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Website Hosting

Website hosting, do you even know what it is? Just like you store information on your own computer, all the files, the text, the images, and the functionality for your website needs to be stored somewhere. That is called Website Hosting, where they store your website. You are paying for the storage, and paying for them to connect it to the internet and send it out to the people viewing your site. Often with many DIY website builders like Wix, Weebly or SquareSpace the hosting is included. And with many website developers, they offer hosting as part of their service. Website hosting can be […]

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Creating a Business Blog

Creating a Business Blog “Blog” is the abbreviated term for Web Log. Essentially when you are blogging you are creating a log on the web. Very similar to an online diary or online personal journal. This phenomenon has spread like wildfire across the internet. Blogs can fall into two fairly general categories. Personal Blogs: a mixture of keeping personal journal or voicing your opinions in posts. This is often very focused on the area of interest to the blogger, the topic can be related to some hobby or passion of theirs. Even though this is for personal reasons, these types of blogs can make

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Gmail vs. Constant Contact

So Gmail vs. Constant Contact – I had a good friend ask which they should be using. It seems they had someone question their use of Gmail in their business. They had been told that Gmail was bad and Constant Contact was good. My view is that person did not really know exactly what they were talking about – as they are different tools, although both do use email. Gmail is simply an online general purpose email program – very robust, VERY secure (if your password is secure) and full of great features. I checked the CC website just to confirm that they had

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WordPress

WordPress is quickly becoming a standard web creation platform. It was originally a blogging platform. WordPress then added more functionality – the ability to have static pages and full featured menus. This allowed WordPress to be used to create full websites rather than simply a blog. WordPress is a very stable and efficient website platform. On going updates keep it quite secure, even though there have been many attacks on WordPress sites and the code. As always, good security measures by the WordPress developer will ensure your website security. WordPress has since added more back end database functionality (custom post types). This has now

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