Online Business

Google is a powerful search engine, to be sure, but most of us use it for only the simplest of queries.  Why?  Because the true power behind the Google engine lies in special commands that you probably don't know.  These special commands (called advanced operators) can take you to places in Google (and thus places on the web) that you would never find otherwise.  Here are the most powerful of the advanced operators:

MySQL Server is the most widely used database management system in the world, primarily because it is open source and free.  Hence, most databases you may get from outside sources will probably be in the form of a MySQL injection script.  This is fine if you use MySQL for your own website databases, but if you use Microsoft SQL Server the script will require a little editing before it will work.

Whenever you purchase or acquire a MySQL database (such as from a website like WebContents.org), chances are it will come as a MySQL injection script.  An injection script is simply a SQL script that, when executed, creates the appropriate database tables and inserts the data using INSERT statements (one statement per record of data).  Because of this, a SQL injection script is usually very large, but this is the easiest way to export and import a database so this is how it is usually done.

MySQL Server is owned by the for-profit corporation MySQL AB, but it is still the most widely used open source database management system.  Recently, MySQL AB decided to split their open source product into two versions, Community and Enterprise.  Enterprise is a commercial version of the same product, and comes with the kind of commercial level support you would expect from a product you purchase.  Community is the free version, which comes with no support from MySQL AB whatsoever, but that is usually not a big hurdle considering the vast online community of MySQL users online and the sheer number of websites and documents on the subject.  However, the one drawback to the Community version is that it is not the latest version of the product -- MySQL AB appears to be withholding the latest version as an incentive to purchase their Enterprise product.

Web2.0 is a term coined to refer to web applications that run without visible page refreshes.  A normal website functions by delivering pages of information, with links that allow a user to move from page to page.  A web 2.0 application, or AJAX application, runs on a single web page, and uses clientside javascript to initiate and process additional requests to the server.  The additional requests run in the background and are invisible to the user; the end result is that the web application appears very similar to a normal computer program, and the user can continue to manipulate the application and application interface without having to wait for the additional requests sent to the server to complete.

I only have one e-mail account.  That's right, one.  In this day and age where it seems like everyone and his grandmother are webmasters, it's a little surprising for someone who runs websites to only have one mail account, isn't it?  Truth to tell, I've had this same e-mail mailbox for the last several years, and in that time I've signed up for thousands of web services and countless one-off website accounts created just to be able to see an article or download a file, used once and then forgotten.

You've got your web server running, and you're ready to dive headfirst into creating your first site or three.  How should you set them up?  There are a few neat tricks you can do with IIS involving host headers and custom error pages.  In this article, I'll describe to you in detail how to use these features to set up dynamic websites that will respond to any domain name, as well as how to set up cystom dynamic file structures that let you name your pages in whatever manner you wish (which is extremely useful for SEO).

Most people know that websites can be profitable, and that an online business is one of the least capital-intensive businesses around. This means that you can run a website business very cheaply, but in this article I will show you how to do it for FREE.