Archive for August, 2009
August 31st, 2009 | 
Author: Finding The Best Web Hosting
Searching for the best web hosting provider is not an easy job. However if your website is related to your business or the services you provide and not a personal one you cant risk not having the best web hosting company hosting your website and maintaining it for maximum uptime. Every minute you spend searching for the right host will prove beneficial in the long run.
The major problems in finding the best web hosting company are that people do not know where to look for honest opinions and how to find a reliable host with most economical pricing.
Web hosting review websites can solve both of these issues. These websites are built by experts that keep a close eye on how different web hosting companies are performing and also allow for user input from the customer of these hosting companies in the form of user feedback.
Review websites also make it very easy to drill down to specific categories of hosting and find the best web hosting deals within these categories. You have multiple ways of sorting the listings based upon criteria that matters you the most for example price web space number of email accounts etc.
Review websites also have a rating system in action that makes it very troublefree to spot the best web hosting companies which are performing well and receiving positive feedback from their customers. Since actual users who have hosted their websites on the servers of these companies give feedback the opinions are honest and free from bias.
Apart from these review websites you can also make use of webmaster forums that are available online. These forums provide a way to interact with experienced webmasters and discuss their experiences seeking for the best web hosting services they ever came across.
It is very important to keep in mind that theres a lot more to best web hosting than just provision of web space network traffic email accounts databases etc. Best web hosting companies will often boast about other aspects of their hosting capabilities such as guaranteed uptime 24/7 technical support userfriendly control panel and plenty of web based software solutions that you can utilize without incurring any extra charges.
Price should not be the only deciding factor. If a web hosting company is making several services available under oneroof a little extra hosting fee is very much justified. Domain registration is one of such extra services. It gets easier to manage domain and hosting renewals when the same company is billing for these services.
However make sure you own all rights to your domain including the right to transfer. Best web hosting companies will never cheat you by registering your domains on their own names and addresses.
Investment in time now when searching for the best web hosting company can save days of frustration in future.
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The Internet Phenomema That Shook The World
In the last decade the internet has grown at such an exponential rate that Andy Warhol’s famous phrase that ‘everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes’ becomes more of a prophecy than a prediction. Warhol’s interest in celebrity and fame is now replicated throughout the world as the ambition to be famous is more common in children than ay particular profession.
Those searching for their fifteen minutes of fame could do a lot worse than appearing on the internet’s video sharing sites. There are plenty of sites on the web where one could find their time in the spotlight YouTube MyVideo Flickr and Vimeo to name just a few. So what makes a video star on the internet and how do they become the next internet phenomenon?
As mobile phones become increasingly powerful some of the best internet videos have been filmed on these pocketsized inventions. One such video appeared on a variety of video sites showing two men arguing aboard a bus in Hong Kong. The six minutes of footage show an older gentleman known as ‘Bus Uncle’ verbally attacking a man for asking him to be quiet.
The film was taken by a fellow passenger in order to provide evidence in the event that the altercation turned violent. As the clip circulated its popularity rocketed and became a media phenomenon in Hong Kong. Various phrases from the clip have entered popular culture in Hong Kong with the words of Bus Uncle appearing in songs and on tshirts.
A camera phone on public transport caused similar controversy in South Korea in 2005 when a woman was photographed refusing to clean up after her dog. The lady aboard a Korean subway train watched as her lap dog defecated on the train’s floor. Refusing to clear the mess up she even accepted a lady’s tissue only to wipe the dog’s behind and leave the mess on the floor. After leaving the train at the next stop her actions would be national news.
The owner of the camera phone posted the images on a popular website in Korea leading to internet groups discussing and identifying the woman in question. As the vigilante campaign gained momentum the lady was forced to quit her university course and made a public apology as a plea for calm. Despite her actions the woman’s punishment at the hands of internet vigilantes seemed to far outweigh the misdemeanor.
Hollywood films have also used the internet’s vastness to promote wordofmouth advertising. From The Blair Witch Project to Cloverfield viral advertisements have been used to create a buzz around a film’s release. One film that appeared to do a lot more with the internet interest was Snakes on a Plane referred to as ‘perhaps the most internethyped film of all time’.
As the movie gained popularity with internet users and in chatrooms the film’s makes went as far as incorporating online feedback into the script. The movie had become an internet phenomenon long before its planned release performing disappointingly at the box office despite the intense anticipation. Maybe this is indicative of the internet’s dominance of media in the twentyfirst century or perhaps because internet clips and chatrooms are free.
‘Never work with children or animals.’ Actor W.C. Fields made this comment long before the internet had made stars of so many children and animals. Two of the biggest hits will forever be known as Star Wars Kid and Dramatic Chipmunk. These two video superstars have amassed over a billion views between them.
The Star Wars Kid as he is affectionately known is the star of a short video he filmed himself. In the film Star Wars Kid is seen mimicking Darth Maul with a golf ball retriever in the place of Maul’s doubleended lightsaber. It is estimated that the video has been seen in various guises over 900 million times making it the most popular video in internet history.
However the story of the real Star Wars Kid is far more tragic. After being found by one of the boy’s classmates the clip was shared at school via filesharing tools and led to him facing taunts and bullying at the hands of his peers. His family eventually won an outofcourt settlement after filing a lawsuit against the perpetrators and their families.
The dramatic gopher or dramatic chipmunk is a five second clip of a prairie dog not a gopher or chipmunk turning round to look at the camera. Accompanied by humorous music to emphasise the sinister look in the prairie dog’s eyes. The dramatic gopher/chipmunk/ratthing has been duplicated and replicated many times with more musical remixes and parodies than can be named here.
So what have we learned from this handful of internet phenomena? There appears to be no guidelines or rulebook when predicting or monitoring the success of viral ads video clips and online promotions. With such a vast number of video clips being uploaded every day it is almost impossible to predict the next phenomenon that will grip the internet and its users. Fifteen minutes of fame is now attainable with just a camera and a funnylooking nondescript animal and for that alone let me say… God Bless the Internet.
About the writer: Patrick is an online copywriter. He is currently working on Stansted hotels Heathrow hotels and Airparks Luton.
Logo Design: Makeover And Repair
One day you just decided you need to modify your logo. No matter what happens no matter how much money you have to pay out your decision is concrete: you have to do something with your previous logo.
Well don’t feel bizzare. The thing is you’re not the only one who feels that way for your logo. While some previous logos become effective logos when they are repaired you should also consider the option that you might only cause major destruction to your old logo.
Here are some of the rewards for modifying your logo design:
1. Having a new logo design can make excitement to your company and your employees. You might want to discuss more about logo development and how the changes of the popular company logos help them form trademarks to the public. Nike had a logo with a text showing the company’s brand name. Now we see Nike’s logo with just a plain swoosh without the text. And yet it appears to be more effective and convincing to its buyers. Another example is the development of Microsoft Windows logo. The first logo was established in the year 1995 presenting flying windows as its logo. The flying windows logo was considered to be a bit bizzare. After undergoing a little revision the Windows icon turned into a advanced logo with the suitable logo that fits the whole design.
2. A logo repair represents new goals and new “team spirit” for the company.
3. You can modify your business goals together with your old logo that you think don’t totally match with your past goals.
When you need to modify your focus in terms of marketing a logo repair might be your best choice. If your logo designer years before happened to create a logo that is up to date then that would be another good reason to modify your logo.
The first question that you should have asked yourself before doing a final decision is this: Am I going to redesign brand repair or totally give a repair of my logo?
When you’ve decided to do something with your previous logo some of the possible changes are:
1. Modify the font
2. Modify the color
3. Modify the slogan
4. Modify the shape
5. Include something in the image
This task is under the hands of a logo designer. He will be the one responsible for rerendering your artwork and providing enhancement to certain design components.
Doing something for your logo might be bit a precarious but when you and your logo designer work effectively together your new logo in whatever alterations you wanted to do with it is something that you need to think and decide with positive thoughts.
About the writer: Felix La Spina has been building websites for the world’s top companies since the birth of the internet. He now offers that experience and skill to small business at extremely affordable prices. Contact Felix felixdanidweb.com or at http://www.danidweb.com
