Web Publishing Tips

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Widgets are small wonders. They are handy and very easy tools that can spice up your entire blog site. It offers small but cute and important tools. It can display the number of guests viewing your site at the moment. You can stay up to date with your local weather by a simple Weather Report widget. Widgets turn out to be most useful with even the simplest of things. You can add as much widgets as you can, just don’t over do it. Here are a number of widgets that have become popular to the majority of the blogging community.

MyBlogLog Recent Readers – This is widely used because it keeps track of the most recent visitors in your site.
Mashable – offers the latest social networking news.
Feedjit – it monitors real time traffic in your side bar.

Fruits and vegetables are good for you and a good time. That is the message the Produce for Better Health Foundation wants to relay to children with the launch of its new kid-friendly Web site, www.foodchamps.org.

The site is designed to help children learn about healthy eating and exercising, said Kristen Stevens, senior vice president for the Wilmington, Del.-based Foundation.

At the site, children are invited to select one of five Fruit & Veggie Color Champion characters to help navigate through the site, which features a variety of produce-themed activities, including games, coloring pages and recipes, Stevens said.

Microsoft has gone out and done it again. They recently bought Rapt Inc., a web publishing vendor out of San Fransisco. This acquisition is just the latest in a number to fill Microsoft’s suite of publishing and advertising tools.

The move “puts us way ahead of what other offerings are available in the market,” Scott Howe, a general manager in Microsoft’s advertiser and publisher solutions group said, likening Microsoft with Rapt to a jet plane, with rivals, including Google, being a bicycle.

What’s so special about Rapt? They have a unique combination of technology and strategic advisory services that enable organizations to get the most from their media assets. Their technology helps better price, predict and provision their advertising assets.

The Nationall Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST just recently issued Special Publication (SP) 800-44, Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers aiming to help agencies in improving the security, implementation, design and operation of their web servers. A lot of computer users, organizations, businesses and industries use the World Wide Web for the exchange and spreading of information and knowledge exchange. For the convenience of both the organizations and potential clients, electronic transactions are often made in the internet. And with this comes the risk of other browsers and servers to intrude public websites as well as altering and disrupting information exchange and operations.

Proper and continuous implementation of this plan together with constant monitoring and modifying of the systems can help a lot in maintaining security for public web servers.