A Guide to Simplified Web Publishing

Pick a Web Hosting Company

Overview

Hosting is basically the computer where your Web site resides, and where it can be accessed by name. You want to use a reliable company to host your site.  Buying hosting is easy, but knowing what kind of hosting account you need and picking a good hosting company can be a little more complicated. Continue reading ›

Types of Hosting Explained

Overview

Hosting is basically the computer where your Web site resides and where it can be accessed by name. You want to use a reliable company to host your site.  Buying hosting is about as complicated as buying a book on Amazon.com.  Knowing what kind of hosting account you need and picking a good hosting company can be a little more complicated. Continue reading ›

How to Pick a Domain Name

A domain name is the unique name your Web site will have. It’s what comes after “www”.  For “www.google.com”, “google.com” is the domain name. Most Web design companies are more than happy to register a domain name for you, even lock it so it can’t be transferred. Problem is, that means you can’t transfer it either. The worst case is that they don’t register the domain name in your name, and so you don’t even own it. Continue reading ›

Mimbo 3.0 Released

New release of  the Mimbo theme anounced on the Darren Hoyt blog. Among the many new features of this free theme are: support for child themes, WordPress 2.7 support, drop-down menus, language localization, and many more.

Read about it here.