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I am the techie guy that everyone comes to for advice. If someone needs their computer fixed, they come to me. If someone wants to learn about web design they come to me. If someone wants to know about web hosting? You guess it, they come to me to ask for my opinions.

Sometimes I have a lot of time on my hands and I can sit down and explain everything to them, but most of the time I am just too busy so I send them over to Web Hosting Geeks to read their tutorials. They’ve got a really great basic article entitled Webhosting Instructions. It’s a basic tutorial that defines a lot of the terms bandied about on the net about webhosting. In other words, it’s a must read introduction to hosting.

I like the articles on WebHostingGeeks.com, but others really like their host ratings. They’ve got a just about every major host rated and also categorized into a variety of categories like best budget hosting, best PHP hosting, and even best green hosting. You name it, they’ve got it and it’s easy to find. Cool, right?

What does this mean for you? If you need web hosting, get over to the Geeks and find the hosting that you need for your site. You’ll find exactly what you need, even if you’re not really sure what you need right now.

I just love the simplicity and the power of WordPress. It’s versatile enough to be used as a blog and as a CMS. A few years back, I tried to get Joomla to work for a site idea I had, but after playing with it for a couple of days, I realized that with the right kind of theme, I could get WordPress to do the same. I haven’t look back since.

As I said, all you need is a good theme to turn your WordPress into a CMS. These kind of WordPress CMS themes are the type of themes found at WPRemix.com. They have MANY different styles of WordPress themes and each one of them is designed to give your users a CMS experience. In other words, your simple WordPress site has all the features that much more complicated sites have, but without any of the hassles.

How do they do it? WordPress has all of the function calls and features that you need to turn it into a CMS. You have to know what function calls to make and when to make them. This is where a premium wordpress theme from WPRemix.com comes into play. All of their themes are ready made content management systems. If you need a CMS, going with one of their theme is probably what you are looking for.

One of the things that is particularly awesome about WPRemix.com for those of us who do design work for others is the affiliate bonus. Right now their payout has increased to 50% from 20%. This means that you can make a very good profit for every person you refer. It can make your design and programming work that much more profitable. Check them out.

As I have mentioned before, I am doing a redevelopment of my Category Magic Plugin. I have reworked a lot of code and write I am in the testing phase. I have made some enhancements to the general structure of the plugin in order to make it flow better. I didn’t just stop at making the code flow better.

WordPress has made some changes along the way and the big addition has been tags. That means new features and tags are the biggest one when it comes to Category Magic. New changes I made in the code also include support for tags. I have listened to suggestions here and I decided to make sure that they was support for excerpts and full posts in the code.

All of this has introduced a brand new problem. As I prepare to release it, should I release it all as updates to category magic or should I just make the simple changes to Category Magic and release another plugin titled Expanded Category Magic, or something to that effect?

I’d love to hear some advice. Right now I am looking at having the new changes available for download within a couple of days of the release of 2.7. Now’s the time to make your voices heard.

For a project that I am working on, I need to be able to put videos online and then be able to control the videos and the brand image associated with the video. I don’t have a big budget to work with so I have been looking for a solution to hosting my own videos onsite.

Youtube doesn’t work for this project because of the lack of control of the videos. I’d hate for a competitors video to pop up and get people to click away. This means that I have to recreate my own mini video site. To this end, I came across some nice open source scripts and packages that help me make my own video site.

Once I have everything up and running, I will share the site and the exact code I used to make the site a reality.

It’s been a while since I talked about GLM Environment so I figured it was time for an update. The platform/environment is working out very nicely. It’s still very much in alpha at this stage because I had a few important things come up, but it’s nice to see that it has already turned into a profitable script.

It is generating income on a couple of domains of mine right now as I write this. If I had more time in my schedule to do more promotion of it, I am sure that it would produce even more income. It’s nice to see that several of my projects are seeing genuine success.

What’s next for GLM Environment? It needs some more polishing and more testing. At that stage, I will look at selling it. I promise to keep you, my readers, updated on the progress.