RainRain Website Help Blog
How much do websites cost ?
Published 23 May, 2008 in web.design, C.M.S. by rainrain | Comment (2)Getting a website built ? Naturally you would want some idea of the costs involved, but it can be hard to get a ballpark figure.
How much does a house cost ? The analogy of a house is often used as an illustration. If you were building a house, you wouldn't ask a builder how much a house costs because he couldn't tell you without a lot more information.
A static or dynamic website ?
Published 16 Apr, 2008 in web.design, C.M.S., blogging by rainrain | Comment (3)Being able to change the website contents yourself can be a major advantage depending on the business you are in. This article examines Content Management Systems .
Take for example the owner of a small restaurant. He wants a website and would also like to be able to change the lunch and dinner menu’s on his website fairly regularly. He has three options:
Domain names demystified.
Published 12 Mar, 2008 in marketing, hosting, domaining by rainrain | Comment (0)Pizza.com recently sold for $2.6m; but I just want a domain for my business. Should I get a dot com or a dot ie or both. What are domains all about.
Basically a Domain Name is a name which points to a website. So for instance www.mywebsite.com or www.yourwebpage.ie etc. The www part of the website is standard but sometimes there may be 'Subdomains' e.g. shop.yourwebsite.com or forum.mywebsite.ie. The holder of the registered domain mywebsite.com would have sole rights to use any subdomains and this would be worked out with their hosting company. Similarly they could set up email addresses on this domain -- me@mywebsite.ie, info@mywebsite.ie, your.name@yourwebsite.com, etc.
