Monthly Archives July 2008

Web Hosting (3) - What you need (in layman’s terms)

Okay, we saw in Web Hosting (2) that free web hosting was a bad idea, but we need to keep an eye on our budget. So let’s be sensible and also discount the other extreme: that of a dedicated server solely used by your own hosting account (let’s keep that in reserve for when we’ve [...]

Web Hosting (2) - Don’t go “free”

You probably already know that a hosting account is necessary to hold all your website information.
In theory, there is nothing to stop you hosting your website from your own computer as long as it is connected to the internet. In practice, though, you probably wouldn’t want your computer permanently switched on, or tied up serving [...]

Web Hosting (1) - Domain Name Registration

The purists may say that domain name registration is a completely separate issue from web hosting, and indeed, it can be. You can register your domain name with company XYZ, buy your web hosting account from company ABC and tell the 2 companies to talk to each other.
Still with me? Probably not - too many [...]

Camtasia - free software and training

(NB ARTICLE EDITED, AND SOFTWARE LINK REMOVED 03/04/09 - FOLLOWING CAMTASIA’S WITHDRAWAL OF FREE OFFER. MY E-BOOK OFFER IS STILL AVAILABLE. REST OF ARTICLE RETAINED FOR ARCHIVE PURPOSES. SEE MY ENTRY IN THE COMMENTS SECTION FOR AN ALTERNATIVE FREE RESOURCE - DAVID)
If you’ve ever seen any training, or “how to”, videos of the “screen capture” [...]

“You can be so many people…” (e-mail)

This post is a bit different from the usual.
I’m just writing a quick post having sent you the above e-mail. I do hope it inspires you!
Please leave a comment below to let me know what you thought of it.
If you’ve not commented before, a comment below will qualify you for the 5 bonus e-books (if [...]