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How To Have Websites Built For You The Cheap Way

Normally, if you want to have professional designers custom build your site, you must be prepared to dish out at least a few hundred dollars. All this can change if you know where to find the best deals, the best designs for the lowest price. Here's a rough guide: First, you must understand that it is a rip off to get companies to design websites for you. Have you ever seen those advertisements... ❯❯❯

Web Design: Boxes with Rounded Corners

You will find that boxes with rounded corners are just a taste of web 2.0 design. You will see the rectangular shapes are for more professional websites, but you’ll also find the the rounded boxes more it look more playful and even more modern. You’ll find these are used on sites that indorse entertainment. You’ll find that these boxes can be used in so many ways, but you’ll want to keep all of... ❯❯❯

Review of Slhost Hosting: SLHost sucks!

If you ask my experience with SLhost.com. I'd just say: SLHost sucks. I have been hosting a website with Slhost.com and recently it was down. I went to SlHost.com's support page looking for contact info. In this kind of emergency situation, I found the best way is to talk to them on the phone or do a live Chat. To my disappointment, there's no contact phone number on SlHost.com's website and on... ❯❯❯

Magazine Style Wordpress Theme

Found a nice magazines style wordpress theme branfordmagazine: DEMO DOWNLOAD SUPPORT FORUMS TUTORIALS And there're a couple of lists for magazine style wordperss themes: http://hackwordpress.com/best-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/ http://www.epicwebstrategies.com/11-free-magazine-style-wordpress-themes/ For a list of best wordpress themes, check out this site: http://www.bestwpthemes.com... ❯❯❯

Some Useful Sites for Web Designers

Below are some useful website for web and graphic designers: 1. Getty Images: lots of stock photos and images. 2. Microsoft Clip Art Gallery: you can find a lot for clip arts, provided by MicroSoft Office. 3. E-Mail Icon Generator: Convert your email address to images to avoid spammers. 4. Free Logo Templates: where you can download logos for free. 5. ColorBlender: free online color matching... ❯❯❯

Why Use A Dedicated Server?

Why use a dedicated server? There are many reasons why you should choose to use a dedicated server. The most important reason is that you have full control of the server and no longer have to share space and bandwidth with other websites. There are so many options to start an internet based business. According to a study done by UCLA, nearly 90 percent of Americans have access to the internet.... ❯❯❯

Web.com web hosting coupon code (save 20%)

Web host Web.com is offering a 20% off their web hosting services. To take advantage of this offer, click here to go to Web.com and during check out, enter the following coupon code: TWC287 This offer expires 12/31/07.... ❯❯❯

Web Hosting Check List

Below is a check list when I look for a web hosting service. 1. Is disk space > 200 MB? 2. Traffic per month > 1 GB? 3. SSI? 4. Password-protected directory? 5. CGI/Perl/PHP? 6. mySQL database? 7. Fantastico (optional)? 9. Cpanel (Optional)? 10. Add-on domains (Optional)? 11. SSH access (Optional)? 12. Cron (Optional)? 13. Unix/Linux Based (Optional)? Things to watch out: -- Does... ❯❯❯