15 Jan 10 How to Decide Which Blog Theme to Use
Let’s say Jane searched for something in Google and end-up coming to your blog. Guess what she sees at first?
Your crafty headlines? Your cleverly written articles? Your creative site description? Well, none of these. The first thing she will experience will be the look and feel of your blog. The design part, that is why, design of a blog is so important. Let me put it this way:
If content is the king, design [of a website] is the court of the king.”
It is thus important to decorate the court for the king to shine in all its glory. But the question is how to decide which blog theme to use? I am going to give you some advice that will help you decide on the blog theme for your blog. Answer the following questions before you decide on the blog theme:
- Subject matter of your blog? What is it about?
- What will be the layout? Will it be magazine style with multiple categories? Or will it be normal 2 or 3 column layout?
- How many ads do you want to place in your blog?
- What kind of theme is used by the top 3 blogs in your or related niche?
- How much breathing space (white space) is there around content, and between content and side bar?
- Is the blog looking cluttered or is it clutter-free? You will not like to have visually heavy design.
- Is it optimized for search engines?
- What about W3C validation of the codes?
- What is the color theme of the blog? Will it work for your niche? You should know that not all color scheme works with all the niches.
- Can it be customized, if need be?
Answers to these questions will give you an idea about your needs vis-à-vis blog themes available in the market. Choose the one that provides favorable answers to maximum number of questions listed above.
Tags: Ads, blog, blogs, Breathing Space, Color Scheme, Column Layout, Creative Site, Favorable Answers, google, Headlines, Magazine Style, Maximum Number, Niche, Niches, Scheme Works, Search Engines, Subject Matter, Themes, Validation, White Space
01 Oct 09 Design a Mono-Syllabic Homepage
Google was probably the first clutter-free web site that made so much news. There were quite a few such web sites, which is long gone and forgotten.
If this is so then why am I talking about it now?
Well, the reason behind my digging this old grave is to tell you about the new exciting discovery that many websites are embracing, and that development is the movement towards a clutter-free or mono-syllabic homepage, as I call it. Mono-syllabic because these homepage have just one purpose.
This kind of homepage is not everything to everyone. It is just one thing; like Google that always has search only on the home page, and its home page still says the same. It never was yahoo, a search engine with divided focus.
Indeed, Google has small links to all other services, but let me tell you that those links are completely unobtrusive. Following the Google’s lead rediff.com has also adopted mono-syllabic homepage, in recent months. Ask.com is another famous website that usage mono-syllabic homepage.
There are many new search engines of all hue and sizes that are following Google’s lead and are removing clutter from their homepages. This is a drive towards making the web clutter free. This, indeed, is important, but how to decide what to keep on this mono-syllabic homepage?
The answer to this question lies in the mission statement of your website, and the expectation of your visitors. Ask the following question, in answer to which, you will get your mono-syllabic homepage:
What is that one reason that justifies your existence?
What this world will lose, if your website is pulled down?
Suppose, you have to remove everything from the website, and forced to keep just one then what is that one thing for which you visitors will come to your website?
Tags: Discovery, Existence, Expectation, Free Web Site, google, Hue, Mission Statement, Mono Syllabic, New Search Engines, Rediff, search engine, Web Clutter, yahoo, Yahoo Engine, Yahoo Search
26 Sep 09 Here’s a Quick Way to Find a Perfect Web Host
You got a cool website name, a trendy design, and the best in the class content, and even lots of traffic, but still you will not be successful if you do not have a good web host to host your website. How good is your design if your server is down most of the time? And how good is your content if your website takes years to load? Nothing matters, if your hosting is not right. It is like, having everything fancy in place, but what is missing is the infrastructure.
Your webhost provides you the infrastructure to erect your online empire; therefore, it is very necessary to find the right web hosting company to host your domain. Here I am going to share some tips that will help you in finding a good webhosting company.
Web hosting quality checklist
These are steps I followed when I chose a web hosting company for my blogs. Follow these ten steps and see if the host you are considering meets all of these criteria or not.
- Bandwidth: The more bandwidth you will get the more users you can entertain.
- Storage space: If you want to host a lot of website, or host heavy files then you will need a lot of space.
- Speedy technical support: You will not like to wait for days before you get your answer like the grand daddies of web hosting make you do.
- Easy to use control panel: managing domain should be easy.
- Seamless upgrading and downgrading: your web host should help you seamlessly upgrade or downgrade your account without any downtime.
- Free e-mail hosting: you will like to have yourname@yourdomain.com; hence make sure your hosting plan allow you to have many e-mail accounts.
- Unlimited domain hosting: see if your web hosting company gives you the opportunity to host more than one website or not.
- Good infrastructure: See if your web hosting company has up-to-date servers or not. And what about their backup servers?
- Uptime: the web hosting that you choose should guarantee at least 99.99% uptime.
- One-click software installation: your web host should have one-click installation for WordPRess, Drupal, Joomla, osCommerce, ZenCart, and other common softwares.
Recommendation
At this point, I will say this: if you are looking for a reliable web hosting company that offers Unlimited disk space, bandwidth and e-mail account at an affordable price then you should check Gossimer Unlimited webhosting plan. It is worth a look.
Tags: Backup Servers, Bandwidth, Cl, Class Content, Click Software, Company Web, Control Panel, Daddies, Downtime, Empire, Free E Mail, Infrastructure, Nothing Matters, Quality Checklist, Software Installation, Storage Space, Web Host, Web Hosting Company, Webhost, Webhosting Company
Gossimer in the News
- Gossimer Puts Indian Domain Extensions Up for Sale February 21, 2010Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company has announced a sale on Indian domain extensions. During the promotion period, domains ending with .in will be offered at discounted price. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Unveils a New & Improved Payment System February 14, 2010The Melbourne-based (Florida) web hosting and domain name registration company Gossimer has announced the inclusion of three more payment options in its system. From today the customers and the web hosting resellers can use AlertPay, WebMoney, and Liberty Reserve to pay for the domain registration as well as web hosting services. Gossimer already offered Pay […]
- Gossimer Has Opened Its Treasure Chest for Webhost Resellers January 16, 2010Gossimer, the fast growing domain name registration and web hosting company has yet again opened its door of their reseller program. This program offers a comprehensive web hosting product portfolio for resellers and resellers of Gossimer’s resellers. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Invites Customers to Try Digital Certificates for Free January 2, 2010Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company is offering 21 days free trial on digital certificates. This trail will allow webmasters to understand the role Https plays in building visitors’ confidence in their website. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Announces Special Domain Name Registration Deals December 25, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration and web hosting company has announced a special deal on 12 top domain extensions and that includes some CTLDs as well. This promotion is available on the registration of new domain names, and you can register as many domains as you want. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Announced a Transfer-in Domain Promotion to Allow Customers to Consolidate Their Domains Into One Account November 7, 2009Save money on domain name transfer to Gossimer. Gossimer is currently running an attractive promotion on domain transfer-in that will save a lot of money for the domain portfolio builder. You can transfer as many domains as you wish under this promotion. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Became Reseller of the Month for October October 17, 2009October brings another piece of good news for Gossimer. The fastest growing web hosting and domain name registration company has been chosen as the Reseller of the month for October by ResellerClub. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Offers One Year Free Extension on Domain Transfer October 3, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name registration company, is offering one year free extension with every domain name transferred to its system. This service when coupled with other services puts Gossimer in the position of price leadership. The company offers the most economic rate for domain name registration and webhosting services. [PR.com] […]
- New Deals Make Gossimer Bigger, Better and Smarter October 1, 2009October is going to be hot with offers, extended support, and enhanced serviceability, as Gossimer has acquired HiTek Networks, and launched new and improved Support desk. The web hosting world is abuzz by the two important developments in Gossimer. [PR.com] […]
- Gossimer Offers Unlimited E-mails for $1 September 28, 2009Gossimer, the fastest growing domain name and webhosting company, has announced a no-upgrade “The Ultimate Email Plan” that will give the buyer an access to unlimited email accounts for just $1/month. [PR.com] […]
Gossimer Promotions and Announcements
- TechSupport Notifications February 28, 2010Technical support information and notifications […]
- PHP4 Discontinuation - 18th September September 7, 2009As announced earlier, PHP4 will not be supported on our Linux Hosting Servers from the 18th of September, 2009. Please pass on this information to your Customers and Resellers to ensure that they can update their websites to work with PHP5. […]
- .CN Launch - Coming Soon August 16, 2009We are glad to announce the launch of .CN - the most popular and fastest growing ccTLD worldwide. The .CN domain extension has seen an exemplary growth since its launch throughout the world. Earlier this year, .CN crossed over 13 million registrations to become the second most registered domain extension after .COM. Moreover, with China now representing the […]
- Live Chat Product Discontinuation - Moved to 18th August August 16, 2009Based on feedback that we received from several Resellers, we have decided to postpone the Live Chat discontinuation to the August of 18th, 2009 at 12:30 UTC. From the 18th of August, it will not be possible to purchase new Live Chat packages but exisiting packages will continue to function normally. […]
Support Notifications
- Important notice: Telephone support temporarily unavailable March 15, 2010Due to an internal maintenance on our telephonic system, the support and sales team will not be able to receive your calls. In the meantime you may raise a support ticket for any doubts / queries. Inconvenience caused is regretted. […]
- .ORG & .NAME Unavailability Notice: March 13, 2010 March 13, 2010Due to the scheduled maintenance at the .ORG Registry, the .ORG Production environment would be undergoing a planned downtime for maintenance, as per the following schedule: Maintenance Window Date - March 13, 2010 Time: 15:00 hrs - 19:00 hrs GMT/UTC Duration: 4 hours Affected Systems - Domain Name Registrations, Renewals, Transfers, Management on the Live i […]
- Scheduled Maintenance - Email Server March 11, 2010A hardware upgrade has been scheduled on one of our Email hosting servers. Maintenance Window * Date: March 11, 2010 * Start Time: 11:15 PM IST / 5:45 PM GMT * Estimated Duration: 30 Mins Packages hosted on the below mentioned IPs shall be affected: 70.87.28.129 70.87.29.17 70.87.29.156 70.87.29.23 70.87.28.130 70.87.29.18 70.87.29.157 70.87.29.21 70.87.29.2 […]
- Scheduled maintenance on our Windows Hosting Servers March 10, 2010There would be a scheduled maintenance on each of our Windows Hosting Servers to ensure that they are patched with the latest updates. Each server would be taken offline, anytime during the duration mentioned below. Batch 1: Start Time: Friday, March 12, 2010 19:00 GMT End Time: Saturday, March 13, 2010 17:00 GMT Batch 2: Start Time: Saturday, March [...] […]