Get Your Website Launched! There are many elements in a website design project. Elements may include the overall strategy, the site map, site contents, design, coding, search engine optimization (SEO) and additional functionality. With so much to track, it’s easy to let the website design project roll on forever. It’s... More

Before I got my first website the whole area of web hosting and domain names was a mystery to me. That was two years ago and now I have a web hosting account that allows me to do whatever I want with blogs, websites and domain names all for less than $10 a month. It is important to use an established web host with a good reputation... More

I read recently that we are more likely to change our spouse than our bank account. Not that we are all so much enamoured of our banks, it is simply too much trouble to move all the information. I believe the same maxim applies to web hosting so why not go with a proven web host and increase your chances of a happy relationship.... More

Of course your blog needs blog publishing software and – you’ve guessed it – I recommend using Wordpress, preferably hosted on your own domain name and web hosting servers. A domain name costs less than $10 a year and web hosting is less than $10 a month. If cash is really tight you can set up multiple blogs under... More

I have decided I have no option – my blogs will have to be moved from Blogger. You may recall that I moved Kevin the Collie’s blog on to his own domain a couple of months ago. We are still using a blogger template – I had spent some getting a three column template just right and I wanted to keep it. Although... More

I wrote a post about my experiences of setting up some new ‘free’ domain names, which are now happily set up at my usual domain name registrar and web hosting company. Next I needed to deal with sending visitors from the old subdomain to the new domain. I loaded up the files via the FTP server to the new domain control... More

I have set up a new domain for Kevin the Collie’s website, after hosting it on a subdomain for more than six months. Cheapskate, I know, but at first we thought it was just a side interest. We really concentrated on his dog training blog at first, and that is still successful. Then in December I got an offer for five completely... More

I can only sympathise with all the poor souls who signed up for TalkTalk Broadband and are either still waiting to be connected or – as happened to my partner – have had their phone inadvertently disconnected before the service has even started. Today I heard another sad story about a lady threatened by a collections... More