Friday, March 12th, 2010 by Will Elkadi
Blog Hosting has become quite the hot topic lately. Everybody seems to have a blog, and if you do not, then chances are most people have not heard of you.
If you are a small business, or a large business, aiming to establish a more pronounced Web presence with the ability to update and maintain news, articles and daily postings should give serious consideration to Wordpress.
Wordpress is open source, meaning it is open to the public and free of charge. While this can dramatically decrease your Web development costs, it is still important to handle and name your blog correctly.
Many of the features provided by Wordpress are exactly the same as those you would find in a fee based solution. There are even a variety of advanced features, perhaps not included as standard, that can be added easily from an extensive repository of open source plug-ins and widgets.
Something you may not be aware of is that you can have your current Wordpress blog integrated with your Web Host. You can also have a new one created in the same manner. This helps give your domain more of a Web presence and drive traffic to your site. In this way you can also have your blog completely match the theme of your Web site, or pick a new theme altogether.
Wordpress initially started out as a dedicated blog platform, and is now adapting more as a generic Web site content management system (CMS). This along with the blog functionality makes it perfect for making announcements and updating visitors with the latest news and developments.
Bottom line is when you are currently using or searching for a Web Hosting provider, and if you want to begin establishing your Web presence, make sure they can support and integrate Wordpress for you.
For more advanced Web presence and content management, check out eLab Explorer© CMS and see why eLab Hosting could be right for you. Not only can eLab Hosting integrate your Wordpress blog, but eLab Hosting can also customize, analyze and optimize it along with your entire Web site. eLab Hosting also has many valuable Add-On Modules available to choose from. Find your perfect choice today!
Tags: blog, Blog Hosting, cms, eLab Explorer CMS, eLab Hosting, Wordpress
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 by Will Elkadi
If your business has an online presence, then it is very important to pick the right Web Hosting provider. This can be a time consuming and possibly daunting task, but knowing what you need to have and what you need to offer will help you make the right decision.
The Web can be a great place to market and sell your goods to people all over the world. The Web can also help you communicate with your customers or potential customers while creating a community that revolves around your company. There is a catch – visitors need to be able to access your features easily in order for your company to reap those benefits.
If your main focus is for email and blogs, then you will see that most Web Hosting companies offer these items as a software or hosted solution. These hosting solutions come with a control panel that allows you to manage them. You have the option to create a new account with the new Web Hosting company, or you can transfer your pre-existing accounts easily.
Most Web Hosting companies grant access to Webmail, which is simply email solutions on the Web… giving you access to your email accounts anywhere from a secure connection using a Web browser. There are also options for email forwarding, so if you want your new email account to be directed to your already existing account, that is also easily accomplished.
Before deciding on a Web Hosting company, keep in mind the features and options your company will need. Evaluate the potential Web Host’s email platforms and determine if they allow for enough disk space, and compare the costs per size. Make sure you will have access to the amount of multiple email accounts you may need, meaning that you can create accounts under the same domain for all employees as you need to. Make sure they use adequate SPAM filters to manage the junk mail, and check that they are maintained regularly. Anti-spam and anti-virus software must be constantly upgraded in order to remain effective.
Make sure that if you have a blog that the Web Hosting company can provide you with that as an integrated service, including the blog service into the control panel for your Web site.
Also, if you want your Web site to have many of the special features and new options available these days, giving you lots of bells and whistles, then make sure the Web Host is able to support and host technologies such as PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), SQL (Structured Query Language) and CGI (Common Gateway Interface). If you are prepared to take care of these features, then this is an excellent opportunity to find a Web Host to provide them. If you do not know how to use these features, then you can always find a Web Hosting company that offers you updates or maintenance, or even one that integrates a CMS (Content Management System), which will make your control panel interact with you as you would interact with something as easy as a word processor application (such as MS Word).
If you have questions, never hesitate to ask the prospective Web Hosting company… sometimes their answers, or lack thereof, can answer your question right away helping you choose.
eLab Hosting offers all this and more. Call now for your free consultation and get your business a reliable online presence!
Tags: Blog Hosting, eLab Hosting, hosted email, web hosting
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 by Will Elkadi
eLab Hosting has introduced their innovative, cutting-edge software-as-a-service, eLab Explorer© CMS. Having all the features required to make your business an instant success, and with even more add-on modules to increase functionality and personalize your experience, eLab Explorer© is ready to work for you.
Continue reading for more information on what a CMS can do for you…
A Content Management System (CMS) is a computer program/application used to create, edit, manage and publish different forms of digital media and electronic text, referred to as site content. In a CMS, you will have the ability to add, edit, delete and manage pages, links, images and text. The software provides authoring tools allowing you to create and manage roles for multiple user access and control how your files are being accessed. There are many other useful tools within a CMS that serve to help individuals with little or no experience with programming languages, and can be most helpful as an easy-to-use website maintenance tool for non technical individuals.
Some CMS applications are actual programs installed on your machine, but most are on the web. A web CMS is a hosted web application where you can create and manage HTML content for your website. You can control dynamic web material and perform your own web maintenance in an easy to use format. CMS is based upon WYSIWYG, which effectively means ‘What You See Is What You Get.’ If you know how to use office enterprise applications, then you will know how to use a CMS.
Most systems use a database to store the content that holds the information/data needed for the website. As an administrator you will be able to access your management control panel from any secure browser connection to the Internet.
Other CMS features can include blog hosting, form builders, file management and FTP, statistics and analytics review, RSS feeds and Search Engine Optimization.
Bottom line… a CMS is meant to be your connection to your website so you don’t have to pay expensive designers to make changes to your content. If you have a ‘News’ section, or other pages you expect changes will be necessary even more than once a year, then it would be beneficial to your business and your finances to invest in a CMS. In this way, you pay once and have the interface needed to implement your changes on your own.
Try eLab Explorer© CMS today and experience the best personalized functionality and support in the industry.
Tags: cms, eLab Hosting
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010 by Will Elkadi
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
When it comes to technical support and company technicians it becomes difficult to justify keeping them full-time if there is even a minute of billable time being wasted. Tough economic times calls for outsourcing…
If you think about it, employees from all industries have moments of free time while on the clock. By keeping internal technicians, you may have well informed employees who can be a great asset, but there is a problem when even a moment is wasted on non-productive tasks or efforts, or time wasted on unnecessary activities or resources. By outsourcing for necessary technical support, a business can cut corporate expenses by only paying when the outsourced company is working – as in during the course of a task or assignment. This is in comparison to the standard 40 hours a week every week paid to a full-time in-house technician.
On one hand, the benefits for outsourcing is obvious – to save big bucks. While on the other hand, knowledgeable internal technicians are a huge asset to the every day ‘run of the mill’. Unfortunately for the many contractors and superfluous salaried employees, this means less work for them and more work for oversized, mass produced outsourcing companies. Today, especially during this economic recession, it is imperative for businesses to cut all possible corners and face all possible consequences.
The largest determining factor resides in the company’s pockets…
Tags: outsource, technical support, technology
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Friday, March 5th, 2010 by Will Elkadi
Blogging can be a very useful tool for businesses. Not only does it give you more areas to share information, it also gives you more areas to enter keywords for your websites increasing search engine visibility. Blogging can be a very effective marketing tool.
The biggest problem some people come across when creating a blog is not giving incorrect information, but rather not giving enough information. In that I mean thinking too hard and not entering enough posts or thinking too hard and leaving out information that should be in their current posts.
The key to effective blogging is to write what you know about and keep it short, sweet and simple. Less is more within each individual post, and more is better for posts in general. Think of the audience and keep them interested. Make them want to come back for more.
An average good post would be around 300 words… not more than 400… and definitely not in the thousands. Just think of what you would be interested in, and how long your attention can be kept. Most people do not want to waste too much time trying to figure out what they are reading, so get to the point and keep it interesting.
Another thing to keep in mind is the actual content and tone. Content can be anything, but best if it is something you know about and do not have to do too much research on. This will help keep the blog posts flowing. The tone is important and does not need to be only professional (not to say do not be professional), but try to put some humor in it. People love humor. Also, this develops a common ground – a sort of relationship with your visitors and potential clients.
So, keep it simple and keep us interested. Write what you know and know what you write. Before you know it the search engines will pick up on your keywords and so will the rest of the world. Make the best of the virtual real estate you own and you are bound to have happy viewers!
Tags: blogging, keywords
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010 by Will Elkadi
Blogging has become a part of everyday life. It is now considered part of pop culture, and pretty much everybody with a computer is doing it. Blogs aren’t for money, they are for opinions… for people to express themselves and share with each other. A blog is your own personal ‘two cents worth’ on the World Wide Web.
Today, even the ‘average joe’ can use blogging thanks to interfaces such as WordPress and Blogger. These publishing systems are easy to use and cost efficient – you don’t have to know HTML or server programming. So, the main question is, should you sign up for a free blog or a paid hosting blog? Let’s discuss further…
FREE BLOG HOSTING:
If you are ready to get started with a blog, you have several options, and getting started is easy. As for free blog hosting, WordPress has become the most widely used and the most popular. All you have to do to have a blog right this second is go to WordPress.com and sign up for a free account. From there you can name your blog, pick a template or design for your blog, and start posting (aka blogging). You will have the ability to set up categories, widgets, account information, and many other administrative tools for easy control.
The biggest downfall with a free blog hosting account is that you are fairly limited in your capabilities. For example, you cannot post advertisements; therefore you cannot generate any sort of ad revenue from your free blog account. While this may not be crucial to your goals, this greatly affects some people’s choice of free vs. paid blog hosting. Another downside to free blog hosting is that you cannot brand it, meaning you cannot have only your blog domain name as the URL without the free host’s name incorporated (i.e. you cannot have myblog.com only, it would be myblog.wordpress.com). Since online identity is a key element to visibility for businesses, this is quite the setback. Free blog hosting also has limited resources, such as plug-ins, add-ons, and other extra functionality features.
PAID BLOG HOSTING:
Paid blog hosting is a perfect solution for businesses that want to generate revenue from advertisements, increase their visibility by establishing a long term web presence, or to simply show featured products or services. Many web hosting accounts have blog hosting included in their features. Check out the features and request more information if this is something you are interested in. You will be able to use own domain name and choose from a vast selection of themes, plug-ins, add-ons, plus even more features as they continue to get produced. You also have the ability to use simple programming such as HTML and PHP if you so desire, which can help you create your own unique themes and plug-ins. All of this is what you get with a paid blog hosting service. The most important thing to do to get this started is to locate a reliable and resourceful web hosting company to host your domain and/or your blog. Web hosting companies may also have simple blog subscriptions where you don’t need to have an entire web hosting account.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
For those of you looking to take blogging to another level or you want permanent web presence and you are just starting out, paid blog hosting is for you. We recommend eLab Hosting Blog Hosting service for all your blog hosting needs.
Along with your subscription, you will receive help documentation, reliable and responsive technical support, plus initial setup and configuration. By incorporating some of the best blogging features available, and by using the most popular blogging programs, eLab gives you the power to ‘free your mind’.
Let eLab do the dirty work so you can focus on your ‘two cents worth’ on the World Wide Web.
Tags: blog, eLab Hosting, web hosting
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