Six Things Businesses Need to Know About Facebook's Timeline By Laura Tate

Since its inception, social media giant Facebook has seen
numerous changes to its layouts, and many useful features have
been added. The most recent of these is the "Timeline," which
was introduced in December 2011.

The Timeline arranges posts according to date, streamlining all
materials, including status messages, pictures, videos, and other
Facebook activities, showing a history of a Fan page.

By now every company that utilizes Facebook for their social
media networking has incorporated the Timeline. However, many
might have been put off by the changes and not taken a look at
all that is offered with the new features or optimized the
obvious ones.

Here are six things business owners should know about Timeline
on Facebook.

1. The Large, Space-Occupying Cover Photo
This area, located at the top of the Facebook page is the first
thing people see when visiting a page. Facebook has dedicated
851 x 315 pixels just for this space alone.

How to Promote Your Website: A Common Sense Approach

By John V -in 2012

 Social media. I hope you're sitting down for this one. Once
you have created your website, you need to tell people
about it, and the best way to do that is social media. I
know, shocking, right? Okay, it's not even a little bit
surprising, but in a world where we are crunched for time,
it is easy to overlook the simplest things.

Make sure your website is included in all of your online
profiles, and then be an active member of these communities.
If you write a new blog post, tweet about it, post a
Facebook status with a link, and don't be afraid to click
those social sharing buttons embedded next to every post.
It may feel a little gauche to like, Google+, or Digg your
own content, but there is nothing wrong with being proud of
your work. It also encourages people to do the same.

Google's Policy Changes - What Do They Mean for You?

By Karl R Rooney 2012 

In a nutshell, what do the changes mean? Basically it means that
Google will now share the data it stores for you between all
their services. They won't be sharing anything new with outside
parties; just among Google's many services. Google has been
adamant these changes are only being made to make their products
better than ever and display even more relevant content and
advertising to each personal user. On 1st March 2012 these changes

went into effect.


Alma Whitten, Google's Director of Privacy, wrote in a blog post
recently:

"As you use our products one thing will be clear: it's the same
Google experience that you're used to, with the same controls,
And because we're making these changes, over time we'll be able
to improve our products in ways that help our users get the most
from the web."

8 Easy and Simple Ways to Add Likes to Your Facebook Page By Istrati Florentina 2012

As the internet and Social Media evolve one thing is clear -
Facebook is king. Fast approaching 1,000,000,000 members (yes
that's ONE BILLION), Facebook is the site where everyone is
spending time online!

"Every successful business depends on people - Facebook is
where they are spending their time online. Either you will use
Facebook and succeed or you will not embrace Facebook and
fail."- Sean Malarkey

When you start your marketing, the first thing to do is to open
a business page. Make sure that all information you put on your
page is genuine and not defamatory. This will make potential
customers trust you.

Now, let's see what are the 8 easy and simple ways to increase
your Facebook likes.

All About YouTube Marketing By James Chapman- 2012

Promoting a business can be extremely taxing, especially
when you're just getting started. If you're into checking
out marketing blogs, you've probably come across some
information about YouTube marketing. This form of
advertising falls under the umbrella of video advertising,
which falls under the even larger umbrella of Internet
marketing. Take a look at some specifics of this business
strategy to deepen your understanding about its importance
and utilize it to help popularize your products or
services.

Why Online Video Advertising?
Video marketing is one of the leading advertising
platforms on the Internet. People of all ages and from
different backgrounds are taking advantage of this
promotional opportunity in an effort to maximize the
visibility of their business. 

how to find out if php is compiled with curl extension installed enabled

at some point, you will find out that some scripts require you to have cURL extension enabled in your web server.

well, how can you tell whether the CURL extension is enabled or compiled in your PHP?

these are the steps to take:

1. open a blank text document. i will be using notepad in windows.

2. copy and paste this code into notepad and save it as testcurl.php

<?php
## Test if cURL is working ##
## SCRIPT BY WWW.WEBUNE.COM (please do not remove)##
echo '<pre>';
var_dump(curl_version());
echo '</pre>';
?>

3. if you prefer, you can download the full script at this link:
How To Check Curl Installed In Php

How to active curl on xampp

Your xampp installation most likely already has curl support built-in. You just have to turn it on. It’s not difficult at all.  That’s not necessary for Windows versions of PHP.
Find your php.ini file (probably in xampp\apache\bin\php.ini and open it in notepad or another plain text editor
search for the line that says:
;extension=php_curl.dll
remove the semicolon from the beginning of the line.
save the file
restart apache
check a phpinfo() program to see if you now have curl support listed.
In a standard xampp build, this is all you have to do. If you installed apache and PHP in another way, you might need to move some dlls to the windows\system directory.
(libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll)
Best of luck to you.

100 Great CSS Menu Tutorials - by Kevin Muldoon

Navigation is such an important part of your website. It’s how your visitors navigate to the main areas of your site and makes it easy for them to find your good content.
CSS is of course the perfect language for designing beautiful navigation menus. It can be applied to any type of website and is very flexible. Don’t be alarmed if your own CSS skills are fairly limited as there are a lot of great tutorials out there that walk you through how to add clean and professional looking CSS menus to your website. You can either copy and paste the code into your own design or modify the menu to suit your needs.
Today we would like to show you 100 of these tutorials; 75 horizontal CSS menu tutorials and 25 vertical CSS menu tutorials.

Horizontal CSS Menu Tutorials

1. Advanced CSS Menu Trick

View Tutorial | Demo
2. Elegant Drop Menu with CSS Only

View Tutorial | Demo
3. Bulletproof CSS Sliding Doors

View Tutorial & Demo
4. Tabbed Navigation Using CSS