Web Developments
Buying a Domain Name – What to consider before registering
Buying a domain name is actually not all that difficult. Most corporations have a registered domain name; almost every television and radio station has one. Many personal web sites and blogs have a registered domain name, as the prices for the registration and maintenance are not all that high, and even a personal web site [...]
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How to choose a web hosting provider for your first web site
Choosing a web hosting provider for your first web site is a difficult decision, fraught with peril. Making a bad decision this early in the life of your web site can be disastrous in the long run, as an unscrupulous web hosting provider could create havoc for the web master in the future, at some [...]
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Domain Management
Domain management is a little known but frequently discussed topic, associated with arcane terms such as name servers, forwarding, mirroring, locking and all manner of other odd contrivances. The basic operations of domain management services is almost exactly the same today as it was in the early days on the internet, in so far as [...]
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Dedicated Servers – What Are They?
If you are somewhat savvy in internet lingo, you may have come across the term dedicated server, or dedicated hosting at some point in time while perusing the internet and it’s features. Dedicated hosting, or dedicated servers, is a term used to describe a specific type of web hosting service. Dedicated hosting, or the term [...]
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Virtual Private Servers- What are they?
Any one who has ever surfed the web or sent email will likely tell you that they have heard of virtual private servers, or VPS for short. The term virtual private servers refers to a technique of sectioning a physical private web server into several other, smaller virtual servers, that each act and operate independently [...]
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Review Your Hosting Providers Terms of Service
Web hosting providers abound on the internet, and there are seemingly more every day, every time you turn around. The flood of advertising that accompanies the web hosting providers presence on the web can be daunting, as each and every web hosting provider claims to be the best web hosting provider that ever existed since [...]
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Content Management Systems (CMS) – Is a CMS the correct choice for you?
If you are new to website design, a term that you may have heard lately is “CMS”. In this article I will outline what a CMS is and list the advantages of using one.
The term “CMS” is short for Content Management System, basically a Content Management System is a piece of software used to assist [...]
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) – Why Should You Use Them.
CSS layouts have been around for many years, but it is still common to see table-based layouts. Since the advent of the CSS 2.0 specification which introduced positioning, all sorts of possibilities have become available to budding website designers, and in this day and age, the only real reason to utilize tables is for displaying [...]
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