How to find a website's page rank, popularity

1. Google Toolbar, pagerank meter while viewing the site. Simple view such as 4/10. Vastly different sites can have the same rank.
2. http://www.who.is/website-information/example.com/
3. http://siteanalytics.compete.com/example.com/
4. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/example.com

Host loading times

Moved a client site from Thinkhost to Dreamhost.

Here's an image of a ping test before the move,



and another afterwards.

Almost photoshop

Pixlr.com is photoshop lite online. So why lug the "big laptop" around?

How to find who links into a website

1. Google Webmaster Tools -- "Your site on the web": "Links to your site" screen.

2. Google search for "link:webdevelopersstudio.com" (narrow) or links:webdevelopersstudio.com (broader)

3. http://altavista.com/web/webmaster

4. http://www.alexa.com/site/linksin/example.com

Can't login to Joomla admin area

with the known username and password.

In phpmyadmin, go to the table jos_plugins.
Edit "User - Joomla!"
Change published from 0 to 1
Fixed the probem that began out of nowhere.

Answer found here and reposted in case it gets lost cause I'll never remember on my own.

To change the title tag for a Joomla 1.5 page

In the administrator area, click on Menus then choose the proper menu.
In the list of menu items, choose the one to change.
Click on Paramaters (System) and there will be a variable "Page Title".

One way to see if you're compliant

In Firefox, right-click on a page and click "View Page Info". The default "General" tab shows Render Mode which should read "Standards compliance mode", not "Quirks mode".

Gmail gives error?

Yesterday one of my business emails from Terri@WebDevelopersStudio.com kicked back with this error:

"Technical details of permanent failure:Google tried to deliver your message,
but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other
email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error
that the other server returned was: 554 554 The message was rejected because it
contains prohibited virus or spam content (state 18)."

I think I notice that it happens when someone is using an unsophisticated email service. Potential clients who are emailing me are often in this category.

Could the problem be that I have my business email address being sent via my personal Gmail account with this option specified?

"When receiving a message:Reply from the same address the message was sent to"?

Perhaps the client's mail server is thinking there is some malicious cloaking involved? The next time this happens, I think I'll just try to resend the email directly from my personal gmail account and see if that gets through. (Rather than scaring the potential client with ominous warnings about their email glitches.)