Friday, September 28, 2007

Website Hosting

Website hosting can be tricky if you are not IT savvy. What website hosting does is simple the host stores data of your website and allows traffic to view the data. This data can be in an array of ways, images, text, logo’s and links. The host is potentially the most important partner for any website as it is the host that allows the data to be transferred from one computer to another to put it simply.

In Australia we can look up google and see an array of hosts from least expensive to most expensive. What you are typically looking for are two things apart from price with hosting, the first is the amount of data you can store with your host. This is generally in Mega Bites. The second is band width, this is critical as many hosts would not be able to support band width of over 100 bandwidth a month on a small server before it becomes very exspensive.

The reality is evey business is different and every hosting plan needs to be the same way, its not often that you would go and see the first set of golf clubs in a sports store and purchase them and why should hosting be any different, your business is different to another.

What we need to focus on with our hosting clients are personal attention to detail with their business. I don’t mean looking after them every week but making sure that the package fits the business. This is how hosting becomes effective.

Another major point is that the data is available 24 hours a day seven days a week. Our servers are managed 24 hours per day and allow a high level of traffic to go through them to make certain that our clients have traffic when the traffic comes and the site does not crash.

Leeroxhosting.com provides many bonus features for the client, the tracking of data is an important part of any website and we provide all our clients with the ability to track the data from the back end, this allows the client to view traffic in any section of the website which means if a certain page is not working you are the first to know, then you can change it to make an impact.

Website Search Engine

Website search engines are not a new thing, in fact website search engines have been going as early as the late 80’s with programmers using databases to find information and then posting the information online.
What is a search engine? Well a search engine is a place where you can find information that has been stored by other people. A type of search engine is Google, Google is now Australia’s largest search engine with over 80% of people choosing to use this search engine.
Search engines such as Google are so important in today’s marketplace for many reasons, the most important reason is to do with the saving of time. Although there are many good points with a search engine such as Google there are also negative points, the real negative to this search engine is the fact that the information is always not 100% true. The reason for this is anyone can post information on Google. If you look at a dictionary for example the information is accurate however Google may have some bend in the truth due to the general public being able to add almost anything they want to this search engine.

Website search engines have now taken over from paper based books such as yellow pages, this is due to the wider range of search and quickness of data being transferred.

Website Design

Website design is a major part of today’s business, this is due to the fact that many people lead a busy day to day life and would rather search for things online. This has meant that a whole new market has been created in our global marketplace for programmers, graphic designers and it people alike. Website design is a major part of the internet, without a face on the internet your business will not succeed online, what a website can do is give you the image you are after at an affordable price for most businesses.

A website is a virtual office, it allows clients to view your products or services 24 hours a day. What most people do not understand is that there are only really two types of websites, the first style of website is information based and the second type is selling products.

Information websites come in an array of styles and formats. This would be simular to
www.leeroxdigital.com and allows viewers to go and see the services, past clients and an array of other information that will determine whether someone else will go further and read through your site.

The other type of website is E-Commerce
, a site like ebay is where you would purchase products online. This site goes and provides a service of information as well as online sales.

An important feature to recognize in your website is to keep your elements simple. A website is only effective if you have traffic viewing your site, for traffic to view your site it must navigate well and be simple to move from page to page. The use of too much flash distracts clients on websites, although I believe flash is a great asset on a site it must be used with caution, otherwise you risk a potential client looking at the flash and not the content.

Other forms of code are important to understand when a developer commits to building your website. Understanding the code is sometimes difficult however to explain it simply it is simular to translating Spanish to English. Codes such as ASP, .NET, PHP, Flash and HTML are all popular codes both in Australia and around the world.