View Article  What is web hosting?
The best way to explain this is by comparing it to a real-life (brick & mortar) situation. Picture a web hosting company as the owner of a shopping mall. The shopping mall owner invested a lot of money on hiring architects, constructors, engineers, etc. to build it. Now all the stores on it are empty and the owner is going to rent them to smaller businesses that can't afford (or who simply don't want) their own building.
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View Article  How to Create a Favicon for Your Web Site

Ever see those little custom icons next to a web site listing in your favorites folder or on your browser address bar? Have you ever wondered how to create one for your own site? Well I'm going to teach you in this article.

The icons are called "Favicons", a contraction of the phrase "favorite icons". To see an example, go to SearchEngineCollege.com and bookmark the site (or add to your "favorites" list). Now close your browser window and open a new one. Click on your bookmarked sites or favorites list and find the site you just bookmarked. See the tiny mortarboard graphic next to the listing? That's a Favicon. It makes the site stand out from all the others in your favorites list. If you click on that site, the Favicon will even load next to the URL in your browser address bar from now on.more »