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Hosting Your Website – Dot It Yourself in 7 Easy Steps



First, let me clarify something. There are many reasons why you would want to have your website professionally hosted. However, people in certain situations are better off hosting their site themselves. For example, if you are starting a new business or playing with an idea that you are not sure will work, you might not want to pay a hosting company to host your site, at first. Hosting the site yourself will allow you to save money that you can use to grow your business. Once your business starts growing and your site starts getting a lot of visitors, then you will find it necessary to pay a web hosting company to host it for you, but until then, you need to test the waters.

If you have a computer and a high speed internet connection (DSL/Cable) you can host your own website. You will need to keep your computer on and online 24/7, which should be no big deal. Besides this, you need only to follow the 7 steps I describe below, to make your website available to users on the internet:

1) Install a web server: Most Windows operating systems either come with a web server, or one can be downloaded for free depending on the version of Windows. The web server is the program that runs in the background on your computer listening to requests from people on the internet. It’s the software that finds your pages in your computer and sends them to the users requesting it.

2) Configure the web server: In this step you simply tell your web server where to find your website that is sitting somewhere in your computer.

3) Get a domain name: In this step you decide on the name that you want for your site and buy it from a provider. Domain names are cheap and you pay the fee only once a year.

4) Configure DNS: This is where you associate your website name with the IP address of your computer so users are transferred to your computer when typing the name of your website.

5) Configure your router: Your router needs to know about the computer that has the web page so it knows where to forward users to.

6) Dynamic IP solution: Most people have a dynamic IP address given to them by their ISP. This means the IP address of your computer might change. This is a problem because DNS needs to know the IP address of the computer that people need to be forwarded to when typing a domain name. There is a way to solve this problem without having to pay your ISP more money for a static IP. There are applications that will automatically update DNS when your IP changes.

7) Securing your server: The last step is to make sure your computer is protected from malicious programs on the internet by having the necessary software installed and configured.

Website Design and Development Feedback – Guide for the Novices



Feedback is a word that at times is motivating and at times irritating. Feedback is all about the effect of the website designed and developed by you. The feedback depends primarily on the perception of the person who visits your website and gets back to you with complements, comments or criticism.

Importance of feedback

Most of the experts believe that feedback is simultaneously the first and the last step in marketing of any product or services and this applies to website designing and developing too. A feedback can reveal the weak points, flaws or bugs in the website. The mistakes can be corrected before any major harm is done to the business. At the end of the day it is the visitor of the website who runs the business. If the visitor likes the website then the website is going to generate business but if the website is not liked by the visitor then it will not be able to generate any business. This makes the feedback from the visitor very crucial for any successful website.

When can a feedback be motivating and when can it be irritating?

If you, as a website designer have put in hours and days of effort in designing and developing the business, a positive feedback can be one of the best motivators. At the same time, despite striving for perfectionism, if any visitor gives you a negative feedback it can be very irritating because usually at that point of time you fail to find or accept any flaw in the website.

Some ways to seek feedback

Feedback from within the community

This means that the source of the feedback is the people who are in the same field/industry that you belong to. In this case the feedback is sought from the community of web designers and graphic designers. Now these people are experts or at least know something about the work that you have done. They know the current trend of the market and the quality standards of the website that are popular among the masses.

Feedback from people external to the community

Most of the people buying the products or services from your website are hardly concerned with the technicalities involved in designing of the website. They are just concerned with the looks and the effectiveness of the website. Finally these are people that will generate revenue to run the website. Seeking feedback from these people can help to make the website street smart.

Feedback Service Providers

There are companies that provide the services of providing you with feedback about nearly each and every aspect of the website that you have prepared. The feedback report in this case can be customized and specific. Some of the services providers conduct polls and surveys to generate an unbiased feedback report.

Response of any work is very important to get the knowledge of completed task. It help us to get expert opinion, it will be helpful to make work more accurate and trendy. Specially in work of web design and web development.

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Website Design – 5 of the Most Important Things Every Web Designer Professional Must Know



As a website designer or copywriter, it is important to know the legality behind what information you post on every site you design. Following are five of the top aspects of content usability you should know about:

1. Am I right? You may think it is okay to use other people’s information, but many people sit back and think will anyone catch me? The answer is that it is not all right to use someone else’s information regardless of whether you will be caught on the. Worst case scenario is that they report you to your web host who can take on your website.

2. Who has dominion? Who has jurisdiction over any wrongdoing on the Internet? This is a question that you must be able to answer if you are conducting business on the Internet through e-commerce or if you are a blogger. It is definitely different than on terra firma they have online.

3. Many publishers online and bloggers go onto other people’s websites and conduct malicious acts such as writing disparaging comments on their blog. It is hard at times to identify an anonymous poster? How do you identify them? This can be easily done by tracking their IP address. No matter what platform you are using for your website or blog their capabilities you can install such as a plug-in to allow you to track the IP addresses of anyone either coming to your site or commenting on your blog.

4. ISP providers are immune to prosecution – An ISP provider is not liable for the wrongdoing of anyone who has a website hosted on their servers. As such, they will not be prosecuted if any of their customers conduct the wrongdoing online. Although the ISP provider can take down a website if properly notified.

5. You cannot just bury your head and not worry about what could happen – do not think that being an Internet marketer means you do not have to pay attention to any laws? This is an easy road to follow but it is not the correct one. You want to make sure you know about what laws are current in the state you live in and within the country you reside. You also want to know about any Internet marketing sales taxes a state may have if you live in the United States. Some states have them and some states don’t.

If you are an Internet marketer who is out to attract as many prospective customers and subscribers as possible along with developing a greater presence online you need to learn as much as you can about link building and Internet marketing.

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Cloud Hosting Versus Shared Hosting for WordPress



Hosting for WordPress has gained popularity over the last 18 months. With companies like Rack Space Cloud and Media Temple climbing the ranks for Cloud Computing and the Power of WordPress it’s no surprise a lot of WordPress users are starting to switch. The question is, Is it the right move? Or should you stick with shared hosting? Lets look into cloud computing a little more and why it’s so popular.

Cloud Hosting provides something shared hosting can’t, instant scalability. Instant scalability is a websites ability to handle sudden spikes in web traffic without slowing down or worse, crashing. This is done through clusters of servers all connected to a cloud network. Why is this important for WordPress users? WordPress has grown to become the most popular CMS online today. Companies like Mashable.com are powered by WP and need the ability to sustain large amounts of web traffic. On top of the abilities of cloud hosting though scalability the offer apps you can’t find on shared hosting networks. The most popular app (extension) is CDN or “content delivery network”. With cloud you can add a CDN to host all attachments and images separately so your site loads much faster. It’s a fact – slow sites lose readers and the faster you make you WordPress site the better. The downside for some WP users is the cost. Although not really expensive for some other are used to shared hosting prices so making the switch can seem pricey. Cloud hosting is a good choice for those wanting high power, scalability, exclusive apps, and intelligent programs all for about $20 a month.

Shared Hosting Has been around for many years now. These hosting networks have provided WP users with exceptional hosting applications, one click installers, inexpensive pricing, and for the most part, good customer service. Shared hosting is a good hosting choice for those looking to host one to five WordPress sites with very little to moderate traffic, simple applications, small email accounts all for about $5 a month. Shared hosting works by using a cluster of static servers inside one facility. Shared hosting also includes webmasters sharing IP address with Servers. Some people consider this a bad thing because of who you might share servers or IP address with. This is easy to avoid when using Cloud Computing.

WordPress Hosting can be handled by either cloud or shared hosting. It really depends on what type of site your hosting, what you predict as traffic and visitor engagement, the content you are publishing, and how you plan on maintaining your site. If you plan on a lot of traffic, complex code and applications, in depth user engagement then cloud hosting is the right choice for you. If you plan on establishing an small personal online portfolio, a small blog, or light weight corporate site then shared hosting is for you. One other aspect I recommend. If you plan on working very hard on your SEO, I would suggest using cloud because of the speed and CDN tools.