This top 10 list contains questions that should be considered for any website project! From identifying your primary target market and regional competition area to SEO and ongoing upkeep and maintenance, this article may spur some new ideas, or just get you thinking about how well your website works for your business. Does your website work for you?
Do you own a business? If yes…then you should definitely register a domain name whether you are ready to have a website or not. Any business should consider securing a domain name that closely matches their business/organization name for future use. Domain names are being purchased at the rate of 600,000 per hour world-wide. Don’t be left using the next best thing. Secure your name now!
What do you need to think about when registering a domain name? Well, there are a few things you should consider before making a selection or selections. First, think about how your existing clientele refers to your business. Think about what words you think people would type into a search engine to find your business or your kind of a business.
Keyword domain names (A.K.A. Generic Domain Names) work best for promoting your online presence to those that don’t already know your business name. A domain name that matches your business name is best for helping your existing customers find you online and for referring others to your business.
You should think about registering those that you feel best meet your business objectives, best fit your industry’s buzz words, and are most likely to be used in searches by your target market. More than one domain name can be pointed to a website, used for email, et cetera.
Search engines (like Google, Yahoo, Bing, and others) use domain name matches, web page titles, meta tags, meta keywords, page contents, et cetera, to gather their information and refer searchers to the appropriate online locations. Since the domain name is high on the priority list with search engines, the generic, or keyword, domain names can sometimes produce better results. It is a relatively inexpensive way to increase your online exposure without spending a lot of money in advertising or paid placement. Multiple domain names can just be pointed to one website.
It’s Free!
WordPress is an open source software, also known as non proprietary or shareware, which means that you don’t have to pay to use it or upgrade. No licensing fees apply…no matter how big your site grows or how many users contribute to it.You don’t have to pay to get the next upgrade.
Easy to Use and User Friendly:
You don’t have to be a computer expert, or geek to master it. This CMS (content management system) is easy to master. The administrator is easy to navigate and makes managing your website content a snap. If you can manage publishing text documents, attaching files, and inserting images…you got this!
Search Engine Friendly:
A critical element of any website, search engines must be able to access and read your website to refer site visitors. WordPress is search engine friendly right out of the box and there are extendable add-on features (plugins available) custom tailored for organic SEO.
Plugins Extend Functionality:
There are thousands of plug-ins and widgets available for use. If your website needs something special, its pretty likely that someone else has already built it and is willing to share. From pre-formatted design themes to easy social media add-ons this world wide supported shareware is worth checking out!
Large community Support:
WordPress is widely used around the globe. There is a large user community and contributors adding to development of this software everyday. There are WordPress forums and communities where you can find answers and solutions.
What’s the catch?
You will need a few things that every website needs no matter which software or platform is used:a domain name, a hosting account that supports PHP and MySQL and a copy of the WP software (free to download at wordpress.org). If this sounds like a foreign language, keep in mind that most non-technical people hire a web designer/developer to initially set it up, but then do their own website updating and maintenance. It’s like buying a car for the Internet. A web developer may create a custom vehicle for your business, put a pretty finish on it (design) and upload it to a server that is connected to the Internet (hosting account), but once you take control … you get to drive, decide where to go and how to get there.
CMS is an acronym for Content Management System, referring to an easy method of managing the content displayed on your website.
A Content Management System (CMS) website uses an online database for managing the site’s content. Utilizing a user name and password, the site’s owner can login directly to the database on the hosting server to modify, add, delete page contents at will. Once the website owner/administrator , “saves” or “updates” any changes to a page, the new content is immediately available to your online audience.
Our CMS employs an easy to use administrator that does not require any specialized computer knowledge and comes with built in video tutorials and a written manual for reviewing and modeling simple updating tasks. A rich text editor (similar to using MS Word) automatically converts the text and files into HTML format to be diplayed online. Image handling and file management capabilities can easily be added to the administrator for handling non-text content. Our CMS also enables the use of an internal search engine , so your site visitors can find what they are looking for quickly and easily. By building CMS websites, we provide our clients with the ability to easily maintain their websites in-house… no waiting for production time, no additional fees every time something in your business changes and your site needs to be updated. Our sites are built with an expandable foundation to easily accommodate future growth and modern features.
It’s Free!
WordPress is an open source software, also known as non proprietary or shareware, which means that you don’t have to pay to use it or upgrade. No licensing fees apply…no matter how big your site grows or how many users contribute to it.You don’t have to pay to get the next upgrade.
Easy to Use and User Friendly:
You don’t have to be a computer expert, or geek to master it. This CMS (content management system) is easy to master. The administrator is easy to navigate and makes managing your website content a snap. If you can manage publishing text documents, attaching files, and inserting images…you got this!
Search Engine Friendly:
A critical element of any website, search engines must be able to access and read your website to refer site visitors. WordPress is search engine friendly right out of the box and there are extendable add-on features (plugins available) custom tailored for organic SEO.
Plugins Extend Functionality:
There are thousands of plug-ins and widgets available for use. If your website needs something special, its pretty likely that someone else has already built it and is willing to share. From pre-formatted design themes to easy social media add-ons this world wide supported shareware is worth checking out!
Large community Support:
WordPress is widely used around the globe. There is a large user community and contributors adding to development of this software everyday. There are WordPress forums and communities where you can find answers and solutions.
What’s the catch?
You will need a few things that every website needs no matter which software or platform is used:a domain name, a hosting account that supports PHP and MySQL and a copy of the WP software (free to download at wordpress.org). If this sounds like a foreign language, keep in mind that most non-technical people hire a web designer/developer to initially set it up, but then do their own website updating and maintenance. It’s like buying a car for the Internet. A web developer may create a custom vehicle for your business, put a pretty finish on it (design) and upload it to a server that is connected to the Internet (hosting account), but once you take control … you get to drive, decide where to go and how to get there.