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 tempting to keep tinkering and adjusting the various components until they’re perfect. But you should remember that while you’re editing the website, it stays on your designer’s temporary server for testing or on your desktop - and never gets launched.

This is counter-productive.
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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 for reliability, and I have found all that with Hostgator. I moved my domains to them over a year ago and the hosting just ticks along without giving me any hassle. I can install unlimited domains and subdomains on my account. I can also use thousands of email addresses and redirects on my domains, which looks more professional than a free email address. Read 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. I had two brief spells at different web hosting companies and each move resulted in downtime on my sites, so be warned. I am now with Hostgator, and I have been a happy user for two years with no problems at all. Save yourself the hassle of changing frequently and try Hostgator for yourself - free - for thirty days.

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 subdomains of your single domain name - this is what I did with my Adsense Blog.
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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 we wanted to host the Blogger template on our web hosting servers (in whom I have the utmost faith) it has been problematic. Every time I attempt to change the blog publishing options, the blog ‘cannot be found’. Then I discovered yesterday that Blogger went down completely for more than three hours, just at the time when one of the paid to blog services visited the blog to approve it. I am really worried about the changeover process and I am doing plenty of searches to try and make the blog move this weekend while the blog traffic is lower.

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 panel. My big concern was to avoid a duplicate penalty form running the two sets of files at the same time. The web hosting CP allows a redirect to be placed on teh domain, but then I discovered that I could place a redirect in the .htaccess file from the old domain to the new one. The content of my .htaccess file now reads ‘redirect 301 / http://www.top-dog-tips.com/’ Problem solved - all existing traffic is sent to the new domain and I can remove the old files to avoid duplicate problems.
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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 free domain names, from a domain registrar that was new to me - and shall remain nameless. Of course I took it, hoping to save some cash. Big mistake! I could not get them loaded on to my web hosting company DNS servers. I have done this before with other domains form other registrars so I know I was not making any mistakes. Despite numerous contacts with the Help Desk the action was aborting every time. In the end I simply left the for the 60 day period to pass, after which I moved them to my usual domain name registrar. To move the domains I had to pay their usual fee, so in the end I saved nothing and got loads of hassle in the process. The moral is: free domains are never worthwhile. If you want to know the name of the first domain name registrar, leave me your details and I will let you know. I am certainly not going to give them a link back!

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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 agency on behalf of Plusnet. My partner had a similar experience with Tiscali when their trial offer did not deliver what it promised - it took over a year to get rid of them