When I started my online venture I tried few html editors like Microsoft FrontPage and Eversoft 1stPage. It took me few weeks just to setup a not-so-decent web site. It was not well designed at all. The look and feel was amateur. The structure was not optimized for search engine ranking. It was difficult to update. After setting it up, I lost energy to write content and design my business process.
Free Scripts for Content Management System…
It took me about half a year to realize that there are something called “free script” and “free content management system” (CMS) on the internet. First thing first, there are abundant of free and wonderful scripts available on the net due to Open Source Movement. I can simply install these scripts in my web hosting, with few clicks here and there, and the entire infrastructure of my web site is constructed. I just need to write and post my content, i.e. articles, to my web hosting. All of these free scripts come with free templates of various designs with different look and feel for your web site. Some scripts, come with thousands of free templates.
It takes me less than 2 hours to setup a professionally looking web site (like these: career and personal finance. Click here for more free templates and choices for look & feel.) with FREE opt-in mailing system (like AdwordExcelizer, outside price is about $15 per month) completed with a discussion forum (like this: financial forum). Again, these scripts are all FREE.
It was a revelation too shock for me to handle then. I had been working hard on a primitive and not-too-good-looking web site for six months (including content) only to find out that I could have saved most of my time spent on designing and constructing the web site structure.
Riding on Open Source Movement…
There are ample of such free scripts under open source licencing available in the net for various online purposes like site building, content management, blogs, mailing lists, polls & surveys, image galleries, discussion board, guestbooks, project management, billing system, shopping cart system, online customer handling system (i.e. live chat script, FAQ script, helpdesk ticket script, etc.), wiki, etc. Once you install these scripts, you can handle these advance online tasks single handedly.
Adword Excelizer uses a web hosting service that contains more than 50 types of free open source scripts. Some of these scripts are famous and popular like phpBB2, PHPNuke, Mambo, PostNuke, Wordpress, Drupal, Geeklog, phpWiki, etc.
Yes, you can download all these scripts through their respective web sites, upload and install them to your web host one-by-one manually. However, this is not as easy as you think. Every script comes with its own unique and different installation procedures and requirements These installation processes are usually not very straight forward for newbies. It took me a while to get familiar with the installation process of some of these scripts. Almost all of them require you to first setup mySQL data base in the web server. More importantly, not all web hosting plans and services support these free scripts.
However there is a quick solution that I use to cut short my web site setup time in less than 2 hours…the cPanel.
This web hosting service help me to set things up quickly and professionally…
Adword Excelizer uses a web hosting service that comes with a login panel containing all the scripts above. All I have to do is just choose a script and fill up information to INSTALL these scripts. Therefore I could spend less than two man hours to setup the entire structure of AdwordExcelizer. Two hours a web site for my many other web sites too.
This is the package that we are using:
- Unlimited domain & sub-domain names (so you can have multiple web sites. I have 8 web sites under this web hosting.)
- 5Gb disk space and 75 Gb bandwidth (This is so far one of the best in the industry for the same price [below].)
- Entire scripts library of more than 50 scripts (I just counted it) to be installed in few clicks.
- 24/7/365 support via phone, online live chat and e-mail, 99.9% uptime, and have a 30 day money back guarantee (I never lose a chance to utilise their online support service)
- Video tutorials (Being almost a complete newbie a year ago, I learned through their video tutorials)
- Stat report for you to track your traffic. Which search engines, which friendly web sites and which search terms (keywords) bring you traffic?
- How much is the cost? $9.95 per month. Not bad at all.
(Edited on 14 August 2006: Don’t bother to read further, I have changed my opinion on this web hosting service that I am using due to their web server efficiency. I still like its unlimited domains and subdomains that allow me to experiment various concepts, but I don’t think their servers are fast enough as compare to those web hosting services that do not offer unlimited domains.)
This is their, the web hosting service, words:
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