in these browsers most other browsers should be able to display your site correctly.

Online Gaming Site - KnightFight

I found an online gaming site the other day called KnightFight located at http://world6.knightfight.co.uk/index.php . The site is quite good and fun to play although you don't get to actually fight you just tell the character to go on a mission and he/she comes back with the money you earn't on the mission and then you can go and upgrade your estate and equip your character with more weapons, etc.

The only concern I have is when you refresh the page you get ad's that pop up and there is a section where you can pay for a premium account.

I was wondering whether anyone else had played this game before and what their thoughts were on it?

I would like to see actually being able to fight others which would make the game a lot more worthwhile.

New Logo for Wired - Wired.profusehost.net

Wired has a new logo, seen below.

We would like to know what people think about it and what we could do to improve it?

Which do you like more the blue or the red based text logo?

Wired.profusehost.net is now PR 2

Wired.profusehost.net has reached a Page Rank (PR) of 2 with Google. We checked the page rank by using the site http://pr.blogflux.com/index2.php .

We are currently in the process of re-designing and upgrading our site which is in the aim to attract more visitors to our site and to increase the page ranking and thus popularity of our site.

Tutorial on How to set up your own website.

There are many ways that you can use to create and set up your own website including coding your site yourself in notepad with html, css, etc.

Secondly you may employ someone to create and manage your site for you if you are creating a business website and this can be a costly exercise but can pay off in the long term.

Thirdly you can use a cms - content management system like joomla or Typo3 to create your website. This allows people who don't have much coding knowledge to be able to add content to their site quickly and easily meaning the site is more manageable.

Lastly you could use a free web hosting service that allows you to use a gui - graphical user interface to create your pages or you could use a WYSIWYG - what you see is what you get editor such as Dreamweaver.

Later I will create tutorials that detail some of these methods further.

Joined Yahoo Answers

I have recently signed up to yahoo answers to help out others with their IT and electronics problems.



I have included a snippet of my current activity on Yahoo Answers below.

Wired.profusehost.net Blog - Wired

Welcome to Wired.profusehost.net's blog.

This blog will contain all content about IT and electronics and will include brief snippets of all new content posted on Wired's website.

This blog will contain behind the scene's details about how to set up a website and how to operate a website including all the testing and setting up that goes on behind the scene's to minimise the impact on users and visitor's on a website and to ensure that the software and technology used on the site is working as best as possible to minimise downtime for users.

Please check out Wired's website and enjoy reading and interacting with our site.

We greatly appreciate any feedback about our blog or our website.

Enjoy.

Regards,

wired076 - administrator and Owner of Wired.profusehost.net