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Your Guide to Launching the Next Best Website

PSafe Newsroom — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 12:23:28 +0000

There are 644 million active websites online. It can be hard to make yours stick out amidst the madness of the world wide web. It should be a priority for you to attract visitors to your website, but it is just as important for you to cater to the correct audience. This can be a hard balance to maintain. Here are a few steps to take if you want to get started on a new website.

Choose a Unique and Catchy Domain Name
This will be what users type in the URL to access your website. The most common domains are .com, .org, .net, and .edu. They stand for commercial, organization, network, and education. It is important that you match the content of your website with the domain type. For instance, if you are developing your website for sales purposes, you should choose the .com domain.

Install Google Analytics
This app provides statistics about viewing trends on your website. It provides the number of visits, average page viewers a day, aggregate time on site, and much more data that is important to keep track of for the purposes of improving your website. Download for free at the Google Play Store.

Assess the Statistics of Your Website Traffic
Knowing the quantity of visitors over a certain amount of time will help you decide the budget of your web host. Having a larger bandwidth is more expensive, but it is essential if your website attracts a lot of traffic.

Strategically Choose Your Web Hosting
It is vital that you spend a lot of time researching different website hosts to find the cheapest and most efficient one for your purposes. Make sure the host is secure and provides the necessary bandwidth that is suitable for your website. If your website increases in popularity, you will have to purchase more bandwidth. However, this is a necessary investment if you wish to maintain a popular website.

Promote Your Website Through Advertisements
Contact popular search engines and see if you can advertise on their page for a reasonable price. This will give your website much more exposure to users who are unaware of its existence. That being said, it’s important to have a flashy logo and slogan so your brand sticks out in its advertisement.

Here Are the Top 3 Best Online Coding Courses

PSafe Newsroom — Fri, 07 Oct 2016 22:15:18 +0000

There are a lot of great coding courses available online, including free and paid services. Whether you want to learn how to code for personal reasons or to boost your resume, there’s no excuse not to try out a few classes now. The following are some of the best online coding courses you can sign up for immediately.

1. Codecademy
This is a free educational service. All you need to do is sign up on their website, and you can access a variety of courses on different coding languages. Some of these languages include HTML, CSS, SQL, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Python, and Ruby. You can also take classes that focus on specific tasks, such as making an interactive website or learning how to use the command line on your computer. The courses are well designed with an easy-to-use and visually appealing interface. They are also beginner-friendly, so there’s no need to be a techie to benefit from these courses.

2. Code School
Unlike Codecademy, this is not a free service. It’s free to create an account, but beyond that, you must pay for a monthly or yearly plan to get complete access to all of their courses and screencasts offered. The prices range from $29/month for a monthly plan to $19/month for a yearlong contract. This service is a great option if you want to invest in a serious coding future, and they frequently include more classes and content. They offer courses on HTML/CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Git, SQL, Python, Ruby, and more. While Code School has an iOS app to continue coding on the go, this app is unfortunately not offered for Android devices yet.

3. Udacity
This service is the most expensive of the bunch, but it’s worth the price if you want to learn necessary skills for a new job. You’ll pay a monthly fee of about $200/month for a “nanodegree,” but if you finish the program in a certain amount of time, you can get a 50% refund on tuition. Compare it to getting a second, but more affordable degree. Their nanodegrees include programs such as Intro to Programming, Google’s Android Developer, and Full Stack Web Developer. You can view the course schedules on their website. The time limit to complete each program ranges from about 200 hours to a year. These are serious programs meant to get you a better job with a much better salary; it’s a way to further invest in your future.

Most Useful Coding and Programming Languages to Know

PSafe Newsroom — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 22:50:19 +0000

Coding is an important skill in the information age. It is also a useful skill to learn if you want to get a new job that has a better salary. The following list includes more advanced coding and programming languages in addition to coding for beginners. Classes for all of these languages are available online, making it easier than ever to learn one of these languages.

HTML/CSS
A good place to start, if you’re learning a coding language for the first time, is HTML/CSS. HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language and CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. While these are among the simplest coding languages, and thus not the most in-demand languages, they are incredibly useful to know. HTML is used for creating a website page. It tells the web page where and how to display words and images. CSS further tells the web page how to display fonts, layouts, and colors. You can take free classes for both languages through websites like Codecademy, or else pay for a more inclusive service from sites like Code School.

SQL
This is currently one of the most in-demand coding languages. SQL stands for Structured Query Language. It is a programming language used to communicate with a database to complete tasks such as accessing or updating data. It is specifically used to manage data in relational database management systems or relational data stream management systems. Some examples of these types of databases include Oracle and Ingres. You can take a free Intro to SQL course through Khan Academy.

Java
While some might consider this language to be outdated, most applications and websites still use Java and will not work properly without Java installed on your computer or device. Java can be used for software and system development in addition to in applications. It is similar to the C and C++ languages, but easier to learn. You can learn Java for free through Codecademy.

JavaScript
This is one of the easier languages to learn, after HTML/CSS. While similar-sounding to Java, this is a completely different programming language. It is used to create interactive web pages, like polls and quizzes. This language is usually built into major browsers and doesn’t need to be downloaded to your computer.

C
This is a general-purpose programming language that has been used to create computer programs for decades. This language will allow you to read and write code for a variety of platforms. There are many guides and classes available online for this language as well.

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The Most Developer-Friendly Android Phones

PSafe Newsroom — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:07:56 +0000

Looking for a smartphone that can do more than just make calls? Want the ability to have full reign over your phone’s look and functionality? Then look no further, here’s a list of the most developer-friendly Android phones.

HTC Nexus One
Created by Google, the HTC Nexus One has a sleek interface and comes with an unlockable bootloader which allows users to load a custom ROM and overclock the phone’s CPU.

Samsung Galaxy S
The Samsung Galaxy S is a hugely popular phone that each of the major four U.S. carriers have their own branded versions of, which makes for a lot of developing over a family of similar devices. You can mod and create custom ROMs for the T-Mobile, Sprint, and AT&T versions of the phone.

HTC Desire
A close sibling of the Nexus One, the HTC shares many similar aesthetics and dimensions as the Google phone. The Desire has officially supported updates to Android 2.2 Froyo and an unsupported update to Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The Desire has a huge development community and even has some well-optimized ports of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Sony Ericsson Xperia Line
While not widely released, Sony Ericsson has made its Xperia line very developer-friendly. Just this year they released instructions on how to unlock the bootloader on its upcoming Xperia Arc, Neo, Play and Pro handsets.

Motorola Droid
The Motorola Droid comes with an unlocked bootloader, which gives users the ability to flash custom kernels as well as ROMs, allowing for more control over the phone’s hardware than would otherwise be possible.

HTC Incredible and HTC EVO 4G
Rounding out this list are two more HTC phones, the Incredible and the EVO 4G. After downloading the Unrevoked3 software, all you have to do is connect your HTC Incredible or EVO 4G to your desktop PC and let the program run. You’ll be given root permissions and the ability to create custom ROMs and apps otherwise blocked by HTC.

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