Make A Website With Traffic » Computer Solutions http://www.make-a-website-with-traffic.com How to make a SEO Website and Promote it! Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:41:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Another Website Loaded My Website In A Frame! http://www.make-a-website-with-traffic.com/2011/06/another-website-loaded-my-website-in-a-frame.html http://www.make-a-website-with-traffic.com/2011/06/another-website-loaded-my-website-in-a-frame.html#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:19:38 +0000 John http://www.make-a-website-with-traffic.com/?p=398 This morning I discovered that another website was loading one of my websites inside a frame. This means that my website was showing up inside theirs in a way that attempts to make it look like my website is a part of that website. It looked like this.

They were using my website as a “resource” for their own visitors. My first thoughts were that I really didn’t like that.

Yes, in a way it is a compliment that they considered my content good enough to use as a resource.

However, I would have much preferred an ordinary link that allows my website to be displayed as I had intended. I did not recall agreeing with the site owner for my site to be used in that way.

Furthermore, I was not sure how this would affect other aspects of my site, e.g. the Google advertisements that appear on the site. The bottomline is that I decided that I did not want my site to load in this way.

Initially I considered contacting the website owner to get them to change it. Then it dawned upon me that there might be other sites that are loading my content in this way. I did not want to go on a hunting expedition to track them down and contact them individually. So I decided that “frame busting” code was the way to.

Frame Busting Code

There is a way to use Javascript to check if a web page has been loaded inside a frame, and if so, to cause the browser to reload the page by itself, i.e. outside the fame. This is called “frame busting”.

Here is the script that I used:

<script type="text/javascript">
if(top.location != self.location)
{
	top.location.replace(self.location);
}
</script>

I added this code inside the header (between the <head></head> tags) on every page on my site.

That’s all there was to it, and it works like a charm!

There is another method where you can achieve the same thing by adding some directives to the .htaccess file on your web server. The above Javascript works great though, and is easy to implement.

If somebody is loading your website inside their website and you don’t like it, I hope this article helps you to solve the problem and prevent it from happening again.

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I once read a story about how somebody got fired from their job because of something bad they said about their boss on Facebook, forgetting that the boss was one of their Facebook friends! To make it all more embarrassing, the boss fired the person in a comment on the post!

Sometimes we come across something fun that we’d like to share with some of our Facebook friends, but not with all of them.

So how do you go about posting something to only a few of your Facebook friends?

Well, it turns out that it is quite easy to do. Here’s how…

Step 1: Create A List Of Friends

Facebook allows you to post only to certain individual friends, but it could become quite cumbersome if you want to post regularly to the same sub-set of Facebook friends. The solution is to create a Facebook List of friends that you will be posting to:

  1. Go to your Facebook and click on the Home link near the top-center of the page. That takes you to your News Feed where you see all your friends’ posts.
  2. On the left, below your photo, is a menu with one of the options being Friends. (In my case it’s the 4th item down.) Click on that.
  3. The next page will have a button labeled “+ Create A List” near the top-center. Click on that.
  4. A box will now open where you can enter a name for your list and select as many of your Facebook friends who will be members of the list. Enter a name, select your friends, and click on Create List.

Your pre-defined, special-purpose friends list is now created.

Step 2: Post To The List

Now all you do is enter your Facebook post, but before sending it, you edit your sharing options and select the list that you created in step 1:

  1. Enter your Facebook post.
  2. To the left of the Share button (that would send your post), is an image of a lock, with a small down-arrow next to it. Those are your sharing options. Click on the down-arrow.
  3. The 4th option in the drop-down menu is Customize. Click that.
  4. A box will now open where you can set the privacy of your message.
  5. In the section labeled “Make this visible to” is a drop-down box with the selected option being “Friends Only”. Click on that drop-down box and select “Specific People…”
  6. A text box will be shown below the drop-down box where you can enter the names of your friends that your post is intended for. Enter the name of the list that your created in step 1. Then click on Save Setting.
  7. Click the Share button to send your post to the Walls for your selected friends.

To summarize, to post to a selected group of Facebook friends, create a Facebook list containing your friends and then post to the list. It’s as easy as that!

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This happened to a friend of mine a while ago. He spent months working on an e-book that he wanted to market, his computer crashed, and the e-book was gone!

Having a “backup and restore” system in place is absolutely crucial if you have files that you really don’t want to lose, like a school project or music or photos of the kids, or an e-book… Who of us don’t have such files?

I am a happy user of a free online backup service that is saving me a lot of trouble! Let me tell you about it…

Why An Online Backup Service?

Having any kind of backup system in place is already a step in the right direction, be it as simple as backing your files up to a CD or DVD, but here is what makes an online backup service great: It is off-site, i.e. not at your house or business!

That means that even if you have a fire at your house or business that destroys everything, your backups will be safe.

My Choice?

While there are a few choices available, I use Dropbox and I really like it because of some special benefits it gives me.

Dropbox is very simple to use and is truly a “set it and forget it” solution. All you have to do is sign up, download and install their free backup software, and move your important files to a special folder that Dropbox creates.

After that, Dropbox handles everything automatically. It copies all your files to your secure Dropbox storage space on the Amazon S3 Cloud. If you change any of your files on your computer, the new version is automatically and immediately copied to your Dropbox storage the moment you save the file.

If your computer crashes and you get a new computer, all you do is install Dropbox’s free backup software on the new computer, enter your account details into the Dropbox software, and it automatically copies your files from your Dropbox online storage space to your new computer. That’s it! Not a file lost!

What’s more is that if you use more than one computer, you can install Dropbox’s free backup software on both computers and have the latest version of your files automatically available at all times on both computers. So the two computers stay in sync all the time. This is another aspect of Dropbox that I find particularly useful.

A further benefit is file sharing. Let’s say you and a friend or colleague are in two different physical locations and you need to collaborate on a project of some kind. If your friend also uses Dropbox, you can share a folder in your Dropbox with your friend. Your friend will then have access to the files and any changes either of you make to the files are automatically available to both.

How Much Does It Cost?

Initially, nothing! When you create a Dropbox account, you get 2 gigabytes of storage for free. As long as your storage needs stay under 2 GB, Dropbox stays FREE.

It is only if you need more space that you need to pay. Currently you can buy an additional 50 GB for $99 per year, or 100 GB for $199 per year.

Online File Safety?

One of my first concerns was whether my files would be safe from prying eyes or other types of hackers in my online Dropbox account (Amazon S3 Cloud). I checked into this and came up with the following:

  • All files are stored in a strongly-encrypted format and are completely inaccessible without your account password. Not even Dropbox’s own employees can view your files.
  • When files move between your online Dropbox account and your computer, they are encrypted and sent over a secure internet connection.
  • Only those people who you specifically share files with, can see those files, and only the shared files too.

This made me feel comfortable that my stuff would be safe.

Computer Platforms?

Another great thing about Dropbox is that the software is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. Not many of Dropbox’s competitors can say that!

About a month after I opened my Dropbox account, my desktop computer crashed. I could continue working on my laptop because all my Dropbox files were available there as well, and when I finally got my new desktop, I installed Dropbox and a few minutes later all my files were on my desktop too.

I really like this online backup service and recommend Dropbox to all my friends without any reservations.

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