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The 6 Types Of Web Hosting For Your Business

Types Of Web Hosting And Their Differences

Published on April 12, 2017 in Establishing Your Home Base Online.

The types of web hosting and their differences can be confusing. But getting yourself set up with web hosting is a critical step in bringing your projects and businesses to life online. But, if you're brand new to web design—or even if you've been around a while—web hosting can sometimes be a confusing, even daunting, subject. On top of the litany of terms, hosting plans, options, and add-ons, there are a huge number of companies and packages to sift through and choose from. Where should you get started? Should you just pick a hosting company and hope for the best? (more…)

How To Register Your Business Domain Name

Published on in Business Tools & Services, Establishing Your Home Base Online.

In my Everything You Need To Know About Domain Names And How They Work tutorial, I talked about how critically important your business's domain name is, and how we want to always use a dedicated domain name registrar to register and manage our domain names. (more…)

What You Need To Know About Domain Names For Business

How Do Domain Names Work? EASY Guide!

Published on in Establishing Your Home Base Online.

How do domain names work? In this tutorial, we'll go over some domain name fundamentals—things like how domains work, why you should consider your domain your number one business asset online, and how to keep your private information safe. If you're really unsure about all this stuff, you're in the right spot! (more…)

3 Crucial Business Website Services, Part 3: Your Business’s Email

Published on in Business Tools & Services, Establishing Your Home Base Online.

Welcome to the third and final part of our three-part tutorial on keeping your business's web services separated—domain registration, web hosting, and email. In part one, you got an overview of why it's important to keep your business's essential services independent of one another, and I gave you a handful of analogies to help explain what goes on in what I'll call the web services market. (more…)

3 Crucial Business Website Services, Part 2: Domain Names And Web Hosting

Published on in Business Tools & Services, Establishing Your Home Base Online.

This is part two of our three-part tutorial on keeping your business's website services separated—domain registration, web hosting, and email. In part one, you got an overview of why it's important to keep your online business's essential services independent of one another, and I gave you a handful of analogies to help explain what goes on in what I'll call the web services market. (more…)

3 Crucial Business Website Services, Part 1: An Overview

Published on in Business Tools & Services, Establishing Your Home Base Online.

When running a business website, there are three critical components that you'll want complete control over: Your website's domain name, your web hosting, and your website's email. The longer you're involved in running your own business's website, and with web design in general, the more you realize just how important it is to keep these three services separated and isolated from one another. Experience has taught me that by keeping these three components separate, if a problem ever arises with one of them, the other two won't be affected at all. (more…)

Which One, Dreamweaver Or WordPress?

Published on August 19, 2013 in Establishing Your Home Base Online, WordPress & Web Builders.

Often, I get asked which approach people should take, Dreamweaver or WordPress. That's a really good question, especially for someone just starting out, who's not sure which way to go. (more…)