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A lot of small businesses have generic web hosting with email addresses that simply forward to a personal email account. This gets the job done but is very unprofessional. If a customer sends an email to billing and your reply is from your Yahoo! email account, the customer will see that you are a small-time operation without any infrastructure and will immediately lose faith in your business. I am about to show you how you can use the powerful features of Gmail to manage all of these email addresses from a single Gmail account, how to use Filters and Labels to organize all of this incoming mail, and how to respond to each of these emails while automatically replying with the correct name and email address.

Here's a quick but extremely useful tip for PHP developers. When working on plugins or extensions for an existing framework, use the print_r() function on the API objects to find out what data structures they contain. Great PHP help tip.

Many websites put Google Adsense or other forms of advertising directly in their forums. It's often a good idea to put ads directly before or after specific forum posts but it can be hard to write the code to place the ads correctly. Fireboard makes it easy by placing module positions within the forum component. Here's how you can place Adsense ads directly in your Fireboard forums. 

Social bookmarking is a way for people to save their favorite webpages online. By using social bookmarking online people can access their favorite bookmarks from any computer and share them with other people. Bookmarks are usually stored with tags, single words that describe a page, making it easy for people to search for similar bookmarks or find bookmarks they have saved.