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Many people would like to get more information on a particular domain name, and check the DNS records. Registries record domain name owners’ details in a public database called WHOIS. You can check WHOIS information, if you wish to find the details of the registrant (domain owner). If you just bought a domain name and need to check whether it’s correctly registered, for security, it is recommended to find the owner of a domain using WHOIS and found out about domain name ownership.

Abongo.com Is a neat and powerful new tool for investigating Internet domains, websites, IP addresses and other things. It is an indispensable tool for webmaster and other network and web professionals to investigate DNS, Reverse DNS, Whois, Ping, TraceRoute Host and Page Rank from eight locations around the world.

Abongo will help you secure yourself from hackers by showing you mistakes that might have been made in your setup. You can get plain text (complete with maps and explanations) of tools like: Whois, DNS, Reverse DNS, Trace Route, Host, Ping and Page Rank (a new tool). To find the domain name owner information, these tools features a few very simple and easy steps to do. You can look up someone’s website, check where they are hosting, check if their mail is on Google or not, and that way, you really get a feel for whom they are.

It provides detailed website information, including keywords and thumbnail images in plain text, complete with maps and explanations. You can get archival information to review history of a domain. This will be cool for the thumbnail images. You will be able to look back and see what a site looked like over time.

This webmaster tools also provides email alerts and monitoring for all searches. For example, if DNS info for your domain changes, you will get an email telling you. If your search engine ranking changes up or down, you also will get an email reporting this.

Whether you run a business site or just a personal blog, providing a well-functioning and reader friendly theme is one of the most important aspects to present website.

Choosing a themes that suitable with the purpose of your website is not just choosing a fancy and eye-catching one. With so many choices, how do you choose the best themes to fit your site’s purpose? It can make or break your site; so you really need to choose carefully.

Whether you like to create and customize your own theme, or to go free or premium theme, you need to know how to choose a well-functioning theme.

1. You should pick a theme that relates to your niche and business. If you like simplicity, you can just choose a theme that is simple and minimalist and add a logo that matches.

2. A theme that has lot of complex features, may look good in the display, but it may not be the best for functionality. A fast and lightweight theme will improve your page speed. So, you need to check carefully if your theme is loading fast and compatible with all browsers, including mobile browsers. A responsive theme will adjust automatically when viewed on mobile devices.

3. The menu navigation is probably the most important parts of a theme. Make sure your reader can find and access your site navigation easily.

4. When you choose a theme for an online store, remember that the design, and the layout of your website will have a direct impact on your sales. For example, PureCostumes.com has a slider to display their featured product on their homepage. They also have product category, and other important data about their company displayed on its homepage.

We hope that now you have a better idea about what theme to choose for your site.

A website is required in today business because as the world is heading its way to advancements, technology become important especially in business. With the use of internet, how people do business becomes more and more efficient. Internet and computer has outpaced manpower. Trading, promotion selling and buying can be done via internet. That is why, having a good website for business is essential today. A website for business is very important. Maybe some people think that to have a website you have to hire expensive programmer or web designer and dealing with a web design company which means a big budget to spend. Even though that might be right, there is an easy and cheap way to have your own website with minimum budget. You can create your own professional website.

The easy and cheap way to have a professional website for your business is by using website builder. This is a service that allows you to have a professional website with personal domain name and email for your company. Making a website using website builder doesn’t need advance programming skill. It’s easy to build with few simple steps and the website is done. Website builder also provides 10,000 website templates you can use. All templates are well designed so you don’t need to have headache thinking about web design.

With the low cost and easy to make website builder now it come to the summary that internet marketing has many benefits over the other media such as printed media or electronics. Here are just a thought about the advantages of website. Your business will be open for 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Visitor can make purchase anytime whenever they are convenience. Your store will be low cost maintenance. It only need some amount of money to spend for web hosting and upgrade whenever required.

For graphic designs, pattern often time can be an important element. It is easy to use but yet can have a significant effect to the graphic. Pattern is a repeating element that can be used as a background or filling an area or object.

Creating a Custom Pattern in Photoshop
I will give a simple red polka dot pattern as an example.

To create a pattern you need to use Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) to make a selection. Keep in mind that your pattern will always be a rectangular regardless whatever shape you make. After making a selection, define your pattern by going to
Edit > Define Pattern

By doing this, you already have a new pattern which is ready to apply. To apply the pattern, select the area you want to fill, then click Edit > Fill, then select pattern you want to apply.
Just a tip, if you want to make a pattern, it is better to create it in a new file rather than making it in your drawing you are working on, so it will keep you work clean.

Creating a Diagonal Line Pattern
Make a new document with 5×5 pixels. In the Background Contents option, choose transparent, so it can be used in any backgrounds you want.

Use Pencil Tool and set it to 1 pixel from the option bar. Set the opacity to 100%. Because your canvas is very small, zoom it so you can see it clearly and bigger.
Make diagonal line from left top to right bottom. Here is how you do it : From the left top, click to create a dot, then move your mouse to the right bottom then while holding shift, click to make a straight line.

While still selecting your all 5×5 pixel document, define your pattern by clicking Edit > Define Pattern. (Note if your Define Pattern menu is not there, try to click Edit > Show All Menu Items.

Your Pattern is ready. Now it’s time to apply it to our design. I create a text with Futura XBlk BT font so just to make it bold.
Create a new layer on top of the text layer.
With a new layer still selected, Ctrl-click the “T” sign on the text layer. It makes the selection on the text.

Fill the selection with pattern with the pattern we just made.
Turn off the text layer, and add a white background so you can see how it looks.

Besides applying a pattern just it is, you can also experimenting with blend mode, opacity (from the layer pallet) and make a color change a little bit (after applying the pattern) to make different effect. You can also tweak the pattern by using Pattern overlay. With this, you can also have a lot of options including opacity, blend mode and also scale.

Applying pattern can bring different effect to a design. You can do more experiments to make different pattern and apply them to your text. If it is not enough, you can also download many free photoshop patterns available on the web. There are so many of them, both seamless or not.

Watching someone playing guitar is fun. Even more fun if we can play by ourselves, but to learn to play beautifully needs consistency in practicing. But what if it can be made fun like playing games? You Rock Guitar is a new gaming system to make that happen. It shape of a real guitar but it can produce magnificent sounds and can be used to improve your guitar skill. If you want, save on yourock guitar at musicians friend. Just plug it into a Wii or PS3 and you are ready to rock.

Banjo is not an easy instrument to play but yet, playing banjo can be a very pleasure thing to do. Like playing guitar, banjo is a simple instrument but it can bring the most fun. It doesn’t matter whether you play an expensive branded banjo or a cheap low end banjo, it does not make the result is better. There are some aspects that makes gold tone banjo. It is how the banjo is treated. A ten year old banjo which has been ten year staying in the closet will not produce a quality song even though it is properly stored.

So many brands of bass guitars are available in the market and you can get them online or go stright to the store. Epiphone is a holding an affordable quality guitar with around 200 to 800 USD. While if you want bass guitar, try Godin Bass as it is the freeway basses are all about. Good craftmanship with rock maple neck and rosewood fingerboard makes the appearance classy. It is comfortable and makes classic bass sounds.