Thursday, 11 February, 2010
The Power of Fan-Driven Sharing
There are many ways you can promote and share updates of your HostBaby website. You can use Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, ListBaby, Digg and other services to update the online world with your musical comings and goings. These are all great things to do when you have time between gigs, but why not enable your fans to do some of this work for you? What if, with the click of a button, your fans could easily and quickly tell all their friends about the cool things they found while checking out your site!
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Wednesday, 27 January, 2010
Have you ever made a change to your website, surfed back to see it, and the change disappeared? If you own a website it’s a good idea to install and use more than one browser on your computer. There are a couple reasons for this: First, by design, browsers will store content of websites visited. This locally-stored information is called the browser cache or temporary internet files. When you return to a website you’ve recently visited, instead of pulling all the website information down from the Internet, the browser will read the cached information rather than pulling all the content from the Internet. In most cases this is a good thing as it can mean faster loading of web pages – especially if you have a limited speed internet connection. However, if you are making updates to your site your regular browser may not show you the correct, current content. It may instead be showing you the cached info which may not be latest updates. That is one reason to double-check your website using a different browser. A different browser will help display what is really live for the internet world to see. One way to force your browser to download the most current web content is to purge any locally stored web content. Here is a web page which explains how to do this for various browsers. A second reason to have more than one browser installed is to see how your website may appear to different visitors. Skilled web developers will ensure websites they create will be both accessible and look consistent across multiple browsers. Some websites, however, require a specific browser to be viewed. You will want to verify that your site is both accessible and looks consistent across multiple browsers. Using more than one browser to inspect your site will help ensure this is true. Here is a list of browsers available for Windows:
Here is a list of browsers available for Mac:
Here are some additional articles you may find helpful:
Monday, 5 October, 2009
Why do I need a domain name?
A domain name is like a brand name – it identifies your website and helps make you findable on the internet. A domain name lets visitors type your domain name right into the browser’s address bar and arrive at your web pages directly, without having to search for you.
Shorter is better!
Try saying your proposed domain name out loud. Do you have to spell it out for people to get it right? Does it send you diving for a pen and paper? Imagine saying it into the microphone at your performance. Will your fans still remember it when they get home?
Try to avoid hyphens and abbreviations in the domain name, if possible. If you are going to use an abbreviation, use the most common version of it – don’t make one up.
Also type out the domain name and see how it looks in writing. Is it possible to misunderstand the words/meaning by breaking the words up differently?
For example – Mole Station Nursery – www.molestationnursery.com comes out reading like “molestation nursery” which is really bad. A hyphen would have helped that – mole-station-nursery.com might have been a better choice in that case. So check out your domain name in writing and make sure it reads ok.
.com or .net or …?
Ideally, you would get the .com version of your domain name. If the name that you really want is not available as a .com, you’ll want to look at the .com site before you choose .net or another extension. That is because people usually think of .com first, and if they are looking for you and put .com in by mistake, you want to make sure they do not end up at some porn or scam site.
If you are a Hostbaby customer, or are thinking of becoming a Hostbaby customer, feel free to contact us for help brainstorming the perfect domain name for you. We are here for you!
Monday, 5 October, 2009
POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
We’re all about empowering our users! There’s nothing sweeter than making your own site, and being able to make updates on the fly. Plus, a lot of our templates are pretty darn sweet. Making sites with the Wizard can be pretty darn easy. However, there are some tools that just about every Wizard user should have at their fingertips.
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Monday, 17 August, 2009
Urban has five variations and is awesome.
Mixdown!
