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Web Hosting Checklist - Never Miss A Thing

by Mahesh Kumar jain

Before rushing for a web hosting account, you need to check the following features which are important for any web hosting account. Many people overlook this features and pay the price later. So here are the important features you need to check with your hosting company before paying for it.
Technical Support
Technical support is one of the most important factor you need to consider when a choosing a web host. Test different companies before you sign up by sending them an email with a question or two. If they respond quickly, this is a good sign.
Uptime
The more uptime they guarantee, the better. 99% uptime is the minimum acceptable standard. Look for 99% plus guaranteed uptime. 1% of uptime is about 87 hours in a year.
Disk Space
Decide how much disk space you will require. A basic web site with few images and about 10 to 20 pages will not take up much web space . If you require a lot of graphics or multimedia or you need to store a lot of information, you will need a bit higher disk space. Again you can increase your web space as required with almost all the hosts by paying the extra charges.
Data Transfer
This factor is usually overlooked until the data transfer limit is reached. If you go over your alloted data transfer, you will get a hefty bill. If you are running a site with lots of downloads, or a site with lots of images such at a photo post site, your data transfer will be higher than a site with mainly text. The average website uses less than 200MB of bandwidth per month.
Scripting Languages support
If you using a scripting language to output your html, you need to check whether the plan has support for that script. You will need a windows hosting plan only if you are using microsoft scripting languages like asp and asp.net.
CGI Bin
This is now standard feature with almost all hosting companies. If you do not have access to your own CGI Bin, you cannot install your own cgi scripts and programs.
Perl
If you do not have Perl, you cannot run Perl Programs. Many good scripts that you buy or get for free are written in Perl. In my opinion, it would be a limitation not to have the latest version of Perl installed
SSI
Server Side Includes are great if you want to spend minimal time updating your site. Again this feature is provided by many hosts.
FTP Access
Unlimited and unrestricted FTP access to your site is essential. You will need an FTP program to transfer files from your computer to the server.
Statistics Program
A good stats program is handy if you want to keep an eye on how many visitors you are getting, where they are coming from, referrers, top entry and exit pages and so on. Some companies offer excellent stats programs as standard while others offer basic stats but you have to pay extra for advanced statistics.

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One thing that a lot of website designers don’t seem to understand is that there’s a big difference between the kind of design you should use if you’re trying to present information (usually with ads), and the kind of design you should use if the aim of your website is to make sales. This distinction causes a lot of confusion, bad design, and, ultimately, lost sales. If you’re trying to sell, then there’s a whole other set of design principles that you need to follow.

The Headline is Everything.

If you want your website to make sales for you, then the first thing you need to pay attention to is the headline on your sales page. It needs to be large, to stand out, and to grab the visitors’ attention. It should give a clear benefit (not a feature) of your product that you think would appeal to most people, it should make them want to read more and it should start the process of them wanting your product. If you have a bad headline then people won’t even look at the rest of what you’ve written – they’ll just press the back button.

Always Be Ready to Make the Sale.

As soon as a visitor gets to your product’s page, it should be absolutely crystal clear what they’ve got to do to buy the product. If it’s a long page, then ‘buy’ buttons should be scattered throughout. If a visitor could look at any part of your page and wonder where they have to click to buy the product, then there’s something fundamentally wrong with your website’s design.

Make Happy Customers Prominent.

On a sales page you should have a space for feedback or that has been left by previous customers, whether it’s in the form of reviews or testimonials. This gives people an opportunity to read a supposedly objective view of your product, and makes them feel better about spending their money on it. Of course, this means that you need to solicit feedback from previous customers to put in that space – a good way of doing this is to offer rewards for customers who contribute in this way.

Pay Attention to Payment.

You need to make sure that your payment page – that is, the page where you collect payment details – is well laid out and easy to use. Doing things like making it difficult to type in a credit card number or making it confusing to choose what kind of payment options are available you have is likely to damage the customer’s confidence in you and your website. This page should be professional and standard – don’t be tempted to do anything unusual with it.

Highlight Special Bonuses.

To help persuade potential customers who are on the fence about whether to buy or not to buy, you should take care to highlight any special bonuses that purchasing your product will give them. For example, a physical product might come with free delivery, and a non-physical product might come with a free ebook. Don’t go overboard and have a ridiculous number of bonuses, but do add enough to make the customer feel like they’re getting very good value for their money.

Keep It Simple.

When you’re designing a website that is going to be used to sell products, you’ve got to keep things as simple as possible on the technical side. That’s because the more complicated functions you use are, the more things there are that could go wrong and stop them from buying anything from you. It’s better that people see a slightly less fancy website than that they don’t see one at all because of a technical gliche that prevents them from seeing your website at all. If they don’t see your website then they won’t be doing any shopping there.

To understand the basics of how e-commerce websites work you should look at as many other websites as you can. Write down the elements that they all seem to have in common – for example, shopping carts – and you will gradually figure out which things are essentials and which things are just bells and whistles. Your website should leave out everything but the essentials, but make the essential things very easy to do. That is the key to successful e-commerce design, and if you can manage it then it will be very rewarding for you and your website.

For some reason, HTML seems to really frighten a lot of people. Some have seen complicated HMTL that’s been produced by an editor program, or they’ve clicked ‘View Source’ on a few pages and been scared by what they’ve seen.

What you have to realise, though, is that HTML was designed from the beginning to be a very simple language to learn and to use – just because automated systems for producing it have a tendency to make it over-complicated, it doesn’t mean that your code has to be that way. The best way to get started with HTML is to get over any fears you might have and just get started.

Note that you will need to save files as filename.html before you will be able to open them in a web browser. If you’re not sure how to do this with a text editor, use an HTML code editing program.

All About Tags.
NOTE: A space has been added after each < and before each > so the tags will show on an HTML page to make the tags work remove the spaces
There’s only one thing you really need to understand before you start writing pages in HTML, and that’s the tag system. Basically, tags are commands in angle brackets, with text between them. For example, here is some text in a bold tag:

< b >bold text< /b >

The first tag < b > is the opening tag.
The second tag < /b > has a slash before its name because it’s a closing tag. You can have as many tags inside other tags as you want, as long as you always remember to close the last one first. For example:

< b >< i >< u >bold, italic, underlined text< /u >< /i >< /b >

If the tags are closed in the wrong order, then the code is invalid and may not work.

The only other thing you really need to understand about tags is that they can include some extra information in the opening tag. A link tag, for example, will include an ‘href’ (the URL it links to), like this: < a href=" http://www.example.com" >. Closing tags never contain any extra information and the closing tag here would simply be < /a >.

The Structure of an HTML Document.

These tags are usually laid out in a certain order. HTML is quite flexible in general, but there are three tags that almost all documents need to have:the html, the head and the body. The head should contain information about the document, as well as any scripts or stylesheets it uses, while the body should contain the main text of the document, they all set inside the html tags. So, as an example, a simple HTML document might look like this:

< html >
< head >
< title >my page< /title >
< style >body { background-color: blue; } < /style >
< /head >
< body >
< p >some text< /p >
< /body >
< /html >

The first thing to notice is the way it starts and ends: with the HTML tag. This is essential when you write HTML. Now, notice what’s included in the head and what’s in the body: while the head tells you the title of the page and that its background colour is blue, it’s the body that has the web page’s text.

Once you’ve got that basic structure, all you need to do is add more tags to make your page.

A Guide to the Tags.

html. The first and last tag. Tells the browser that the document is HTML.

head. The header.

title. The page’s title (appears in the browser’s title bar, right at the top of your screen).

style. Contains CSS that provides information on how the browser should present your page.

body. The main body of the page.

p. A paragraph. All text should be contained in paragraph tags – to start a new paragraph, close the old tag and open a new one.

b. Bold. Text between b tags becomes bold.

i. Italics.

u. Underline. Beware of using this tag for things like headings, as many users have come to expect underlined text on the web to be a link.

h. Heading. You should use different tags depending on how important your heading is, so h1 for a page’s main title, h2 for subheadings, h3 for the next headings down, and so on.

a. The link tag (the a is a little confusing: it actually stands for ‘anchor’). This tag lets you link some of your text to another page. It works by surrounding the text that you want to become a link, like this: < a href="http://www.example.com" >click here< /a >.

ul/ol. Stand for ‘unordered list’ and ‘ordered list’ – used to say that a list follows. The only difference is that ul uses bullet points while ol uses numbers.

li. List item, a tag used inside ul or ol, like this:

• item 1< /li >< li >item 2< /li >< /ul >

  img. Used for inserting images: < img src="image.jpeg" >.

  These are the most useful tags, but for a full reference, you might like to visit www.w3schools.com/tags.