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Guide to Choosing a web Design Company
The first step towards launching your online marketing strategy is creating a website and finding the best person or company to do it. This can prove quite tricky for first timers. Unless the business is based on IT, it is highly unlikely that there is an experienced web designer familiar with what is needed within the company.
There are four basic criteria for creating a website for a company:
Goal Determination
The first step when creating any website is to establish goals to be achieved by the domain. Once you have a set of goals for the domain, it becomes much simpler to choose a web design company. When setting up goals for the website, ask questions such as:
1. Is there need for the website?
2. What do you have to sell at the site?
3. Do you have a particular product or several items?
4. What is your target market?
5. Does the web designer work with email hosting companies or independently?
6. Is your brand established or starting out in the market?
7. What industry does your company operate in?
8. Who are your competitors and how are their sites?
9. Does your company have pre-existing websites and how do they look like?
10. Are you willing to accept different forms of payments from users?
11. What is your time limit for the site?
12. Will there be repercussions for not developing a website?
Having the answers to these questions will help you in choosing an appropriate web designer.
Make a Budget for the Job
When approaching web design companies, do not be upfront with them about your budget. First, get the approximate cost based on the goals above. You can then calculate the amount of money available for the project.
Choose a Web Design Company
The third step is the actual choosing of a website design company. This will involve considering several options. For instance, does the company do web hosting and web design at the same time and checking out the companies web design portfolio. This contains some of the work they have completed in the recent past.
Experience Matters
The web design company must have some experience in the field. Check up their domains online and see if they are close to what you are looking for.
You can also check out any reviews posted online about the company. These can offer you some info on how users find the web design company.
Advantages and Disadvantages of Dedicated Web Hosting
Web hosting is a classification of internet hosting services that provides network services for each individuals and several organization to have its own websites to stay connected with the world through World Wide Web. It is further divided into three primarily types, such as dedicated web hosting, virtual web hosting and clustered web hosting. Clustered web hosting is a kind of web hosting which spreads the load over nodes, provides result in decreasing the chances of ones service & increases availability. Virtual web hosting is otherwise called as shared hosting.
Dedicated web hosting is most commonly used web hosting type among all the three primary types as it found to be more advantageous to the users. It has an other name, called managed web hosting.
Advantages of dedicated web hosting:
Compared to virtual (or) shared, clustered web hosting provides a lot of flexibility or control over your web server. The greatest flexibility is deserved by the user of the dedicated web hosting server.
Dedicated web hosting services provided by the company will not share their websites between various customers.
Since it is not a shared server, even the customer having virtual web hosting server cannot share the hard drive, processor or bandwidth as well as its application.
Dedicated web hosting is superior to virtual web hosting server, it cannot access to the control over dedicated web hosting server configuration.
It provides safety by allowing only the particular customer who uses the dedicated web hosting server to have the complete server control for their administrative purpose.
The specialty of their web hosting is that, the user of this web hosting owns the server and they themselves are web hosting clients, so that have a complete cover over hardware management
Dedicated web hosting server provides an option to the user to perform his own upgrades and install their own software.
As you are the only customer using this server, you dont have to share the resources like hard drive &bandwidth applications, which gives you more space, more efficient and also speed of processing your database, email and also website application.
When the advanced business aided with the needs of custom engineering & design and a lot of space to store it, dedicated web hosting is the correct choice, since the clustered web hosting is rarely used.
It is the best option for you to select dedicated web hosting server for your websites which provides download compatibilities for customer because of its fewer bandwidth restrictions compared with the other two web hostings.
If your business website contains multiple website then custom applications, increased web hosting space &speed is needed , that is provided by dedicated web hosting.
Disadvantages of dedicated web hosting:
It is costlier than the virtual web hosting
It is suitable for most internet based business, but it is not recommended for business which is advanced & requires custom engineering & design using other web hosting server, called clustered hosting server.
If a user is initiator in internet based business, virtual web hosting is cost efficient and sufficient, so dedicated web hosting is only a best option, until the user makes progress in his business level and switches his business of using multiple websites.
For long term internet business plans, upgrade of dedicated web hosting is needed in future with respect to relative to cost.
Just What The Heck Is Spyware, Anyway? (Page 1 of 2)
What Is Spyware? It goes by different names. Spyware, adware and malware are some of the more popular monikers. It really doesn’t matter what you call it, though. The bottom line is that you don’t want it on your computer. First of all, let me state for the record that I think the internet is a wonderful thing. I think a majority of people would agree that the World Wide Web has made life for all of us a little more convenient. Whether it’s reserving a hotel room, buying music online, checking the local weather or any number of thousands of useful sites (did I mention email?) we all have gotten a little bit spoiled with having all this information right at our fingertips. That being said though, sometimes we seem to get a little complacent and let our guard down. We forget that the internet has a seedy side full of ways for unscrupulous people to con honest (if not a little niaeve) people out of their money (or worse!). In this article, I’ll cover a few of the pitfalls that many people tend to have trouble with.
Adware: This type of malware is designed to do one thing and one thing only. Get you to buy something. Once this type of software has infected your computer, you will start getting a lot of pop-up ads. Sometimes these ads are the pop-under type. Pop-under’s get by any pop-up blockers by generating an ad without stealing the focus from the web page that your viewing. You usually won’t even know it’s there until you close your browser and see the ad (or ads) displayed on your desktop. Generally, this type of malware is little more than an annoyance, but sometimes multiple instances can cause major slowdowns in your PC or even cause system crashes. Adware is usually bundled with some other “free” software such as free desktop wallpaper, icons or screensavers. It may or may not be disclosed in the end-user license agreement (EULA) of the free software, but even when it is, most people never read those agreements anyway. If you want to protect your computer from this type of malware, you should ALWAYS be suspicious of free software.
Spyware: Spyware does exactly what it’s name implies. It spies on you. Well, actually it spies on your web surfing and purchasing habits. The information that is collected is usually then sold to unscrupulous vendors who target you with spam email. Again, this type of marketing is usually just an annoyance, but anytime your privacy is compromised (especially by some sleazy dirtbag who will do anything to make a buck) there is cause for concern.
Trojan Horses: Sometimes simply known as “Trojans”, these, in my humble opinion, are the worst offenders. If you know the story of the Trojan War, then the name given to these vicious baddies will make perfect sense to you. Here’s the way it works: You are happily surfing along the internet, minding your own business, when all of the sudden a banner pops up and cheerfully anounces that you have won a FREE IPHONE (or a free laptop computer, or a free vacation, etc.). All you have to do to claim this generous prize, it seems, is to “CLICK HERE!”. Trust me on this one, do not ever, EVER, “CLICK HERE!”. BIG MISTAKE! What you’re doing with that click, is allowing malware to be downloaded to your computer that will make your life miserable and, as an added bonus, you’ll never get your free prize.