The Overview of Web Hosting and How to Host Your First Website

May 19, 2009

As an internet user, you have come across several websites. One tends to wonder how these websites came to be about. Others might be wondering how they can put up their own website. Knowledge on the overview of web hosting and how to host your first website on the internet can be found on the same internet. Before we go any further it would be great if you understood what web hosting is. Basically it is the way in which websites are mad to appear over the internet. The website is a content carrying package that is accessed over the World Wide Web. This is why you find that when opening most web pages you use three w’s in the form of www, then the name of the website followed by a dot com. Hosting on the other hand is the method by which an organization, company or individual can relay their information through the internet. Read more..

How Easy is it to Buy From Your Website

May 18, 2009

Convincing your prospects to go to your website and buy from you can be a very convincing job indeed. Have you ever gone to a website, and seen something that interests you, the price it right and you decide to buy, but as you start to go through checkout you end up going through page to page, and hit with offer after offer, and you think to yourself, can’t I just purchased what I want to buy.

Well this is very common when people want to buy items, only to be confused as well about how to order, where the buy now button is or checkout, you want to make it as easier as possible for people to find your order form as easily and with no hassle of driving them away from the initial sale Read more..

Website Speed Test – Is Your Slow Website Losing You Customers?

May 18, 2009

So what effects website speed? There are three things. First, the speed at which the web server process the page; secondly, the broadband (or dial-up) connection speed of the browser; and thirdly, the distance from the customer to the web server.

Recent advances in hardware mean servers process pages almost instantly and 1MB broadband or greater is available in most countries. The one thing that hasn’t changed is distance. New York to London is still 5580km and Hong Kong to Los Angeles 7100km. Because web page load times increase proportionately to the distance between browser and server you may be surprised to discover that the speed of your website as experienced by you in London, for example, will not be the same as experienced by your customers in Sydney or Delhi. Read more..

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