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What type of database is it? If it's a MySQL database, they could give you login credentials even if it is not on your server. You can access it through something like PhpMyAdmin.

When you are shopping around for web hosting, aside from just looking for the lowest price, it's also a good idea to find out if they are running the latest version of Php on their accounts. Otherwise you could be open to security flaws, as well as not be able to install and run certain scripts...

You can do the MAC address route, or you could set up static IP addresses for each of your computers and only allowing those IP addresses on your network. You do have your WiFi password protected by the way, don't you? (never hurts to ask) It's also possible you or someone in your household has...

I still don't like to make purchased over my mobile phone, especially if it is through PayPal, because they constantly keep billing the wrong accounts that I have on file for them and they don't let me delete my old accounts to prevent it from happening. I don't mind browsing mobile sites to...

You should really try to build real Facebook likes. Otherwise you are only shooting yourself in the foot. If your Facebook page has a lot of likes but very few of those users are ultimately interacting with your posts, it will cause you to show up less in everyone else's feeds. I've seen...

If you are using software to do this, chances are you are probably using templated comments as well, which is not good for SEO. Google can ultimately detect that you are posting the same comments/statements on multiple web sites and it will make your site look like it's spamming others.

I don't think that nofollow links are entirely useless. They still gain visibility to your site, and make people more aware of your domain and your brand on other sites. Theoretically they can still drive organic traffic and real visitors to your site, which will increase your overall traffic...

It used to be important to make sure you redirected your www subdomain to your main domain, since Google used to treat subdomains as seperate from the main domain. But it's not as big of an issue these days since Google changed their stance on this and now treats subdomains as part of the main...

I never knew that about Safari, that is pretty crazy that they aren't passing referrer data. All major browsers have been doing that for decades now. Perhaps they have it disabled due to some privacy concerns. Google has been blocking referrer data as well from a lot of it's reporting in recent...

I would check out some of the industry blogs, such as SearchEngineLand.com and MarketingPilgrim.com to stay on top of the latest issues and for some guidance on how to avoid penalties. Also, don't forget that Google has their own official blogs with information straight from the source.

Don't cross post the same things to all the social media networks. Make sure you are posting unique content to each of the networks, to avoid duplicate content issues with Google. Don't forget to continuously test page load times, as this is an important factor to Google rankings as well, even...

Organic search spots are losing a lot of placement in favor of paid search ads. Over the years, Google has pushed Organic listings further and further down the page with the addition of things such as Sitelinks to their paid search ads.

When dealing with bounce rates, you should first do some analysis of your traffic to make sure you are getting real users coming into your site, and not just a lot of bots and fake traffic. This can happen if you are purchasing ad space from someone and they are sending you bogus traffic to make...

Actually you may want to spend some time writing more long form articles as well, since Google seems to be looking for these as well. It could help you to get a head start on your competitors by offering this on your site: Google's New, Little, Algorithmic, Arbitrary #Longform Play - Robinson...

If you would like to incorporate icons into your websites without the need for graphics, you can also use icon font sets and embed them in a similar fashion: ❍ IcoMoon - Icon Fonts Done Right

I've been playing around with this today. It's a tool for purposely distorting Jpegs and making them look all glitched out. image glitch experiment This kind of reminds me of some old programs I used to play around with a lot. One was called Auto Illustrator and the other one was called...

There was an interesting article recently about the influx of people trying to learn to code these days on sites such as CodeAdacemy. I'm not sure if I entirely buy that this is happening or merely the authors perception of things. Where The Coding Craze Is Going Overboard | TechCrunch But...

There was also some concern in the late 90's over the company that created the GIF file format. Apparently they are charging several thousand dollars to companies who were using the format in their products. There was a lot of bad press about this and it led meany webmasters to believe they too...

With the end of Adobe Fireworks, and the ultimate demise of Flash, they have since changed their direction and come up with a new set of applications for web development. One of them being a responsive design tool called ReFlow. I'm pretty new to this myself and still not entirely certain where...

This is a great tutorial on the Appearance Panel in Illustrator. Mastering the Appearance Panel | Learn Illustrator CS6 | Adobe TV If you are familiar with working with Layer Styles in Photoshop, you will soon discover that these options are much more limited in Illustrator. One thing...