Some questions come up time and again, and we have tried to distil and clarify them here.

DOMAINS

What is a Domain Name, and do I need one?

A domain name is the address of your web site.

A domain name is the address of your web site, and yes, you do need one. The TLDs, (Top Level Domains), are the names like xxxxxxx.co.uk, and yyyyyyyy.com, and these two, .co.uk and .com, are the best to have altho’ having a different one is OK.

Buy a domain name from any of the large companies like 1&1, but only buy the domain, no other services or software, at all. If you buy it yourself it is yours, under your control. This is a good thing.

Choosing a domain name can be tricky as quite a few have gone. If the one you want has gone please ask us for advice as there are several considerations that come into play when choosing another.

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HOSTING

What is Hosting?

Hosting is the rented space where your web lives, the domain is the address.

Hosting is space on a type of computer the rest of the internet can access directly, which is normally not true of your computer.  There are various types of hosting, at various price levels. Please do ask us which will be right for you, as it is easy to get into the wrong sort of hosting. Cheap hosting is cheap hosting and usually not very good. However expensive hosting can often be a mistake too. Please ask.

We recommend very affordable hosting, and to make your life easy, can arrange everything for you. We do recommend using an independent host, and independent supplier of domain names, and us as web makers. This ensures your eggs are in different baskets, and is, we think,  good business practice.

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SEO

What is SEO?

SEO is Search Engine Optimisation, or trying to make your site more findable than others on Google.

Google, (and the other Search Engines), used automated processes to find your web site and determine what value to ‘rank’ it at. The higher the rank the more people find it. (Forget Page Rank, that’s different and not worth bothering with here). A website will be ranked by it’s Titles, it’s Keywords, it’s Links and above all, by it’s Content. By adding content regularly, with keywords, WordPress can make good ranking easier, (not easy, easier), to get.
SEO is a long term process entailing a lot of work. C21 will start you off and point you in the right direction.

Just ask. It’s free! Please use the form here.