Many businesses, including "mom and pop shops" want to use this new thing called social marketing, but don't know where to start. This article will focus on the Social Media side of the issue. While the details are different with SEO or Search Engine Optimization, the general concept is still the same- great results can happen but expect to either pay thousands of dollars on a campaign or so much time that you can't get your core business done. However, even if it isn't your main push, it needs to be addressed to some degree.

You run "Chkrootkit" on a server and get a list of rootkits and signs of rootkits and some of the lines say you are infected or that you have a suspicious file on your system. What do you do? "chkrootkit" looks for possible signs of infections which may just be the results of safe programs. It is then the job of the web-master or systems administrators to take that clue and look further to decide if it is really a threat.

If you have a shell or SSH access to your database server, you can backup the database using mysqldump. By default, the output of the command will dump the contents of the database in SQL statements to your console. Here are some tips on how to get special results such as over a SSH connection,

"Taxonomy" in Drupal is the native way to categorize nodes. So what do you do with the nodes created? You can use it for navigation purposes. A link will get you all nodes with a specific taxonomy set and it can use some boolean logic (and, or or).

If you are already on the Linux command line or inside MySQL and need to take a site off-line for maintenance then you may prefer to simply enter the following than log into Drupal and manipulate the setup.

• check if on or offline
  SELECT * FROM variable WHERE name='site_offline'

You migrate you database from a dump but all of a sudden no page is found. No matter what you do you get a 'no page is found'.

In a Drupal6 installation, you want to use a user rating from 5stars in a View. This might be to sort a list by the highest rating first, limit a list to those above a certain rating, or to display the rating in a view.

This article assumes you are familiar with the inner workings of Views, 5stars, and have them both installed- including the 'Views UI' module.

There are two potential stumbling blocks here. You need to have the 5star ratings enabled for the content-type you are using, and you have to establish a 'relationship' in the views you are going to use.

I'm assuming that you want to grow. That means that smaller jobs will get bigger and smaller needs will expand. Long before your online store becomes the next Amazon, it will take some preparation. If you don't prepare for growth then you are starting from scratch each time something is new which will take more time, money and effort.

A relatively new way to process credit card payments, Square-Up is in use now. It was created by one of the pillars in the Web2.0 world (Jack Dorsey who is the "Twitter creator"). However, will it help or hurt the merchant?

Square-up is a device you plug into a mobile device's USB port to make that mobile device a credit card scanner. But this kind of set-up comes with many security problems and it will cause even more problems with PCI-DSS compliance which anybody who takes credit card payments has to now worry about.

As mysterious as ecommerce can seem, it is just a business. Someone that runs a real store (BNM or Bricks 'N Mortar) already knows 90% of what it takes to succeed with an ecommerce store. There are some details that are different, but the concepts are the same. Just rearrange the details and a successful BNM businessman knows 100% of what it takes to succeed online.