Digital photography has taken off in a big way. Digital cameras are getting better each year. It is easier than ever to scan and convert old photos into digital format. Reasonably good digital cameras are affordable. Cell phones are often equipped with built-in digital cameras and they are getting better as we speak. The revolution in digital photography is having a huge impact on the Web and is a big chunk of what Web users and business people share among each other. Digital photos and digital videos is the kind of digital content that requires a lot of disk space to host and a lot of computing power to deliver.

The battle of the masses rages on. Large computer companies and media conglomerates of the world are competing, wheeling and dealing like never before. The search engines of the Web are moving into distribution of multi-media content and TV programming. Content producers are doing deals with Web companies to distribute their production. Computer and chip manufacturers are designing new chips and computers boxes to use with your TV. At stake is the control of entertainment and information channeling in our homes.

The battle over the Internet rages on. Google is defending its databases from being used by the government. Google should be honored for their efforts, nothing less. The easy way for them would have been to do like other search engines and quietly hand over the information, but they didn't and they get deserved worldwide respect. Google knows there is so much more at stake than handing over a database of search queries to the government.

The first large Web directory ever created on the Web is today one of the Web's largest multi-media company and it is also the world's second most popular search engine. Many Web directories were created in the Web's early days. In the year 2000 and until 2005 the number of Web directories increased exponentially.

There have been discussions in the past whether blogs should contain advertisements or not. It is now widely accepted that blogs can contain advertisements just like any other Web sites and Web publishers offering content, but it is still debated what kind of advertisements should be placed on a blog. Should everything be accepted or should only certain types of ads and advertisers be accepted?

Blogging is the Web trend of 2005, but where will blogging be after one year, at the end of 2006. Blogging has been a major factor in news, politics and Web publishing. Blogging has created new technology, new software and new Web services. We read somewhere that 8,000 new blogs are created every hour in the world.

There is always something exciting that happens when you discover a new content management system and what's even better it's open source software. CMS's are as different as the developers. Some of them are just plain trash while others are true masterpieces.

Blogging has become a mainstream. Blogging is everywhere on the Web. Almost every prominent figure in the computing and Web publishing industry is blogging. Blogs are different. Some blogs contain nothing but a cut and paste from other blogs while others are good opinionated articles.

The perfect Web site is yet to appear on the Internet's horizon and perhaps it never will. Web sites are as different from one another as the people and companies running them. Some are simple, some are fast, and some are graphical masterpieces while others don't even use graphics at all.

One of the most used elements of a Web page is the form. The form is used to allow users to submit information. Sometimes the information is as simple as a search string and it uses a very simple form. Information in a more detailed form requires more complex forms. One common form used by Web businesses are the link submission forms for exchanging links or submitting links to databases.

The Internet brought the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web brought new ways of thinking and innovation to the world. One of the factors is speed and another one is change. The World Wide Web has accelerated the speed of change in out world.

Web publishing is all about software and text. Every webmaster is always handling text in one way or the other. Large word processing software packages are often too heavy when working with raw text and HTML documents. A good text editor becomes the webmaster's friend.

We use search engines to search the entire Web. We are constantly learning how to use them for our advantage. Sometimes we want to search smaller, a Web site we're on and can't find the link to the information we are looking for.

Majority of people accessing the Internet use Internet Explorer (IE) to get around in the world. The minority use Safari for Mac, Opera, Linux Browsers and of course Firefox. IE has done the job fine and for years it was the best browser.

For a few years hundreds of thousands large Web sites were created containing only links. Link pages, directories, Web guides, small search engines and Web site databases. This was the stuff most search engines favored to be in the top search results. The link Web sites multiplied until there were too many for the search engines to keep up with while trying to provide good search experiences for their users.

One of the worst situations a webmaster can experience is when an intruder breaks into his Web site. The feeling that comes with it isnt pleasant and can have dire consequences on his work. Sometimes the webmaster is lucky and no harm has been done, but sometimes the harm done can be irreparable.

One of the most important tasks of every webmasters job is to make sure to take backup of all his work, online and offline. One webmaster relied on his hosts ability to secure the data of his Web site. Everything went fine for a few years. One day everything was gone, the Web, the data and the software. When he asked his host about the backup to restore his Web site he got the news that there was no backup, it was lost too.

When looking for Open Source and free Content Management Systems (CMS) the other day we stumbled upon a nice looking blog software. We decided to give it a try.

The Open Source environment has contributed greatly to the Internet community and Web sites and Web services have been built solely on Open Source software. Mambo is Open Source software that early gained popularity. It offered the opportunity to create dynamic Web sites with a lot of features. Earlier this year part of the Mambo development team broke from Mambo and created Joomla.

Freedom of speech is one of the cornerstones of democratic societies. Without freedom of speech there is no democracy. The arrival of the Internet has underpinned the importance of freedom of speech and has shown what the freedom of speech can accomplish for people in countries where democracy is yet to be established.

There are already billions of Web pages available and unique domain names can be counted in hundreds of millions. There are thousands if not hundreds of thousands hosts providing storage and Internet access to domains.

Every good business has its burden and Web business is no exception. In our opinion e-Mail spam and server break-ins are the biggest burden of any Web business. People actively engaging in communication over the Internet know about spam and have felt the effect of spam personally. Web sites are no exceptions, but in a different way.

The phrase "Content is King" is often used when referring to why some Web sites succeed over other Web sites. The argument is if a Web site has content to offer then it will do better than those with little or no content to offer. This bring into question what content is and what kind of "content is king"?

Advances in software and technology have helped the Web to grow and expand. There is a software solution for almost every task. If the solution doesnt fit then it can be adjusted with little efforts and small price. Prices for software solutions have decreased. A complex Web site can be created and powered by sophisticated databases for a reasonable amount and affordable by all.

The XML technology has created new advertising and marketing opportunities for businesses on the Web. RSS feeds and Atom feeds can be marketed as well as the Web site. If you RSS feeds find their way into desktop readers, Web sites and search engines then you have got yourself a valuable marketing tool.

You have seen it and you have perhaps used it or you have clicked on it. Web Rings arrived early on the Internet and at the same time as banner exchanges. They gained some popularity, but never any momentum, and what is interesting is that they are still used by many and the form of the Web Rings is very similar to what it was.

The type of Web publishing called Weblogs is only few years old and is the part of Web publishing that has grown at the fastest pace. Some figures indicate there are 10,000,000 new Web pages created every day and Weblogs and Weblogs articles are most likely the biggest part of that number.