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The first step in designing a website is understanding your audience. This is easier than it may sound. Think big. Really big. Not in terms of traffic, necessarily, but the longevity of your site. How many sites developed in 1995 still exist, dinosaurs of the Internet? They are obvious, and even painful to look at. But how do you come across them? In the majority of cases, they persist out there because they offer something that still hasn't been replicated. Data. Content. Originality.

Most of the web sites you visit on a day-to-day basis have social bookmarking buttons under their blog posts, videos, or whatever type of content they feature. If you are reading this article then you probably already have these social bookmarking buttons on your own web site, or you're planning to do it soon. In either case you will need to put some thought into which buttons you want to place on your website. You'll need to choose as few as possible to keep things from getting too cluttered, but you also need to make sure you choose the ones that will benefit you the most. 

So you've just installed a new component, module or plugin, or made some other change to your site's PHP code. You've enabled it on the Joomla backend and configured its settings just right. Then you browsed to your web site's home page and found that there is only a blank page displayed, a white screen with nothing else. Don't panic, you just have a PHP error.

Google AdWords is the pay-per-click advertising system that powers AdSense. Pay-per-click means that advertisers will pay every time a visitor clicks an ad that takes them to the advertiser's website. Advertisers pay to create their ads with AdWords, and publishers get paid to display those ads on their web sites with AdSense. You can use AdWords to bring targeted traffic to your web site by creating ads and choosing keywords related to your business. AdWords will then place your ad on Google when people search for your specified keywords, and into AdSense placements on related websites all across the internet. AdWords is a pay-per-click system so you only pay when AdWords brings targeted users to your web site. 

Upload module - Failed. There is already a file called /home/folder/www/modules/blah_blah_blah.php - Are you trying to install the same CMT twice?

This is an error I have run into several times with Joomla 1.0.x. You go to install a module, apparently one you've already installed previously. I've been frustrated with this before, and I know many others have as well. It's a very simple problem (which highlights a bug in Joomla's module handling, but will probably never be fixed in the 1.0.x version of the CMS) and luckily it has a simple solution.