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You have heard in internet business content is king. What come after the content in internet business then?

The answer would be the community (loyal visitors that keep coming back and participate).

To come out with a successful website, you need both content and community. To make it even successful, you need to educate the community to create content on your website. This is what big websites do. For example youtube.com, wikipedia.org, facebook.com, digg.com, rapidshare.com and many more.

If the community do not create the content, you need to find other means of adding massive contents on your site as strong reasons for people to come back. This model used by google and other search engines that use so called crawler to go and bring back data from millions of websites on the net.

So always remember to create a successful website you need CONTENT + COMMUNITY.

Gmail so far is the best known e-mail service provider. I don’t have to list the features of Gmail here.

If you want to have google powered applications (especially Gmail) but using your own domain, you have come to the right place. You can do that with Google Apps (standard edition)

With standard edition (there is premier edition for big corp), you can create 50 email accounts with 7GB space for free and other standard google applications like docs, calendar, chat and google sites.

Below is the steps to start using Gmail with your very own domain name. Very easy.

1. Start here - list of what you get besides gmail. Click on the “Get Started” button

2. Enter your domain name and other details in the provided form.

3. Create admin account and agree with the term

4. Activate gmail and change MX records in cPanel (you can choose from a list of hosting management applications).

At first I thought it was so complicated because I need to change the MX record, then all the A’s records, then CNAME and then other xx records but actually you have to change only MX record and it is in you hosting cPanel (not even in the domain management).

After changing your MX record, you are done. Wait for few hours (sometimes just in few minutes). You can also use all other applications offered as in the intro page.

To log on to your email and other app, just point your browser to

http://www.google.com/a/your_domain_here/

It is a good idea to make a forwarding or subdomain from your domain to above URL. Easier to remember..

Hope this article helps. All the best.