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Picking a Web Hosting service – Support is critical
When choosing a Web Hosting service you will find that you will sometimes need support. Whether it’s something you don’t understand or something that you don’t have access to you will sometimes need support from your hosting service. Knowing someone is there to help is critical. We use WPMUDEV as our Hosting Service and their 24/7 online support is fantastic! You can either open a support ticket yourself and they will keep you informed via email, or you have chat available to reach a support agent any day at any time. I always get fast responses and 90% of the time issues are solved immediately. If they need to look…
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WPMUDEV – #1 location for WordPress Users
If you are a WordPress user there is no better group to belong to than WPMUDEV. When we started out into the online world we had to learn a lot. I didn’t know at first how important the choice of the host was. I knew I wanted to work with WordPress but I didn’t know how many sites didn’t know much about WP and could offer little help with it. From performance issues, poor support and using cheap shared servers with a lack of CDN support I found myself moving around quite a bit. Finally we found WPMUDEV. WPMUDEV is totally WordPress focused and will help you make your WordPress…
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Namecheap – Big Discounts on Domains, Hosting and more
Namecheap – Big Discounts for Domains, Hosting, SSL and more Namecheap offers a variety of services at a low cost. Domains. Highlighting a specific range of TLDs (domain extensions) for your audience to choose from will help you appeal to your demographic. And with Namecheap there is a huge range of domains available, all with great, low prices Hosting: Namecheap offers a wide range of robust hosting packages with 100% uptime guaranteed. Your audience can choose from Shared, Reseller, VPS and Dedicated Server packages depending on their requirements. VPS Hosting Dedicated Servers: Earn higher commissions promoting powerful and reliable servers for big websites! Our competitive pricing and high quality standards…
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Building a Website part 4: Customizing and Tweaking
Building a Website – Customization and Tweaking All the basics should be ready by now. You have a domain, a host service, and have made sure SSL is in effect and http redirects are sending all addresses to your https address. Now it’s time to design and customize. Since I have recommended the WordPress structure and I’m most familiar with it I will continue with specific WordPress items and offer some details about building your Website.. For a WordPress site the first thing is your choice of theme. You didn’t need to decide this before starting building your website but now that the beginning steps have been done that should…
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Building a Website part 3: You have a Host, now what?
Building your own Website – You have a Domain and Host – now what? Now that you have a domain and a host you will probably be excited to get going building your website. But there are some things you must check to make sure they are correct before you get things started wrong. I will list them in what I think is the most important order. SSL and security SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It’s what causes the little padlock to show on the left of the address in most browsers, and site addresses will begin with https if SSL is in effect. Why does this matter? Well, it’s…
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Build your own Website part 2: Hosting, the Foundation
There are two starting and critical things you will need to decide when building a Website: The host, and the domain. I will talk about the latter first. Building a Website – Domains A domain is your Internet address. It is unique in the world. You have to buy one but they are not very expensive. Our main address is asindera.com. Firstly. some information about the extension (.com in this case) There are many extensions available. These used to be very limited but the Internet got so heavily used that additional ones were added. Some of the current valid extensions and their general meanings are: .com – (short for Commercial). As the…
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Build your own Website part 1: Concepts & Introduction
You can build your own Website! Building a website is easier than you think. With the right tools, you don’t need to write any program code. You just need to think about what you want then perform some simple steps. Originally for building a Website you had to become well versed in HTML, CSS, possibly JavaScript, etc. Some of you reading this might not even know what those are. The nice thing is you don’t have to! What you mostly need to do is spend time thinking about what you want to achieve when you are building your website. There are lots of different kinds of sites when a great…
