All the web masters, who maintain and develop the websites want to have a home-based web hosting server for testing and development purposes, an old desktop computer, can be easily transformed into a Linux sever. If you install the applications like PHP, MySQl, Apache etc and some other tools, then you can do web hosting by sitting at home with your own server. Of course, it is not the kind of hosting which is provided by the commercial web hosting providers, but it is only for the purpose of installing, developing and testing the web applications. By including some other additional settings, you can also access your personal computer from anywhere, where the Internet access is available. This is extremely convenient, in case you forget some important documents at home.

If you are assuming that you have the router including the LAN (Local Area Network), which is a link between the Internet and your computer, requiring no additional equipment. To enable the network access from the Internet, you need to configure the router to forward the remote web requests to your own web server. 80 is the default web port, but any port can be selected to increase the security.
The first requirement to have remote access is the domain. This is the name of your home-based server on the Internet. There are several web hosting services that offer to update the IP addresses and domains without charging any fee. This is particularly necessary if you do not have a static IP address. Most of the Internet service providers assign the IP addresses dynamically, which changes once in a day or with every new connection. While, knowing the external IP address is vital to access your computers from the Internet, you necessitate having a process through which you can update the domain and the DNS records.

Numerous routers support the dynamic DNS services such as DynDns. If your router does not have any such function, you just need to install simple software on your computer, which will be updating the address, every time it will be changed. You only need to make an account by entering your name and selecting the preferred domain name, which will be used as a sub-domain. This information will either be entered into the router settings or the external software utility for the IP address update.

Now, you can access your router. Every time when you will submit your login id and the preferred domain, it will take to your router. If you are enabled with access to its user interface by using an external port, you will be able to configure it as you are accessing it from your home-based computer. You need to configure the port directions to get to your own server. By applying this technique, you can access your home-based server from anywhere.

A web site is identified uniquely with the help of a web site logo. A logo is defined as the graphical design that finds its purpose in identifying the company or the product or a service, distinguishing it from other organizations. Logo is an excellent tool for marketing purposes where it consists of the name of a company along with the company’s symbol and theme, if there is any. It is mandatory to keep the logo unique to its web site. In order to get a web site logo, one can make use of any logo design software, which can be found online that can design their own logo, one may take the services of a professional web site designer or one may avail the benefits of online services where free or paid logos are available.

One can make use of the tools that are available online absolutely free of cost, tools such as a Free logo maker. This free online logo maker tool makes work so easy for you because you can create the logo of your choice in a fraction of minutes and absolutely free. There are some factors that have to be taken into consideration in order to create a logo such as selecting the logo that makes a perfect match to the services that you offer, from the categories of the logo maker. Then edit the logo design by choosing various options such as entering the text and selecting the font of the text with a background for logo and logo size. Make all the necessary adjustments until you are extremely satisfied with the way your logo should look. Do not compromise in this issue, as it is very vital to choose the perfect logo for your company. After your logo has been created successfully, save the design of your logo in .gif format or .jpeg format. It is required to follow all the instructions put down in the manual of the online logo creation in order to design the logo very easily and efficiently.

The five main classifications of the logo creator that helps in meeting your needs are as follows: Business or company logo maker that is used for business and company purposes, Christian logo maker that is specifically used for religion based websites, Sports logo maker that caters to the needs of sporting websites, Real estate logo maker that helps in creating real estate related logos and finally the pets logo maker for making pet logos.

The logo maker is a web based tool and is developed by designers who are professionals that field, they have a wide variety and the end user has the flexibility of choosing the exact type of logo for their company or website, furthermore there is absolutely no need to download any logo design software. This decreases the burden of designing and building your own logo from scratch and saves a lot of time. Some of the services may charge a few dollars but you get the benefits of designing professional logos free of cost.

Chrome finally makes it for the first time as it beats Apple’s Safari in terms of browser usage making it the world’s third most popular web browser. It surpassed Safari in terms of its usage around the globe keeping in mind that Chrome had just completed 15th months from the time it was released.
According to Internet analytics firm Net Applications, statistics showed that Google Chrome’s usage accounted for nearly 4.63 percent, a jump from 3.93 percent achieved in November whereas Apple Safari browser usage just went up from 4.36 percent in November to 4.46 percent in December. There was a substantial marginal difference in the usage of Apple Safari browser which left it in the fourth place.
According to the sources, Google had recently made Mac OS X and Linux computers available to public which was only available as a developer preview before, this was possibly the reason what jump started the usage of Chrome browser.
Microsoft Internet seems to be holding the top position in the browser market for its usage as per the analyst. Internet Explorer holding a huge chunk of browser usage market share which being 63.62 percent in November went down to 62.69 percent in December. According to Net Applications, it seems this browser seems to be going through a slow paced decline in its usage when we compare it market share in February as it was close to 70 percent.
The other most popular browsers are Opera and Mozilla Firefox. Firefox browser holds a whopping 24.61 percent market share, currently at a second position while Opera browser had a market share of 2.40 in December.

Its first time ever that Facebook has ever made it to the top first position for most visited website in USA this Christmas season. No wonders this holiday season, social media websites were the best source for most of the people to exchange wishes and it became an integral part of many people to stay connected.
According to an analyst at Hitwise an Internet monitoring company, Facebook registered the most hits in website visits which made it second after Google.  Statistics showed that every 1 our of 22 visitors were logging in at Facebook during the Christmas Eve making the site the number one social media stream in the world. It outbid Youtube concluding to be the winner.

Says Robin Goad, research director at Hitwise, “The increase in the visits this year towards social sites had increased three folds and were higher than expected. It only showed their huge levels of interest to create these sites as a hub to keep in touch with their loved ones.”
Its evident that the days of tradition greetings by exchanging cards via regular postal methods are not usual anymore, however internet is preferred over anything else in place of the traditional communication methods like sending letters or making phone calls mainly due to its speed, ease and convenience. Its also very inexpensive and flexible in terms of usage, as in if a person settles in some other country and changes his contact details, he can still be searched by his friends and they can stay connected.
Some of the experts believe that this trend will continue for years to come until it settles to a level. Holiday times like Christmas, New Year, Easter, Halloween will be at its peak for the websites like Facebook and other social media websites for its high visitors rate. Fortunately, Facebook has a strong server technology backed up which meant the user experience on its site was not compromised and it was seamless.