You Want Your Own ! (Tips #2)

Now, for the sequel.

“You Want Your Own ! (Tips #2)”.

What do you think? Simple enough of a title or should we have chosen something more robust and dynamic?

Alright, now you’ve got your Domain Hosting and Web Host set. You’ve looked through what your web-host is giving you in return for your hard-earned cash. Wait you didn’t? My my…

3. Web Hosting Continued

Well a little tip, do look through what you are going to get with your web host, and the deals you’d be receiving from them.

Most of the web-hosts these days will give lots of freebies and excellent facilities, such as MySQL servers, Unlimited Bandwidth or at least something that is high enough for your cause, Installation Utilities, Email Addresses and more.

Please don’t demand for unlimited bandwidth unless you really need it (Some Web-Hosts are renown for "Overselling", We'll delve into this shortly). A typical Small Business would usually need up to a max of 1-2GB a month, for normal usage with a hit range of close to 20,000-30,000 a month.

That is if you do not host massive amounts of multimedia and/or an extensive Social Networks Profile.

But if you do get a Web-host, who’d be willing to give you unlimited bandwidth, CAREFULLY JUMP at the opportunity (i.e. Read the Terms of Agreements) before you jump, but if you don’t, 3-5GB per month will do you just fine. And if after awhile you find you need more, just put in a request. Most web-hosts will be glad to assist in extending your plan, or even providing you with a more suitable plan once your website matures.

Now with the Web-hosting issue out of the way, and you’ve registered your all-important Web Domain Name, you’d have to follow the procedures to set your DNS properly, I’m not going into great detail into this section for the moment.

You can always seek advice from your Web Host for information on how to configure your Web Domain Name, DNS. (A Tutorial for this will be coming up soon)

Now all’s set, and you’re ready to go!

WRONG!

4. To Design or not to Design…

More research mate. You now have to find out, what you would like to accomplish with your website. If you’re about to go for a Business or Corporate Web Presence, leave it to the experts from the very beginning.

Start searching around for a Web Designer and/or Developer, they'd be able to give you the options and give you several designs to choose from.

They'd be able to assess your Computer Know-How and suggest a suitable solution. Not all products are suitable for all types of Computer Users. They'd be able to assess whether you’re a Beginner, Intermediate or Advanced PC/Mac User. At least that's what we do !

But look through the designers work and their experience.

Look through the relevant links they have provided and after-sales support, such as Support Emails, Live Chat Systems and/or Telephone Support.

Look at the design firms expertise, some are great with PHP and Content Management Systems, others provide more Multimedia Enriched Content (i.e. Silverlight and Flash) sites, and some try to merge both. So, I guess what we're saying is do a bit of research.

Look at their Designs. If you find their designs are not close to what you would like to achieve for your Company/Business or Firm. Halt and ask the design firm for their honest opinion whether they'd be able to give you a design that’ll match your needs. They would be able to gauge and give an honest opinion or might even direct you to their work that fits your criteria.

5. HTML, PHP, CMS, JAVA … AGHHH (Part 1)

Alright if you’re not going for a Business-end model, but just a friendly space, so that all your friends and colleagues can see you and your delighted family over the web. Or you’re just publishing your latest thesis on the “Molecular Fragmentation of Isotopes in a Gamma Field?!?!” look at the Open Source market. Some examples would be Mambo, Wordpress and other Content Management Systems.

Do your research, check out sites that are using the system too. For example, go and search around for Wordpress Sites, not the freebie ones, Hosted Wordpress Sites. Checkout their designs, and the ease in which you can enter your Journal or Blog. For example, if you research into Wordpress enough, you’d be able to find out you can use Flock or even Microsoft Live Writer with Wordpress. So you can blog offline and publish later all without even opening your web browser.

REASEARCH!

Alright now for the “#3” Sequel.

( to be published Mid-November 2009)

God Bless!
And Good luck researching, whilst Part 3 is being typed...

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