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Comment on Starting a Business Website Case Study by admin

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:43:56 +0000

The domain name you have can be used with your site as you should be able to point the domain to the host when you have chosen the host. However most hosts provide a free domain name and will usually let you transfer the domain you have to them when you set up the host. They usually extend the domain name registration for a year at the same time.

Comment on Starting a Business Website Case Study by Gill

Gill — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:32:04 +0000

we wish to set up a basic simple website but we have already registered the domain names – what is the cheapest way to go having done this as I see you recommend doing it all in one go?

Comment on Checking Domain Name Availablity?- Beware Network Solutions by admin

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:05:38 +0000

Its called Atahualpa and you can download it here:
http://wordpress.bytesforall.com/?p=74&cp=all
Not only does it look good you can customise the theme without having to hack the code and it is search engine friendly.
I can’t remember where I first saw it but all I did was view the site source code and look the reference in the code to the theme directory which has the same name as the theme. I then Googled the name + download and found it.

Comment on Checking Domain Name Availablity?- Beware Network Solutions by Frank Manning

Frank Manning — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:51:25 +0000

Where did you get this theme from? It’s pretty clean and nice

Comment on A Video Introduction for those Struggling with CSS? by Kimbery Lin

Kimbery Lin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 04:54:20 +0000

Thank you for this info. Great stuff

Comment on Blogs vs Websites by Walter

Walter — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:31:45 +0000

Interesting. I thought they were the same.

Comment on A blog or website ?- Wordpress or SBI? by Birthday

Birthday — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:25:24 +0000

Good article. I enjoy! and happy happy with that you write. good job

Comment on Starting a Business Website Case Study by admin

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:42:17 +0000

Hi
This site uses 1and1 and so do several other of my UK sites. I have used them for over 6 years and am very happy with them.
I don’t like the fact that you only have 2 mysql databases with the business account and it is more expensive than some and that they don’t use cpanel but I only recommend what I use. If I didn’t like it and was thinking of moving I wouldn’t recommend it.
The big issues from the reviews I read on reviewcentre seem mostly to relate to support and billing. I had a billing issue about a year ago and they were ok and I have used their support ( can’t remember why) and don’t remember it being bad.
From a reliability point of view I have found them to be very reliable and for me that is very important. They also give you access to the .htaccess file which can be very important.
There are two wysiwyg free editors to look at Trellian webpage and Kompozer
http://www.trellian.com/webpage/download.htm
http://www.kompozer.net/download.php
I currently recommend Trellian but will probably move over to Kompozer in the coming months. I used to recommend NVU which got discontinued and which is why I moved to Trellian, Kompozer have taken the old NVU and revamped it and changed the name (legal reasons I think).
Anyway its open source and I use open source software when I can.
Incidentally I actually use Frontpage 2003 for my sites I only use the other editors in my online tutorials as they are free and so anywhen can download them and follow along.
That doesn’t mean I’m recommending FrontPage ( I find it OK) . I use it because of historical reasons.
You may also want to take a look at using Wordpress then you don’t even need an editor.
See
http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/build-websites-wordpress/index.htm
rgds
steve

Comment on Starting a Business Website Case Study by Simon

Simon — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:08:51 +0000

I am a complete beginner and have found your site very useful. I want to build a small business site, I have no knowledge of HTML and have no website building software. So I want to choose a host and get some software (wysiwyg). You seem to be recommending 1&1 so I took a look at their offers and it seemed to suit me. But then I looked for reviews of their service and found that they have terrible reviews and are rated one of the poorest hosts. http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews151391.html
My question is why are you recommending them if they are as bad as people say?
There are plenty of hosts which get good reviews but they are only hosts and don’t provide website building software. Where can I get some software suitable to a complete beginner?

Comment on Web Page Structure-Part3 of Starting A Website Course by Michael

Michael — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:42:42 +0000

Thank you for this. I just having a hard time on how to build tables on my website. This helps me a lot.