If you are managing your own website the biggest single thing to consider is hosting. Hosting is vital to your reputation and image on the web as it affects everything your site does. Slow, or unreliable hosting will lose you rankings, unmanaged or poorly organised hosting could lose you your site. DreamHost provides choices of simple basic hosting – meaning you update and backup yourself, and self managed accelerated hosting which means they keep WordPress up to date and include
Want to maintain or build your own website? You can buy designs or “themes” for your WordPress, Magento, Ghost or HTML website from Themeforest. They have thousands of designs and plugins at affordable prices and using templates isn’t the cop-out it used to be considered – after all, why pay thousands for a web designer to do what you can buy for a few pounds? The trick to a good website is for it to do what you need it to do,
GoSquared I like the look of GoSquared and am going to trial it on a few websites. It is not Free though which is the only downside, though low-traffic sites would only cost a few pounds a month. Let us see…
“All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.” Prize for the source of that quote! But its true, customer service appeared to change with the internet and shopping on line, and we all thought the high streets, and buying face to face in shops was doomed. But as internet businesses grow we see that things are coming straight back to where they used to be – perhaps not quite the high street, but definitely where we
Well it would like to be, and it does have some high profile advocates and lots of support. Thesis is becoming a little nebula of its own. Thesis is a fully editable theme for any type of website, it appears to have clean html and css and claims super fast loading. It is VSEF – (I just made this up) “Very Search Engine Friendly”, and gives you the ability, for $87 to make yourself a unique site pretty damn fast.
