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January 02, 2009

New Year's Resolution: Create a Website!

Three people told me this past week that their New Year's Resolution was to finally learn how to create a simple website.

There are lots of great tools that make creating a website pretty simple. Here's a good overview of some of the "how-to's" of website creation.

The article does a good job of suggesting tools and software to get you started. And it's nice to see my personal favorite secure file transfer software is recommended: "Use a file transfer program (FTP) such as Ipswitch WS_FTP to upload and download your website creation and any updated pages between your computer and web site host computer.

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December 29, 2008

Security - A not so subtle reminder!

Many FTPplanet readers have commented that there was a noticeable increased focus on SECURITY in my blog posts this year

And for good reason!

This article by BankInfoSecurity lists the top 10 security breaches of 2008. Pretty sobering to say the least!

Whether you are an individual at home, a small business, a large organization or anything in between, it's pretty clear that you should take some precautions with your files and data to help ensure that your private information stays clear of bad people who are trying to do bad things.

In 2009, we'll continue to focus on security and provide tips and insights on how you can protect your files and data from prying eyes.

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December 22, 2008

Discuss Amongst Yourselves!

Got questions about File Transfer?

Then check out the FTPplanet discussion forums!

If you have questions about a file transfer or FTP problem, try the FTPplanet Discussion Forums. It may be an easy way to get feedback from other experts and users of FTP and any file transfer function.

Here's a link to the FTPplanet Discussion Forums..... Or you can navigate to them from the top right side of this page by clicking on the "Discussion forum" link in the "Quick Link" section.

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December 17, 2008

Attention Webmasters: What is your website's score?

I have come across a nifty online search engine optimization tool, called Website Grader, that scores a website and generates a 'grade' for website optimization purposes. It scores the website in areas relating meta tags, inbound links, indexed pages, etc. It's free and worth a run through! A couple of simple tweaks can optimize your website to generate more no-cost inbound website traffic from the search engines.

Check out this website analysis tool at http://www.websitegrader.com

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December 11, 2008

SC World Congress

I just got back from the SC World Congress forum in NYC. The show was focused on data security and was bursting with great educational tracks and information from some of the world's leading vendors.

Data security is certainly a universal concern. I must have had over 100 conversations with folks from a variety of industries from around the globe, and I think that every single conversation centered on protecting data, access controls, user permissions, encryption, non-repudiation, compliance and/or high availability solutions.

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December 05, 2008

What is FTP and How Does it Work?

"FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the simplest and most secure way to exchange files over the Internet..... Simple definition for FTP is, “To Transfer one file from a computer to another.”

In our case, it is used to transfer our files to the host computer, you can use a FTP Program to make it easy and simple. For example the WS_FTP Program is one of the easiest programs to use".

This link from 2-Create-a-Website also lists 5 easy steps for how FTP works

Get a 30-day free evaluation of WS_FTP Professional secure file transfer software today!

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December 03, 2008

The Twitter World

How many FTP users out there are using Twitter?

Reply back with comments on this question:

Are you using it for business or personal communication?

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