Create a Website, Blog, or Forum With One Click Of Your Mouse
One Click Website Installation
When you purchase one of our hosting plans at Spokane Web Hosting.Net ,
you receive a website with content management, a blog, a forum, or
gallery preinstalled on your hosting account. You are also able to
automatically install later any of the rest of over 30 popular PHP
script available in the Elefante Installer package. This package comes
free with each of our hosting accounts. Our economical Business Plan
also offers free domain registration and allows you to host up to 3
domains on the account. To learn more, click here
. One software package you can install is the Joomla website with
content management. This package allows for massive expansion of your
website and is one of the most popular ways to create a website today.
It is simple enough for a small website, yet so powerful and flexible,
even the United Nations uses the software on their website. For more
information visit us at Spokane Web Hosting.Net .
Try Out the Demo Website Software for Joomla
Here is my personal recommendation. Install Joomla 1.5x software when you order your account. You can try the demo of the free software at Joomla.org . You will need to register first. A confirmation email will be sent to you. Once you click on the confirmation link, you can login to the Demo site here . Here is a tip: when you login to the front end of the website, you can go to any page to edit it. Next to the title of the page you'll see a little pencil and paper icon. Clicking on that will bring up the page editor. To login to the backend of the website, right click on the Administrator button in the left menu and open it in a new window. That way when you make a change from the backend administrator's panel, then click on the tab showing the front end of the website and simply hit the refresh/ reload button in your browser window to view the changes you have made without leaving the Administrator's control panel.
Joomla also comes with an Installer for installing different web design templates. There are a lot of free ones on the web to download. Joomla24.com offers more that 1000 free templates you can download.
The Possibilities Are Endless
To view some of the websites I created for clients using the Joomla system, visit my portfolio page . These are Joomla templates I customized with Xara graphics software for a unique look for each of my clients.
Free Manuals and Video Tutorials Available
A user manual for Joomla is also available at Joomla.org . Free Video tutorials are available at:
JoomlaTribe.com
Joomlatutorials.com
Own a Website for Less Than a Cup of Coffee
 For
about 26 cents per day, you can have your own website to advertise your
services or business offerings. That's less than a cup of coffee at
Starbucks or anywhere else these days. And with our One-Click website
installation, setting up a website or blog is a snap. Having a website
is a necessity in today's business environment. If you are in business,
people expect you to have one. A website also provides information to
your prospective customers 24/7, 365 days a year. You can create pages
and pages of information about yourself, your company, and your
products or services. It also simplifies the process of advertising in
other forms of media. Just place your web address on your business
cards, and your customers and prospects will have access to all kinds
of information you would like for them to know about your business.
And with today's online software that comes with each of our hosting
accounts, creating and updating your website is easy. We also offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
Why You Need a Website
For Personal UseHaving a website of your own equals entering into an invaluable communication environment. There are at least 7 reasons why it is highly advisable for you to be present online:
1 Represents your personal profileA website can be your virtual portrait, showing off your personal self to the world on a 24/7 basis. Among the most popular ways of presenting your personality online is keeping a webblog (otherwise known as online diary) or a photo gallery, where your friends can stay up-to-date with your daily living.
2 Spreads your voice across the worldA website can be your global “tribune” where you are able to share your knowledge, experience and enthusiasm with people who have common interests, but with whom you might not otherwise have crossed paths. A very popular idea-voicing tool is the discussion board, better known as “forum”. You can also have a guestbook on your site, where people can discuss your postings.
3 Lets you be in touch with people at a distanceA website can be a meeting place for making new acquaintances with people of different religion, nationality and age, as well as for keeping in touch with friends who may be on the other side of the world. Thanks to the almost unlimited online communication possibilities you can conduct one-to-one conversations with many different people directly from your website.
4 Broadens disabled people’s interaction with the worldA website empowers people with limited access, due to handicap or illness, to broaden their communication with others. A website can be a physically disabled person’s door to the dynamic world, allowing him/her to bridge over the difficulties
of having a “different” everyday life. It can even be their office, where they can present and deliver certain home-made products/services directly from their living room.
5 Creates a web skill development environmentA website can introduce you to the secrets of www. The contemporary web design technologies have brought the art of creating a website just a few clicks away from the inexperienced user. Thanks to the popular WYSWYG (what you see is what you get) web design tools, absolutely everyone (irrespective of age or education degree) can build their own web page without any previous experience.
6 Makes extra profit for you with minimum investment on your partA website can make residual profit for you, while you are sleeping or enjoying your free time. Thanks to the up-to-date techniques for bringing traffic to your website, you can earn easy money by simply having visitors click on certain product/service promos or links that are relevant to your site content pages (e.g. Google Adsense/Adwords ad solutions) without any initial investment.
7 Makes you a member of the biggest community of the worldA website is a must-have personal attribute nowadays, just like mobile phones and computers are. The fast developing technologies have converted having a website from a whim into a modern necessity. As of today, almost everyone has a web site, whereas twice as many people are expected to be having their own personal space in the global World Wide Web cosmos in the near future. Be forward-thinking, join this trend now.
For Business Use
Having a website of your own provides your business with invaluable
advantages over the traditional advertising channels. There are at
least 7 reasons why you should present your business online:
1. Increased customers’ convenience:Searching for businesses
and products over the Internet is much easier and quicker than leafing
through the Yellow Pages. Anytime a potential or existing customer
wants to find out more about your business, they can easily do that,
especially if you have an "F&Q" section added. Your customers can
be always in touch with you, all they need to know is the address of
your website.
2. Greater accessibility to your business profile:Your
business profile will be accessible from EVERYWHERE. No other ad
channel provides such global coverage. You will not depend any more on
restricted presentations based on phone book entries. What is more
important, more and more customers nowadays resort to the Internet when
searching for products, services and businesses.
3.Greater opportunities for promoting your business portfolio:People
can`t buy your products or services if they don`t know that they
actually exist. Through a WEBSITE you can tell your potential audience
much more than you could possibly do via any print advertisements,
Yellow Pages listings, or TV/radio commercials. There are no
limitations with regard to space and time, nationality and residency.
You can say as many things as you want, to as many people as wish. And
your business representation can be as resourceful as is the Internet.
4. Low-cost efficient advertising:Practically, what happens is
– your website runs a NON-STOP PROMOTION of your business! Your
customers are always able to obtain up-to-date and thorough information
about your services or products. Instead of having to rely on randomly
aired TV or radio commercials, they can simply browse through your
website whenever they have time or need to.
5. Around-the-clock availability:A website is available 24
hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. It will be your
hardest-working employee, never getting sick, or taking holiday. And
you can always rest assured that your website is there for you – to
answer to your customers` questions, or to collect their feedback
instead of you.
6. It saves time:With a website, prospective customers can
learn about you and your business at any time of the day or night
without you having to be all the time pre-occupied with the process.
The time you would otherwise spend on answering or re-directing of your
customers` questions can be now saved and invested in further
activities to increase your profits, in other words – in further
expansion of your business.
7. It saves money:You can save a lot of money spent otherwise
on print and postage costs for brochures, coupons, flyers, specials,
newsletters, and other mailings. Furthermore, while regular renewals of
printed materials can be quite expensive and also time consuming,
updating information on your website is always handy, fast and most
important – amazingly efficient. As we all know, nothing is more valued
in a business than optimal productivity for minimal input costs.
Recommended Website and Blog Software to Install
Our recommended website software to install is Joomla. This is by far
the most popular content management system for websites. For blogging
we recommend WordPress. Other software is available to install once
your hosting account is set up.
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