One of the most powerful tools that you can use both for SEO and general site management is to utilize mod_rewrite so that all URL are ’search engine’ friendly.

mod_rewrite allows one to control and rewrite URIs. It can turn ugly URIs into meaningful and more attractive URIs that both your readers and search engines can take advantage of.

For some basic information check out the Apache documentation:

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Apache/Search-Engine-Friendly-URLs-with-mod-rewrite/

Open Source software has becoming more popular in the IT industry, particularly ISP & software development. The marketing staffs in University of Wales, Aberystwyth (UWA) have definitely seen a chance and started provide course in Open source computing. More information about this fasionable course can be found here:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/prospectus/courses/compsci-opensource.php

I have been using mysqlcc to manage databases since I came to know MySQL database 6 years ago. I find it so useful because I can use it to
1. manage many databases at the same time.
2. update records manually
3. update data structure manually
4. run sql command
5. monitor SQL server status and view SQL variables
6. List SQL users

However, MySQL AB now decided to stop development on mysqlcc and try to replace it with mysql-administrator and mysql-query-browser. But the new comers suck so much:
1. you need to run 2 applications now to do your usual tasks
2. To update data in mysql-query-browser, you need to click the tiny ‘edit’ switch at the bottom of the window first, then browse to the record, edit the data, click save. while in mysqlcc you just go to the record and modify the data. As soon as the data field is not focused, data is saved automatically
3. they are buggy as well

A coupe of Linux OS release already drop support for mysqlcc:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-273259-highlight-mysqlcc.html

The final release of mysqlcc by MYSQL AB does not work properly with MySQL 5.0 anymore. I searched google on how to fix the bugs without too much effort and found this within a second:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysqlcc/

I downloade a the source file, unzip, compile and fire it up, things are beautiful again!! Need to say yes again to open source. - Ben

Today website is very important marketing tool and sometimes your website is THE core of your business, especially when you are an online retailer. If you decide to design or re-design your website, you need to have a plan 1st and then get a quote.

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