As you evaluate potential web hosting services, you will undoubtedly run across the term “bandwidth.” It is important to know your web host’s bandwidth offering and as equally important to know the bandwidth your website will require. Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that website visitors can download from a website. You can get an estimate of the amount of bandwidth your website will require if you know how large your pages will be and how many people you anticipate viewing your website on a daily or monthly basis. The most practical way to determine just how much bandwidth your website will need is to ask your web host to help you estimate your need based on that [...]
There is no need to panic if you need to build a website or web page and do not know HTML language. A website builder program is user friendly and takes all the need for HTML, script and other programming knowledge out of web page building. A website builder makes web page building easy and can often be done by someone with very little experience in just a few hours. There are various types of website builders. There is software on the market like Microsoft’s Front Page or Macromedia’s Dream Weaver that can help beginner web page designers to quickly see the fruits of their labor. You can buy this software online or through retail outlets. Software such as Web Studio can be [...]
It’s no secret that information transmitted via the Internet can sometimes be read by other people. We have all heard the harrowing stories about online identity theft and many of us know someone who has been affected by it. To help keep sensitive information like credit card numbers and social security number more secure, a special Internet protocol was developed. The Secure Sockets Layer, also known as SSL, was created. You can recognize a Secure Sockets Layer by its web address prefix. The SSL makes use of cryptographic encryption of data sent to and from your website. In this way the SSL keeps malicious outsiders from decrypting the sensitive information.
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Nameservers, special computers accessible on the Internet, tell where a website is located. Nameservers are responsible for resolving, a special process in which a domain name matching your website is taken and a physical address is obtained. The resolving process begins when a visitor goes to your website. The visitor enters your domain name in the Internet browser.The browser then searches the nameservers about the location of the server to find out just where your website is located. Then, it connects to the server and opens your web page. The whole process is similar to looking through a phone book.
For example, when you pick up the phone book to look for the name [...]
Imagine if some sort of web bot could help you build a website faster. Sounds like some sort of sci-fi dream, but the reality is that the technology is here and already among us. When you build a website using Microsoft’s Front Page, that is exactly what happens. Front Page is one of the most popular website builder programs for building websites. The user friendly program takes away the need to know programmer languages like HTML, PERL and other scripts.
Back to the web bots. These tools allow you to create web pages faster (and easier) than ever The web bots keep track of changes you make to a web page on your site and make sure that all subsequen pages also reflect [...]
When you offer an email address that is personalized by your domain name (like, owner or similar), you are doing two things to build your business. One, you are opening communication between you and your customer or viewer and making it easy for them to contact you; and two, you are repeating the name of your website, which in a way, is a form of advertising. To get the most from the mailboxes associated with your web hosting account, you will need to understand a little about how they work. To check the mail at your domain email box, you will need a POP3 access.
This POP3 access is provided from by your email program. If you know your email address, the rest of the [...]
