Web connectivity has forever changed the way we communicate. It has also altered the way we shop, do business, and experience different forms of entertainment. At this point in your life, you might also be planning to have a website of your own. A web hosting firm can help launch your online presence. Continue reading
It seems these days, like everyone and there dog is offering some kind of hosting service. There are free hosting companies, monthly paid hosting, yearly paid hosting, Linux hosting, and windows hosting just to name a few. Then there are a cornacopia of other hosting options if like wordpress.com and blogger.com specifically designed for blogs. These are free, but Continue reading
Do you find it really hard to imagine an internet that is completely devoid of useless junk, and everything you would want or need is right at your finger tips. It sounds wonderful, I know and now the search engines of the world believe they can give it to us, but I’m not really so sure. Somehow, since the the dawn of civilization, human beings have been able to find the business, services, and information they need without the use of search engines. So what’s the big fuss all of a sudden. Continue reading
I believe I went on a bit of a rant a little while ago, the problem I had with Google. Well, at least one of the problems, and to be more specific, it had to do with their over reliance on the whole back linking thing. Basically, the whole use of links to determine if a website is to be trusted or not in the eyes of any search engine is an antiquated notion. At least in my mind it is, and so it seems that Google is coming around to the same conclusion. Continue reading
It seems to me, that there are certain things that should be so dead simple that anyone including my dog should be able to do it. And for me, one of those things is web hosting. I mean, c’mon, about ten years ago, I setup my own webserver on an old PC I had kicking around, and ran it pretty successfully for about 3 years. Sure, I was only supporting my own website, but it wasn’t that tough. When you consider, that I knew nothing about web servers to start with. I did a much of reading, installed a version of LAMP – Linux, Apache, MyPHP and PHP and was off to the races. Being the real geek that I am, it was great fun, and I even went so far as to install an email server, and a Samba file server to boot.
But, these days, as much as I would like to it seems that I don’t have time to play with that kind of stuff. I’m too busy running a multitude of web sites, and catering to a number of clients. So, I usually end up looking for the best web hosting I can find online. Believe me, when I say there are plenty of places to choose from. And, for the most part they are pretty good, but there are a few that can drive me nuts. When I first started out looking for web hosting firms, I often took the first cheap web hosting deal I could find. I’ve learned from that lesson, and do a bit more research these days. That’s not to say that good web hosting has to be expensive. It really doesn’t. It’s pretty much a commodity item these days, as computers and the software that runs web servers is actually much faster and cheaper then it used to be.
Just remember, to do your due diligence. But sometimes, you just have to jump in and see how good they really are.
If I had to do it all over again, how would I do it? That’s a great question. I am of course referring to the business of designing, building, promoting, and maintaining websites on the internet. Nothing mystical or anything, just business. Well, the first thing I would suggest, is to save up a bit of money to invest into the business. I think the biggest mistake I made, was trying to start from scratch and do all the work myself. While, it’s true that you can build a decent web design / marketing business that way, it’s going to take you a lot longer.
Because so much of the information you read online, would suggest that you can start with zero dollars, and get all kinds of free web development tools and hosting. Now while there is some truth to that, you still have to be able to do something with those tools. That’s going to take time, and effort on your part. Having a budget, even if it is a small one is going to help you immensely. Even if it’s only five or ten thousand dollars, it will get things going so much more quickly. That may seem like a lot of your thinking of starting for free, but when you consider the costs for starting most businesses, it’s a drop in the bucket.
Whatever you do, don’t spend that money on someone telling you how to run a web business. That information is good supply around. And it is free. While it’s true, there is plenty of expensive and bad information online, if you look around long enough, you’ll find the good stuff. Do however spend the money on things like outsourcing work, and buying up existing web properties. That kind of stuff is much more tangible, and has a definite payback.
Article by Tvorba webu, Tvorba www stranok and Web Hosting SK.
There are some tricks regarding website design that everybody should know in order to create a good website!
If you want to have an attractive web design/sit you should get rid of page counters, because the most visitors of the site will consider you an amateur. You heard me! Specialists think that people don’t like flashing text because they associate them with neon signs. Regarding text, the most important thing is to be short and comprehensive because people don’t like to stay to much in front of a computer reading boring stuff. Continue reading
There are plenty of opportunities for creative and ambitious entrepreneurs these days. And a large reason for those opportunities is the internet, and the amount of business that is being done there these days. Now, long gone are the days of just throwing up some website and making instant money. That way of thinking died off long ago. A website alone is not a business, but a business can certainly benefit from a well thought out and marketed website. But the internet does introduce a new way of doing things. Those things include, buying, selling, creating partnerships, and building things (all sorts of things). Continue reading
I don’t know what it is about a designing logos, that makes everyone think they can do it themselves. Sure, there are all kinds of desktop and online graphics design software you can get these days, but it doesn’t mean just anyone is qualified to use them. Continue reading
Let me see, how long have Sergey, Larry and company been at this game now. Since they were founded in 1998, I guess that makes it at least twelve years. And really, they’ve been doing the same thing for most of those years. That is building the best electronic search engine the world has ever seen. Right? Well, not exactly, I know they’ve been distracted with a whole host of other applications that we simply couldn’t live without. Like the world really needed another office suite, so we have been enthralled with Google Docs. Great! Yes, I know they’re amazing tools, and all, but I’m sure Microsoft or some other little companies bought up my Microsoft would have created something comparable eventually. And, yes I know Gmail is great, it’s one of my favorite email programs. But, they’re still a major problem with the search engine Google has yet to figure out. Maybe they should be concentrating on that.
There are two basic things that determine a websites position in Google, and that is on page content, and links from other sites pointing to the ranking site. Now, we all know that Google has been harping at webmasters for years to just build great content, and you’ll do fine. They never tell us to build links, even though we all do. Quite the opposite, they tell us to stop building links artificially, and just build great content. “Trust us” they say, you’ll do just fine. Oh, how I wish that was really true.
The fact of the matter is Google and other search engines rely heavily on links to determine the importance of any given web page. And, we all know where that has gotten us. Basically, it’s gotten us into a big frigging mess. It’s simply too easy to be gamed. We all know it, and Google knows it too. It’s simply a major design flaw with Google. Trust me, as a webmaster I hate getting links to my site. It is without a doubt my least favorite thing to do in the whole world. Well, except maybe doing yard work, but that’s a whole other thing.
Personally, as a webmaster I’d much rather spend my days writing and creating great content. Articles, music, video, computer games. Anything would be better, then trying to get a bunch of crappy links to my website from a bunch of other webmasters. I’m sure that when Tim Berners Lee came up with the whole HTML hyper linking idea, he had no intention of it being used as a popularity vote for another site. It was simply meant to point to other relevant important information. Since then, it’s been convoluted and prostituted to the point of people being afraid to click on links for fear of being spammed, virused, or God knows what.
I say, it’s time for Google to stop screwing around, and get back to their core business. Stop competing with Microsoft, don’t try to sell me a cell phone, and quit trying to find new and inventive ways to stick crappy advertising in my face. Fix your damn search engine so, back-links become as irrelevant as my old Commodore 64! Then, I can get back to the real business of being a great webmaster. Thank you.
