Indeed, why should you? The reason is very simple: the description of the youtube video is indexed just like any other text content (at least Google does). Of course, the links are saved with the rel="nofollow" tag, so you can not use Youtube to get backlinks (at least not for now, that can change in time), but that should be the least of your problem.

I've watched some videos becoming virals in last few years, getting millions of views in matter of days, maybe you also noticed some of them. So you can easily imagine the benefits (and traffic) their authors (the people that uploaded them) got from that much attention.

The description of the video can help you in bringing your upload faster in the attention of others, but the content of the video makes the difference between something nobody watches and a viral.

I don't have to mention the importance of the passwords in the digital world of the internet because you already know a lot about that: we all use them to protect our accounts (most common the emails accounts, but also the accounts that grants us acces to different websites, administrator sections, protected files and so on) from unwanted intruders of any kind. And you want to keep people out of your business, even from accidentaly acces and from your best friends... you can never know what they can do, even by mistake.

Today the passwords are the digital counterpart of your's physical keys, they have the same value for your accounts in the digital world. So, if you want to protect your secrets and your precious data you have to choose a strong password: some people are just using the password manager (many websites provide this kind of service) that generate an unique string up to 16 characters for each applicant's use, others use words (one or several as a phrases) with space or special characters as word delimiter or combination of case-sensitive letters, numbers and special characters. Multi-word passwords are the ones with several words delimited by space.

The fastest and the easiest way to crack a password is to ask for it (in one form or another). The second most easiest method is to find out as much as you can about the targeted person and to guess his/her password - most people use familiar easy-to-remember words or phrases (as movie titles, favourite book, actor or sport team, etc.).  When a hacker has no such information they have to attack your protected account in order to find password. Dictionary attacks are when the hackers try out all the words in dictionaries and systematically try to access the password accounts using automated tools.

Some consider that multi-word passwords are stronger that singular word, but according to some research conducted by the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory (Sophos Security) they can still be cracked by hackers through dictionary attacks.

The brute force attack, when all the possible combination of letters, numbers and special characters are tried, is the last attack usually used. It takes the most of time, a PC could crack a common password in matter of years, and some websited are programmed to react to such attacks by denying "log in"s after a number of consecutive unsuccesful trials.

Recently Digital Journal reported on another study that found 'Password1' was the most common password used by global businesses.

The authorities and their computer software experts are realizing the vulnerability that multi-passwords are creating for hackers, they are continuosly researching the possibilities of making it more difficult for thefts to take place on the Internet. And, of course, it is in the best interest of the public that the relevant authorities move fast to lower the rise of Internet thefts.

For many people when considering to creat a blog the first thing they think about is Wordpress. It's easy, it's fast to create and configure, but when you want something more than just a blog you must consider something else. When using Joomla you can add various thing to your website using the extension (as components, modules and plugins) you can find here and on JED (Joomla Extension Directory), but you can use the CMS (Content Management System) as a blog in order to add more and more content to your website and improve the SEO (Search Engines Optimisation).

The installed Joomla (the main package you can get from Joomla.org) is rather limited when a blog is consider - you have to use third party components and modules in order to add tags (for example) or other thing you may consider useful for your blog. But these 2 tutorials can help you creating a blog with Joomla and tell you how to add posts (articles) to your website.

Enjoy watching.

 This is a short tutorial on how to use Netbeans for Joomla Development, specifically how to use it when working with the Joomla SVN. It can be useful to anyone using SVN with a php project, but is geared towards those who wish to use Netbeans as their primary IDE particularly using Joomla.

*Notes

Some issues have been reported with checking out from the SVN. If you cannot checkout, please try putting 'anonymous' in the username with a blank password.

Renaming the installation folder is actually not necessary because the trunk disables the check to help workflow, except for a release.

This 5 min screencast shows you how you can have a flawless Joomla installation running locally on your computer using free components. The authors of the video use the JumpBox for Joomla and run it on of Sun's open source virtualization technology, VirtualBox.

This video was embed into this website using JEmbedAll (Joomla Embed component and plugin we designed).

Earlier I was trying to install a joomla package for a client and I've got the following error:

Warning: session_start(): open(tcp://127.0.0.1:11211/sess_973eebe815a2f02cac90592473de1467, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /home/joomla/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 531 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/joomla/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php:531) in /home/joomla/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 531 Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/joomla/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php:531) in /home/joomla/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 531

That was triggered by the php configuration:

main

session.save_path

tcp://127.0.0.1:11211

That configuration is sending the request to nowhere (I mean to a place the scripts gets no valid response or no response at all). If you have access to php.ini (located in the folder where php is installed) you can change save_path yourself, if you don't have access ask someone that has (the server administrator, for example).

The configuration should be something like this (using a folder that exists and have permission to be written by the Apache server - or any other webserver you use):

main

session.save_path

where N is an integer. Instead of storing all the session files in /path, what this will do is use subdirectories N-levels deep, and store the session data in those directories. This is useful if you or your OS have problems with lots of files in one directory, and is a more efficient layout for servers that handle lots of sessions. NOTE 1: PHP will not create this directory structure automatically. You can use the script in the ext/session dir for that purpose. NOTE 2: See the section on garbage collection below if you choose to use subdirectories for session storage

/tmp

One other option you can work around php configuration problem is to use ini_set function to change the value of session.save_path. You have to put in the file index.php in the installation folder the following code:

@ini_set('session.save_path', '../cache');

The problem is when you'll update the package or you'll overwrite the file you'll lose the changed value and you'll have the same problem (again).

Joomla is one of the free CMS (Content Management Systems) that became very populars and created a comunity around it during its several years of existance. The number of websites created with Joomla is numbered in a few millions, so one can say it's one of the most popular tools for that. The next reasons are only a few why you shoold use Joomla for your website design. You only need a web server that handles php and a mysql database to install this CMS and, after configuring it, to have a functional website. Next you have to add some functions (using the components, modules and plugins) you need and select or create a Joomla theme.

It is user friendly and easy to learn

Even beginners are welcome to use this - it may take longer to find out about all its function but it's easy to learn. It takes at most a few days to learn it all over. The CMS is rather big (especially when you never worked with other CMSs) because it's under constant development for some years, but it's easy to follow the modification made in time - there are availabe online various versions of Joomla.

It's a free Content Managment System

You can download for free, so this would be in your advantage. You wouldn't be wasting money for an application that you wouldn't even know how to use. The recommendation it to spend money on its customization (especially as a beginner, or when you want your site optimized to its best) and manteinance - but it's a lot less money than creating a website from scratch. Use experts in Joomla, or at least someone that have already worked with it for a few months or years.

It created a community that offers support

The constant use and improvement of Joomla triggered an increase number of users with expertise in different degres about this CMS, its structure and extensions. If you have problems (using, configuring or extending Joomla) you can search for responses with any search engines - there are great chances to find them. Even if you don't find any good respons for your problem, you can always ask. Most of the online support is free, but in some cases you can pay for it (like an online subscription to some websites or for experts' responses).

It's extensible and flexible - it gives users control

Joomla was built to be enhanced. When you download and install the packege from Joomla development website you only get the main - basic package. There are thounsands of components, modules and plugins you can add this basic package from Joomla Extension Directory - some of them for free, some for a price. You have to know exactly what you want from your future website before adding any new script to your Content Management System.

It's secure by default

Joomla is built to be secure in most environments, but you must understand that Internet security is a vast and fast-moving topic. No set of rules can cover all possible situations, especially if new types of attack are being developed every year. This means you have to extend Joomla security with server security (I mean your server security).

Because Joomla is being upgraided constantly and the developers add new functions or fix bugs (even security bugs) you should always update you Joomla version and the extensions (components, modules and plugins) you have installed on your website.

 

If you want to make a presence online, with all the advantages and obligation that come from that, you have to get some necessary steps. Depending of your experience over internet they can be easy or they can be difficult, but with the appropriate help everything will be easy and you will only benefit from this activity.

Get your domain name

The first thing you need to do before anything else is to get yourself a domain name. Choose wisely because it's going to represent you online and must define you: it can be your name, your trademark or business name or your field of activity.

Depending the Top Level Domain (TLDs) you choose (they have their own rules), you will have to pay an annual fee to a registrar for the right to use that domain name or you can buy it "for life" (until you die, the interne dies or you decide to delete it). In some situations you'll have to buy similar domain name in order to prevent lose of clients or fraud, but you can find more information from tips for registering and choosing the domain name - read them and follow them.

You have to protect your domain name, so you have to pay attention to this thing in order to protect it from stealing.

The policy become necessary when your employee have social interaction over internet with a lot of people all over the world and you don't want for this to interfere with your business. There are a lot of cases in the last few years about people losing their jobs because they have commented on Twitter or Facebook or they have posted on their personal blogs about their experience in your company or about their opinions about your clients.

Don't be very restrictive

You can not forbidd people to enjoy themselves and use social newtork. Also, don't creat a list with do not share things: it will only be longer and longer with time. It's better if use the policy to set some guidelines instead of do not do things.

Don't forget to specify how much time people should use social media

For some people in your company promoting your business online and offline is their jobs, they do it daily. But for the most employee social media interaction is just for fun. If you don't make it clear they can spend their time on social networks instead working for you, as they should.

Encourage the people you are woking with to use further social media, especially if they are well-connected (they have lots and lots of friends), but don't let them turn into a bad habit.

Make your social media policy very clear, but do not enter in details

I mean you should be focused about activities, connections, relationships. Social networks are perfect in promoting your products and services, but these will probably change in time. If you are clearly asking your employee to promote your business and its every part you will have to update the policy every time you are adding, updating and removing a product or service. On the other hand, this will irritate your employee and they will no longer enjoy your company.

Adapt and update your policy

Times are changing, we all know it and we notice it every day. Do not include in your social media policy old and outdated stuff (ideas, rules). If something changes in your business policy (a new market, a new section, something big in general) and this is relevant in your social media policy update it right away. Don't postpone things because problems might appear.

Do not create too many social media policies

Considering how many social networks exists over internet (some of them well known, with millions of users, others with only a few thounsands) and how many of them appear and dissapear every year, you can be tempted to create a policy for each them (one for Twitter, one for Facebook, for personal blogs and youtube). Don't. Use one general social media policy to consider all possible social media and customize it for your business.

 

Before starting to list what are the factors that make a website good I should tell you that all successful websites have 2 things in common: they are enjoyable (beautiful colors, great templates that make users to like or love them) and they are (in some degree) simple (the users don't have to think hard how to browse the site and what are the meaning of every section on the page). The content is varies from one website to another - it's what you put online - and it's a completely different story.

As you already know, websites are powerful marketing tools in promoting any business. But there are a few factors that improves the quality of your website: visual appealing, accessibility, user friendly and functionality. And it all starts from the homepage, the very first page most of the users usually land when visiting a new website they did not hear about before. If they find your website using the search engines and land on any of your posts, sooner or later they will get to your homepage, the root of your website.

This is why your first page is very important and it needs to be done in a manner to make it simple and very easy to use. Any of your visitors should understand quickly (most of) the structure of your website from your homepage.

Plan your website structure and homepage before you start creating them

When you are having a custom website you can ask for the web designer's advice, his experience will help you decide the best way your first page should look. If you are getting a free CMS (there are a lot over the internet like joomla, wordpress, drupal and many others) you will have available some options about how your homepage should look, but it's better to ask for advice in this case also.

Anyway, you should always plan before start working on the website. It can happen that you start working and, after a time, you realize that there is a better way for your website structure and homepage and you'll have to work harder to recover the lost time. In worst case scenario, you can start all overt again.

The second important thing is that once you've decided you should keep a specific format, don't start altering your idea while creating it.

The template for your website should contain several pages, including the homepage

There are 2 ways to approach the creation of a website:

• you want to create something that can easily work online with some content, the second step would be creating or selecting a template for what you have (this usually happen when you select a free CMS)
• you start from a template and create the functionality depending from some images the web developer gets (this usually happen with custom websites)

When selecting an existing template for your website or deciding what a custom template should contain assure yourselves that structure of the website is very well defined. That mean that you should know exactly how every page of the site should look (as design, not as content) before approving the template and sending it further, to web development.

Knowing all these, you should pay attention to some rules about an usable and accessible homepage. Some of these rules apply to the rest of your website.

How to make your homepage usable

Efficiency

Your website homepage should be efficient for any Internet user (even the unexperienced ones), to allow him or her to accomplish simple tasks even he/she never interacted with your system before.

Easy to learn and remember

Any visitor should use your homepage easy even when it's the first time he is accessing your website. When he learns the rules that apply on your site it will be very easy to find what he is interested in. Even more: he will remember all the stuff the next time he will visit.

No errors

It's very important that your homepage (and your website) should not contain errors. This will block some users to browse your website and it does not look. Some of the users may not return if they find error on your site and, more, you don't correct them as soon as you find about them. That's why it's important to ask for feedback from your visitors.

How to make your homepage accessible

Use descriptive links

The homepage in particular should have links with information about the meaning of the website, about what you are offering (products and services), about you and your business. That will lead the visitors directly to what he wants insted browsing from page to page.

Make it available for everyone

That means that everyone connected to Internet should be able to access your website, no matter if they are using PCs, laptops, tables, smartphones and any other gadgets (lately even your refrigeration can browse the Internet, but I am sure that accessing websites using the refrigerator is the last thing on your mind right now). So, use plugins for different devices to assure the accessibility.

Use sitemaps and search options

This will only help the visitors to find whatever they wants on site instead browsing from page to page. Sitemaps also provide the structure of the website in a manner everyone can understand. It's important that sitemaps and search options to be on homepage, but they should also be on every other page on your website.