Posts Tagged ‘Dynamic Content’

Are You Using Free Hosting Services?

Monday, December 21st, 2009

Free web hosting is in many cases the most basic web hosting service that you can sign up with, and there are many free hosting providers available on the internet. The companies providing the free hosting accounts usually finance this by ads on the web sites that are hosted.

Another feature about free web hosting services – they are usually extremely limited. If you get a free hosting service, you are forced to have ads on the top and perhaps even on the bottom of your website, and depending on what your website is all about, it may not fit at all. However, if you are amongst those just starting out on the internet, a free hosting account may very well be the best option, since you probably don’t have a lot of traffic, or just a small site.

The type of domain that you receive when you sign up for a free web hosting account is usually a subdomain with the name that you pick (yourname.somefreewebhost.com) or a name in a directory (somefreewebhost.com/yourname). For example, if the name of your free host is the000webhost.com, then your web domain would be yourbusiness.the000webhost.com.

If you are a newbie, this is the type of account that you would probably want to get, but you should be aware of some of the shortcomings this sort of free web hosting account has, especially if you are looking for more advanced options:

Firstly, many free hosting accounts do not support databases. Databases are usually used for online data retrieval routines, or to manage dynamic content on your site, such as a wordpress blog. Many of these free web hosting sites do not even support the most widely used package called mySQL!

Secondly, the free webhosts may not support multiple email accounts; in fact they only give you one email account, which is usually a web based internet account (aka webmail).

However, recently some new companies has emerged, that will in fact give you a free hosting account without the recenly mentioned shortcomings; you get PHP, mySQL, email accounts and lots more! One of them is a free webhosting service found at the000webhost.com. They even allow you to host your own domain (a perfect reason to finally purchase a domain of your own), and you are not forced to display ads or anything like that. How’s that for an improvement!

The downside? – They will disable your account after 15 days without traffic, which could be a problem if you are just starting out. Some would call it a blessing, since it will force you to come up with new and fresh ways to generate web traffic to your site.

By Anders Eriksson, CEO and Owner Datorsam

What’s the Rate of a Website Design

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

Absolutely yes! With the advancement in technology, now-a-days, it is possible for you to get your website adorned with the most contemporary techniques. It was really the thing of the past when the websites were used to display the information about some company. Now, the question emerges is there any other category of the website which affects the website design prices? Well, answer to this question is yes! There are several types of websites which hold their own characteristics and obviously prices too. Therefore, it is essential for you to get familiar with each of them.

First of all, let’s consider the traditional brochure websites which possess no dynamic content which means reduced web traffic. Usually, these websites are created using a perfect combination of HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS). However, you can get such a website designed at a mere cost of $1000 but get a website design quote first. In case you wish to add some dynamic appeal to your website such as moving pictures or animations, then undoubtedly you have to pay extra bucks for it.

Seek for a quote: Once you have decided your budget, invite quotes from various web designing companies and narrow down your search by finding the cheapest ones out of them. Here, it is also worth to note that there is no shortage of scammers over the internet. Therefore, you must be conscious while dealing with so called cheapest web designing companies as most of them requires you to deposit half of the amount in advance.

Last but the most important type of website is an interactive one. Such a website allows you to come back to your visitors hourly by the means of latest news, gossips etc. Now, when it comes to the approximate cost of such websites, they require you to spend around $10000 to get them designed.