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Funny Websites to visit at Office Hours

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Thanks to an expanding IT-industry, millions of us are spending our full working days online. And since staring at a screen all day isn’t exactly great fun all the time, I thought I would give you hard working guys/girls an online source of fun and relaxation. I can’t stand the idea of us not taking the only liberty Internet has given us; to surf around on office hours. I know most of you limit yourself to having a quick check at Facebook, your private email while stressfully looking over your shoulder. But from now on, you’ll have one site to explore on coffee breaks and when your boss is out of office.

The first time a stumbled upon this site, I couldn’t close it. Dedicated to list the top 10 things regarding any given topic, this site always makes me laugh and de-stress. Funny Top 10 lists – at TotallyTop10.com you’ll find top 10 lists dedicated to all kinds of different topics. Their listing of best Letterman Top 10 lists is priceless.

Check it out and tell me what you think. Other suggestions on funny site’s are very welcome and perhaps by the end of the month we’ll have enough tips that I can summon them into a great top 10 list myself :-)

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Spice Up Your Content with Video Hosting!

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

This blog post goes out to all you fellow bloggers who currently are crowding cafés and park benches, trying to catch some sunlight while untying the mental knot of with what to fill your next blog post. While the post’s topic remains for you to figure out, here’s a tip on how to make your post more attractive, dynamic and, hell, even interactive!

YouTube Your Post!

There are not many untouched souls left today who hasn’t hear of YouTube. The best and perhaps only good example of video hosting, containing millions of video about anything and everything you can imagine. YouTube is a great source of videos to implement into your blogposts. It’s very easy since for every video that is uploaded on YouTube is accompanied by a string of html-data to simply copy/paste into your code-view while writting your posts.

This is not the most uncoventional blog tip but a very useful nonetheless. The inserted video will give your readers a complete picture about the post’s topic.

Post through Flickr

Using pictures to spice up the blog post is also a popular way. But rather than burdening your server’s bandwidth with uploaded images there are several web-based image galleries through which you can write blog posts with selected images and remotely publishing them directly on your blog. By getting an account you can gather images and easily set your blog settings this can be done in 5 minutes.

Video and image hosting is truly god-sent gifts to us bloggers and should be comtemplated more often. I have successfully untied my mental knot and actually dedicated a whole blog post in loving memory of YouTube and Flickr, the big guys in video and image hosting. Now it’s your turn :-)

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Website of the Week – Flyest Functions

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Ok, hi everybody. Since Most Pimped Out Blog competition has been active now for two weeks with little engagement from you readers, it is time to move one. That theme will simply have no winner this time around. But feel free to nominate a website at any moment. And as soon as we have enough contribution – a winner of the Most Pimped Out Blog will be crowned.

But now it’s time for Website of The Week’s theme calledFlyest Functions – focusing on cool, unique and useful website functions. So if you have a cool and interactive feature on your site or knowsomeone who does, feel free to nomiate the site here by commenting.

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Reminder – Most Pimped Out Blog Competition!

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

hey everybody!

just gonna remind everyone that Website of the Week competition is still on. And until we have collected some nominations the theme of the week is still Most Pimped Out Blog. More than one week has passed and I know, we should be select a winner already but with yet only one nomination by William, it is simply not gonna happen yet. It is only fair to give all crazy looking blogs out there a chance for nomination and world domination – at least when it comes to winning the one and only title of Website of the Week’s Most Pimped Out Blog.

So c’mon. I want to see some nomination. Nominated blogs do not have to be the most professional looking or graphically pleasing. I want to see color and outrageous unique web design.

Nominate blogs to the Most Pimped Out Blogs competition by commenting on this post and adding name, nominated website and current hosting set up (if it’s your website that is! Don’t go checking whois.org if you’re not the owner! 

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The Winner of Coolest Web Design

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The winning website of last weeks theme Coolest Web Design has officially been crowned. 5 websites were ultimately nominated and we want to thank all participants and encourage you all to take part in this week Website of the Week competition: Most Pimped out Blog (this theme was originally launched two weeks ago but with little to no site nominations we have decided to try it one more time).

Nominated websites for Coolest Web Design were:

  • CreateMe.net - A site for international representative services, nominated by Sydney Web Design
  • SponsorNeeded.com – Australian based sponsor guide for local clubs, organiazations etc, nominated by Sydney Web Design
  • Colette.fr – French E-shop that brings my thoughts to tooth paste, nominated by Micheal
  • ScoronCocolo.com – nominated not expected to win but at least drive some traffic :-) , nominated by Steven
  • Bbdk.com – a communication, design and development group, nominated by Josh Simmons

And the website with the Coolest Web Design and winner of this weeks Website of the Week is:

1. Colette.fr

Motivated by our own professional web designer as a professionally looking website with an well-animated interface and interesting and interactivedetails. Congratulations Colette.fr as the competitions this week were great.

Remember – The Website of the Week competitions this week goes under the theme Most Pimped out Blog and I hope to see some more nominations this time. The theme is openly interpreted and is not written in stone. Any cool, wacked out blog with a unique web design stands the chance of winning the glory and fame.

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Coolest Web Design of The Week!

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Hey all!
With only one auto-pinged comment, the Website of the Week competition has not really generated any contributions of either most pimped out blogs or flyest functions. But for this weeks competition theme its all about your websites web design. If you think your web design is cool, fly, off the hook, unique, original, good or great, compete in the challenge of the Coolest Web Design. Just comment on this post with your domain url, full name, your webhost’s name and you can win a Best Website of the Week certificate.

Contribute now!

Remember,  you can nominee any website you want! It doesn’t have to be yours!

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Website of The Week Competition!

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Listen up everybody!

Here is you chance to show off your own website and get your well-deverved time in the spotlight.  To the weekly blogging here at WebHOstingSearch.com we are now adding a segment called Website of The Week! – a competition for all our loyal and awesome readers who we know master some of the greatest websites in th WWWorld.

Every week the competition takes on a new theme, starting today. This week, w.38, you will be competing over the title Best Pimped Out Blog - judging who has the most pimped out blog? Other themes that will follow is:

  • w. 39 – Flyest Functions – rewarding the website with coolest and flyest functions!
  • w.40  – Coolest Web Design – got user-friendly, outside the box, original type web design?
  • w. 41 – Most Original Content – what is your site about?

Each weekly winner will be announced by the end of the week, Friday, in an exclusive Winner of The Week blog post. The winner will in addition to glory, fame (and a link to his/her site) get a custom-made certificate logo to show off on his/her website.

So compete now by simply commenting this blog post or any of the coming Weekly Winner – post, add your contact information, website URL, your current web host and which weekly theme you want to compete in.

Remember,  you can nominee any website you want! It doesn’t have to be yours!

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The Logic of Local Hosting!

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Hi all!

Just thoughts I would touch upon the issue of local or remote web hosting. Of course I’m not talking in technical terms, but geographical. Local being in the same country, state or region and remote being in freaking Never land. No, but on a more serious note there are few good reasons why you should not choose hosting closer to where you live, rather than far away. No different language, no different culture, no different time zones. Those are three basic reasons why youshould think domestic.

Additionally to these rock solid facts, the chances are you haven’t even bothered to check the offers in your own neighboorhood due to what I like to call Bling blindness. Of course the risk exsists that you won’t get the cheapest price in your own country but try to think like this: You Get What YouPay For. If you pay an extra couple of dollars a month you’ll not only get what you pay for, but the absense of our recently mentioned 3 facts. Think about it at least :-)

This is an issue we have chosen to address, not only here on the blog but in our geographical toplists. You can find your country and web hosting type listed according to price, service and quality. Start by selecting hosting type in the top tabs in the index page.

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The Human Web Hosting Glossary

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Hey all!

After being in the web hosting business and blogging for WebHostingSearch.com for some time now stumbeling upon tricky terms and words you’ve never heard of, seems like everyday life. But you live and you learn and by now I feel like a human dictionary when it comes to web hosting. Countless hours have I spent trying to find proper explanations to new words and to my disappointment I had a hard time finding good resources. Digital and online technology being so fluid new words and names arise every week. Even if you are a web hosting guru, it is virtually impossible to keep track of all the new lingo.

So to contribute to this miserable situation, if any of you are in need of explanation concerning web hosting lingo simply comment on this post with your Q’s.

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The WWW Monopoly

Monday, August 11th, 2008

On most markets there are favorite brands that has the full attention and fascination of consumers. This competition hierarchie is not at all uncommon and perhaps even the only alternative for any industry today. But the reason for this consumer concetration can also be due to consumer habbits. Of course, the best product or service will get the most attentions and companies like Coca-Cola, YouTube and Wal-Mart indeed deliver more enhanced products that their competitors. But sometimes the line between market leader and second best is thin, almost impossible to see. The online business, to me, seems full of such examples and I can’t help but think that consumer loyalty and straight layzeness is the cause why so many sites have the monopoly in their niche.

If we would only bother to google a bit more for alternative e.g video hosts and communities YouTube and Facebook wouldn’t be able to take their domination for granted. Or maybe we need to encourage more people to start own video hosts and online platforms. Maybe then there wouldn’t only be 1 site in monopoly for each market.

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