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WEB DESIGN AND HOSTING
DOMAIN NAME
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Before a website can be accessed on the internet,
it has to have a domain name. This is the address that your
customers type into their computer to go straight to your
website. It is also used by search engines, such as Google to
identify your website.
Most companies make their domain name the same
as, or as close as possible to, their business name. So Kodak’s
domain name is
www.kodak.com. Because Kodak is a multinational company, it
also has
www.kodak.gr and
www.kodak.co.uk.
There are an enormous range of address endings (
the .com or .gr ). The main ones used for business on Zakynthos
are .com, .gr and occasionally .co.uk. A new one for Europe is .eu.
The same domain name can be used for one or more
email addresses.
We will help you
find a suitable domain name and set it up for you |
WEB HOSTING
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Your website needs a computer to run it. This is
not something that you want to run on your home or business
computer. It requires an experienced company with 24 hour
support 365 days a year. There will also be back up generators,
air-conditioned computer room and most importantly many
different connections to the internet. In addition there will be
firewalls, anti-spam software and regular software updating to
prevent hacking and other attacks. This is all required to
ensure your site is available 24 hours a day 365 days a year and
can cope with thousands of users accessing the site at the same
time. Even power cuts or damaged data cables will not interrupt
the service and a computer failure will be fixed in a very short
time.
We are not large enough to have this equipment
and an island, like Zakynthos, cannot provide the multiple
connections to the internet. We therefore use several
professional hosting companies to provide these services. You do
not need to be involved in this as we will set it all up and get
your site up and running once the design work is done. If you
want to make changes later on, we will take care of that.
There are a range of additional services that we
can provide. These range from an email service, guestbook or a
forum to online shopping. Most of these are available “off the
shelf” which means there are no large programming costs. |
WEB SITE DESIGN
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to you about your business, discuss what you expect the website
to achieve, listen to the ideas that you already have and then
give our advice based on our experience. From this point we can
start to design the website
with your input.
We cannot create the website alone, only you know your business
and the type of customers that you have. Your input will include
much of the wording used to describe your business. You may
already have a theme, colour scheme or photos that you wish to
use. If you do not have anything to start with, we will guide
you through the process of gathering information and we will
make suggestions based on our experience and/or research of
websites of similar businesses.
We will also pay
attention to the information that search engines use. This is then
used in the design to try to get your website to show in search
results on Google and similar search engines. Note, however,
that search engine placement cannot be guaranteed. |
For more information or to make an
appointment go to About Us
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