Internet

Domain Management

Whether you are an investor in domains, or have one or various to support your business or professional activity, they must be looked after with great care. Chris Chaplow looks at the options of where to register your domain, and how to protect it from hijacking

Andalucia Web Solutions offer a full domain registration and domain management service.

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) held its 38th Public Meeting at Square Brussels Meeting Centre in June. As always, a large number of issues affecting business and domain owners are currently under consideration. Chris Chaplow outlines some of the more important ones.

I was fortunate to be able to attend the ICANN 37th Public Meeting in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. This location was in keeping with policy to locate meetings in different continents by rotation

Drupal is an open source Content Management System with powerful features to manage a wide variety of web sites ranging from a simple five page site, to websites with portals and blogs, as well as corporate and e-commerce sites. This has been made possible by Drupal allowing you to "plug-in" whatever custom functionality you desire.

All businesses can benefit from extra traffic to their website and on the 28th October we will explain how to do this in the most cost effective way possible.

Chris Chaplow recently attended the ICANN  conference in Paris  where a far reaching motion was passed to open up the root of the Internet's DNS  Domain Name System to new top level domains.

There has been a lot of talk about Google and MSN's new algorithms and Yahoo's search engine changes. When these changes finally do occur, it is always important to remember the number one rule in SEO: Don't Panic!

If there is one guaranteed constant in this business it is that there will always be changes in the search engines' rankings. Our job, as search engine marketers, is to stay on top of the changes and to monitor how the change affects our clients' site's traffic.

Read through the hundreds of forums and bulletin boards on the internet and you will find dozens of threads centering on the lack of web site traffic. All the other remaining threads bemoan the difficulty of getting visitors to return long enough to buy something. Then there are the threads about the complexity of getting listed and ranked well in important search engines.

Ever since the first commercial web pages appeared on the internet there has been a demand for moving graphics and multimedia presentations. The now famous HTML (the stuff web pages are made of) just wasn’t up to the job. Macromedia Inc., having had plenty of experience in Multimedia presentations, developed their "Director" program. They then gave away free a flash plugin to enable web browsers to view these presentations.

Writing effective web copy begins with an understanding of what the goals of your web site are. Are you trying to get your visitors to purchase something or have them sign up for your newsletter? Remember you are trying to get someone you can't see and have never met take a step towards building a relationship with you or your company.

1. Create a customer profile - try to find out what are the needs and desires of your visitors. Below are some examples of questïons you could ask: