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  What Is Unlimited Web Hosting

  What does unlimited web hosting provide for the user? If you're looking for a hosting service provider who offers shared hosting for your website or blog then you have a lot to learn about this feature which has been offered over the last few years. ... read more

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  Tips for starting your Online Business

  You have a lot to consider if you plan on starting your own online business. It's a common misconception that all you need to do is find a hosting provider, build a website, and let the sales begin. Unfortunately this isn't quite the case and ... read more

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  Looking At Joomla Templates

  What is Joomla? Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an ... read more

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  Which Web Hosting Provider is Best

  An extremely important decision that online businesses have to make is deciding on the best web hosting service. With a popular, well known and reliable Internet Service Provider (ISP) you won't face many problems at all, however with a poor web hosting service provider it ... read more

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  A Domain Name to Remember

  To start a successful business on the internet in this day and age is relatively simple but there are still some people out there who don't understand that even the smallest aspect of a website can be the making or breaking point for them. One ... read more

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  3 Great Tips for Cheap Web Hosting

  Cheap web hosting services are now easily available but you should not simply opt for any type of Cheap web hosting. Otherwise, you could easily end up spending more money than you originally expected over a matter of time. There are some cheap hosts, who ... read more

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  Website Ranking and Server Location

  To help achieve a successful online business or web presence, it is extremely important to have your website optimized properly. But one more thing you should try to remember is that along with website optimization, a web hosting also plays an equal role in the ... read more

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  Affordable Hosting for your Websites Needs

  When getting started with your own website or blog, you'll need to select an appropriate web hosting package which best suits your requirements. The first decision to be made is what type of package you need. These are broken down into 3 main options and ... read more

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  Easy Webhosting for easy Websites

  Most people today are familiar with the Internet and browsing, or surfing, web pages. It may be an everyday routine to a lot of people, but those of you without your own personal web page may feel incapable of ever doing this. This article will ... read more

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  26 Questions to ask a Web Host before buying

  Technical Support: Techical support needs to be available to you incase of an emergency, for this reason it's best to find a Web Host who provides 24/7 support with multiple ways to contact them (email, phone, live support etc). # How knowledgable and tech savvy ... read more

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  Why Paid Hosting trumps Free Hosting

  This question has been asked many times before. Smaller projects today require inexpensive hosting which will set you back between 3 and 6 dollars monthly. Owners of this paid for service have quite a few resources at their disposal which include modern technologies such as ... read more

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  Do I Need CMS for my Website

  For those who already have a successful web-based business running, you may ask how often your site should be updated. The truth is that in this day and age, a constantly evolving site is pretty much crucial to stay successful and relevant to visitors. With ... read more

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  Five Tips for Better SEO

  Visitors are importantA highly common mistake is putting in too much effort trying to lure the search engine spiders to your site and not doing enough to keep your visitors satisfied. The search engines exists because of the visitors, you need to identify your target ... read more

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  Choosing the best Web Host

  The internet has been steadily growing all over the market since it was first publicly released around '94. Companies and individuals now want to be internationally recognized and they look to the internet to do this. To fulfil this they need to make there business ... read more

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  10 Tips for choosing the Best Domain Name for Your Business

  With the internet still growing to this day and people looking to find services or buy goods, making yourself available online is the only way you can ensure you don't miss out on a large percentage of customers. To get there business online there are ... read more

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  What Is Fantastico

  To allow applications to be available for use on your web server, they first have to be installed. Fantastico is an example of many commercial script libraries available on the net which automates these installations, making them simple and easy to setup even for inexperienced ... read more

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  The online terrorists called hackers

  Free website hosting services is increasingly being attacked, exploited and manipulated by hackers seeking easy and anonymous ways to distribute their mobile malicious code (MMC) and other types of dangerous software such as keyloggers which are designed to steal your confidential information for their personal ... read more

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  What Exactly is Web Hosting Uptime

  When choosing a company to host your website, one of the more important features to look out for besides from storage space and bandwidth is the website uptime. Most companies promote their web hosting uptime which in part determines how well their service is. Most ... read more

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  Choosing the Right Host

  When visiting web hosts you are immediately bombarded with many of their plans to choose from. Making the right decision and choosing the plan that best suits your needs is often a very difficult decision to make. So, which is the best plan to sign ... read more

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  Building Quality Reciprocal Links

  When building a home based businesses on the internet, one of the most important aspects is figuring out how to get traffic to your website. One of the best ways to do this is to make use of reciprocal links. These links, also known as ... read more

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  The Right Ecommerce Solution

  There are countless web design firms and designers available today for businesses to use as resources for their ecommerce needs, lately however choosing the correct partner has become a rather difficult decision to make. There are so many options to choose from, the right ecommerce ... read more

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  Your Ticket to the Web

  The internet only become publicly available in the mid 90’s. No one ever thought or even dreamed that the internet would grow at the rate at which it has. Over a decade later, I think most will agree with me that millions can’t imagine life ... read more

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  Tips In Transferring to a New Host

  Bear in mind the following tips when looking for a new web host! Be sure that the new web host plan offers plenty of storage space let alone be able to handle your current websites storage requirements. The size of the website is 50MB, then ... read more

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  Optimize Your Website

  One of the most important aspects in affecting usability is load times. Generally, most internet users will merely click the back button if your website takes to long to load. This in turn notifies Google that they bounced off your page, negatively affecting your search ... read more

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  User Friendly Websites

  There’s one thing in getting traffic to your site, the other side is getting them to stay! The latter usually being the more difficult. If your website has a pleasant atmosphere allowing your users to interactive with it effectively, the longer they will linger and ... read more

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  Search Engine Optimization

  In the last decade, everyone has wanted to be featured in the top ten list of every search engine, specifically Google. To reach such a point, you need to understand the algorithms used by search engines and you need to be able to implement these ... read more

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  No Such Thing As Free Lunch

  There is no doubt there are plenty of free web hosts out there, but you need to ask yourself. Why are they free, what do they get out of hosting your sight for free, and really, what resources can they allocate to your website? The ... read more

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  Dirty Secrets Regarding Web Hosting

  As with all things in life there is no free lunch, which is even more pertinent to cheap web hosting. As with free web hosting, that’s another story in itself all together, in short stay as far away as you can from it as your ... read more

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  Benefits of Shared Hosting

  Designing a website is only the first step in your journey to online success. Once you have gotten all the kinks sorted out i.e. browser issues, PHP bugs etc... you need to start thinking about hosting. This could very well be an even more difficult ... read more

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  Comparing Web Hosts

  There are literally thousands of web hosts out there, once you have narrowed your choice of hosts down, you need to do further indepth research on them, so that you can decide which on to go with. On reviewing each host, you need to take ... read more

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  What is Webhosting

  A webhosting service allocates a space on one of their servers connected to the internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This allow them to showcase your website on the internet. The servers used to host your website have extremely large hard drives, ... read more

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  Domain Name Web Hosting

  One of the most vital parts of our websites is its domain name hosting service and how effective is really is. Putting it bluntly, not having a domain name, people will have no way of getting to your website. You might ask, what exactly is ... read more

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  ASP Web Hosting Explained

  ASP is a technology which is often revered to server-side scripting. It stands for Active Server Pages and was developed by Microsoft to be used in conjunction with their IIS (Internet Information Services). Server-side scripting allows you create complex database driven websites, giving you the ... read more

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  What goes into Web Hosting

  There are many things that go into running a successful web hosting business. The web host needs a reliable internet connection with plenty of bandwidth. They need a secure environment to house and store all their equipment. There a numerous components that are needed, and ... read more

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  Your Web Hosting Checklist

  Regardless how experienced any webmaster is, their top priorties are domains, hosting and content! All too often it is these aspects that always end up leaving people in the dark, as there are hundreds of companies offering very similar packages at “reasonable” prices. With all ... read more

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  10 Mistakes to Avoid with Web Hosting

  Listed below are the 10 most common mistakes people new to web hosting make. All of these can have a very negative impact on your websites overall success, however they are just as easy to avoid. Take note of them, and be sure not to ... read more

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  The Top Complaints with Web Hosting

  The past few years there has been a massive rise in demand for web hosting. Due to this, many of the new start up web hosts have been unable to deal with demand of new websites and services people expect to be offered. Fortunately, many ... read more

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  What Should I Look For in a Web Host

  No matter the size of the website you are trying to build, whether you from a large company, or a small one, or just toying around on the internet setting up a website to display photo’s of your vintage toy car collection. You need to ... read more

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  Web Hosting What Do I Need To Know

  Shared hosting or Virtual Hosting: Is the most used hosting today and means that you are sharing a server with other clients of that company. The webhost manages the shared server and this way the pricing is very reasonable due to many clients paying towards ... read more

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  Creating Your First eBook

  So you’ve decided to take your first steps in creating your first ebook! It may seem like a very daunting task, but it needn’t be. When you first start off a big project, it always often seems like an impossible one to accomplish, however it ... read more

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  Google Quality Score

  About two years ago Yahoo and Google implemented their quality score algorithms. Actually, Google started their scoring program way back in 2005 but they didn’t bother to tell their advertisers. Google only provided information about their quality score to their advertisers in 2007, and where ... read more

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  Accepting Credit Cards Online

  Home based businesses that are able to accept credit cards are far more attractive to clients, who very much appreciate been given the opportunity to charge their purchases. Having the ability to accept credit cards usually always results in an increase in sales, as more ... read more

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  Affiliate Marketing 101

  You decided to become an Affiliate Market, but you don't know where to start? Do you plan on selling somone elses product on their behalf, or do you plan on selling your own? If you selling someone elses product, how do you know what to ... read more

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  More on SEO

  Search Engine Optimization isn't always as illusive, and difficult as many make it out to be. There are a few simple steps that can make a world of difference to your search engine rankings, and you can start on these right now, they that easy. ... read more

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  Maximising Your Adwords Campaigns

  Advertising on Search Engines has become the the number one place to pay for traffic when it comes down to doing business on the internet. For those that don't know, search engine advertising allows you to buy advertising space that shows up when a user ... read more

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  Breakdown of Google Analytics

  Since Google bought out Urchin, they have become not one of, but the best traffic analysis tool on the internet today. If you are not monitoring where you traffic is coming from at all times, you are walking blind, and that’s without a cane! With ... read more

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  Unconditional Free Shipping

  With Christmas just around the corner, the silly season has started for what it seems like even earlier this year, with ever more competitive offers and services from your online counterparts with the recession not making matters much better. Straight to the point with this ... read more

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  Conversion Blues

  Creating websites that convert well, are on the top of the list for most marketers. It’s quite simple, you can have the best looking website on the planet, with the most interesting and fresh content, but if it doesn’t convert it is completely useless. You’re ... read more

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  Getting Slapped by Google

  If you don’t already know, I’m talking to everyone new to online marketing, the Google Slap which it has been labeled is an adjustment made by Google to Adwords, which penalizes people who use a landing page with very little content. This really effected a ... read more

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  The Pros and Cons to CSS Frameworks

  There are many pros and cons to using a CSS framework. However there is no short answer as to why you should be uing them, and thus I will go into depth and give you the most objective view possible. I'm going to start of ... read more

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  Ruby Scripting Language

  Ruby is a dynamic scripting language. It can be used to program all sorts of flexible and versatile operations, which include parsing text files to performing complex database manipulations. This language is a complete object-oriented programming which was invented by a Japanese programmer: Yukihiro Matsumoto. ... read more

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  The Big Picture

  People often ask me about the internet and marketing as a whole. Many people new to the internet always ask me to sum up the entire idea of marketing online. Just a few days a go, a complete newbie asked a question that all online ... read more

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  Stay Clear of Free Web Hosts

  As in everything in life, you usually get what you pay for, and more often than not it's usually less then what you pay for! And sadly hosting is not the exception. The internet has grown in so many leaps and bounds, everyone is trying ... read more

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  Setting Goals for your Website

  When creating a new website, settings goals should be one of the first things you do on your list. Not knowing where you website is heading from the beginning is looking for disaster. You need to have a clear and concise set of steps that ... read more

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  Backing up your WordPress Website

  You know, that task you always keep putting off, and off? Yes, backing up your website should really go without saying, however backing up data (not just your Wordpress site) on a regular basis is very important, unless you like getting burned. Although all of ... read more

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  Hosting for Bloggers

  Hosting for bloggers is becoming more and more important, and is a flourishing business. For this reason, it is vitally important that you make certain that your host supports everything you need as a blogger. At the end of the day, bloggers have similar needs ... read more

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  Make iStockPhoto pay for itself

  All the way back in 2006, long before I started working in the hosting environment, I came across a site called iStockPhoto, as I was looking for images for a website that I was building. However it dawned upon me to upload some of the ... read more

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  Review of DimDim Conferencing Software

  If you work in a corporate environment that is fond of lengthy meetings, or especially in the web industry were long-distance collaboration is a must, unless you’ve been living in a cave you have no doubt heard about “webinars. These are web-based meetings which usually ... read more

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  Biggest Spam Shut Down

  McColo, the now infamous web hosting company that was shut down earlier this month after it was proven beyond reasonable doubt that it was responsible for about three quarters of the entire planets internet spam! McColo’s internet back bone, two ISP’s ended their partnership with ... read more

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  Empty Copy

  Content on the internet is still, for the majority, is being created in circumstances that are not ideal, by people who do not write content for a living and don't have much time to do so. However, this problem is not going to be solved ... read more

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  Adding Revenue to your Blog

  Generating money with their website is one of the first things many people think of when they first venture online. Having these grandiose ideas about how you are going to do this is great, but don't set your goals too high, disappointment often leads to ... read more

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  Comparing Web Hosts

  There are so many aspects to web hosting that one has to look into, but which of these are the most important? There are so many reviews out there on the internet, most of them being extremely biased, with reviewers placing the hosts that pay ... read more

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  7 Steps to Search Engine Optimization

  Search engine optimization basically requires making your website easy for search engines to find and boosting your position in their rankings. There are essentially three parts to a campaign to improve your search engine ranking: planning and preparation (which includes keyword analysis and setting up ... read more

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  Tips to Building Quality Links

  Generating links is one of the most important things in getting your site known, if people are linking to your site it's because they find it interesting and know other people may feel the same way. Effectively it is the online version of word-of-mouth, and ... read more

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  10 Mistakes Getting Your Site Indexed

  1. Don’t submit your site to Google. Why? Because if your site has inbound links, your site will be found, and if not, you need to get good quality inbound links from related websites otherwise you are never going to climb those rankings. 2. Never ... read more

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  Cross Browser Compatibility

  If you have taken the plunge and decided your website needs to be overhauled, scrapping tables for cleaner more semantic code and opening up your website to a much wider audience, you more than likely have run into a few headaches. One of the biggest ... read more

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  Catering For Mobile Markets

  As you may know, the web is taking another revolutionizing turn. More and more people are accessing the web via their mobile devices, which is mainly being fueled by Apples iPhone, and to some extent Operas mobile browsers for J2ME (Java on your regular mobile ... read more

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  Taking on the Competition

  Each and every day, the internet is growing at a remarkable rate. Competitors fighting tooth and nail against each other to gain the advantage no matter how slight it is. Doing business online, is becoming more and more important. Your website is not merely a ... read more

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  Your First Steps in Web Hosting

  So you have decided to venture out into the online world, and setup your own online business. There are a couple things that you have to wrap your head around, in order to successfully launch your website online.The first thing is web hosting. Web hosts ... read more

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  Developing Your Brand Online

  Whether your business is based offline in the brick and mortar world, or is cutting edge on the online world, you are going to have to market your wares in order to gain recognition. In an online business, not only are your clientèle international, but ... read more

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  5 Steps to Planning Your Website

  Make sure your site is maintainable One great feature, that I did briefly mention with designing without tables is the fact that without using markup to style the elements on your page, the code to design these elements all sits in once place and effects ... read more

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  Why Content is Still King

  One thing will always remain the same on the internet is, being king. I know you must be sick of hearing that, but it is true. The main focus of the web, even when it was first created was to exchange information. You have to ... read more

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  Googles Page Ranking Explained

  Google being the biggest search engine currently, it has indexed over 25 billion websites and attracts over 1.6 billion visitors annually. So it is in your best interests to get indexed with them. Google employs a host of algorithms and techniques to rank your site ... read more

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  Creating Your First Blog

  You may have heard time and time again, that content is king when it comes to the online world, and with all the major search engines revolving round themed content, starting up your own blog to draw traffic is becoming more and more important. What ... read more

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  Using a CSS Reset File

  For those of you still struggling with designing a standards based accessible website, one of the biggest challenges in this approach is getting layout and typography to look the same in cross browers. The reason why there are so many inconsistencies with different browsers is ... read more

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  Building an Authority Site

  The top major search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN are all tweaking their search algorithms to try and bring their users the best value search results possible. This means that it is becoming increasingly difficult for web masters to “fake it” on the web. Back ... read more

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  Finding Your Niche

  Competition on the internet is becoming more cut-throat then ever, as everyone is trying to make use of the millions of potential customers online. New marketers generally end up failing online as they try to cater for a very wide audience, expecting that more people ... read more

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  Professional vs DIY Web Design

  With the internet giving you all the information you possible need, just at your finger tips, it is possible to do almost anything yourself if you invest the time and effort. Do-it-yourself is not only the domain for projects around the house, today everything is ... read more

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  Low Cost Web Hosting

  When it comes to hosting your website on the internet today, there are so many options available today can be very overwhelming to you. First of all, why are there so many choices? With the internet being one of the fastest growing mediums today in ... read more

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  Designing without Tables

  If you are new to web design you may have come across articles going on a about tables and semantics, which may not have meant much to you at the time. You then went back to your WYSIWYG editors such as Dreamweaver and Frontpage, and ... read more

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  Shared vs Dedicated Hosting

  Endless requirements, a growing list of features and with countless web hosting providers springing up all over the place, deciding on which web host to go with is becoming and increasingly difficult decision. Not only do you need to take into account the requirements of ... read more