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Development : First Steps

  • Choose Domain Name
  • Selecting a domain name is one of the most important and tricky tasks you will encounter.
  • 67 characters are permitted.
  • Try picking something that resembles your name / company's name so that people can remember it easier.
  • Try to avoid hyphens as they may be forgotten, or interpreted wrongly.
  • Choose an appropriate Web Host Plan
  • Organize Ideas, and Brainstorming
  • Requesting quotes, and financial planning
  • Project commitment, and contract signing

Web Hosting

Choosing an appropriate web host to suit your needs is a very important part of the web development process. Sometimes there is a need to move to another web hosting provider. In these cases the domain name, email accounts, databases, files, and other information will need to be transferred to a better web hosting location. Sometimes a website requires more resources, and a solution can be found without a move. A total host relocation requires attention to detail, and can take a website down momentarily.


To the right is a list of hosts that I have rated, out of ten. These represent the quality vs. cost ratio, based on my experience. One being the least quality, and ten being the best.

In Rob's experience..

  • Dynadot      Score : 9 /10
  • Dream Host      Score : 4 /10
  • Inmotion Hosting      Score : 9 /10
  • GoDaddy      Score : 6 /10
  • Lunarpages      Score : 5 /10
  • Earthlink      Score : 4 /10
  • Homestead      Score : 3 /10
  • Ready Hosting      Score : 2 /10
  • Host Monster      Score : 8 /10
  • Omnis      Score : 7 /10
  • Daily Razor      Score : 8 /10
  • Vistitude      Score : 6 /10
  • M6.net      Score : 5 /10
  • Yahoo      Score : 3 /10
  • Lycos      Score : 2 /10
  • Angelfire      Score : 3 /10

Browser

 

Since most current browser have changed to keep up with the lastest technologies, and security features. Below are links to the lastest version of most browsers. If you are experiencing problems browsing websites it may help to install the latest version.

 

 

Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome Safari

Plugins

 

These plugins are free and suggested for maximum web functionality. As these plugins are also used with software created by Graphicalinsight, they are linked here for you to use to update your browser. These plugins are usually used seamlessly with most common web browsing environments.

 

 

acrobat flash Player Java

Website Performance

Website Optimization finely tunes a website for performance, drastically reduces page load times, proven to increase traffic, google search ranks, and helps reduce bandwidth. Lightening fast pages are no longer just for convenience, and appeal. Page load speeds are now being used for Google Search Rankings
Its Official: Google Now Counts Site Speed As A Ranking Factor


Having reports generated from plugins like Yslow, and Page Speed By Google helps the optimization process. Many CMS systems have these principles accounted for in the base software, but many settings require fine tuning from the backend.


A study was conducted about the importance of different interface design features. Customization was found to have the least importance while speed was ranked the most important factor of design.

There are many factors that contribute to a website or web server's performance.
*Some are shown on the right

Optimization Factors

  • HTTP Headers
  • Cache Utilization
  • Content Compression
  • Sitewide Cookie Management
  • Website Firewalls
  • Images, and pages with corresponding Keywords. Robots can use file names to index the consistancy of the content.
  • Feeds, RDF, and updates
  • Submitting site to search engines
  • Google Analytics Goal Seeking

Website Search Engine Optimization

Before someone can see your website in a search result, you must first supply the search engine with information about your website. Search Engine Robots/Spiders crawl across the web. They index available information about each website, and take the information back so that it can be queried. Most search engines allow you to submit URLs so that they can begin gathering information about your website immediately.


I can provide the most accurate information about your website through Meta Tag(Description), Titles, Headings, Image Alts(appears if image doesn't), and file naming conventions. Every piece of information that is contained within your pages contributes to keyword density. Over the life of your web application, search engines with continue to analyze, and archive your information. SEO is the strategy of properly describing what your site is about.

Google uses over 200 different ranking factors in determining This starts off when a search engine robot comes to your website. *Some are shown on the right

SEO Factors

  • Meta Tags
  • Sitemaps
  • Website Inbound/External Link Management
  • Robot Configuration
  • Standards Based Coding
  • Web Directory Submission
  • Images, and pages with corresponding Keywords. Robots can use file names to index the consistancy of the content.
  • Feeds, RDF, and updates
  • Submitting sitemap to search engines
  • Google Analytics Goal Seeking

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