Maxmillians Gold: The Right Hosting for Your Site
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Here are so many web hosts competing for your business.It can be completely overwhelming, and it would take you a month
to check out every single web hosting company to determine
which one would be best for you. If you aren’t a hosting
expert, you’ll usually find the jargon so complex that you
don’t even know what you need or don’t need. With hosting
prices ranging from “free” to hundreds of dollars a month, it
might seem impossible to determine which host plan is the best
deal for you.
To clear some of the confusion, you should figure out the
requirements for your specific site. Different sites have
different needs. If your site is basically just for information
and has less than twenty pages, you won’t need the same hosting
plan as a complex shopping site, or a site that runs dozens of
embedded programs.
MICROSOFT FRONTPAGE, HTML, PHP, ASP, DATABASES – HELP!
Some hosts are very limited on the type of programming language
you can use. If you are new to creating web sites, you might
find a program like Microsoft Frontpage much easier to use.
It’s a WYSIWYG program, which simply means, “What you see is
what you get.” The program allows you to make the pages like
you would documents, and the program fills in the HTML to make
the site appear like you set it up. You will need to make sure
that your host offers “Frontpage extensions.” Some hosts charge
more for this service, but you can (and should) usually get this
included in the basic price.
All hosts support pure HTML, but you will probably need PHP
or ASP capabilities. PHP somehow stands for “Hypertext
Preprocessor,” and it is a scripting language used within HTML
to create dynamic pages without having to use miles of HTML
code.
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