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Learning web technologies is not a big deal--anybody can do it. To create the first website you need no special knowledge. Many beginners start with some tutorial and after short preparation they have a working site. Creating a blog or personal website is the first step--it is up to you what plans you have and what you are willing to learn. The beauty of the web and websites is that all the information, resources and knowledge is available--on the web!

Maybe the most important tool you will use is the web search. Most likely you will use Google because it returns relevant results for any search query. This way you can find the answer to any question. If you are a beginner you will sooner or later encounter some problem. The easiest way to find a solution is to use Google to find what solutions have other people used for similar or the same problem. You need to be patient, maybe you will not find the answer on the first page. Try also to modify search phrase according to the results. It may happen that you are not asking the right question.

Another great source of information about internet, web and internet marketing are webmaster forums. Users of such forums are webmasters and other people interested in web technologies. They use forums to exchange information, to publish findings, to ask for help and to help others. It doesn't matter if you are a beginner or experienced webmaster, you should be member of at least one such forum.

The first and the most important reason is that by being a member you can track new messages and this way you will be informed about anything important to website owners. If you are an internet marketer then having right information can improve your earnings. Webmaster forums are also the first place where you will learn about changes in ranking algorithms, great places to promote your website, ways to attract visitors, etc.

At webmaster forum you will also read about problems other people have and if you know the solution you can post it here and share your knowledge with others. On the other hand, it may happen to you that someday you will have a problem. Is there any better way to find a solution than to ask the question in a community of experts?

Becoming a member of the forum is pretty easy. All you have to do is to register yourself and after you confirm the email address you become a member. You will not become a real webmaster unless you actively participate in at least one forum.

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When you create a new website it will be indexed as soon as the crawlers encounter a link to it. In general, you don't have to submit any information to search engines because the web is based on links. If there is a page then there must be also some links that point to this page. Otherwise the page is probably not worth indexing. However, there are situations where crawlers can not discover all the pages you have. This is where you can help them with sitemaps.

Sitemap is an XML file with defined structure. It contains information about all the pages of the website. All major search engines provide a way to submit sitemap files. Google, for example, uses Webmasters Tools as a place where you can submit sitemaps.

The main purpose of the sitemap is to inform search engines and crawlers about all the pages you have. Using this information bots, spiders and crawlers can visit pages even if there is no link pointing to them. But there is also another more important function. By submitting a sitemap file you can track how many pages are indexed by the search engine. This information is very important because in the case you find out that not all pages are indexed you may have a problem. In many cases pages with little or no content will not be indexed. This is normal. Less "normal" is when some article page is not indexed. In some cases you have to wait for a while, while in other cases the reason may be duplicate content or any other reason that makes search engine to think that this page is not worth indexing.

You can also add images, videos, code and geo information to the sitemap file. This way you can inform Google, Yahoo and Bing with all the stuff you think is worth indexing. More information about this possibility can be found at the Google Webmaster Central Blog.

Creating a sitemap file is pretty easy. All popular content management systems including WordPress and Joomla have an extension which can automatically create a sitemap file from all the pages of the website. This way you don't have to worry about the file structure and links. There is also a possibility for websites that have no such automatic solution. There are many scripts that can crawl the site by following internal links. Using this information they create the file which can be submitted to search engines.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

For bigger websites like the PikiBook article directory using a sitemap is a must. For any internet marketing and online business it is a good idea to have the information about the number of indexed pages.

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Today, June 28, 2007 at about 5pm, Out Fox the Net enjoyed its 100,000 page view. Thanks for everyone who has come to visit.

OFtN (Out Fox the Net) started about 2 ½ years ago. Here is how it happened.

I met someone online who was interested in a certain web based marketing tool. Being a programmer and having been involved with the web for a long time, I understood just what he wanted and why. In essence the tool, when given a list of websites, would determine and rank which of them were most popular i.e. had the most traffic, highest page rank etc. I registered the OFtN domain and put the tool up in a password protected area.

The guy was very happy with it and suggested that we open a “for pay” service with it. That didn’t sound like a bad idea at all so I started to develop a better interface for it and some supplementary tools to go along with it. That also was working out pretty well until one day…

…completely out of the blue, the guy accused me of “stealing” his ideas and cutting him out of the business he had developed… and on a public message board we both visited frequently. Total paranoid delusions coming from this guy who had been so friendly up until then. Keep in mind that no one except he and I had ever even seen the tool at that point – it was never opened to the public and hadn’t made 1 cent.

Well anyway, to cut a short story short, I posted a calm reply and told him I was done working on the project and was returning “his precious ideas” unused.

But I still had the domain and nothing to do with it.

Over the next year or so, I would occasionally come up with an idea and make a half-hearted attempt at implementing it. Webmasters tools, news aggregator and nothing much of interest.

And then. I bought World of Warcraft.

After disappearing into WoW for several months I came back with some unique techniques for making money in the game. Hmm, Out Fox the Net and crazy money making scams, hmm, goes together like peanut butter and chocolate.

So I wrote up my World of Warcraft money making guide and posted about it on the official WoW web forums. Bam, 100 people showed up and read every page. Then people started to link to it from their guild boards.

Then it got 'ed.

Then it got posted to Digg.

Then Dan Hunter from Terranova contacted me to do an interview.

Then a BBC reporter contacted me to collect information for an article.

Final run down:

• Age of Site: 2 ½ years
• Unique visitors: 27,856
• Page Views: 100,004
• Time spent correcting spelling mistakes: 312 hours
• Number of times site has been completely deleted: 3
• Most unusual visitor location: Greenland
• Number of pages average visitor reads: 3.6

The site has cost me about $239.85 in domain name registration and web hosting costs. Altogether I have made about $196.38 from it.

Prices exclude my blood, sweat and tears

Now that the site has been moved, I am getting to know WordPress again. The release of WordPress 2.2 occurred at the same time I was working on the transition so this site is using the latest and greatest.

Along with the new WP version I have been exploring some of the plugin options. Although I have not come to terms with the new widget system and dynamic sidebars etc... there are many new plugins that do the work that once was impossible or at least a serious pain.

First off is Fold page list makes collapsible sidebar lists more manageable if you have a lot of pages and subpages.

Next, WP-Cache is a very impressive page caching system. If your site uses a lot of database queries or just gets a lot of traffic, this plugin can dramatically improve performance.

And finally, All in One SEO Pack makes your WP driven site more search engine friendly.