Not too long ago, I discovered something really interesting about HostPapa. They have two different websites, HostPapa.ca and HostPapa.com, and there are some curious differences between them.

HostPapa.ca is aimed at Canadian customers, so it has the Canadian flag at the top of the site, while HostPapa.com is aimed at American customers, and thus has an American flag at the top. However, there are a few more differences that everyone should know about.

In both cases, it is still a Canadian company, and the data centres (or ‘centers’ as it is spelled in America) are located in Toronto just the same, but the price difference between the two sites is quite a lot. If you purchase a 3-year hosting plan from the Canadian site, it is $5.95/month. That is a pretty good price by itself, of course. However, if you purchase the same plan from the American site, it is just $4.95/month. That’s a difference of $36 over 3 years!

One other difference worth mentioning is that you are not able to select a Canadian (.ca) domain name if you order from the American site.  Your free domain will have to be a .com, .net, .org, .biz, or .info. So if you want a .ca domain name, you will have to order from the Canadian site and pay $36 more for a 3-year plan. Is it worth it? I think not.

So if you want to purchase a hosting plan from HostPapa, my advice to you is to sign up through the American site, HostPapa.com, which isn’t really an American site, but actually a Canadian hosting company’s website aimed at American buyers. You can purchase it through there just the same and save $36 in the process, especially in these times when the Canadian and American dollars are dancing around parity.

Canadian aimed site

To sign up through the “for Canadian customers” site and pay more just to get a .ca domain name that you can buy yourself for less than 1/3 the price, click here.

We also have a coupon code that can help you out. If you use the code, JP24 when signing up, you can get an additional $24 discount.

American aimed site

To sign up through the “for American customers” site and get the best hosting deal possible from HostPapa, click here.

The choice is yours.

We have a coupon code for the .com site, too. If you use the code, JPJP when signing up, you can get an additional $24 discount.

Here is a challenge that has stumped many users of SlideShowPro over the years, and it’s something that I have managed to figure out just recently with the help of a lot of research and trial and error. 

The situation is this: you or your client wants his slideshow to appear in a browser window and take up 100% of the width and 100% of the height of the browser window, no matter what size, and have the slideshow resize in real time as the browser window is dragged and resized. 

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I have another website for featuring top-10 Web hosting companies, discount coupon codes, and hot deals called Hosting Discount Codes, and I’ve been spending quite a lot of time researching hosting companies and other Web deals for it. As a result of my work and research, I’m now able to recommend one of these hosting companies as the one that gives you the absolute best value for your buck. That company is called iPage.

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For anyone who has been coding in HTML for any length of time, one of the biggest challenges has always been with trying to get a website to look the same in different browsers.

There was a time when you could program your site to work with Internet Explorer, and not have to worry too much about the other browsers; though, if you wanted to be considered as a professional company, you would have to try to make it look good in Netscape, too. Those were the only two relevant browsers.

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Working as a freelance website coder for 10 years now, I’ve long gotten used to relying on the Internet to have my questions answered and problems solved.

Now, I’m pretty strict to myself at trying to do my code properly. For instance, I would never add in a tag attribute without putting quotes around the attribute (i.e., width=”20″ instead of width = 20). That was one of the first things I learned in college when I started studying HTML — luckily I had a C programmer for a teacher who taught me high standards for coding.

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Recently, a customer asked me how much it would cost him to get a new design for his site. There was a time when I would have told him that it would probably cost him at least $1,500 to get a decent design from a reputable Web or graphic design company. But now things are much different, and there are many cheaper options out there.

When I first decided that I wanted to go with the new company/website name, Site Fixers, one of the first things I thought about was how I could get a pretty decent looking website up there that would give the appearance of quality without the high cost that usually goes with it. Then I remembered seeing banners in the midst of my Internet searches that were advertising cheap templates, so I decided to look into it some more.

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If you are one of the millions who enjoy surfing the Web these days, you’ve definitely seen them. In fact, it’s getting harder and harder to find a site now that doesn’t have them displayed somewhere. I’m talking about those little ads you see with a title, short description, and link, and that usually display Ads by Google at the top or bottom of the ad box. They are the ads that are generated by Google Adsense.

Pretty well anyone with a website or blog can take advantage of Google AdSense, and it is fairly easy to set up. You don’t even necessarily need to know HTML (if you use some kind of widget or design view editor), but it helps if you can understand it a bit. Just follow these steps, and you’ll soon be running your own AdSense ads.

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Recently, I’ve had to go shopping around again for a hosting company to take care of all my website-related needs. Not that the company I’ve been with for the last two years, Host Monster, has any problems. Quite the contrary. When I first signed up with Host Monster, I remember being so surprised at how much hosting plan I could get for just $7.95 per month (I had signed up for the 2-year plan). I couldn’t believe I could get unlimited bandwidth, disk space, MySQL databases, and was able to host unlimited websites for such a low cost. But that was two years ago. Could it be that there could be other choices now, and perhaps ever better host plan deals? I had to find out.

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So you finally thought of the perfect domain name for your business or personal website, but when you go to register it, it’s already taken. Sound familiar? Well, you might think it’s time to go back to the brainstorming session, but it might be best to check out a few things first.

One thing you should try, at first, is to type the domain name into your Web browser, and see if there is actually a website there already. If it looks like there is a real website there, you’re probably out of luck. If it seems like it’s not really being used, and you see something like an under construction, page not found, or a parked page with just a bunch of ads, then try doing a WHOIS search on the domain name to find out some information.

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Yet another website upgrade that is becoming more and more popular these days is giving someone the ability to edit their own content themselves. This article covers the basic preparations that should be made to get a website ready to be converted to a CMS, mainly cleaning up the code to make it easier for you to start plugging in code for getting the CMS communicating with the site. The CMS known as Website Baker is the CMS of choice for this series of articles.

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