December 6th, 2011 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
As a professional digital media designer, I am constantly in contact with great and not so great websites. So what I wanted to do in this quick post, was to give some advice to those new designers that know how to do the main ground work: design by hand, implement digitally, slice the design, code in html, css and php and then build the website; but they unfortunately lack the knowledge of how to refine the last details. Read the rest of this entry »
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November 24th, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
In most of our projects we recommend using Host Gator as the hosting provider. We do so because in our experience so far they have been reliable and we have had good support experiences.
Some of our clients ask us how to go about the setting of their accounts. That is the reason of this post.
1. go to http://www.hostgator.com/shared.shtml
Host Gator Shared
There you will find a table with the following info:
2. Click where it says “Order Now” in the Hatchling Plan, the Baby or the Business. More often than not, for a starter website the Hatchling plan is more than enough. If you want a unique IP for your site, then Business will do.
Selection of Package
3. In the next page you will see an order wizard. Select the I will use My Existing Domain option. Type in your domain name: example.com and hit NEXT. This applies only if you already have a domain name. If you don’t, or if you want a new domain name, then click where it says “register new domain”.
Host Gator Signup Page 3
4. In the next screen you will enter the coupon code: XXXX. If you don’t have coupon codes, then it is time to go look online. How? Well, just go to Google.com and type something like HostGator Hosting Coupon.
Service Signup 4
5. In the following screen, review that the totals are correct and go to the next screen to pay by entering your credit card info.
6. That is it.
Once they setup your account you will receive an email confirming the information and payment but also with something extremely important— YOUR ACCOUNT INFO—
You are going to need specially three things:
1. The hostnames for your hosting server. They look something like: ns192.serverexample.com
2. The ftp access to your site (server ip, username and password).
3. The cpanel access for your site. (username and password).
Once you have that information in your hands you are set to go.
Make sure that you contact us for more information or if you have any questions. Thanks for using Shark Media Design for all your Website Design needs.
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October 22nd, 2008 admin Location: Raleigh, North Carolina
Continuing with the Free podcast sessions about online marketing consulting, namely search engine optimization tactics, this particular screencast features a common practice that can improve both visibility and rankings easily.
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