All web hosting companies are different, so asking how long it would take to get setup can be a difficult question to ask. However, most web hosting companies use their own administration panels (a bit like cPanel) in order to get your account active quickly, so your setup time usually isn’t long.
However, if you have [...]
Here’s a brief list of things to look out for when choosing your web hosting provider
Make sure they provide you with enough bandwidth, data transfer and disk space. If they are offering more than most, then find out why – its an obvious thing to suggest, but check the small print.
Double check that the features [...]
Google Page Rank, or simply Google PR, is the importance of any particular page ranked out of 10 by Google. In the general scheme of things, Page Rank is a very rough estimate of how important any page is to Google, but it can give you a good idea of good and bad websites and [...]
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and without it, your website could potentially have near to no visitors at all. Search engines such as Google, Yahoo or Ask have complex algorithms to work out the importance of each page on every single website in the world in relation to the next, in order to order [...]
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet and is a standardized styling format for websites and HTML. It is recommended that websites always use an external style sheet based in CSS in order for the site to render the correct styles on it.
If, for example, you developed a 10 page site in HTML code without an [...]
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the standardized programming language for websites worldwide. It is non-dynamic, meaning that without any other languages on the same page, a HTML-based page is completely static – it does not interact with databases and it cannot return different information from the same physical file.
If you are [...]
Designing your own website, from scratch, is usually not an online-based process. It is best if you design and develop your site locally (on your home computer) before putting it online.
If this is possible, then designing, developing and constructing the site will be much faster since you will not have to upload the files that [...]
Uptime, as described in a number of our other articles, is the measurement of how long a web server is online and functional for.
I’m sure you’ve been there – you’ve gone to visit a website to find some information only to be returned with the infamous 404 error message meaning the page cannot be found? [...]
Fantastico is a feature package usually added on to a control panel such as cPanel which includes a number of scripts and online applications for you to get on with your website quicker than ever.
If you web hosting package supports Fantastico, then you can effectively have your website up and running literally within a few [...]
Taking credit card payments on websites is becoming easier and easier as more and more people are interested in starting up their own business online.
The easiest way is to get in contact with a secure payment provider, follow their website integration guides and tutorials, then re-direct your customers via their website so that your customers [...]
