After seeing the article title you are maybe asking yourself: Why somebody writes something like that? Everything what I need to recover my Wordpress password is to click one link and let the script to send new password to my email. If you are thinking in this way I am pretty sure you are one of the lucky webmasters who never needed to solve this issue.

If you didn’t write new posts for your blog for longer time or if you checked the Remember Me field you didn’t need to enter your username and password for some time. In this case there is a big chance that you forgot them. If you got an error when you are signing in follow these steps:

1. Determine if you are signing in with wrong username or password (or both). Read the error message displayed above the login box. It will tell either ERROR: Incorrect password or ERROR: Invalid username. If you get Invalid username error it is possible that both username and password are wrong. If you get the Incorrect password error the username is valid and you can use it in the form described in the next steps.

2. Click the Lost your password link in the bottom. A form with 2 fields will be displayed.

3. Using this form you can generate new password and let it to send to your email which you have entered when you installed the Wordpress script. The common problem is that you usually don’t remember either username or email which have you used by the weblog installation. Without these information is not possible to recover lost password.

4. Now you will need to determine which email address and what username have you used. Log in your web hosting control panel (hopefully you didn’t forget your username or password ) and click the MySQL database icon (or PHPmyAdmin depending on the control panel provided by your web hosting company). Select the database where are your weblog data stored and log in the PHPmyAdmin. In the left menu search for table named wp_users. Click the link and in the next step click Browse link in the top. Look for the row with ID 1. In this row you will find your username and email (yes, your password is stored there too but it is encoded so there is no chance to read it).

5. Now go back to Wordpress log in page and click the Lost your password link again. Fill in your username and email and submit the form. Now check your email and click the link inside to confirm you really asked for password reset.

6. Wait for a moment and check your email again. You will get another message with your new password.

Many PHP scripts require to know both username and email used by installation in case to reset your password. If you will need to recover password from another script working in this way you can also try to follow the steps described above. To avoid unpleasant situation with lost password you can try to save them using software like Roboform or Password manager integrated in your browser.

I am making a real estate website and I am using wordpress. But I don’t know how to add a popup window on my website using wordpress. Please let me know if anyone has a solution, thank you.

http://www.realestatehomeforsaleandnewhomemortgage.com

Publishing YouTube Your Own or other YouTube Videos on Your Blog is Quick and Easy

You’re about to find out the reasons and benefits of using a WordPress YouTube Video plugin on your WordPress Blog or Website.

A YouTube Video plugin will allow you to add virtually any YouTube videos you want on your blog within seconds of finding the right video. This makes it really quick and easy to add content to your blog posts which will impress your readers and encourage them to return to your site for more.

Why should you care about installing a WP Video Plugin?

Well, video is incredibly popular and if a picture paints a thousand words – a video conveys so much more! By using a WordPress YouTube plugin you will be able to add video to your blog posts or pages in literally seconds. You can also host your own videos on YouTube and then publish them on your own blog so easily without any hassle or stress.

What You Need to Do to Install a YouTube Video Plugin?

It’s quite straight forward all you need to do is go into your Plugins Menu in your WordPress control panel and select the option to add a new plugin. Type in a search term to find a suitable plugin – e.g. “YouTube Video” and you should have various options to choose from. Take a look at some of the options and choose one you think sounds as though it fits your requirements. Install the plugin – this should take literally seconds. Go back to your Plugins Menu and check the new plugin appears in your current list of plugins Go to the Settings section for your new plugin and configure the settings to suit you and your blog or website Test it out to see how it works – you will soon realize how quick and easy it is. Some WP Plugins are better than others – so you might want to test a few to see which work best for you.

So you can see how important it is to show video on your blog or website and how easy it is to publish Videos on your site using a WordPress YouTube video Plugin. So what are you waiting for – you can have your own or other Videos published on your blog in the next 10 minutes!

Why not check it out right now?

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Many small businesses think they have to spend thousands of dollars and weeks of development time to have a functional website for their small business. But this is an outdated way to think about web design.

These days, there are a variety of content-management tools available to simplify website creation and management. WordPress is one of those tools. Yes, WordPress, the blogging system. Did you know you can also use WordPress as a full-featured website? It’s true. You can create a highly functional, easy-to-manage website using only WordPress and a bit of technical know-how.

* And you can do it in a matter of days, instead of weeks.

* And your costs could range from $50 to $500, instead of thousands.

A Business Website in Two Days

Not convinced? Need evidence? I understand. For the longest time, small businesses have been told that web development takes a long time and requires a lot of money. Thousands of web design firms make their bread and butter off this notion, and they are cursing me right now for writing this article.

But I’m a big fan of giving people options, so I want you to know that this web design option exists.

Here’s a step-by-step approach I have used many times to create a business website from scratch, in only two days time.

Step 1 – Register Domain Name and Get Web Hosting

Using a company like GoDaddy, this can be done in about one hour. The domain registry costs $10 per year, and the hosting costs about $7 per year. Total cost for web domain and web hosting for one year = $94.

Step 2 – Install a MySQL Database on Web Host

This sounds complicated, but it’s a five-minute operation on GoDaddy (one of many reasons I use them). I would go into the database section of the hosting control panel, select “create database,” and then give it a name and password. Total time spent: 10 minutes.

Step 3 – Install WordPress on Web Host

WordPress is free, so there’s no cost involved with this step. I would simply open a configuration file, insert the database name and password I created in the last step, and then upload the entire WordPress program onto the web host. Total time spent: 12 minutes (mostly waiting for files to upload).

Step 4 – Launch and Configure WordPress

When all the WordPress files are uploaded to the web host, I’m ready to run the installation process. This takes about 12 seconds, so we won’t even count it on our time tally. I would then change the URL / linking structure to make it more search engine-friendly (1 minute), add some categories (2 minutes) and other minor tweaks (5 minutes). Total time spent: 8 minutes.

Step 5 – Customization and Appearance

I want this website to look professional and unique, so I would create a custom logo for it, arrange its layout for usability and readability, tweak the colors, etc. Granted, this step requires some graphical knowledge (for logo) and web coding skills (to arrange the site’s layout), but it still only takes half a day. You could pay somebody to handle this setup process for just a few hundred dollars. Total time spent: 5 hours.

Step 6 – It’s Time for Content

Now comes the most important part. I need to create some initial content for my website. I say “initial” because I plan to add new content on a weekly basis (the WordPress system makes this easy to do, by the way). I want to start with a few pages of content about my services, some content for the home page, etc. Total time spent: 1 day.

So let’s recap. I’ve just created a multi-page business website (with a blog built in), I’ve created some initial content to get me started, and I have a content-management system that allows me to add new pages and blog posts as easily as I would type an email.

* Total time spent: 2 days

* Total cost for me: $94 (because I did the work myself)

Like I said, if you don’t have the technical / graphical skills to accomplish the things on this list, you could hire somebody to help you. In the end, you’ll pay a lot less than you would pay for a traditional, programming-heavy (“bulky”) website. And you’ll have your website in a matter of days, instead of weeks or months. Best of all, you’ll be able to manage certain aspects of it, because the content-management tool is built right in.

Some web design firms will tell you it can’t be done, that it takes weeks to build a website. But I’ve just shown you it can, haven’t I?

* You may republish this article online if you keep the author’s byline and the active hyperlinks below.

There are multiple web design companies offering their custom Content Management Systems (CMS), powerful hosting and search engine optimization services. Every company it trying to win clients by doing something different, but presenting their services as unique, as something that you can’t get anywhere else. And this is good business practice. This is what competitive businesses do.

If you’re not too sure or confused about all these choices – consider building your website using Wordpress. Yes, the same system that is used by millions to power their blogs. The same system that already powers millions of business websites.

There are numerous layouts that you can choose from and if you host your own system (on a separate web hosting account), you can actually modify your template, or even create your own, to reflect the business nature of your website. Normally, the main menu pages are setup as static pages, dynamic news or catalogue items are setup as blog posts. Then you just login to the admin section of Wordpress to create new or edit existing pages.

Why Wordpress?

From my experience in web design and web hosting, I believe that about 90% of small business websites could be managed with Wordpress. It’s a free open source platform that is already utilized by millions of blogs and other websites. When used as CMS, Wordpress is “invisible” – it is solely used for the convenience of maintaining the web site yourself. There are many other reasons, too:

It is easy to install and maintain Most, if not all, hosting companies support it It is arguably the most popular blogging platform and therefore it is updated regularly It is easy to update with security patches It is secure It can be used as a blog, website or both Search engines love it. They keep on coming back to check for new content You can post new pages just by sending an email It has a lot of add-ons, also known as “plugins” that developers can utilise without re-inventing the wheel.

While the system is free, there are web design companies that charge for setting up Wordpress websites. Don’t be put out by that. It’s actually a good thing. Instead of using their own CMS and locking clients into long term contracts, these companies use this open sources program to power clients’ websites. What is means that you, the client, can take over the hole maintenance of the site once it’s created, or easily find some other web design company to take over the management.

If you haven’t looked into it, make sure you do. Check it out. You may be surprised how easy it actually is to have a “CMS-based” website that you can easily maintain yourself.

It’s a lot easier to just whip out a card and charge it, versus get the checkbook out, try to find a pen, write the check out, and heaven forbid you don’t have your driver’s license on you!

There are many ways you can accept credit cards online. It is not, unfortunately, as simple as it sounds. There are many factors to consider. What is your target audience? Are you shipping tangible product, or a downloadable product? What do you want to spend? What kind of sales volume are you expecting? Hopefully this article will help you make a more informed decision.

First of all, let’s set some definitions. There are 2 main ways to accept credit cards on your website. One is through a third-party payment processor. An example of this is PayPal or 2Checkout. The payment engine is on their website, and your control over many aspects of the transaction will be limited. The other method is a payment gateway linked to a merchant account you hold. An example of this would be Authorize.net linked to your business bank account. You have complete control over how to accept payments, but there are a lot more things you have to do to ensure the quality of your visitors experience and transaction security.

Let’s examine some of these methods.

First, lets compare the pros and cons of a traditional merchant account versus a third-party processor.

Merchant Accounts: Generally have monthly fees. Can be harder to get, as you have to often pass credit checks. May require some programming to get them to work with your site. Portray professionalism – your name is on the statements. Are better if you wish to accept credit cards offline – face to face or over the phone. Deposit funds within 1 to 3 days, typically Are generally direct accounts with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, etc.

Third Party Processors: Often have no monthly fees. Usually charge a flat per transaction fee plus a percentage of each transaction. Don’t usually allow custom shopping experience – the customer leaves your site to pay. Often have other features built in, such as affiliate programs. Hold your money for up to a month. Are often geared towards selling downloadable products. Often have built in affiliate marketing programs.

I mentioned PayPal and 2Checkout earlier. Some other services are Clickbank, PayDotCom, SaleFlurry, WorldPay, iBill, Google Checkout, and many more. We’ll examine a few from the above list: PayPal, 2Checkout, Clickbank, PayDotCom, and SaleFlurry, as these are services I use and am quite familiar with.

PayPal:
PayPal is a great way to accept payments for digital and tangible goods. There are quite a few shopping cart software packages that can integrate with PayPal, or you can just copy and paste a few lines of code into your site to make a “Buy Now” button.
Advantages of PayPal – easy to use, no signup fee, widely used and they’ve been around for a while. The disadvantages are the fact that PayPal prefers that you be a member to purchase someone’s product or service. You don’t HAVE to be, but they “urge” you to be. They also hold your money until you withdraw it. PayPal can support both digital and tangible products.

2Checkout:
2Checkout is one of my favorites. They deposit money within a few days to your bank account. Many shopping carts also integrate with 2Checkout. Their fees tend to be the highest, but they are also pretty easy to use, and I feel they are the closest to having a real merchant account without having one. 2Checkout supports both Digital and Tangible products. There is also a 49 dollar signup fee.

Clickbank:
Clickbank is a favorite among internet marketers. They have a built in affiliate program and a marketplace to sell your product on. They only support digital products, and you can only have one sales URL per account (although you can have many products on it). They also have a price cap on products. They pay by check every 2 weeks. There is a signup fee of 49 dollars.

PayDotCom:
PayDotCom is a newer processor, created as a competitor to Clickbank. They are similar in that they have a built in affiliate program and an online marketplace. PayDotCom could be considered a front end to PayPal, as payments are deposited into a PayPal account. There is no signup fee, unless you want to sell multiple products, and then it is a one time 29 dollar fee. They allow Digital and Tangible products.

SaleFlurry:
SaleFlurry is a brand new service that just launched in July of 2006. It has an affiliate program, and integrates with PayPal as well. SaleFlurry is unique in that if you have a traditional merchant account and an account with the payment gateway Authorize.net, you can accept payments that way. Signup is free, and transaction fees are a flat 1 to 3 dollars per transaction.

Google Checkout:
I am mentioning Google Checkout because it is new, and it’s from Google. Signup is free, plus you get credit towards your AdWords account if you sell product through Google Checkout. At this time, it only works with Tangible goods. But, hopefully Google will change that soon.

I’ve gone over some of the more popular third party payment processors above. So, what if you want to completely integrate payments on your website? Or, you don’t want to have to send the buyer to another website to pay, and then return to yours? What if you need to accept payments by phone or in person?

It’s time to look at the traditional Merchant account.

A Merchant account is typically used with brick and mortar businesses. The credit card swipe terminal is the front end. When the card is swiped, the information is communicated to a payment gateway, such as Authorize.net, and then money is deposited from the sale to your bank account through the merchant account. I know, it sounds rather confusing. Merchant accounts and payment gateways don’t usually come together in a neat package either. You need to talk to your bank about turning your business account into a merchant account, then set up with a payment gateway to get your terminal set up (either the physical swipe terminal like a TelXon or Verifone unit, or an online virtual terminal where you enter the card information into a computer).

When I set up my merchant account, I was not up to speed on all the monthly costs and what I’d pay up front. Plus, at the time I had no idea how to integrate it with my website. I called quite a few places for information, but the most helpful was Charge.com. They don’t charge the signup fees or virtual terminal fees that others charge. So, if a traditional merchant account is your cup of tea, Charge.com is the best place to start.

Shopping Cart Software

There are literally hundreds of different shopping cart software packages on the market. Some are free, others can run up to almost a thousand dollars. There are pros and cons to using shopping cart software to accept payments. First of all, most software of this nature can accept payments through several sources. One such package, OSCommerce, can accept payments through PayPal, 2Checkout, and Authorize.net – making it very flexible.Most Shopping Cart software packages have an “out of the box” design scheme, and it is often difficult to create a custom design to integrate with your existing site’s design. There are often plenty of “plug in” templates available to change the basic look and color combinations, but heavy customization would most likely require the services of a developer who is familiar with a particular package and could customize the look to suit your needs. All in all, having some sort of Shopping Cart software is advantageous if you are selling a large variety of products and shipping them – most of these packages can also integrate with FedEx, UPS, and USPS for your shipping needs.

There are many ways to accept credit cards on your website, and I’ve covered many of them here. Ultimately, the decision is yours. Take into account what you are selling, the prices of the products, how many sales you expect, and how good you are at web development.

That wraps up this overview. Thanks for reading, and I hope that you have gained enough basic knowledge to know what will – and won’t – work for your business needs!

The well known blogging software in the business world in the internet is what we call WordPress CMS.
Furthermore, it also has the ability to have great potential earnings and an integrated content management. If you’re an affiliate distributor it can increase productivity and with less maintenance on the grounds that it would perform over time. Take the time to consider the following tips below if you are considering on using this platform to market your site.

1. Topics:

It should be known that you can only impress people to your website just ones. Don’t expect them to return if they aren’t impressed. Using the software WordPress, you have the option of uploading the heading you want and just press a button and you’re done with it. This gives you ample time when considering the choice of the subject matter, locating the right one is time consuming to find.

The characteristic listed in the CMS makes modification in your site very easy and a time saver. You can modify its appearance on how you want your visitors to see your home page, group page, or a solitary entry page. The selection is yours with just a click of the mouse. This enables you to optimize every aspect of your site that will show the way to higher exchange rates.

2. Using Plug-ins:

As most know that WordPress is a simple software program, therefore, there are not that many features provided. However, you can add plug-ins. With this plug-ins it allows the software to plan an amount of different things to do, such as; generating mailing lists, generating affiliate links and link trackers and you can even import your feeds straightforwardly to your site.

An important factor in the management of your associate marketing site is to learn how to assign and when. The CMS can have several writers, you got the power to let other people create and place content on your site, and you don’t need to give this authors administrative information. They won’t have power on your site and they wouldn’t be able to take over it. It is only enough force to do their job and that’s all.

Add-ons were developed by some people around the world for the software. These additives can add new themes and plug-ins included, amongst others. A number of these people understand the complex issues related and can help you if you get an error. Apart from the wider population worldwide, you can find books that start with the installation and how to put it into use.

There are a number of advantages that may derive from the use of software WordPress. What was on one occasion used for blogging is now a very powerful tool to aid you in creating a website that will get you more visitors and more money for your site.
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Fantastico Hosting is a new innovation in web hosting that can make a person who has little knowledge about website building an expert webmaster. With so many web hosting companies out there, companies are trying to stand out by providing outstanding service.

Using a Cpanel hosting account, Fantastico hosting allows auto installation of various sources content and user management. So there is no need for complicated process of creating database to install scripts. This is much faster compared to Wordpress where files need to be uploaded first, create a database and table and then run the script. For Fantastico, users only need to choose and click. The Wordpress blog will be generate in an instant. Therefore, it saves a lot of time. That is why Fantastico is very useful for a newbie who is trying to build his dream website but have zero knowledge of web hosting or website building.

Fantastico also provides shopping cart, e-commerce and billing option besides content management. This is very convenient even to expert webmasters. Although it is so useful and convenient to users, Fantastico has received much criticism because there are many versions of it and its open software comes with different version. Therefore, users are having a tough time choosing the version. No matter what, the most important thing is to make sure that everything is in Cpanel hosting and you can buy updates when there is a newer version in the market. Therefore, it is still very easy for users to use Fantastico even if they need to update from time to time.

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Joomla? This word has been doing the conversation rounds of late. Joomla is an open source solution, which will help you to create your own website. You no longer have to run around to web designing professionals who are not only exorbitant but who are not accessible, whenever you need them. So, Joomla the free software to help you build your dream website was born when a group of like-minded people began to create templates and modules that others could use as extensions when they were building their own websites.

With the widening scope of the Joomla software, a streamlined content management system or CMS was born, enabling online applications and websites to be built. One of the earliest users of this software is the Harvard University.

Joomla has freely available extensions that will become a part of the application to further the use of the software. The extensions contain components, modules and plug-ins, language packs and templates. Examples are plenty like the Mighty commerce for an e-commerce site. Joomla provides advanced features of batching of pages, to improve output and it even allows RSS feeds to be published as well as the print format to be available. Blogs, searching of websites, language systemization can all be performed by using Joomla.

Joomla is created in the PHP language and its database is MySQL. Joomla power lies in its empowering the beginner or a pro to create and run a website and manage its content. It uses a series of templates written in HTML, PHP, XML and standard image files much like the lines drawn in student books to guide them while writing. These templates are available free on the net. You only need to download and customize it to your specifications. These templates are so powerful and comprehensive that managing and maintaining any dynamic website is now easy.

The templates provide all the menus, style, color, text size as soon as the text is inserted into the template. The web page comes alive even as you click away at a button. An addition is the editing option of the CSS or cascading style sheet and the HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language files. The CSS can be edited to change the look of the web pages and the HTML will help you write the content or the text part of the web page.

Next, the graphics are generally maintained as separate file with link tags from the HTML files. So, by merely changing the link, the images icon that you want to display can be added to the web page. Another major use of templates is that you can use them to rebuild existing websites or start from scratch and start new websites without once again running behind expensive web designers. Audio, video and additional pages can be inserted including text, menus and drop-down lists. Using Flash application, the color, images and other attributes can be changed without affecting the content.

The Joomla is a very powerful web site building software for the beginner as well as the professional.
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