As a budding ‘surfer’ (back in the days when surfing the web still seemed mysterious and vaguely appropriate), I never took to Internet Explorer. I think it was because every time I opened a link in a new window it always managed to position it somewhere annoying on the monitor. Then again, maybe I just preferred the Netscape Communicator loading button. Either way, from the beginning I was a fan of using programs that didn’t come with Windows, and it’s a trend that I’ve followed to this very day. Continue reading

Spam. Everyone hates it, and it’s become a fact of life for personal and business users alike. Many accounts come with anti-spam programs that run the risk of cutting out genuine emails using overzealous filters; and many more users sift through mountains of spam in search of genuine emails (sound familiar?!). There has to be a better way – and guess what, there is.

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So now we carry on with Part Two of our guide to different kinds of Web Hosting, kindly illustrated by the adventures of a man called Dave*.

In the last part, Dave has had experience with Free and Shared Hosting, but he’s now looking at getting advanced Web Hosting to offer him greater control and performance from his eCommerce store. Below are several of the options available to Dave. Continue reading

Choosing the right Web Hosting package for you can be a bewildering task. With so many packages, prices, terms, conditions, companies and countries vying for your business, it’s important that you understand what you need, so you can choose a company who can give you what you want.

So here’s a list of the major types of Web Hosting available on the market – what they are, and what they’re suitable for. And to make it a bit easier, we’ll follow the career of Dave*, a budding web entrepreneur making his first forays into the world of Web Hosting. Continue reading

There can be two very different schools of thought when something new comes out. On one side, you have the people who have to have the latest as soon as it arrives, and will happily be out with the old in favour of the new. Then you have their opposites, the people who cling tenaciously to the tried and tested, refusing to move on whilst clinging to an ‘if it’s not broken, don’t fix it’ mentality. Of course many of us meander somewhere in the middle, and it often takes a major event or Continue reading

As anyone over the age of twelve will tell you, things just aren’t what they used to be. What can you get for a penny these days? You don’t even get penny sweets in the shops anymore. This is a cheap (ah-hah) way of introducing our new special offer which, quite frankly, is just too darn good to be true. Continue reading

So you have a great idea for an online business but you’re not sure where to start! This quick guide will show you how to avoid a few of the main pitfalls a business has when setting up online.
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Web standards is the new buzz word on the web. What are web standards? Web standards are basically the use of correct web coding standards as laid out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The web standards which are of most concern to modern business are XHTML and CSS . In the words of the W3C “The XHTML family is the next step in the evolution of the internet.” Continue reading