Making A Difference…

What exactly is google apps ?

It’s a collection of online google tools such as gmail, google docs, and google talk which you can setup for your small business own use by associating it with your registered domain, separate from the public google area.
The standard google apps is free and most of the time you don’t need the pay editions.

The easiest way to explain it is to look at gmail first. Say you own company XYZ, and you have already registered for the XYZ.com domain. Now you would normally get a hosting site for your website and then configure emails from the hosting site.  You can, however, choose to use gmail as your interface to your small business emails.

After doing some setups, you can then create @XYZ.com email accounts from gmail, and read and write emails to and from that @XYZ.com account from there. (more…)

How do you track the traffic to your blog once you have installed WordPress on your hosting site ? Google Analytics seem to be really good for this and it’s free, so here’s how I made it work for my site.

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After the longest time holding off on hosting my own sites and blogs, I finally caved in… What made me do it?  It’s the enticement of getting unlimited lifetime free storage at DreamHost.

If man were designed to think rationally, I wouldn’t have been as compelled to sign up. (more…)