October 24, 2011, 6:51 am
Grace asked: There are quite a few website on the World Wide Web where the website designers have used Macromedia Flash in the website design. Some of these websites use the flash very skilfully and this flash really adds value in the website design.
It is very important that you as a user understand the value of flash before you get into negotiations with your website designer to get website developed for your business. The reason I suggest that you consider it before-hand as including flash in your web design Canberra Australia is an un-necessary expense if it doesn’t add any value to your website. Flash on your website means more dollars for your website designers.
There are various ways in which Flash can be used on your website, some of the most common reasons are:
1. A Flash Banner: This banner allows you to highlight your products and services as an animation or slide-show. A flash banner (without music) is a good way to showcase your business products and services. As they say a picture is worth thousand words and you can easily showcase your products on the website.
2. A Flash Menu: A Flash menu replaces your text links and also your image links. A Flash menu in your website design allows you to put in minor and attractive graphics without making your website too heavy.
3. A Flash Video/Audio: If you don’t have access to the streaming server, A flash video or audio is the best way to preserve your copyright and stop your competitors from copying your multimedia content.
4. A Flash Presentation: Many people use PowerPoint to post their presentations. I say that Flash is probably a better option. It is always lighter than PowerPoint, works on any platform and is a very good way to protect your content.
Apart form the above you can have your website designed completely in Flash. But, my opinion is that if you are not a music company than this probably is a total waste of money.
In conclusion, I would suggest that whenever you consider putting up new flash in your website design, make sure that its for all the right reasons (and because someone else is also using it is not a valid reason in my opinion). You should always consider if it adds any value for your business and if it does, that’s when you should consider using it.
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October 21, 2011, 3:02 pm
David Oleszczuk asked:
Do you think any old web hosting company will do? They are all the same anyway, right? That was my philosophy. The cheaper I could get the hosting the better. I found one that had hosting starting at $0.99 per month. Hey, that was the one for me!. So I signed up. That was six years ago. I uploaded my site and everything worked well. Their uptime was good. In the six years, I think the site was only down for a few hours on a couple of different occasions. All was well, so I thought. My site continued to grow and evolve over the years, it was a public school district web site and it ended up being used heavily by the community for the events calendar, announcements, contacting teachers etc.. It ended up being several hundred pages.
Recently I got a phone call from our elementary school secretary. She told me that she could not access the website. I checked it out, and sure enough it was down. Well, I thought, it will probably be up in an hour or so. It is never down more that a couple or hours. Two hours passed, no web site. I decided to email their tech. support department. I sent an email telling them of the problem. Another two hours passed, no web site. I decided to email them again, this time I directed it to the sales department. Yet another two hours passed, no web site and no email response. I emailed the tech. support department again and marked it urgent. Again, no response and no website.
With that I decided to do some checking in hosting forums to see what some of the comments were about this hosting company. Something I should have done before I had chosen them. What an eye opener. they had about as low a rating as you could give for customer support and they didn’t rate much better in any of the other areas. One fellow said that he had been promoting his web site heavily and as soon as he started to get decent traffic to his site, they simple shut it off. He said that if he had lived in the U.S. he definitely would have sued. Another said that they also shut his site off for no reason and would not respond to his emails. Well needless to say, I started to panic, primarily due to the fact that I had just completed a major overhaul of my site and did not yet have a backup of the current site. Visions of many late nights of working feverishly to rebuild everything raced through my head. Just then the site was back up, fully functioning, just as though nothing happened. I was certainly relieved but not to happy about the lack of information or response from the hosting company.
The next morning I opened my email to find a response, finally, from my soon to be ex-hosting company. They basically reamed me out for have sent three emails about the problem. They went on to tell me how “people like me” cause web hosting costs to increase because I force them to read through duplicate emails, wasting their precious time. I managed to hold my composure long enough to reply, telling them that part of customer service is keeping the customer informed and that had they responded to the first email they wouldn’t have received the other two. I received a reply from their sales department that stunned me. It was an email explaining that if I didn’t like their customer support that I should go with a different company and listed the steps I should follow to terminate my account with them.
That did it! I had enough! I began searching for a web hosting company that was rated very highly in dependability and customer service. I began thinking about someone who had a web site which provided their primary source of income. Suppose that site went down without explanation! Or maybe, you have an ad-sense site that you have worked on for years to get to the point where it has significant enough traffic to generate decent revenue. It takes too long to build a website and get traffic to that site to trust it to some cheap hosting company that doesn’t give a flying fig about you, your business or your website. When all was said and done, the new hosting company cost me one dollar a month more and actually has a phone number you can call and speak with a real person in customer support.
In conclusion, the decision of which company to choose for your web-hosting is far more important than I ever realized. Choose a company based on customer reviews and legitimate un-biased hosting review sites. Never go with a hosting company that does not provide a phone number you can call for customer support. Price is certainly important but a few dollars a month is not worth the risk of losing your site, reputation or revenue. Last but not least, backup, backup and backup.
October 21, 2011, 4:14 am
Ihsan96 asked: It’s no secret that a short, memorable domain names is what is needed to help visitors to a website. It also helps if the domain name contains keywords that are likely to rank high in search engines. So, what does a webmaster do if they are promoting an affiliate program or a website created from a free web hosting service such as Geocities? The most affordable answer lies in taking advantage of a domain name redirect service.
What is a domain name redirect service? It is one in which a long, cumbersome URL is ‘masked’ by a more memorable domain name. Instead of having to type in the longer URL, the website visitor would type in the new domain name. This domain name would then redirect to the original URL. The visitor would then see the original URL in their browser. However, most won’t pay that much attention.
Domain name redirect services can be free or paid. An example of a free service is Tiny URL. In order to use this service, all a person has to do is enter in whatever URL they need to have shortened. Tiny URL would then return a domain name that is much more convenient for website visitors. This URL would have ‘tiny url’ as part of the domain name followed by a number. An example is the following: tinyurl.com/3. Granted, it’s not perfect, but it is a lot better than what one would typically get with an affiliate program or a free web hosting service.
If a person wants a more customized domain name, they will need to use pay for a redirect service. One of the best is Namestick. The process for using Namestick is similar to Tiny URL except webmasters must first choose the domain names they want to use for their redirect. They can choose any domain name they wish, just like if they were getting it through their web host or a domain name company. Namestick even provides suggestions if a person’s desired domain name is taken. Once that is done, a person will have to enter in their URL they want redirected. After about 72 hours, the new domain name will be ready for use.
Can a person get away with not using a domain name redirect service? It depends on how they do their marketing. For instance, if a person does a lot of offline marketing, a short, meaningful domain name is essential. However, if a person uses a lot of hyperlinks, a domain name redirect service may not be as important. What are hyperlinks? They are simply words or phrases that are linked to a particular URL. When the visitor clicks on them, they are taken to the website that is hyperlinked within. Hyperlinks can easily be created in HTML editors or by use of the anchor tag.
In conclusion, a person’s life can be made easier if they decide to hide their long URL with a more normal-looking domain names available through a domain name redirect service. This is if they aren’t marketing through hyperlinks, which do not require an official domain name.
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