UK Web Hosting Blog – NetHosted

The smaller images are on your webpages, the faster your site will load which will provide your users with a much better experience, especially those on slower connections and even dial-up access. This will also benefit you as you will be using less disk space to store the images, as well as less bandwidth to transmit them each time a user requests them, so it is beneficial all round!

If you have not optimised your images before or are not sure about this, I’ll give a quick example to show the benefits.

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These days many sites are secured by an SSL Certificate, I’m going to explain the reasons for this, when you need an SSL Certificate and when you do not, and also explain how to get one.

Online security is vitally important, in a world of credit card fraud and identity theft people need to be more and more vigilant when divulging their private details. Having the padlock symbol at the bottom of a page gives people a feeling of some security at least, this means the site is using an SSL Certificate so communication between the user and the website should not be able to be viewed by anyone else. (more…)

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These days almost any business you can think of has a website, be it the local pub or a multinational corporation, and the reason is that this can be a great source of advertisement and raise awareness of your business. For business that sell products or services to consumers, having a website is even more vital, and can enable you to extend your customer base much wider than for instance a single retail shop. A website costs a tiny fraction compared to the rent and other factors that would be necessary for a physical presence also, another clear advantage. (more…)

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If you are building a new website from scratch, you may want to consider using a Content Management System (CMS) as the base for this. A CMS is a web application that is used for managing various types of content including images, videos, audio files, electronic documents and other forms of web content and digital media. These are often used for publishing web content on new websites as they allow for rapid website development and maintenance, generally offering powerful back-ends for administration, some even allowing drag and drop site creation. Most of the popular web CMS are open source, meaning that it won’t cost you a penny to use these, and they are very actively developed often with more collaborators working on a CMS than a commercial web app. Many of these have active communities offering helpful support around the clock for free also, and due to these points some very prolific sites make use of these CMS’s. Some examples of this are Ford (WordPress), The United Nations (Joomla) and MTV (Drupal) to name but a few. (more…)

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Fantastico is the leading application autoinstaller for cPanel hosting accounts, and we provide this at NetHosted for our shared hosting and
reseller hosting clients free of charge. It allows you to simply install many popular content management systems such as Joomla, Drupal, PHP-Nuke, etc. as well as forums, blogs, e-commerce, support systems, site builders, galleries and more! There are over 40 applications that Fantastico can install for you through its simple, easy to use interface. (more…)

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