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As we explained in the previous lesson, the digital files that make your website need to be stored on a web server, so your website can be reached by all internet visitors at any time. A web hosting company provides this service by running web servers with special software to ensure the security, accessibility...

How To Select The Best Name For Your Website Once you start looking for your domain name, you will notice that most good names are already taken. So you might have to settle with a less perfect option. Here are the four most important things to keep in mind when selecting your domain name: Select...

To build your own website you will need: A domain name for your website Your website needs a name. It’s called ‘domain name’ and it is the online address of your website like www.yourwebsite.com. All domain names worldwide need to be registered with ICANN (Internet Corporation...

Welcome to the San Diego Web Designer Blog. We are professional web designers here in San Diego. On this blog however, we want to show you how you can make your own website, and give you Search Engine Optimization tips to get your website ranked high on Google. Why would a professional web designer...

It sounds like a simple question, but in fact search engine optimization has become a very complicated subject these days. The three major players in the search engine business are Google, Yahoo and Bing. Google accounts for about 70 percent of all searches online, second is Yahoo with searches at...

Make Your Website Show On Google “I have a website. But when I search for it in Google or Yahoo it never shows up.” “I have submitted many time to Google and Yahoo, but it still does not appear in any of them.” Does that sound familiar to you? While getting a website is easy, making...

Do you already have a web site and are not getting any traffic to it? Is your web site nowhere near the top in the search engines result pages? Then it’s time to do some changes to it. Many website owners think that having a great website with good content is enough, but nothing could be...

As web designer I’m often asked How can I fake my Alexa traffic rank? Alexa Rank is a traffic rating of a web site. Alexa.com, an Amazon.com company, ranks websites by counting the number of times a site is visited by people online who have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browser. If most...

Having A Website Is Just The First Step While having a website today is as important today as being in the phone book and advertising in the local newspaper used to be, a website without any visitors is useless. Generating traffic and consistently appearing in the top rankings of the search engines...

If you have right now that “it’s all Greek to me” feeling when it comes to website design, that’s normal. In this overview, we’ll take a brief look at what it takes to get your own website live on the internet. 1. You Need To Create A Website You can either make your...