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Battle Of The Hostings Review © 2004 Budianto Salim

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There are literally thousands of hosting solutions on the internet right now, from the free ones at www.geocities.com to the ones who charge you an arm and a leg. After filtering out the sharks, the copy cats & other crap, finally I have decided to review two of the best and most complete hostings package available on this planet. Please note that these are not the cheapest hostings around but these really give good value for your money, instead of asking you to upgrade later for an additional fee. Here is why :

Host 4 Profit is our first contender weighing at 300 Megabytes disk space and with a traffic limit of 10 Gigabytes per month. You might think that 300 megabytes is nothing compared to your hard disk but for doing business on the web, this should be more than sufficient. Besides being a heavy weight, you are also going to be quick footed by getting unlimited pop e-mail accounts and e-mail aliases. You also get unlimited mailing lists / newsletters and autoresponders which means being able to utilize the best marketing tool ever, which is building your own opt-in list which is going to be your prospective customer base for current anf future product offers.

Managing Your website is a cinch with the web based control panel. You can access the comprehensive online support, your account information, upload / update files via a web based interface, change your password, manage, add or access your pop3 e-mail, create mailing list / newsletter, setup MySQL database, view site statistics reports for your own analysis or if you use a third party analysis software just download the access logs, manage frontpage extensions, submit your site to several search engines automatically, setup a secure server, setup a web page counter, setup a shopping cart, setup a search engine for your homepage, access your instant profit sites, backup your website, schedule nightly events, view error logs for trouble shooting your site and you can even design your website from this control panel !!

Most hosting companies usually just provide the space for your website and after that you are on your own but Host4Profit goes further than that by also providing instant plugin sales letter sites and the corresponding quality products for you to sell and keep 100% of the margin (Free Resell Rights).

They also went to the point of providing free membership to one of the best marketing archives (The Warrior Group) containing tons of free reports, articles and e-books on how to succeed online. If you have exhausted the archive (which is constantly updated), you can take part in the discussion in one of the best internet marketing forums (over 30.000 members) available “The Warrior Forum” which is also included in The Warrior Group Membership.

Once they educate you on marketing online, then they also provide tools like Complete Ad Tracking Systems to monitor your marketing efforts, Affiliate Tracking Scripts for tracking your affiliates if you decide on setting up your own affiliate program and have thousands of affiliates selling for you and more.

If you want to become an affiliate to this hosting package, you can become an affiliate and earn residual income of US$ 10 / Month for each signups and if you can reach the target of 500 signups within 6 months, you will get a fully paid vacation to the Grand Bahamas. How much does all this cost ? A measly US$ 24.95/Month and payable monthly which means you can stop anytime you want. WOW !!

This means that besides providing your hosting needs, they provide your own products to sell with free resale rights or their own proven product by becoming an affiliate, they teach you how to market them online or how to create your own unique products to sell, they get you updated on the latest marketing tactics in the forum, they give you tools to market, monitor your ads and everything else needed. I am wordless….. I suggest that you take a look by yourselves to see whether the offer is still valid ??

However, the negative points compared to the next hosting package is that you have to add another US$ 30,-/year cost for each domain name registered with them and that they have no money back guarantee. This might be because their hosting package charges you monthly instead of yearly. Although their affiliate program is quite simple and straightforward, the affiliate promotion tools are not as comprehensive as the next hosting package reviewed below.

Our next contender is Site Build It! This hosting package is known for their principle of Overdelivering on their promise. Registering your own domain name is free and already included in the package. Unlimited space and unlimited bandwidth is a huge plus for those planning on setting up sites with huge files like videos etc. Graphic Tools for designing your own website online is also available. What stands out among the crowd is the unique marketing tools available in the form of barinstorming and researching profitable topics for your site, publishing your own newsletter and spam checking it first before sending them out and even checking the rate of newsletters read or opened.

Traffic stats and click analysis are also available. Another notable aspect is the search engine optimization of your pages, giving sugestions on how to optimize your pages for getting the cheapest and biggest traffic of them all from search engines. Search engines submitting, tracking and ranking is also mighty useful for evaluating your sites effectiveness in getting traffic from the search engines. Pay per click research and mass bidding is perfect for those with an available budget to embark on this type of targeted traffic building campaign.

Online help and the newsletter you get periodically also provides tips on how to market your site and succeed online. Special tools like link checking and Form building and autoresponder tools are also readily available, while accessing your e-mail via the web is also possible via the web based control panel, among other numerous services available. A new service for exchanging links with similar themed sites will greatly increase your link popularity with the search engines.

All in all, this hosting package really focuses on the needs on building the cheapest, largest, targeted traffic of them all from the search engines which are of course how to oversome the trickiest part of promoting your site to the search engines. How much do you have to part your hard earned money for this kind of service ? They currently have two options either you get 15 months hosting for US$ 395,- or get 8 months hosting for US$ 249,-. By the way, they do have a 30 days money back guarantee and will refund 100% of your money. The shocker is that after 30 days, you can still ask for a refund but will be refunded on a pro-rata basis meaning only for the remaining months balance. Quite a guarantee if I might says so myself !! Click here to see for yourselves.

For those of you who might be interested to become an affiliate and try to sell their products, they do not just sell hosting services, but also a multitude of Electronic Books and Tools like Make Your Site Sell 2002, Make Your Knowledge Sell, Make Your Price Sell etc. You can also buy these high quality products for your own usage. Once you join their 5 Pillar affiliate program which is completely free, then just browse through their amazingly thoughtful and useful tools for you to promote their products. You will find no other affiliate program managed as completely as this.

In conclusion, these two unique hosting packages have their own unique approach, strengths and also weaknesses. If you can overlook these weaknesses in exchange for its strengths, then one of these may be the right solution in taking your first step to realizing your home based business opportunity.

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In this article I will give advice and tips of where to find a low cost website design company and also about the best ways of producing a cool website.

How many people or companies are advertising their services for web design?

The answer is a great deal. They surely can not all be asking for huge sums of money to build and design quality websites. There must be some who offer cheap, affordable websites.

If you think about a company or person who is just starting out, they have not got a very large portfolio of previous work and clients to show, and in this situation are likely in these early days to offer you a competitive rate. Once they become more established they will then no doubt increase their prices.

To find these companies which are just starting out, I would advise looking on auction websites like ebay, looking in Yellow Pages, looking in newspapers such as a paper we have here in the Midlands called bargain pages. Looking on the internet on search engines and asking family and friends is also other avenues to explore.

Once you have found a company you need to think about the content for your website, the colours and also about graphics. Do you want it have flash design? These are all things to think about.

You then need to think about hosting, who will host your website? It may be worth asking the web designer if they can recommend a host.

Then once you have had your site built you need to promote it. Building up a regular and constant stream of backward links is very important as this will result in your website obtaining a higher page rank and more visitors.

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One thing that I have learned in over a decade developing web
sites is that the Net is continually changing, and to keep up
you need to change with it. One of the more recent developments
in web design is the use of CSS and semantic markup. CSS and
semantic web design has several benefits: clarity in code,
browser and other web-enabled devices compatibility, seperation
of content and presentation, smaller burden on bandwith, and
better visibility to search engines.

Back in the day, we designed sites with tables and hacked those
tables into doing things that they were never meant to do. The
table tag was designed to display tabular data, not as a way to
render the layout of a website. Unfortunately, a better
alternative did not exist, so we used tables. This made for
inefficient, slow loading sites with code that was very hard to
read and maintain. Wikipedia
defines sematic markup like this:

Sematic pages: supply information for Web search
engines using web crawlers. This could be machine-readable
information about the human-readable content of the document
(such as the creator, title, description, etc., of the document)
or it could be purely metadata representing a set of facts (such
as resources and services elsewhere in the site). (Note that
anything that can be identified with a Uniform Resource
Identifier (URI) can be described, so the semantic web can
reason about people, places, ideas, cats etc.)

These days, hip designers and developers use CSS extensively to
create beautiful, fully standards compliant sites. CSS-based
layout allows us to develop sites that will degrade
effectively–that is that they will be viewable on all types of
devices such as PDAs, cell phones, T.V.s–and will work
correctly on devices that dont even exist yet as long as they
are standards compliant.

Most importantly, developing sites with CSS allows us to
effectively separate content and presentation. Have you ever
looked at the source code of HTML pages that were created with a
table-based layout and wondered what the heck is going on here?
You see lots of opening and closing of tables and table rows all
mixed together with textual content and graphics. With a clean,
CSS-based layout you can create pages that are easily understood
by looking at the source, making them easier to understand,
maintain, and update. Look at the source of my company site http://www.vp3media.com and
then look at the source code of this site that uses a tables
based layout: http://webservices.org/. Big
difference, huh?

If you have a site with high traffic, you can significantly
reduce the amount of bandwdth used by transitioning from a
table-based site to a CSS-based layout. If a visitor to your
site doesnt have to load all of the code needed to render those
tables and spacer gifs, you are transmiting less data.

CSS also offers search engine optimization benefits over tables.
If you have a tables based business site that relys on Internet
traffic to turn a profit or aquire new clients you will see real
advantages by switching to CSS. When a search engine spiders
your tables-based site, they retrieve a large amount of content
that has nothing to do with you business. When search engines
spiders a clean CSS-based site, the majority of content
retrieved will be textual content that describes your business.
The ratio of content-to-code is higher with CSS-based
layouts.

Weve all seen search engine descriptions that dont make any
sense; thats because search engine spiders use a top down method
for retrieving information. Whatever is topmost in your
document, the search engines are going to think is the most
important part of the document, and therefore should be used as
the description. Since we seperate content and presentation with
CSS, we can put the most important information at the top of a
document no matter where it is actually displayed on the page.
Try that with tables!

I hope this article gives you an overview of why it is important
to transition from your current tables-based layout to a fully
valid CSS implementation. If you dont have a web site, but are
planning on launching one in the near future, make sure you tell
your developers you want a CSS-based implementation.

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You know that you need the help of a technical writing service when you don’t have employees with technical documentation experience, when your in-house technical publications group is overloaded and understaffed and you don’t have the time to hire and train new technical writers, and when your engineers don’t have the time to write customer-focused end user documentation in addition to creating your products. In such a situation, it’s only inevitable, not to mention sensible to hire the services of a technical writing service.

And since your documentation is the first thing that visitors to your organization will scrutinize, you need technical documentation that reflects the organization’s quality and compliance activities. And unlike other pieces of writing, in technical writing of any documentation the use of words play have an important role. Technical writing is not the same as creative writing where use of action verbs and colorful adjectives and imagistic metaphors are encouraged. So, you need a good technical writing service to help you out of the tight spot. And, now you have the option of outsourcing technical writing services to India.

And there are many benefits to outsourcing technical writing services to India. Technical Writers in India are trained for clarity of presentation and materials, thus making the information more easily understood and processed. Also, if you get many people to write your technical documents for you, there’s bound to be inconsistency. Some technical writers will be better than the others and so different documentation will show different levels of quality. But, a technical writer in India can prepare or edit documentation to ensure consistency among the processes.

Also, a paper trail of documented events allows you to monitor and improve your processes, products, and services. And, technical writing in India includes the preparation of forms and other documents related to the completion of work. And finally when you employ a technical writer to prepare or edit your documents, you’ll have more time to spend on your job or with your clients.

However, if you’re not sure whether to trust a technical writing service with your valuable documentation or not, then you can just hire the technical writing service for a small project and see how it works out for both of you. And if you’ve a large project, you can first ask the writer to write on some small topics for your software for free, as a part of the proposal.

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