As most internet users know, web sites are mainly made up of ‘coded’ documents- mainly HTML, but also PHP, ASP, or Cold Fusion scripted web pages. Of course, to have a web site, you must have one or more pages created in one of these formats. However, there are times and places where posting a PDF file formatted document on your web site makes better sense. Here are five situations you may find are good reasons to create PDF files to be uploaded to your website.

Okay, I started a blog entry about the reasons you may choose to post content on your website in PDF format rather than creating an HTML or other type of web page. It turned out to be a rather long write-up so I chose to post it in the Articles section of the website. Check out the final results at “Five Reasons to Use PDFs on your Website.”

Coming soon, I will also document some ways to create PDFs without buying expensive products like Adobe Acrobat (although I highly recommend Acrobat for people who need to create PDFs on a regular basis).

This past weekend we took our two seperate existing RSS feeds- one for our blog, the other for our ’standard’ content like our articles and services- and combined them into one easy-to-access feed.

If you are wondering what RSS is, it means ‘Really Simple Syndication’. Simple enough that once you subscribe to a web site that has this feature, you keep up-to-date with new information without having to check the site every day. You can do get newsfeeds from major news networks, entertainment sources, and business news and aggregate it to access it all from one place.

Once you get started, your favorite parts of the Web come to you. No need to go out and check for updates all the time. If you do not want to download rss reader software, its really easy to subscribe to your favorite feeds through My Yahoo or My Google (free personalized homepages).

To get started with the YNot Web feed, click the orange feed “chicklet” on the lower left side of the screen. This takes you to our Feedburner page, with subscriber options for web-based and desktop-based feed readers.

For another quick overview of RSS and feeds seeFeedburner’s Feed 101.

Our Server migration is complete and email appears to be stable, so its back to business as usual for YNot Web. We hope you all had a enjoyable and relaxing Labor Day.

I will be updating YNot Web’s servers which could affect availability of both the website and email for the next day or so.

I am hoping to have everything re-stabilized before the end of the holiday weekend, but if you need to contact us before Tuesday, calling by phone will have better reliability for the time being.

Thanks for your patience while we upgrade our services.