Category Archives: Web hosting

Experiences, reflections, suggestions

3 wishes for a successful Web site

Posted on Thursday 29th October, 2009

The Web Fairy is hovering over the cradle of your new Web site. She has granted you three wishes. What do you wish for? What does every Web site need? The Web site has got to be found. The Web … Continue reading →

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Web hosting prices: pay more, get more?

Posted on Sunday 18th October, 2009

Is Web hosting one of those areas where “you get what you pay for”? When I suggested to someone in the British Expats (Spain) forum that he was paying too much for his Web hosting, this was exactly what he … Continue reading →

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‘Web site’ or ‘website’?

Posted on Sunday 5th April, 2009

You say ‘tomato,’ I say ‘Web site.’ Does it matter how we write it? In the long run, no. But then, as Keynes said, “In the long run we are all dead.” In the meantime, it helps to follow a … Continue reading →

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cPanel for beginners 6: editing pages

Posted on Wednesday 14th January, 2009

Is there a phrase on one of your Web pages that you’d really like to change? Do you want to update a particular item of information? Do you want to make the changes yourself, right now? In my sixth article … Continue reading →

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cPanel for beginners 5: uploading files

Posted on Friday 2nd January, 2009

People usually use an FTP program to upload new or amended files to their Web site. Do you want a simpler way? Look no further than your cPanel. In my fifth article on cPanel for beginners, I show you how … Continue reading →

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Designer-centred website design

Posted on Friday 19th December, 2008

What are the key features of designer-centred design? It looks great It doesn’t do the job it should be doing It’s like finding yourself with a really stylish teacup—but the tea leaks out of the bottom of the cup. Or … Continue reading →

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cPanel for beginners 4: backing up your website

Posted on Saturday 6th December, 2008

Are you being negative if you want personal copies of all the files on your Web site? I don’t think so. In my fourth article on cPanel for beginners, I show you how to back up every precious file on … Continue reading →

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cPanel for beginners 3: finding out about your visitors

Posted on Friday 28th November, 2008

Maybe it’s the dull words ‘statistics’ and ‘analytics’ that put Web site owners off. But which of us doesn’t want to know about our visitors? In my third tutorial on cPanel for beginners, I show you how to access this … Continue reading →

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cPanel for beginners 2: setting up e-mail accounts

Posted on Thursday 20th November, 2008

I have written a second cPanel tutorial, on setting up e-mail accounts. (I’m trying to write the tutorials in the order that cPanel beginners are most likely to find useful.) You can find my second cPanel tutorial in the Articles … Continue reading →

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Use your cPanel to the full: a cPanel guide for beginners

Posted on Friday 14th November, 2008

Many of my Web hosting clients neglect cPanel. And I haven’t been able to find a guide or a set of tutorials on cPanel which I thought would be suitable for beginners. So I’ve taken on the job myself. You … Continue reading →

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