Small Business Websites

In this day and age of technology, if someone is visiting your website, it’s so much easier for them to fire off an email to you than to pick up the phone and call. As a result, many sites have their email address listed and when the link is clicked, it opens a mail [...]

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A favicon is short for ‘favorites icon.’ It is a small image displayed to the left of the web address when someone visits your site. For example, in the images below, you can see that Fluid Elements Web Design has a favicon of a leaf and Google has it’s famous G.
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A page’s title is located in the blue (usually) bar at the top of your screen. For example, the title bar on this page says “Small Business Websites >> Blog Archive >> What Can a Page Title Do For My Business?” Page titles are the single most important thing in optimizing your site [...]

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Many webmasters rent space on a server in order to provide hosting to their customers for a fee. This way, they have more control over the technical aspects of the server, can load certain software easily and keep your site running optimally. While this sounds like a good idea, I do NOT recommend [...]

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‘Hosting’ is a service provided by a company in which they store your website’s files on their server. A ’server’ is really just a computer that stores information and makes it available over the internet. Without hosting, your website cannot be viewed by anyone. Your webmaster will upload or send your site’s [...]

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While Domain Nameservers (DNS) and IP addresses might sound overwhelming, they’re really not. Before you can type in www.mysite.com and have it actually go to your site, your nameservers and/or an IP address must be set up. It’s like giving a friend directions to your house. The nameservers and IP addresses are [...]

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Some companies have been promoting private registration when registering your domain name. There are three levels of registration and anything above regular (or basic) will cost you extra each year. You may find this extra cost entirely worth it, depending upon your needs. To understand how each level is different, you need [...]

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Yours, yours, always yours, without question. You own your business, you should also own your domain name. You don’t want your house under someone else’s name. If you have a partnership or LLC, make sure the domain is registered under the company name. If you end up parting ways, the [...]

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There are literally hundreds of companies through which you can register a domain name. Some are more well-known than others. If you’re going to host your website with a certain company and they also offer domain registration, this can simplify things for you by keeping them all in one place.
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