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So you Want a Website?

Posted October 5, 2009 By admin and has no comments yet.
(Don’t let the scary wall of text scare you! It’s not too bad)

GREAT! So you want a website? Now what???

Well, it is natural to assume that you will (probably) want to register a domain name. Pick a good one! It will stick with you for awhile!!!

Next step in a website is hosting! Website hosting is essentially storage space for your website’s files, but it gets abit more complicated than that (But not too much!)

(You can probably skip this next part if you want)

Technically, the web server that hosts your website is also responsible for “serving” that content to the rest of the world! This is why it is called a “server”, and the operating system (OS) of the server runs similiarly to your own personal computer! A Website Host will typically run Windows or Linux, with different capabilities for each type. For the most part, you will want a website host company that has both options open to you. The majority of websites (being mostly HTML) will run just fine on either platform. Specific applications (such as Wordpress, the application that powers the blog you are reading now) will experience greater compatibility on a Linux platform for the most part, and many web developers prefer Linux hosting (since most applications developed for Linux are open source, there are MANY free applications available (correctly referred to as “scripts”). Additionally, many of these open-source applications will have an extremely wide variety of themes and plugins available to customize your website with very little effort! This is GREAT news! It means you can have a fully functioning, interactive website hosted and live with VERY little effort or learning! There are other methods to building a website, so sometimes it can be tough to choose. Let me know if a free consultation interests you and I will be glad to help guide you to a solution.

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For the most part, you can build ANY type of website on almost any type of hosting plan or package, including a full eCommerce site if you choose, with very little experience and next to no programming required (if any!)

Next, you need to decide on an overall purpose for your website. Will it be just a basic layout, super simple? You could get away with a website design software utility for that purpose. Alternatively, you could hand-code HTML or a scripting language of your choice, but who wants to do that?!?! If you do not have website design software, you could consider using a blogging platform, such as Wordpress, or even a full-fledged CMS (Content Management System) such as Joomla or Drupal. These work great, and are easy to get up and running. All of our website hosting includes installers for these and other applications to make hosting a website super easy! We encourage you to explore your options and make the decision to FINALLY bring your website online! If you have questions about specific goals/needs, feel free to ask: we love comments. You can also use our free consultation to help make the right decisions.

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Twitter marketing sucks!

Posted September 15, 2009 By admin and has 1 comment.

Yes, you read that correctly.

Twitter.Marketing.Sucks.

Pipe down, pipe down, don’t get all huffy bish. Most of the twitter big-wigs will disagree, because it’s the best thing since sliced bread as far as they’re concerned. They’ve already “gone viral”, or any other nonsense buzzword you can think of… What the crap do they care? They post (or rather, their well-paid troubadours post) and the masses click incessently. OOOOoooo look another post from that @guy, must be important. Oh LoOoOoOOOK it’s about how vital twitter is to your marketing!!! This must be ‘portant! Even though it’s the same garbage they spew for 90% of their own posts… same crap, different hash-tag…

PFEH! and FIE! Twitter was never meant as a marketing tool, you fool! It had it’s moment, sure… but you can’t really get a meaningful message across in 140 characters or less. People in general have learned to ignore the pitches and use it for a quick communication tool. That MLM program you signed up for that promises riches from Twitter? YES that’s right! They lied?!?!?! Oh wait, don’t be surprised. They probably aren’t making money from it either (I can photoshop a clickbank account screen-shot too, ya know?).

You really thought people with THIS short of an attention span can be bothered to read your 300-mile long “Squeeze Page”… but wait, it’s gotta video on it! BLAH.

Here’s the deal: the people that claim twitter is great for marketing, already have 100K+ followers. It “looks” great for marketing because the click-happy masses will click just about anything put in front of them. Add something useful, add some intrigue, be inquisitive and a magnificent bastard all at the same time. The only reason they care to reply to your post is because they hope some mind-numbed moron will click on their URL that they’ve left in their signature field…

Love it or hate it, Twitter’s great for communicating 140 characters at a time. But it sucks for straight marketing. If that’s all you hope to get out of it, go ‘way.

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