The Megaphone Hosting has announced a Holiday Special Offer on our $4.99 Blog Hosting Plan .
For the month of Nov and Dec 2008 all new sites hosting with us will get their 1st month of hosting for only a buck! Yes, $1.00 for your first month of hosting. Check out our $4.99 Blog Hosting Plan and then contact us with any question you may have.
Many of you may have noticed there have been a lot of changes around The Megaphone Network in recent weeks and there promise to be a lot more in coming months.
Actually The Megaphone Network is now known as The Megaphone Hosting. And The Megaphone Network is an all encompassing overview of our sites and services.
If your hosted here at The Megaphone you will want to check out all the changes and of course if you have any question just contact us.
If your a writer and would like to join a network of professional writers check out our $4.99 Hosting . This plan provides most writers with more than enough space and bandwidth to showcase their work in a professional manner while networking with other authors and writers.
When building your website you must keep your targeted audience in mind. A beautiful site with all the bells and whistles may look great but if your visitors and daily hits are low then your missing out on some traffic.
Let’s say you have a site designed to sell MP3 files. You know most of your targeted audience will have high speed internet connections therefore a lot if images and video would be ok because your visitor will have a connections fast enough to navigate your site without problems.
But let’s say your in the book selling business. Your targeted audience for this media would be both young and old. Many people still use dial-up connections to access the internet. So here less is best. You can still use images to display your product and advertisement but keep them to a reasonable size and use .jpg or .gif rather than .png. Both a little lower quality but about half the file size which makes for a faster loading website.
Simple fact is your visitors will not wait for a slow loading website nor one that has tons of graphics and music files.
Keeping your audience in mind when creating your website is one of the keys to success!
If you need hosting use the contact form below to inquire about hosting with The Megaphone Network
There are some hidden benefits for you when you host your site with The Megaphone Network. For example both Kay and I are writers. Not only do we enjoy writing but we know what resources your site would need in order to operate a successful website.
In addition to providing the normal CPANEL tools that most all host will provide The Megaphone Network is also a great place to begin your “networking”. For example The Cuckleburr Times is an online magazine that publishes new articles and stories several times a week. These articles are written by people just like you. Using The Cuckleburr Times as a showcase for some of your material is an excellent way to connect with other writers and authors.
The Cuckleburr Times also provides a writers chat where writers can meet and discuss all aspects of writing and publishing. We can also create a chat room for your site right there in The Cuckleburr chat hub where you may hold open or private chats for your site group discussions.
If your an Author or Writer and your building your web presence contact us to see how we can help.
The Megaphone welcomes a new author to our network. Scott Wolford is currently developing his website here on The Megaphone Network in anticipation of the publication of his book “Gino The Minnow”.
Gino The Minnow is a wonderfully illustrated children’s book that will help children of all ages learn the importance of our planet and water supply. With Gino’s help children will discover just how important clean waters are to not only his survival but the survival of all his “fishie” friends.
Gino The Minnow is Scott’s first book to go into publication and is expected to have a release date of mid-2009.
We look forward to bring you links to the Gino The Minnow website once it is completed and keeping up to date with the progress of Gino The Minnow.
This is an excerpt from our original post on The Megaphone Network
Here are the symptoms:
1. You get the message “Windows VIRUS ALERT” Informing you that a virus has been detected on your computer and you should install and run the software. Now if you have surfed the internet very much you have no doubt gotten this alert before. It’s a Trojan and is trying to get you to download some infected software. But a simple click of the “X” in the corner always gets rid of it and your ok because it never downloads to your computer. Ok here is where this one differs:
The software message you get is from some company called “Pandora”. And they have their agreement as part of this “Alert”. However there is no place to cancel this alert nor does the “install software” link on it even work. At this point even if you use the “ALT, CONTROL, DELETE” to end the program your running it’s to late. This virus has already started infecting your computer.
2. If you have in fact become infected with this one. When you close your browser your desktop has now become the virus alert. This virus changes your desktop setting and then deletes the two tabs in your control panel that allows you to delete that one and change it back to your own.
3. Ok so now you realize your infected. So you try to do a google or yahoo search to find out what it is and how to fix it.
PLEASE PAY ATTENTION HERE!
When you do your search you will get the Google or Yahoo search results page like normal. However when you click a link to go to that site you will be redirected to some spam links sites. They may not be porn either but simply a link farm. You appear to be directed to LOOKSMART first then to the link farm.
4. Your computer will start to slow down and hang up. Often times you will have to reboot or restart your computer to get your login to work.
You can view the full post here: Virus Alert
In the early days when blogs first came about they were little more than an online journal where the individual could place his rambling thoughts on some space on the internet. Times have changed. Today a blog is used by both the individual and corporations.
The individual still uses a blog for his own personal space, sure, but today he is often supplementing his income by using his blog as an advertisement media. Corporations are often times willing to sponsor a blog that has a reader base. This seems to work well for both parties. The blogger still blogs about what he enjoys and the advertiser get some promotion for his products that related to the bloggers site and readers. An apparent win-win situation.
But what else can you do with a blog? Today blogs are rapidly becoming a full blown CMS. For example take a look at The Cuckleburr Times. This is a WordPress Blog. The platform is no different than the one I am blogging on here but the look to the visitor is really different. The Cuckleburr Times is an online magazine for authors and writers and therefore you might think that a blog would not be capable of running a full blown site. But one look at The Cuckleburr will tell you that you’re wrong.
So just what would your site be about? Instead of purchasing a lot of hosting resources that you might never use why not think about blogging? The cost for a blogger package on The Megaphone Network is only $4.99 a month. It is affordable for everyone and opens a whole world of possibilities for your online presence.
Use the form below to inquire about the hosting packages we offer.
I am sure that many of you have heard about Sub-Domain Hosting but just what is it and is it really free?
First off, what is Sub-Domain Hosting?
Sub-Domain hosting is someone who is willing to give you space on their sever. You would not have your own domain and really have no control over the website as a whole but you will usually have some sort of control over your own website. The space is usually pretty limited and depending on what type of company is providing your hosting it may be free or paid. With as cheap as website hosting is there is really no benefit to paying for sub-domain hosting other than the fact you will not have to register a domain name.
For the sake of this blog we will talk about the free sub-domain hosting. Is it really free? The simple answer is usually no. Sure you will not have to pay a fee to the company for hosting your site but you will most likely have a lot of advertising that may become so prevalent that you and your guest will have a hard time using your site because of the advertising and pop ups. If you think about it why would some company you do not know give you free website hosting?
Does The Megaphone Network provide any type of free hosting? Yes we do. We provide free sub-domain hosting for writers, authors and professional bloggers. Is The Megaphone Network hosting free? Yes, to the point that you do not pay us to host your website. We install WordPress for your blog and then give you admin rights. Which means you will be free to admin your blog as you see fit.
Does The Megaphone Network place banner ads and other advertising on your free site? Yes we do sell advertising spots and accept campaigns from companies and individuals. These promotions are worked out between The Megaphone Network and the advertiser and your website may be included as part of the campaign. In most cases the advertising will consist of a written article review of a company or its product.
Will I share in the revenue from any advertising placed on my site?
Yes! The Megaphone Network is a revenue sharing site. Your revenue share of any advertising campaign placed on your site will depend on the type of campaign, and the degree you participate in the campaign.
If you’re a writer, author or professional blogger and would like more information about your Sub-Domain Hosting contact us at : The Megaphone Network
If you’re new to website building these are two terms you will need to become familiar with. You probably have already heard about HTML (HYPER TEXT Markup Language). For many years this was the foundation of your website. You can use HTML for everything from displaying your content to images.
An example of HTML is the color of the word “HTML” being different in the previous sentence. The reason why the word is a different color is because I have linked you to a site that explains in detail what HTML is. Therefore I used HTML in order to create the link and change the color of that word to let the reader know that it is a link to some information.
However the quest for improvement is never ending. Hence PHP Programming. PHP differs somewhat in HTML in that it is a scripting language. Which means that instead of trying to use HTML code to perform functions, PHP is used instead.
An example of PHP is this whole site. Most all functions of the site will have been written in PHP Scripting.
So is HTML dead? No, not by any means. You will still need to understand and use at least the basic html. But the beauty of PHP is that it can be used in conjunction with HTML. You will find that most of the programs or CMS systems you will use will have mostly PHP page extensions instead of the .HTML or .HTM.
When looking for a web host make sure that PHP is enabled for your server. I really do not know of any host today that does not offer this but if in your quest for the perfect hosting company you discover one that does not, then do not even consider this host.
So in short you will need at least a basic understanding of both HTML and PHP to operate and maintain your website in a professional manner.
Joomla has announced an important security update for all Joomla user’s who have installed any version of the new 1.5+ . This does not affect any Joomla site hosted on The Megaphone Network since we have not built any live sites using Joomla 1.5.
If your using Joomla here at The Megaphone Network you site is not affected by this security update. This is just information for other Joomla users who may not be aware.
Excerpt From Joomla.Org :
A flaw in the reset token validation mechanism allows for non-validating tokens to be forged. This will allow an unauthenticated, unauthorized user to reset the password of the first enabled user (lowest id). Typically, this is an administrator user. Note, that changing the first users username may lessen the impact of this exploit (since the person who changed the password does not know the login associated with the new password). However, the only way to completely rectify the issue is to upgrade to 1.5.6 (or patch the /components/com_user/models/reset.php file).
Affected Installs
All 1.5.x installs prior to and including 1.5.5 are affected.