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Link Luv is a module for ExpressionEngine that's similar to Comment Luv for WordPress. When a visitor to your site leaves a comment on your blog, it will display a link to the most recent entry from their RSS feed.

KeyAds is a module for ExpressionEngine that allows you to display content to your visitors—like an ad or block of HTML code—based on keywords they enter in a search engine, or based on the referring domain.

Google Apps provides you with the ability to use Google's computing cloud to deliver email service for up to 50 users on your domain for free.

Setting up Google Apps for your domain is simple, and this short tutorial will show you how to integrate Google Apps for your domain.

Want to upgrade your store to the latest version of Magento but are worried something might go wrong?

Don't stress over the possibility of a botched upgrade ruining your store, breaking your current design, or throwing up errors that you're not sure how to fix.

Crucial offers a professional upgrade service to all of our clients that will take away the stress and hassle of doing it yourself.

The best way to test out a new Magento release without potentially destroying your production store is to setup a staging area.

A staging area is a duplicate of your primary store that you can use to see if the upgrade process will go smoothly, and also allow you to use both the frontend and backend of your site to see if everything is running properly.

PCI-DSS is a set of requirements that the major credit card companies have put in place to enhance cardholder payment data security. If you are a merchant that accepts credit cards for purchases online you are required to comply with the PCI-DSS requirements.

There are numerous ways to setup multiple Magento stores that all share the same codebase and backend, but what method you use depends on your needs.

This article is written with cPanel in mind, though the methodologies listed below apply no matter what control panel you're using.

We are very pleased to announce the advancement of our partnership with Varien, the developers of Magento, an open source ecommerce solution for businesses of all sizes.

Improving Magento performance is at the top of the list for most professional Magento developers. There's no doubt that enhancing the speed at which Magento performs can only be good for business.

Split-Shared hosting was first introduced in October 2007, to take advantage of the resource isolation, scalability and performance enhancements that OS virtualization provides.

Split-Shared hosting is the concept of splitting shared hosting accounts into small, isolated groups of 5, 10, or 20 clients. Each client then shares the guaranteed resources of a virtual container or hosting environment with only 19, 9, or 4 other clients or neighbors.

I've been reading a lot of posts on the Magento forum about installation troubles, specifically with mod_rewrite (htaccess) and the MySQLi and PDO_MySQL extensions for PHP. As mentioned in our Magento installation guide, Crucial's Split-Shared hosting is fully compatible with Magento.

This is a step-by-step tutorial on installing Magento Commerce on one of our Split-Shared hosting accounts. I was recently introduced to Magento in a pre-sales chat. Up until that chat, I had never heard about it, but decided to check it out.

Crucial's Split-Shared hosting is kept in a highly available hosting environment. The Split-Shared hosting service is an advanced service provider configuration that places shared hosting accounts or services on individual Virtual Environments (VEs).

As a web designer or developer, it is important to know how to use the htaccess file to your advantage. It is a very powerful tool, and can even work as a deterrent for bandwidth thieves, exploits, and hackers. Below are some common examples of rules to consider when developing websites. We hope you find them useful.

A master layout and stylesheet contains semantic, optimized, cross-browser markup that is free of redundant tags, classes and IDs, hacks, conditionals, and separate stylesheets. Learn how to use a master layout and stylesheet to reduce CSS headaches and speed up your design process.

Crucial is proud to announce the release of Opera Stumbler, a free StumbleUpon toolbar for Opera users. We are proud users and supporters of Opera, and we felt users deserved a StumbleUpon toolbar since no one has developed one.

One of the most common mistakes I see beginners and intermediates fall victim to when it comes to CSS is not removing the default browser styling. This leads to inconsistencies in the appearance of your design across browsers, and ultimately leaves a lot of designers blaming the browser. It is a misplaced blame, of course. Before you do anything else when coding a website, you should reset the styling.

When you walk into a mall, one of the first things you come to is a map with a "you are here" indicator that lets you know where you are. On a website, we can accomplish this by higlighting the current location on a navigation bar, menu, or list. Since the primary navigation is the most prominent feature on a website, we will discuss an easy way to do this with PHP.

Crucial has been selected as one of the fastest growing web hosting companies by HostReview. We are all very proud here at Crucial, and a little recognition goes a long way.

This whitepaper is a continuation to the previously article, Notification Escalations, EventHandlers & Remote Service Monitoring With NRPE.

From the Nagios website, "Nagios is an open source host, service and network monitoring program," however, this description is not as accurate as it could be. In it’s most basic state of configuration, Nagios is a fantastic tool for locally monitoring network devices and services.

The dry erase board is wiped clean, mountains of empty soda cans are finally cleared from the desks, and a slight sigh of relief is felt by the design team, but only for a moment. We are proud to announce the new design for Crucial Web Hosting.

Development was started in late December, and with just 45 days to complete the site, we knew there was going to be plenty of long nights and trips to Jack In The Box ahead of us.