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I’ve bought a domain name and have email and Internet forwarding hosted by an ISP. I host the web page with a different, free ISP. However when I type in my domain name it goes to my home page but the visible URL in my browser changes to be the URL for the home page of the free ISP. IMHO this does not look very professional when browsing my site. How do I get it to keep showing the domain name whilst I am browsing?
You want to look for a "framed forwarding" option where you set up web forwarding with the domain registrar, I'd be surprised if they didn't offer this option. Even then though you would still have the problem of the address showing on the status bar (at the bottom of the browser) when a link is rolled over or when a page is loading.
If you feel this is detrimental to your image then hosting packages are available for a few pounds a month.
If you feel this is detrimental to your image then hosting packages are available for a few pounds a month.
Hi !,
if your using a website for business you really need to get some professional 'proper' hosting.
You'll get quotes from £10 to £500.
for just a few web pages with a feedback form (for customer's questions and comments) the rate in the UK is about £50 per annum. Be careful of those cheap packages where you cannot call them if you run into problems.
When chosing a package:
Bandwidth - this is the amount of data downloaded by your site's viewers. normally around 1 GB per month.
so if your website was 1 MB in size (text +pictures),
you could have 1000 people per month visiting all pages of your site. (1 GB =1000 MB).
Flavour - There are windows NT servers and Unix (Linux ) servers. This is the platform the server is built on. Win NT servers use ASP and Microsft applications. Unix (normally Linux) come with 'loads' of programs and most add ons can be downloaded and installed for free (or you may have to pay a guru to install...but the packages are free or open-source).
They use PHP scrpting and MySQL databases.
POP3 - these are email boxes. Generally all emails will forwrad to one account. But when you reply the POP3 box's email address will be visible.
e.g,
pop3 email :John@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk
Ramesh@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk and
anything@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk will forward to
John@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk
so if your company has five members of staff, you will need 5 pop3 mailboxes.
Web site tracker / visitor counter
This will tell you how people go to your website.
So if you place an add on a car website (Pistonheads.com) and people click thru...you will know. Usefull for analysing the best form of advertising. Also if they come via the search engines you will see the name and search term used.
Hope this helps someone.
Regards,
Ramesh
if your using a website for business you really need to get some professional 'proper' hosting.
You'll get quotes from £10 to £500.
for just a few web pages with a feedback form (for customer's questions and comments) the rate in the UK is about £50 per annum. Be careful of those cheap packages where you cannot call them if you run into problems.
When chosing a package:
Bandwidth - this is the amount of data downloaded by your site's viewers. normally around 1 GB per month.
so if your website was 1 MB in size (text +pictures),
you could have 1000 people per month visiting all pages of your site. (1 GB =1000 MB).
Flavour - There are windows NT servers and Unix (Linux ) servers. This is the platform the server is built on. Win NT servers use ASP and Microsft applications. Unix (normally Linux) come with 'loads' of programs and most add ons can be downloaded and installed for free (or you may have to pay a guru to install...but the packages are free or open-source).
They use PHP scrpting and MySQL databases.
POP3 - these are email boxes. Generally all emails will forwrad to one account. But when you reply the POP3 box's email address will be visible.
e.g,
pop3 email :John@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk
Ramesh@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk and
anything@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk will forward to
John@my-domain-blah-blah-name.co.uk
so if your company has five members of staff, you will need 5 pop3 mailboxes.
Web site tracker / visitor counter
This will tell you how people go to your website.
So if you place an add on a car website (Pistonheads.com) and people click thru...you will know. Usefull for analysing the best form of advertising. Also if they come via the search engines you will see the name and search term used.
Hope this helps someone.
Regards,
Ramesh
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