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4 Ways to Branch Out Your Web Site
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With any web site or online business, it is important to change things up a ‘bit every so often. You don’t want to be seen as becoming stale, or yesterday’s news, so bringing new web site concepts or ideas could be the perfect diversification tool you need to keep people interested in what you do and what you have to offer. There is not a web site out there today that could not be helped by adding one of these four web site service ideas.
Here are four different ways you can branch your web site out:
Blogs – Many people use blogs to extend their web sites. To keep people coming back several times a day, weekly, monthly or more you need to deliver fresh innovative content. A blogging script is the perfect give you the perfect delivery tool to make that happen.
Forums or Message Boards – Setting up a forum script will give the fan base that your web site has a place to discuss issues or issues related to your web site. For example, if I added forums to WebHostingShow.com, they would be for all of you to discuss web hosting and web development issues among yourselves.
Social Sites – It might not be a hosted service, but it is certainly a little something extra you can do to bring more eyeballs in to see your web site. Look into setting up profiles on Twitter, Facebook and the like to bring mention of your web site outside your own domain. Use them as a way to socialize with your fan base, and keep them up to date on the latest and greatest things you have to offer.
E-Commerce Scripts – Finally, you have e-commerce scripts (also sometimes called shopping cart scripts). By adding an e-commerce section to your web site, you will bring in a new way to bring in revenue and sell your unique products and ideas. Make sure you start off small, and you sell something that is unique to your web site or business.
There are your four different ways you can diversify your own web site or online business to attract new eyeballs, and keep the current eyeballs you have coming back for more content, news, and services.
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Reseller Hosting for Webmasters
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The Lunarpages Webmaster Reseller Hosting Plan is the perfect reseller package for webmasters and developers. You get full account management and monitoring for a really low price.
What is New With This Reseller Hosting Plan?
Here is how the new Webmaster Reseller Hosting Plan works. When you sign up, you get 20GB and 300GB in the lowest end plan. Now, you can turn around and divide that however you like. You could host 10 web sites each with 2GB of disk space, you could host 20 web sites and give each 1GB of disk space. The choice is up to you.
You can upgrade your disk space and bandwidth too. Here are the Webmaster Reseller Hosting Plan additional storage and bandwidth options:
- Storage 20GB, Bandwidth 300GB
- Storage 40GB, Bandwidth 600GB
- Storage 60GB, Bandwidth 600GB
- Storage 80GB, Bandwidth 600GB
- Storage 100GB, Bandwidth 900GB
As you can see, that gives you five different levels or reseller hosting, depending on the amount of disk space and bandwidth you need. You also have the option to add a dedicated IP address, ASP support and JSP support.
Accountlab Plus
For an additional $25, will will install Accountlab Plus for you too. This script will help you manage your own billing details for your own hosting clients. It supports web site creation, help desk ticket system, knowledge base, and more. Think of it as your personal assistant when it comes to reselling the hosting plans you create.
Lunarpages is providing to you the best reseller hosting plan out there today. Go check out our new reseller hosting plan options, and the new Webmaster Reseller Hosting Plan page for even more details.
Mind Maps for Webmasters
Posted by: | CommentsWhen it comes to planning out a brand new web site, organizing your thoughts can be rather difficult. You might know that you want to design a web site about a specific topic, but can’t decide what else you might need in that web site to help it become successful. Mind maps are one great way to get your jumbled thoughts about your site organized.
What is a Mind Map? A mind map (or the process of mind mapping) is when you create a diagram using specific words, ideas or tasks and arrange them around a central theme or idea. By doing this, you can visualize, structure and classify ideas based around your central theme.
For an example, take a look at this mind map of my breakfast:
The centralized idea here is what I had for breakfast. You can see I had a slice of toast,a bowl of cereal and a glass of orange juice. To take it a step further, we could branch out even further with the idea of toast, like so:
What made up the toast? Well, it was a toasted slice of bread, with butter on it. So off the idea of toast, I listed bread and butter. See how easy taking one idea like breakfast and coming up with ways to visualize how it came to be?
How to Mind Map Your Site! Now that you are familiar with what a mind map is and how to use it, it is time to look at web site organization. You just got a Basic hosting plan from Lunarpages, and you want to start up a web site about super heroes. So with the super heroes topic, how could you divide it up? How about you split it into two for now, DC Comics and Marvel Comics – the two biggest comic book brands.
Now you have at least two pages planned out. Under DC Comics, you could list heroes like the Green Lantern, Batman and Superman because they all come from the DC Comics brand. For Marvel Comics, you could list super heroes like Spiderman, Iron Man, and Wolverine.
So that should be a good start as far as content goes. So what other specific pages does a web site need? What about a page that tells about the web site? Maybe, you could add a page with your contact information too.
See how organizing ideas in a mind map is helpful when it comes to organizing your web site? Much like a tree, you start at the trunk, and then break your web site into branches, and then those branches have branches, and then those branches have leaves.
What Tools and Software Can You Use for Mind Maps? Ok, so you know what to do and how to do it, now you’re probably just needing a way to get it done. You really don’t need anything too fancy to get this accomplished. For years, I just used notebook paper and pencil to sketch out my ideas into a mind map. There are some online solutions as well as software solutions you might want to check out to bring mind mapping into the digital age.
Bubbl.us is what I have been using for my screenshots above. It is an online tool that lets you drag and drop your ideas around on the mind map a very simple task. It might be a little confusing at first, but hover over anything you have a question about and you can get more information about it in the help pane in the browser. Wikipedia also has a long list of mind mapping software solutions worth checking into.
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Give Me Your Podcast Ideas!
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It is your good friend, the web hosting industry’s media rock star, here with a ‘bit of a problem that I hope you can help me with. You see, the podcast has been on a ‘bit of a hiatus as of late – and I am sorry for that. However, I have just about run out of ideas and topics. To me, it seems like I have covered just about everything there is – so I need your help.
Let me know, what new topics would you like to hear talked about on the Web Hosting Show? You suggest it – and I will do it. It is as simple as that. This podcast isn’t for me, it isn’t for them, it is for you – so if there is a topic you would like to learn more about, and it has something to do with the web hosting industry, please send it my way.
Even if you have never commented here or left a message on any website before, I want your opinions, your ideas. Let me know how I can make this resource better for you and I will do it. So how can you send me these ideas? You can either leave them as a comment on this post or use my nifty contact page to send your message along.
Thank you for your support and for your ideas for future episodes of the Web Hosting Show podcast.
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