Hosting solutions
At times you may find that getting the best results out of a hosting company may not be all about the software but a combination of technology and support that makes the value what it should be.
Right now we use five different servers, comparing each one to see how it performs, when one fails to perform correctly we cut it loose and then we hire another hosting provider.
When you have tons of websites to host you cannot just use any kind of hosting you need to divest into several different providers that way your never left high and dry as the old saying goes.
One of the most important things you can do for your business is to manage your hosting never let you hosting manage you…
When we evaluate a hosting company, the first thing that we do is to content them and ask a question, Does not matter what the question is but its a good idea to make it a good one.
Once we do that we sit back and see how long it takes them to answer that question, one day, ok, sure not too bad, but if it takes like three days, were probably not going to be a customer of this company.
Again we want to know how long it would take if we really needed help.
We want to know if there is someone there that can actually answer the question in an intelligent way. We want to know what we can expect to get from this company if we choose them, because there are hundreds of companies out there and we do not want to deal with incompetence.
Creating, the best environment for your websites is not just a passing fad it is what good business people do to make it work right every time.
Why pay high prices for average services, if your going to pay for a good service make sure your getting what you pay for.
Categories: hosting Tags: developing websites, html5, managing your content
outsourcing
Perhaps you may have heard all about how you can develop outsourcing content and outsourcing products online at a fraction of the cost of traditional development.
There are some issues you might want to have a close look at when you first start thinking about developing a working relationship with an outsourcing partner.
1. Communication is the best method you have to be able to create great gigs.
2. Find multiple methods of communication.
3. Make sure they understand what you “really” want.
Watch out for the middle man, If you have been involved in marketing or even buying products retail and wholesale products always have a middle man, it is a concept that is at the heart of what we have come to realize is how the world economy works.
Categories: outsourcing Tags: developing websites, html5, managing your content
website design
There are several Important considerations in Website Design you might be surprised at how important these can be to your success.
When it comes to your website, extra attention should be paid to every minute detail to make sure it performs optimally to serve its purpose.
Here are some important rules of thumb to observe to make sure your website performs well.
1) Do not use splash pages
Splash pages are the first pages you see when you arrive at a website. They normally have a very beautiful image with words like “welcome” or “click here to enter”. In fact, they are just that — pretty vases with no real purpose. Do not let your visitors have a reason to click on the “back” button! Give them the value of your site up front without the splash page.
2) Do not use excessive banner advertisements
Even the least net savvy people have trained themselves to ignore banner advertisements so you will be wasting valuable website real estate. Instead, provide valuable content and weave relevant affiliate links into your content, let your visitors feel like they want to buy instead of being pushed into buying.
3) Have a simple and easy to understand navigation system
You want to provide a simple and very straightforward navigation menu so that even a young child will know how to use it. Stay away from complicated Flash based menus or multi-tiered dropdown menus.
If your visitors don’t know how to navigate, they will leave your site.
4) Have a clear indication of where the user is
When visitors are deeply engrossed in browsing your site, you will want to make sure they know which part of the site they are in at that moment. That way, they will be able to browse relevant information or navigate to any section of the site easily. Don’t confuse your visitors because confusion means “abandon ship”!
5) Avoid using audio on your site
If your visitor is going to stay a long time at your site, reading your content, you will want to make sure they’re not annoyed by some audio looping on and on on your website. If you insist on adding audio, make sure they have some control over it — volume or muting controls would work fine.
6) update your website on a regular basis.
After a while the same old same old gets boring, so spice things up make a few changes, develop different types of content.
7) Keep your advertising down to a minimum.
I know it may be popular to advertise, advertise and advertise some more, but all in all the search engines dont really like to see a lot of advertising on a website simply because they know that a website visitor really wants to do one of a few things, they usually are after information.
Categories: blogging, developer, small business, templates, website content Tags: developing websites, html5, managing your content
Mobile marketing
ipad apps, android apps, mobiles apps, are big business these days in fact
there are an abundance of apps from A to Z in terms of doing just about
anything you can imagine from turning on and starting your car, to adjusting
the heat or cooling at your home while you are at work.
Many small business locations are interested in having an app or a mobile website
but what goes into creating a mobile website?
It is more than just about the size of the webpage…
The size of the webpage is just one aspect you also need to consider how much
data you can logically transport from your website to the mobile device, and not
all mobile devices are the same some take forever to load a webpage, and if your
webpage is a large one, then likely users will navigate away quickly.
It is really not that difficult to do, from a design standpoint, however the real
consideration is one that you may not be aware of, popular is good, but will it
bring you new business?
Will it fill your store up with buyers overnight?
Probably not, and that would be the incorrect way to look at website or webpage marketing.
The best way to think about using the internet to help develop your business is to think of
your website as an interactive bill board where people can learn about your business and
find out what services you offer and even make purchases from you.
If you get just one more customer over a period of time per month or even less and your
website will have done its job.
That is the key getting one more customer at a time.
A lot of people get this idea that they will get rich as soon as they put up a website, but that
is really the wrong way to look at it, and the same goes for mobile marketing.
It may become the next great thing, but the truth is that even if you do not have a mobile website.
Mobile users can still come to your website and view it.
So the bottom line here is that you really do not have to do much to reach out to the mobile market,
what is really important is that if you have no website at all, you will never reach anyone.
Categories: small business Tags: developing websites, html5, managing your content