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Starting an Internet business doesn’t have to be expensive or complicated. There are a few basics that are absolutes. Registering a business or company name and acquiring an address for the business to operate at are required. The Internet business website can start with just a page or two and grow as needed. Web Domains and Internet Hosting In order to be successful in Internet marketing, you’ll need to establish a business name and invest in a web domain. For those new to online business, the simplest way to begin is to get both name and host at the same place. Sometimes names are cheaper at one website hosting is less expensive somewhere else. If name and domain (Internet address) are purchased separately, the name must be pointed in the direction of the address. This requires changing settings inside the account. While it isn’t difficult to do so with many name providers, there are a few who make the process a nightmare. It can also take a few days, meaning a delay in getting the business online. Keeping name and address at one place means there are no changes to make and no extended delay. Billing issues are also confined to the one place. There’s less worry about keeping up with name renewal hosting renewal. Internet Names are usually paid for on a yearly basis. Billing for hosting depends on the web hosts. Some allow monthly payments, while others won’t accept anything less than a year at a time. If budget is a consideration, choose a web hosting provider who accepts monthly payments. The payment frequency can always be changed once the business is producing income. Internet Business Website Design There are basically two ways to design an Internet business website. Self-design or design by someone else. Free website templates abound on the web. Some web hosting companies provide web design software and tools in addition hosting. Consider the tools offered by the web hosting company. If the tool is difficult to use or does not provide any templates that appear relevant to the intended site, consider using a downloaded template or having a website designed. In order to design a website, an HTML editor or other software is needed. Some programs such as Microsoft Office contain a website designer built in. There are free HTML editors available online for downloading. There is a learning curve to web design. If time is an issue, it may be necessary to find even a low-cost website template that requires little change. While few Internet business websites remain the same from day one, it is important to have the best design possible. Visitors judge Internet business websites by appearance, provided information and functionality. If the page takes too long to load, visitors don’t wait. If the page is ugly, too crowded or full of spelling errors, visitors leave. If links result in error messages instead of completed pages, visitors leave. Internet Business Website Basics Basic website contents include business name, contact information, legal disclaimer and privacy policy, email list signup box, copyright notice and products or services. Standard Internet business website disclaimers and other basic legal materials are available free for download. It’s always wise to consult legal counsel for the creation of policies and procedures. hosting services provide email signup boxes and autoresponders (software to manage email). There are also free and paid providers. Contact information and legal information is important. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has strict policies regarding websites. It’s wise to obey them. The policies can be found online. There are also software programs that help businesses ensure that websites are legal. The business name should be prominent and easy to read. The first things a business needs to operate online are a registered name and a website address. A basic website can start simple and grow as needed. Adhering to FTC requirements is a must. tag: web hosting
I started blogging here to learn and practice…for who knew what would come? I’ve been helping the Intel Global Communications Group and others inside Intel better understand how to create stories for Podcasting for almost two years. Prior, many others were Podcasting and sharing their wisdom about using social media — pioneers like Josh Bancroft and few others. Note: Josh just encouraged me to get my own domain hosting, so this blog will be movin’ ahead to www.kenekaplan.com, if things go well this weekend. While other groups were experimenting, the corporate PR team started doing audio Podcasts at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2006, working with PodTech. We quickly moved into video Podcasting. We already had broadcast (TV and Radio) writing and production skills, but together with PodTech our team began learning how to share our stories online. It’s much different than TV and radio production — and I’d say more fun! We learned how to tag, create categories and link to related stories. This helped us build — literally link — one story with the next. We moved from tactical to strategic…or from trying to doing things to actually asserting thoughtful purpose. The purpose of telling good stories that we believed would be interesting to our audiences, with full intentions of sharing stories so they could be shared among any online discussion people might want to have — bloggers, journalists, investors, consumers, clients. Jump to this month. I’ve seen the momentum growing for a long time, but this month Intel stepped further ahead into social media with our Intel Developer Forum planning efforts. Our plans were rolled straight to the top of Intel. Plans peculated by several teams teaming up resources, ideas and energy to share the experience we’ll be having at IDF. We’ll have more tools and ways to connect and share with our audiences, who will also have new ways to participate with IDF — a gathering of top engeineers and companies from around the world learning how to build future technologies based on the latest Intel chip designs and technologies. Look for more video, live blogging and even livecasting using UStream.tv. This year I helped compile guidelines and an Intel University course about Social Media. The aim is to encourage every Intel worker to participate and to do so freely and smartly. Guidelines are based on long-standing employee codes of conduct, but we put things into context and provided some do’s and don’ts. Many of us truly believe having many voices participating is better than having a select few. And that group of “many of us” is growing and some are even getting new official roles as evangelists and leaders. These energized people are putting in great work to help bring great social media tools to more people inside Intel, including Intel IT pro and original blogger Jeff Moriarty. This is how we can change and improve things, by getting our people to connect more freely and flexibly with their audiences and communities. This post is turning into a long tale/tail, but it’s analogous. This week I wrote my first official Intel blog post “Where IT Pros Talk Shop,” which features a video I shot and edited. While working on so many things on so many fronts, it’s good to celebrate victories and steps that show progress. Things that show we’re movin’ ahead! I’d say now things are leapin’ ahead. Next, much attention will need to go towards communicating and understanding core audiences and audiences that welcome us and value what we can give and take. tag: web hosting
Notice that Beginning was output because it was before the function call, but End was not because the fatal error halted the script execution. You can suppress the fatal error calls by putting an ampersand in front of the function call, like so: @fatalerror(). This suppresses the error, but the script still halts its execution. As of PHP4 the default error reporting does not show E_NOTICE errors. However, you may want to show them during development. Enabling E_NOTICE errors for debugging can warn you about possible bugs or bad programming practices. For example, you might use something such as $row[variable], but actually it is better to write this as $row[ variable ] because PHP will try and treat variable as a constant. If, however, it isn t a constant, PHP assumes it to be a string for the array. You can set error reporting by simply putting error_reporting(number), where number is the constant value in the table shown earlier in the chapter, in your PHP page. If you don t know at what level your error reporting is set, you can simply run the error_reporting() function without any arguments, like this: By default, all error handling is handled by PHP s built-in error handler, which tells you the error and displays the message associated with that error. The message displays the error type, the error message, the filename, and the line number where the error occurred. You may have noticed an error similar to this one in a previous code snippet: Warning: Wrong parameter count for str_replace() in c:FoxServwwwerrorhandlingerror1.php on line 8 Usually, letting PHP generate its own errors is fine, but with complicated applications you may want to catch the errors so you can do something specific with the error, such as notifying an administrator so he or she can look into the problem further. Try It Out Creating a Custom Error Handler You will now create a custom error handler to catch the errors and display a more friendly error message. 1. Edit the script used in the previous examples like this: Page Error; echo Errors have occurred while executing this page. Contact the ; echo administrator . to report errors ; echo Information Generated ; echo Error Type: $error_type Tag: php hosting
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