Website Hosting and the Basics for Customers

January 1, 2010 by · Leave a Comment 

Web hosting packages often include a Web Content Management System , so the end-user doesn’t have to worry about the more technical aspects. These Web Content Management systems are great for the average person, but for those who want more control over their website design, this feature may not be adequate. Internet Web Hosting by Emerald is devoted to providing essential information on the best internet web hosting services they provide. Our main purpose has always been to help our clients to find low cost internet web hosting plans. Website Hosting is open to new customers who purchase Internet Web Hosting, which is offered for one, three, and twelve-month terms. At sign-up, customers choosing the three-month term will be billed for three months’ service, with the first three months charged at the low rate.

Web hosting is an internet storage service that gives individuals, organizations, and businesses the ability to publish web sites on the web. Internet web Hosting services provide space on their web servers that clients can “rent” and store personal web sites. Website hosting isn’t something you tend to think about every day. It’s something you purchase when you first get an idea for a site, you setup and then hopefully forget.

Shared hosting is a way for a web hosting company to offer low cost web hosting to their clients while having more users on one server and thus less overhead costs. Shared SSL should almost never be used, if you value the security of your server and that of your online clients. Your host should also allow you to use SSL at no additional purchase. Shared hosting means that on a server are hosted many web sites that all have a distinct quota of hard drive space and bandwidth. They all run at the same time and there can be from hundreds to thousands of web sites on the same server.

Website hosting can be low cost, but also reliable and fast. Our low cost website hosting plans come with full email pop3,smtp and imap support with email aliases and responders. Web hosting is the service that allows your website to be viewed on the World Wide Web. Such services will usually cost a low monthly fee, and may be included in the services provided by the web designer you’ve hired to create your website.

Is SEO dead?

August 19, 2009 by · 5 Comments 

I was reading a thread at a big webmaster forum yesterday which made the claim that “SEO is dead.” Now, it’s hard to say whether or not the original poster was being serious or sarcastic, but he referenced some other news he’d been reading on a few authority sites that made the “dead” claim.

The notion was that, because of the prevalence of Web 2.0 community sites, the idea of needing to optimize for any of the engines was going away — and fast. The idea was also put forth by another poster that, because of the huge number of content management systems that are already setup to be “search engine friendly”, the need to have any additional knowledge to rank well was quickly diminishing.

My answer to all this? Poppycock.

First, while it is true that there are many CMS programs that are search engine friendly out of the box, on-page factors matter so little to ranking (at least in Google) that even if the on-page playing field was leveled, it would make little difference in the current search engine results.

Second, SEO is about far more than just what’s on the page. The way you analyze what keywords are worth optimizing for, the way you write the content around those keywords, and the links you get to the pages that you want to rank for those keywords all have a large role to play in how much traffic you get from the search engines — and that analysis takes specialized knowledge. Anyone can learn to do it, but it does have to be learned.

Third, and most importantly, Web 2.0 is nice, and sites that revolve around that kind of community are huge traffic mongers (e.g. YouTube), but there will always be a need for full-text indexing of the web.

So is SEO dead? Nope. It’s alive and well, and will be for as long as people need to search for information on the web.

Joomla Content Management System For Your Business

July 29, 2009 by · 3 Comments 

I am a Singapore Web Designer and over the last 5 years I have developed many websites and worked with many different content management systems. The web industry is changing and get set up website faster and cheaper. One of the best open source content management systems for setting up website is Joomla and I will walk through the potential benefits that Joomla can provide for your business in this article.

Joomla is an award-winning, web based, Content Management System(CMS) that provides its users with the ability to add, edit and delete content. Content is the meat of a website, everything on the site, from page titles and images to text and placement on the page. It is simple for even non-technical users to add or edit content, update images, and to manage the vital data that makes your company run. Anybody with basic word processing skills can easily learn to manage a Joomla site.

Currently Joomla powers millions of websites Worldwide, from web portals to websites for small businesses. Joomla offers a versatility in how it can be used and who it can be used by. Of course for more complex jobs of modifying design and your own look and feel you might need to hire a Freelance Web Designer, however this task is made easier because Joomla is so popular. To find qualified website designers who have used Joomla in the past, it is very easy, a simple search on one of the many freelance designer for hire websites on the Internet.

With growing community of more than 40,000 users and developers it is quite easy to find information online. Using the simple, browser-based interface you will be able to easily add new news items, product images, and create an unlimited amount of sections or content pages on your website.

There is very little configuration to make a business website run. However for many people, the true power of Joomla lies in its ability to be modified with components and modules. There are literally hundreds & hundreds of Joomla extensions that add to the base Joomla website system framework so that it can be molded into suiting your business processes better. For example, there are extensions to add a photo gallery to your website. Joomla SEO is simply enabling the SEF URLs options.

In few short words it might be worthwhile exploring Joomla for your next website as it provides you with diverse flexibility and a level of control of your content not present 5 years ago.