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If you want to change the color of your dashboard to a more “classic” WordPress look from within your dashboard.

I want to show you how to install Xoops on Ubuntu. I used the Ubuntu 6.10 Server Edition, but it will probably work on other systems as well. Xoops is a modern Content-Management-System which can be extended with a variety of modules.

This article discusses various ways of analysing a website for potential speed bumps and provides tips on how to optimize a site for performance.

This method uses crontab to execute a shell script that downloads an updated urchin.js file every 24 hours and saves it into your local sites directory so that it can be served by your web server instead of the google-analytics.com web server. The problem with google-analytics.com is that when google-analytics.com/urchin.js is requested by billions of web users all over the world at one time, it can cause your pages to load very slowly, especially if you are using WordPress or a similar CMS.

This article shows how to set up your own news-voting website with Pligg. Pligg is a content-management system published under the Affero General Public License, and it is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database for storing its data. With a little work you can create your own community and let users vote news to the front page.

So you have a website, but it is hardly generating any traffic. How do you go about promoting your site? This article explains the process quite well.

Hate website registrations? Paranoid about giving away your email id? (you should be, there is a reason why they ask for your email in the first place!). Learn to use disposable email ids. This is a great service. You get an email which will be active for the next 10 minutes. Use it to register for those annoying 'registration required' websites.

Discussion of Meta Tag Analyzer and tips for SEO improvements.

You'd think almost 3 gigabytes would be more than enough space to store your email, but for the last two weeks my Gmail account has hovered ominously above 95% of the allowed storage quota. When it finally peaked at 98% (2725 MB of 2780 MB), I had to do something.

However, forwarding all those messages by hand or downloading 2.7 gigabytes of mail were out of the question. I simply had to start hitting that delete button. Using a few effective filters that helped determine what I could safely delete, I took my Gmail account from 98% of quota down to 67% of quota without losing one important message.

If you have a large number of articles, it’s often difficult to figure out which articles have been the most popular over time, or even for a particular time frame. If you notice an abnormal amount of page views, you will probably want to figure out which article people are coming to.