Which Web Hosts Are Worth It? [Hosting] In the modern, competitive Web Hosting market, one of the top priorities for all hosting companies is to attract new customers. Before paying for, and setting up an account with a specific host, most people like to email the company’s sales department to ask a few questions, and find out exactly how good the sales advice and response times are.
Yesterday, under the alias of Dave Jones, I emailed 39 of the top Web hosting companies with one message. My objective: to measure how good their response times were, and how helpful the advice given was. I posed as a personal homepage owner who didn’t know much about the Internet, mainly to see whether they explained things in a way that site owners at all levels could understand.
In my message, I told the various hosts that mine was a personal site that attracted only 30 to 40 visitors each month. The results of this survey were very interesting. At 11:10am yesterday morning, I sent an email to the sales departments of 39 hosting companies. 1. If Only Id Known! (Tips for a new website) Filed: Sat, Jan 20 2007 under Programming|| Tags: css1 webdesign tricks tips There comes a point in the life-cycle of almost every web-site and blog where the designer, sighs and mutters something like "I wish I had known that when I first started". Here are the things I wish I had known when I had first started my site. Find a Good Cheatsheet Today's web pages are 90% Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and 10% HTML. So one of the very first things you should do is to download IloveJackDaniels.com CSS cheatsheet or Leslie Franke's CSS Cheatsheet cheatsheet. Both will help you navigate using CSS to make your web page look and act exactly the way you think it should look and act.
Awesomely enough, Jack Daniels also has a HTML Cheatsheet as well. Find a Good Template Why re-invent the wheel? In addition to the above link, there are a few other sites which have provided invaluable templates, tricks and tips. Stay away from site-style templates though. Get Started Get Classy So don't skimp! Print Smart. Mac OS X Website Builder Face-Off. Pages: 1 , 2 , 3 , Sandvox Having been beaten down once before by Apple's decision to release Sherlock 3, the folks at Karelia software started afresh.
Sandvox is the result, and Karelia unfortunately finds itself back at square one, competing directly against iWeb. Sandvox combines elements from both RapidWeaver and iWeb. It's not modal, you edit your web pages directly. It's also template-based, but there are rules you must follow. The templates will only bend so much. Within them, there are a lot of nice features to play with. Pagelets can be manipulated with the Sandvox inspector; it's simple to stick them in the sidebar, or add them to the main section of the page as callouts. Like RapidWeaver, Sandvox's templates can be applied and changed at any time during the edit process. Remember, this is still beta code.
Sandvox is very appealing, despite its buggy beta status, because the people who made it have thought of so many neat little extras. Final Thoughts Return to the Mac DevCenter. Hosting. Cloud hosting has quickly grown to become one of the most popular hosting solutions available. Cloud computing in general eliminates the need to rely on dedicated hardware to perform functions like hosting, storing data, and other functions we’ve grown accustomed to using physical devices for. Today, I want to talk about using the cloud for media hosting. Using the Cloud to host your audio and video files comes with several benefits that you simply can’t get with dedicated hardware. Let’s take a look at some of the biggest advantages of media hosting on the Cloud.
Scalability One reason webmasters choose to use Cloud hosting is because of the flexibility and scalability it offers. Since media files are larger than other file types, the more audio and videos you add, the more resources you will need. Video Streaming Whether you’re streaming live or on demand video, using the Cloud to host your videos ensures high quality and stability. Wowza Media Server FFMpeg Red5 Audio Streaming ICEcast.