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6 Reliable WordPress Resources

Jim — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:19:33 +0000

Finding the best WordPress resources can be a pain. How does one separate the wheat from the chaff when faced with 2 million results for “WordPress Tutorials”? There’s only so many hours in a day!

Here’s 6 reliable resources that will get you absorbing WP knowledge like a hungry sponge.

1) WordPress Lessons (from WordPress.org)

The best place to start for the newbie. Divided into 4 sections that touch on all the essentials: “WordPress for Beginners”, “Designing Your WordPress Site”, “Lessons for Theme Development”, and “Website Development”. Solid.

2) WordPress Forums

The official WordPress forums. Along with the WP documentation, there’s valuable, regularly updated information that stretches across any WP topic you can think of.

3) WPtuts

WP tuts is part of the “Plus” network of tutorial sites that cover everything from app development to Adobe’s Creative Suite. You’ll find helpful WordPress-focused articles, videos and tutorials that benefit users at any skill level.

Check out this collection of WordPress cheat sheets they put together. Good stuff.

4) Smashing Magazine

Somewhat similar to WPtuts, the Smashing Magazine network collects the best articles and tutorials from across the web for WordPress users, and also covers topics related to design, web development and user experience. An endless resource.

5) Sitepoint

Another great provider of info for the web professional or the newcomer interested in WordPress. You’ll find tutorials, podcasts, a bookstore, and online courses available for developers and designers for a reasonable price. Highly recommended.

6) WPCandy

While this contains content similar to the resources listed above, there’s also solid opinion and interview articles with WordPress experts. Looking for an experienced WordPress developer to make your site? There’s a easy-to-search directory of WordPress pros for hire.

3 Reasons Web Designers & Developers Need Reseller Hosting

H9Taylor — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:31:44 +0000

There are so many different types of Hosting packages out there. We often get people contacting us here at HostNine and asking us, “I need hosting- but I just don’t know what kind of hosting is suitable for my needs. Can you help?” While a standard shared hosting plan might seem feasible for a majority of folks, it might not be the best fit for those who do work on the web. For Web Designers and Developers-
Reseller Hosting is the way to go.

Here are 3 reasons why:

1) It makes managing your customers WAY easier.

When you finish work for a client, often times you point them in the direction of a hosting provider to host their website. Sometimes the client comes back to you and wants you to revise something and they painfully try to tell you where it is located and how their hosting is setup. Well, no more! As a Reseller you keep all your clients in one place, can log in to their accounts when instructed to fix something, and remove the headache of the hundreds of emails you would receive outside your reseller account.

2) You make a healthy profit.

As a Reseller, you determine the price for hosting that you want to charge your customers. Why? because you have the relationship with your customers and we put you in a position to own a hassle-free, hosting service. Here is example of how you can be profitable:

If you buy in to the lowest price Reseller package (at $24.95/month) that we offer, you are granted 100 domains, certain bandwidth and memory, and a bunch of other features. If you decide to charge each of the domain holders/your clients our lowest shared hosting price, this would be your return:

100 domains x $3.95= $395/month

$395- $24.95 (cost per month) = $370.05 per month profit!
= $4,441 annual profit!

These are general estimates, but it shows the power and potential of creating a profitable hosting service.

3) You get robust features at your finger tips.

With other reseller hosting providers, they often give you features that need a good amount of assistance from the providers support team, to actually use. With all our plans, our features put you in the driver seat. Need to move a customer’s domain to another location, in another country? No problem- point and click. Need to send an invoice to a customer for a billable item? We got you covered (you also have the ability to collect payments with a recurring payment model). These are just a few actions you can take with little to no assistance from our team.

In the coming weeks, We will be writing more blog posts on how we can help different types of individuals get the most out of reseller hosting. Stay tuned.

How to choose a Good Domain Name

H9Jen — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 02:56:26 +0000

The domains are registered regularly at a record level, new domain expansion and innovative thinking still offer thousands of brilliant choices. However while looking for a desired name it is important to consider the purpose of a domain name first and it should be shorter and memorable that enable your visitor’s to reach your website easily.

Consider following points before registering a domain name;

Short & memorable: – People don’t remember longer domain name easily, the shorter your domain, name, it would be easy to remember and also it minimize the chances of typographical mistake while your users typing it to reach your website. Also consider a domain name which has marketability so that you can brand them easily.

Momentous – A short domain is not worth without connotation, like if you go for 4xf0l.com it would be not easy to type or remember. Select a domain that narrates and reflects your website in their domain name so that people can understand and remember them easily such as flickr.com, twitter.com in this case.

Apparent & Concise –Clear & precision are vital factors when choosing a domain name, it should sounds well and should be effectively communicated over the phone.

Exposure: In order to take full advantage of your sites exposure, consider to include matching keywords in your domain unless you’re going to consider a very short, clear and meaningful domain name. Even two words that which can best describe your web site are good to go with, however avoid using dashes, underscores and numbers into them. It would be best if you perceive both the human and search engine while deciding a domain name to buy.

Best Domain Extension: Select best domain extension like .com is still the best choice and similarly .net could be the best second desired choice although you may also consider country specific tld like .us/, co.uk/. eu/.asia in case if you have planned to target a country or region like for example if you’re developing a site to target UK country specific you should go for .co.uk or .uk.com

Cloud Virtual Private Server Hosting with Hostnine

H9Jen — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:54:59 +0000

HostNine’s Cloud Virtual Private Server Hosting offers you the high-performance, high-availability computing resources that enable your website/applications running on enterprise infrastructure. With a virtual machine (VM) your websites/applications are implemented across many nodes which ultimately enable you to take advantage of our highly reliable and secure data center facilities to meet your changing business needs.

Our Cloud Virtual Private Servers are perfect for website owners and developers running mission-critical, high-resource or complex websites/applications. The Cloud Virtual Private Server eliminate single points of failure and resulting hardware emergencies that means all our VPS accounts feature self-healing and automatic failover protection.

Other Features:

* FULL root access
* Complete redundency through Redundant Cloud System
* Cisco powered RAID 10 SAN Backend
* Management portal
* Node based VPS architecture
* Pre-setup Stacks
* Simplified Billing
* Own VPS management panel

Choose from our locations in the United States or United Kingdom. Migrate between your preferred locations to meet your changing business needs – with HostNine it’s free!

We allocate separate resources for each client or application and our Cloud Virtual Private Server provide you guaranteed resources and high performance at very affordable prices underlying control and assignment of resources that require in order to manage their environment.

Check with the Industry-Leading Managed Services and configure now for Cloud Virtual Private Server. From the moment you click Sign Up, it will hardly take 2 hours to get up and running!
Stay tuned!

Hosting Requirement for Ecommerce Site

H9Jen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:11:45 +0000

If you are expecting to sell a maximum of 5 to 10 items online, you might be fine with a small hosting account however if you are expecting to sell hundreds of items per day you will definitely need a larger account like dedicated server since you will need a secure connection for financial transactions. A secure connection enable your website address with https before it so that your customer should feel secured while providing important information like credit card while making payment.

To create a secure site you’ll need dedicated IP and SSL, or a Secure Sockets Layer certificate, which will be installed on your website for a small fee once you have meet the terms with the requirements for the certificate.

For processing and managing financial transactions on your web site t you will need payment gateways by which you can deal with your financial transactions and direct your customers to them for payments. There are many payment gateways are there like PayPal 2checkout, Moneybookers,Google checkout which you need to set-up on your site for getting the payment from your clients.

To sell products and establish a business entity to conduct business online, you will need the best ecommerce software that you can find. These are scripts which are installed in your hosting account providing a shopping cart to your web site and will allow your customers to navigate your site easily. If you are using oscommerce or zencart, you can easily install them through your Fantastico script installer via your cPanel hosting account.

Shopping carts arrange your products into categories that make easier for your customer to select a product that he wants to buy. Shopping carts help you to calculate the prices and impose the tax and shipping costs which automatically set as per the international standard. However you should make sure to create a secured ecommerce site to protect your customers’ sensitive information during online transactions.

How Much Web Storage Hosting Do You Need For Your Website?

H9Jen — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:16:34 +0000

You can calculate the amount of web hosting storage you will need for your website. All you need to do is to determine the amount of disk space your website will use. Web hosting storage makes it possible to build web pages with particular content like images, text, graphics, JavaScript, flash video, audio, and more. All of these files have weight and compose a web page. The total of this weight for each page in your website will constitute the amount of storage you need.

Your web-hosting provider has a certain amount of storage space available to you; this is your web storage hosting amount. All files that make up your website put together must fit in to this amount of space.

The call for web storage hosting space is on the increase because of video. Video takes up a lot of space, and video is in demand on the web. Even source code has weight and adds to the storage needs of a web page.

Web hosting providers use web storage hosting as a competitive edge, attempting to out do one another in the amount of space they offer. Because of this, most hosts now let users store as much as 1500Gb of content. The basic plans, these days, allow plenty of storage to start up your website and lots of room to expand as you move along. Some plans will allow you to carry manifold sites on a single account. In these instances, you need to be certain that there is ample space to carry your demands.

As web hosting providers meet the challenges of today’s storage requirements, you should always have abundant storage to maintain and grow your website business. You should be capable of creating as big a site as you want, without confronting any upper limits. Web storage hosting shouldn’t be problematic at all.