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Archive for February, 2018

Google receives 2.4m requests to delete search results

Wednesday, February 28th, 2018 by Helge
trashGoogle received 2.4 million requests since 2014 to delete search-engine results under Europe’s “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) rules. European Union citizens currently have the right to ask search engines to remove results that include their names following a landmark decision from the European Court of Justice in 2014. The search giant released an updated version of its annual Transparency Report, which discloses how many and what kind of requests Google has received to delist pages from results and in how many instances the company complied. According to the report, it looks like the company is being asked to remove plenty of content. From 2014-2017, it received more then 2.4 million requests. ...
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Servage Web Development Course Part 3: Layout and page structure

Friday, February 23rd, 2018 by Servage
blogimageEvery website looks a little different, but somehow they all still contain similar elements. Like a menu, a content area, a top banner (called header) and a bottom (called footer). These can be arranged and displayed in varuous ways, but mostly they are all there - somehow. In HTML there is the <div> tag which is suited to define and seperate such areas from each other. Combined with CSS styling, these <div> containers, as they are often called, can even be positioned to match the layout you want on your website. So let's have a look at a sample <div> container structure (part3a.html of the project files): <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" ...
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Some info about the Servage control panel – directory listing

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 by Helge
In case you want a web-directory to behave just like any other folder on your local PC, you'll need to enable directory listing in our Servage account. Please check further information regarding to this subject in our Wiki:directorylisting https://www.servage.net/wiki/Directory_listing In case of questions, remarks, or webhosting  related questions, please get in touch with our support team via our support ticket system. If you  shouldn't have an Servage account  yet, please contact us via our 24/7 live chat on  servage.net.

Servage Web Development Course Part 2: Content formatting

Friday, February 16th, 2018 by Servage
In this part you will learn how to format (style) web pages' main content, such as text, paragraphs, lists, images and links. The formatting will be done with CSS, which was introduced in the first part of the Servage Web Development Course. Just to recap: HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is the language used for the content of your website. CSS (Cascaded Style Sheet) is the language used to describe the design of your content. It is important to remember that we strictly separate those two elements from each other. One of the main advantages of this, is that you can not only have different people working on content and design separately from each other, you can also ...
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Introduction to the Servage Web Development Course

Saturday, February 10th, 2018 by Servage
Hello and welcome to the Servage Web Development Course. Over the next weeks we will take you through a series of tutorials that will show you how to develop your own web site and application from scratch. The course if designed for anyone that has no or little prior knowledge about website development. After this course you will have a good overview over the main technologies used - namely HTML, CSS, PHP and MySQL. The course itself will take you through these areas by building a little Blog-application step by step, that will feature creation, modification, display and design of content. So, if you are not yet an expert on creating webpages, please continue reading :-) The beginning Every ...
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Information about a domain owner and why you would need to know

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018 by Helge
Choosing a domain name is one of the first steps toward establishing your digital presence. You’ve considered all of the factors for picking your perfect domain, and you’ve thought one up. You sit down to register your domain and - somebody already own it! What now? Please be prepared and chewhoisck whether the domain is available before you choose it. So, how do you tell who is the owner of a domain name? A WHOIS search can help to discover who is the owner of a domain name. What is a WHOIS search, though? WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase who is) isn't an acronym, though it may look like one. In fact, it ...
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Start blogging in 10 minutes

Friday, February 2nd, 2018 by Servage
WordpressSo, you want to have your own blog? There are many ways to accomplish that, and lots of tools out there to help you. I would like to present Wordpress to you, which is one of the most popular, and probably one of the best, blog applications available today. Wordpress can be installed on your Servage account with just a few clicks in the Autoinstaller, whereafter it is easy to further customize your blog with your own theme, plugins/addons etc. So if you want an own blog today, read on. Installing Wordpress Login to the Servage control panel and go to "Tools > Autoinstaller". Choose Wordpress blog, and follow the instructions of the Autoinstaller. Please remember to ...
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