I need a person to give me some ideas for a business me and my bro have. We were looking at using Just Computers, but all of the domain names were taken up. So then we thought it would be to generic, we now want a less generic name. We want it to do something with what we do, we build machines at low costs and spec them for free, almost everything we have on the website is 100% customizable by you (the consumer). If anyone can pitch me some ideas, that would sure be swell 
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I need a name for my custom computer building business. Please help.?
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
I’ve Got a Domain Name–Now What???: A Practical Guide to Building a Website and Web Presence
Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
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Setting up your own domain and website without a readily available office expert can be challenging, even for the technically savvy. You have to choose from multiple options, from simple to complex, to configure web technology to meet your needs. Individually, each software component is not difficult. It’s the oh-so-important details involved in putting them together that can be problematic. This book is your guide to the many technology tools that can be util… More >>
I’ve Got a Domain Name–Now What???: A Practical Guide to Building a Website and Web Presence
Building a new website: what are the costs?
Monday, May 3rd, 2010So you have made the decision to have a website built for your business, but are not sure of what is involved, and where the costs lie? It can be confusing, especially if you are not particularly Internet or PC savvy: web development, web hosting, domain names, email addresses. All of these are factors that need to be considered and costed into your project. As well as that, you’ve seen many great websites on the net, which are packed with loads of cool features, moving graphics, options to sign up for newsletters, database searches and links to other sites. Do you need all these features, and how much will all that cost? What should you have in your website, what’s the process, and how much will it all set you back?
The first step is to think of a suitable domain name. The name of your company can be a great start, so you get www.mybusiness.co.nz or www.mybusiness.com . Which do you need: dot co or dot com? I believe that a dot co domain name is OK for most New Zealand businesses, and that a dot com name still really implies an American site, although this is not a fast rule. Why not identify your business as a NZ one straight off and use dot co, which will promote our country to overseas net users? Something else to think about is whether the name lends itself to what your business does or provides. So the domain name www.circusanimalhire.co.nz (it doesn’t exist, I checked!) tells you pretty much what the website is all about. A name like www.prsmythe.co.nz doesn’t give as much information about the core business, and so users then have to actually view the site to determine what is provided. You need a lot of advertising, PR and brand marketing clout to get a name like www.amazon.com to be synonymous with books right? But it is possible as we know. When you’ve thought of your name, register it: $39.95 will secure you the name for a year.
What does a website cost? A basic website can cost as little as $1000 – $2000. What do you get for that? You generally get what’s called a brochureware website. That’s one that is like what it’s name suggests: an online brochure introducing your business, products and services, and encouraging users of your site (your target market) to contact you. You can have the basic structure of three pages:
1) Home page which introduces you, your business, products and services
2) Products and/or Services page for more detail
3) Contact page, which may include location (a map!), phone numbers and email facility.
The latter may be in the form of a link, which opens up a blank email when clicked on, or may include a form, which users fill in, and this generates an email which is sent to you. The form is great way of encouraging users to give you a certain amount of required information, so that you can give the most informed response, and hopefully generate some business. A brochureware website is a great start if you want to start off small, with a good Internet presence at a reasonable price. Don’t forget you can always expand it over time once you have analysed its effectiveness, seen the benefits, and increased your confidence. This sort of site supports your existing marketing strategy and initiatives and is another facet of your marketing strategy: it’s an advertisement for your business.
What if you want your website to be more than just an advertisement, and actually want it to make the sale for you right there and then online? What if you want some more features, such as a search facility, where people can enter criteria and search through your products, and maybe place an order on your site or even pay for it online? With these features you can actually secure a sale or an order while the user is still visiting your website. This dynamic functionality involves including programming and database components in your website and so will cost you more. What you want determines what it will cost you. (What you NEED may cost you less, so get advice). There are no set prices for including this sort of functionality, and the best bet is to shop around. There are options.
1) A web development company will be able to construct an online catalogue, ordering and/or payment facility for you
2) You could buy shopping facility software yourself, and have it added to your existing site
3) You can utilise one of the many providers of this functionality who actually lease or rent the facility to you.
In the latter instance your catalogue is housed on their site, you manage it yourself and it looks like your site, but it is provided by a third party.
Even if you start with a brochureware website you can of course add features over time, and it is important to plan for this from the outset if that is what you want to do. Ensure that your website is scalable, that is that it can be expanded readily, without having the whole thing reconstructed from scratch. Don’t forget to consider the size of your site and the impact that this can have on your web hosting costs. Adding a catalogue with a lot of pictures can take up more room on your website hosting company’s server, and this may cost you more if you start to exceed the storage limit that you have for your account. Credit card facilities also need to be paid for – they will generally cost you a set up fee, a yearly fee and a percentage of each transaction, but they are convenient in that revenue is collected immediately.
Don’t forget also that once a website has been constructed and launched there may need to be ongoing maintenance of the site, in terms of keeping the data in it up to date, periodic review and testing and further development work. Discuss with your web developer what might be required and what these costs might be. This should be discussed with you during the initial planning phase of your web development project. Also discuss search engine optimisation (SEO), which is the process of ensuring your site can be found on the net. Many web development companies will include this service initially as part of their development price, but will charge for an ongoing maintenance and review of your listings. There are Internet companies that supply these services specifically as well, so have a look around. SEO of your site initially and on an ongoing basis, is strongly recommended for your website, as search engines still account for over 80% of the traffic to websites.
Once your website is complete, you will need to have your website hosted, and there are many hosting company’s available which offer this service. The prices vary for these services from about $20 to $50 per month, and the value added services provided vary considerably. Options such as website stats, account size limits, number of email addresses available with each account are a consideration, as is technical support and assistance. So, a lower priced host sounds great, but they may not give you web stats or a free form script, and this may set you back if you want or need these facilities for your site. Ask the right questions, or read the available information on the hosting company’s website before you commit yourself.
So, in summary it is fair to say that the costs of owning and operating a website do not just lie in the production of the website itself, although this is the major component. You also need to consider domain name purchase, website hosting costs, domain name-based email accounts, website statistics, service/support, search engine optimisation and of course ongoing management, maintenance and development.
Web 3.0 Domain Building Series : Flipping Static Websites into Full Communities for More Revenue
Monday, May 3rd, 2010If you are relying on static information ppc landers to bring revenues then you are missing out on repeat-user revenue models.
The opportunity and challenge is to capture, retain and contribute your user base.
Internet users today are more fickle, more dynamic and easily distracted and can tell if you’re website is a ppc, monetized site with little value to the user.
1.Building Recurring Interactions
Why don’t you bring interactions and more value to your monetization efforts by bringing self-sustaining and dynamic community and content to your otherwise 1st generation ppc website?
There are a lot of sites, apps and widgets offering interactivity to your static website and often they are free but the question is, will it grow with your needs ?
When your community grow, will it support their needs?
I don’t think so. Thats why a simple custom based community app is best suited to build interactivity, value and monetize fresh traffic plus returning users as well.
2. Research for issues, tips, sites, services and tools that will probably help your users.
What is the goal or niche topic of your website? Do you know?
Do you also know which apps, services and tools will be appreciated by your users?
Do you know existing trends on your niche topic that you have to incorporate in your content?
Those are some of the questions that you need to ask yourself and your team before embarking on building out your domain or your static website.
3.) Incorporating Interactivity
And after you have researched and compiled all that, the next step is how to incorporate it to your website quickly, painlessly and at the most cost-effective way possible.
There are a number of tools available in the market today that allows you to research on your niche effectively and always use the top search engines and at the least one to four top sites that is related to your website.
Check how they incorporated or built out their forums, discussions, user tools and resources, etc.
Most often than not, they will be using dynamic widgets, videos, and content but in the end, a simple forum web app, a gallery, that you can quickly install on your server via your developer would be better.
3. Fresh Dynamic Content is Better Promotion
If you already have all two tips accomplished then I think you’re off to promotion and marketing. The most effective way of promoting?
Fresh community content related to your niche topic. Nothing more. Nothing less.
If a visitor sees interactivity and can quickly join in, then you just got yourself a new user for your website.
Building out your domain is a painstakingly difficult task but if I can make you feel better, there’s a new tool and service called RapidDomainBuilder.com.
Rapiddomainbuilder.com promises to rapidly build out your domain, choose your framework, publish dynamic content instantly, lets you manage 1 to 5000 domains, put and publish ads as revenue streams on specific page locations, and have a whole community of users, developers and domain owners to quickly give you tips, and also more site partners.
In terms of revenue, rapiddomainbuilder.com will also make you a network affiliate partner and your users – sub affiliate partners. When they earn commissions, you earn a commission as well.
Best FREE Website Hosting / Building Available
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
****READ ME FIRST**** This is the best FREE website building and hosting website I have come accross. It is very simple to use and takes a few days to have your site up and running. In this video I will show you how to navigate to their website and I show you some features that this website builder has and how easy it is to create a professioal looking wesite. You do not need any HTML knowledge unless you want to add custom HTML codes to your website. If you would like I could tell you how to make a toolbar for your website, please feel free to comment if you would like me to. Visit my site – www.fresh-1.webs.com
I just registered my domain & got web hosting on godaddy.com. How long before I can start building my site?
Saturday, May 1st, 2010Because I typed my domain I made up in the search engine and it says is not there yet.
I’m ready to begin building my own webpage, but I see that now I have to pay for web hosting?
Friday, April 2nd, 2010Is there a FREE web hosting space that allows me to use HTML to be able to design and publish my own web page?
Thanks so much!
Building A Website Buy A Domain
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
This is part one of a series of videos, where I show you how to build a website. I will show how how to buy the domain and hosting, how to make a webpage and upload it and then how to add things like forums and blogs to your site. this is very easy. Computaholic.com is my first proper website and I have done all this without a problem! So, let find out how to buy a domain … Email: matthew@computaholic.com Forum: computaholic.com Website: computaholic.com Blog: computaholic.com
Building Your Own Website Is Easy
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Website building, web development, how to build a website, domain name, hosting, web design
The reader will learn here how to build his own website even he is a newbie in web development.
Building a simple website is easy, even for non-IT people. If you have the following basic requirements, then you can create your own website.
Basic Requirements:
Basic knowledge of HTML
Computer set & Internet Connection
Website Design Layout or Template
Website Content
Domain Name and Web Space or Host
Let me explain to you each of the above requirements:
Basic Knowledge of HTML:
A website is composed of one or more web pages. A page layout is produced by using html codes or tags. HTML means Hyper-Text Markup Language and tags are enclosed by and signs. If you have zero knowledge of html, well here is the outline of a web page:
Outline of a web page:
!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN”
”http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”
html
head
title
Here you will place the title of the page. The texts here are displayed at the topmost left of a browser or web page.
/title
meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ /
meta name=”keywords” content=”you must type here the main keywords of your content like this keyword1,keyword2,keyword3,etc. Words that are frequently used in this page content must be included here for search engine optimization.” /
meta name=”description” content=”You must type here the summary of this page content using the page’s main keywords for search engine optimization” /
meta name=”author” content=”Your name here” /
meta name=”copyright” content=”The year you built your website” /
style type=”text/css”
This is the place for Cascading Style Sheets or known as CSS. CSS defines the styles you will use in your web page such as font color and size of the text, background image, boxes, etc. These are effected in the body but most of the style definitions affects only those areas where you use them.
/style
/head
body
Here you will implement the layout using style definitions you have made in the “style” section. Without putting anything here the page will be blank except for the title that will appear at the topmost left of the page. You will also place here the content of your website. It may be mixed of texts, images, audios and videos.
/body
/html
The above must be saved as a html page with extension of html or htm. Your homepage or the starting page must be named as index.html or index.htm. When you open a site like this site, http://www.freetipsandwits.com, it will automatically search and open the index page.
To see it with your two eyes, copy the above html codes from html to /html, then open your Notepad and paste it. In the Notepad or its equivalent, Click File – Save – Type mywebpage.html or mywebpage.htm – Click All Files – Click OK. Then in the Windows Explorer or its equivalent, find the the file and open it…See the power of HTML. That’s your first web page. With those few codes, you can create your own web pages. For more basics of creating a web page, click here.
Computer set & Internet Connection:
This is a computer equipment (desktop or laptop computer) that has a modem and internet connection (Dial-up or DSL). This means that you can access or surf the web. You will be using an internet connection to upload your web page files and to browse your website in action after uploading. You may use your own computer or you may rent in internet cafe, whichever is more comfortable to you.
Website Design Layout or Template:
Website Layout Design is the graphical presentation of your site in a web page. Like in http://Freetipsandwits.com, the page layout is composed of header box, right box, left box and footer box. The design layout will be your guide where to place your content in every web page.
If you don’t have time to learn html or let’s say, you are not interested in learning html, you still have options to have your web design layout. Buy or get free web templates from the web. If you have a budget and you want to have a design based on your preference, you may hire a coder or simply buy a web template.
Website Content:
This is the meat of the website. Your website is nothing without a content. It is like a house without people and furnishings. People are looking for contents. They want something from your website.
The content is the physical presentation of the purpose of your website. It may be personal (about your personal life or life of other people), community (a forum or discussion of a group of people), free or non-profit services (a directory, educational, tutorial, freebies, etc.) or commercial (for selling or marketing products or services).
Your content may include texts, graphics, sounds, videos, programs, etc. depending on your purpose or on what you like other people or visitors to see in your site and on the available materials with you. But, putting sounds, videos or softwares make require an advanced knowledge of html and scripts.
You may source your content materials from the web, free or priced. Check our directory of freebie sites or use Google and type “free web templates”, “web templates”, “web template freebies” or other keywords that are appropriate based on your need:
Domain Names and Web Space:
Domain Name:
A domain name usually consists of two or more parts, separated by dots. This is the unique text name corresponding to the IP address of the website. Example is http://www.ezinearticles.com. The rightmost label “com” is what we called the top-level domain (TLD). Other TLDs are .com, .net, .org, .biz, .ws, .tv, .info,etc… Sub-domains are the labels on the left next to TLD and are dependent on the domain to the right. “ezinearticles” is the sub-domain (second-level domain) and dependent of the “.com” domain.
Choose a descriptive name for your site to give short information to your target visitors on what your site is all about. You may use your own name too if you want to. For search engine optimization, it is advisable that you name your site with descriptive keywords. Each word must be separated by hyphen or dash like “best-online-business-ever.com”, “affiliate-marketing-guide.com” and “affiliate-program-reviews.com”.
To have your own second-level domain name, you have to pay for registration on a yearly basis with ICANN-accredited website-registrars but you may register a name for a number of years paying the equivalent amount. TLD’s have different prices some are cheaper than others.
You may also go for free sub-domain with sites offering free hosting but it will be a third-level domain like in geocities, your website address will be http://yourchoicename.geocities.com or in tripod, it will be http://yourchoicename.tripod.com. Your domain name will be depedent of geocities or tripod.
If you really want to build a website using your own tradename and would like to earn profit from it, it would be better to at least invest a little amount of money. You may check if the name you plan to give to your site is still available by using search engine and type “domain name registration” or “register domain name”.
Web Space and Hosting:
The next thing you need is the web space where you will place your registered domain name and other stuff for your site. Normally, domain names are offered with web space. If you register a domain, you will be given a free but limited web space.
Usually, a free web space is ad-supported and subject to a number of restrictions. Meaning, the hosting site will put an ad to your site without paying you and it will not allow you to do or put some stuff.
So, if you want a clean web space where you can do whatever you want “legally”, it is advisable that you lease your own web space. It is also offered on a yearly basis but you may also lease it for a number of years.
You may buy or lease domain or web space separately. You may register a domain name from one website and lease a web space from another. If you register domain name separately from web host, then you need to link the namservers from your host to your domain name. The nameservers will be given to you by your host and you need to enter this to your domain DNS (Domain Name Servers) setup.
For more paid and free domain name registrants and web hosts, use search engine and type “domain name and webhosting” or “domain name registration” or “web hosting”.
The following are the easy, simple and complete procedures to build your own website:
Determine your purpose of your website.
Prepare all the materials to be placed in your site as your website content.
Plan the lay-out or design of your site. Get free or buy template.
Create web pages. Learn our tutorial on creating your own web page or use ready-made web templates.
Name your site with keywords relevant to your site content.
Check the availability.
Buy domain name and web space or get free web-space.
Upload your web pages. You may upload your web files by web browser or by ftp. Check your with your host for instruction on how to do it.
Check your website live. Check all the links if all are working fine.
Submit your site to search engines and directories to inform the world that you have built your own website.
Now you build your own website and start making money online.
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AT&T Webinar to Provide Small Businesses Tips on Building a Strong Online Presence
Thursday, April 1st, 2010AT&T Webinar to Provide Small Businesses Tips on Building a Strong Online Presence
Furthering its ongoing commitment to small business success, AT&T* today announced that it will host a free one-hour webinar on April 8 entitled, “Maximizing Your Web Presence.” Â The webinar – part of a series of instructional webinars and training courses available on AT&T’s small business Web site, www.att.com/SmallBusinessInSite – will feature noted small business …
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