| Starting a business website is one of the best | | | | to hack. The first thing you should do is make sure any |
| decisions you can make. As it allows you to put your | | | | passwords are a mixture of capital and lowercase |
| business in front of more people. But before you rush | | | | letters along with numbers and punctuation marks. So |
| off and pay hundreds or thousands of dollars on a site | | | | something like Go7&trdAf. If you are looking after |
| there are a few things you should be aware of. These | | | | the site yourself then you also need to make sure |
| are hosting, site layout, security, optimization and lead | | | | your computer is protected from spyware and the anti |
| generation. | | | | virus is up to date. As one of the main ways people |
| 1. Hosting | | | | get into sites is by installing what's know as keylogers |
| When looking at hosting packages there are three | | | | on your computer. These record all your keystrokes |
| main things to consider the type of web hosting, disk | | | | and send them to the hacker. You also want to |
| space and bandwidth. The two types of web hosting | | | | regularly backup your site so if anything does go |
| available are Linux and Windows though the difference | | | | wrong you can restore it with minimum hassle. |
| between them is minimal. So unless your site needs a | | | | 4. Optimization |
| particular language or script to run it doesn't matter | | | | This is probably the most important thing to consider |
| which you choose. More import is the amount of disk | | | | before starting a business website. As if you get this |
| space as that is where your site is stored. If you have | | | | wrong not only won't you get any potential customers |
| a big site with many images and pages then you'll | | | | visiting your site but you will also have wasted any |
| need more space than a site with no images and just | | | | money you spent getting your site created. The first |
| a few pages. But probably the most important thing | | | | thing you need to do is choose a domain name usually |
| about hosting is bandwidth. As every time a visitor | | | | this will be your companies name as you'll want to |
| comes to your site they use bandwidth and if your site | | | | brand your business. Though this will make it harder to |
| runs out then it won't be displayed. All your potential | | | | get your site ranked for terms your customers are |
| customer will see is an out of bandwidth message and | | | | searching for. But there's nothing stopping you from |
| what sort of impression will that leave. | | | | creating another site which focuses on one highly |
| 2. Site Layout | | | | searched term and directing the traffic to your main |
| There are so many cool things you can do with your | | | | site. |
| site such as using images for links. But these are all | | | | 5. Lead Generation |
| useless unless visitors to your site can find what they | | | | The fact is that most people who visit your site won't |
| want. So instead of loading your site with images | | | | purchase anything so you need a way of staying in |
| which take ages to load and other bells and whistles | | | | touch with them. An easy way of doing this is having a |
| remember simple is best. When you first create your | | | | form on your site which allows people to sign up for |
| site try and limit the number of images per page as | | | | your mailing list. Though you want to make sure that |
| that will make them load faster and use text links. Of | | | | it's visible otherwise it will go unnoticed. |
| course you can always tweak it later on. | | | | There are many things to bare in mind when starting a |
| 3. Security | | | | business website. By dealing with them before you |
| Just as offline you protect your business premise's you | | | | actually build the site not only will you end up with a |
| have to do the same with your website. Now it's | | | | better site but you won't have to make costly |
| impossible to make a site completely secure but there | | | | changes later on. |
| are a number of things you can do to make it harder | | | | |