So, You Want Your Own Website? Is Free Or Paid Hosting Right For You?Written by Sibyl McLendon
You have made decision to build a website! Good for you. Whether you are simply looking for a way to show off your family, to try your hand at making money from an affiliate program or to go into a full-fledged business, your first decision is going to be where to host it.Traveling maze of hosting options is a bewildering and time consuming job these days. There are literally millions of hosting sites on Internet! If you don’t believe me, try putting “hosting sites” into any major search engine, and look at number of sites you will get back. There are free ones, cheap ones, expensive ones… ones that offer a lot of space or only a small space… some offer free templates to build a site “in minutes” and some require an extensive knowledge of HTML programming. Will you need an on-line control panel? Do they allow uploading from your hard drive, or are you going to need an FTP manager? Am I confusing you? Well, these are all things that you are going to need to consider before you make your choice. Most people want to try their hand at a free site to begin with. If you are going to try and do it yourself this is a good way to start learning ins and outs of site design. I strongly recommend that you sign up with a well-established free hosting site for starters. There are a ton of free hosting options out there, but you are going to want one that is not going to disappear after you have built your site! You also want one that has very little down time. The best site is never going to be seen if host is unreliable. So, consider such hosting options as Tripod, AngelFire, Yahoo Geocities, AOL Communities and other long-standing sites for your choice. Remember, anyone can buy a used server and set himself up as a hosting site, it does not mean that they will give you anything but grief.
| | Putting an "ADD TO FAVORITES" button on your pageWritten by Amrit Hallan
It's always better to make your visitor add your page to "Favorites" folder so that he or she can come back to your site in future. I myself bookmark pages I find useful. Not everybody knows that press CTRL+D does job, and not everybody feels motivated enough all time to first go to "Favorites" in menu and do task.The code below gives you an option to put "Add To Favorites" on your page, so user has to just click it in order to bookmark page.
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