Best Domain Companies

My latest website Best Domain Companies is now up for you review. In it I have examined the best of the web sites that of domain names for sale and have come up with a list of the top five. The number one choice on my list is the world's largest domain registrar GoDaddy.com. How do you not recommend them?

Incidentally, I've decided that the next step I will take in this journey to a successful online business is to protect my domain name by purchasing the .com version of as many of them as I can. Initially I didn't want to invest in the .com domains until there was something more concrete, instead I bought mostly .info domains. But I'm now ready to make the greater financial commitment by buying .com domains.

Maintenance

I've been working on maintenance issue on the 7 sites I have put up so far. I realized early this morning (Ireland time) that I had published content on the Internet with an expectation that people would magically know my credentials. Once I realized how silly that is, I modified the About Us page in each web site to provide a brief summary of my qualifications so that I might be believed.

The hard part about doing such a thing is to brag about yourself, without bragging. How does one find that balance? Anyhow, that is what I tried to do - establish credibility without sounding braggadocio. Let me know if I succeeded.

Best Hosting Companies

I just uploaded my latest website Best Hosting Companies. I searched many hosting companies and concluded that these are among the best hosting companies available on the Internet. I hope my readers will recommend this site to individuals thinking of putting up a website.

I found something

I learned how to make hyperlinks open another window, leaving my site still open in a window. I went through all of my sites yesterday and modified the necessary links. Its surprising how easy it is once you know how. Why can't someone post simple instructions on the Internet. Every place I looked made it look inordinately complicated. What is wrong with IT people, especially programmers that they don't know how to make it simple? Hasn't anyone learned that the true sign of genius is the ability to simplify?

Started Work

Since my flight to Ireland I have been suffering from jet lag and haven't done very much. Today is my 4th day in the country and I am starting to almost feel human again so I've started working on the Best Hosting Companies website. With any luck I will finish it today.

Problems

I have again encounted a problem. I don't know how to set up a website so that people can give me their email address in exchange for a free download. Help!!

I am currently working on the Best Hosting Companies, The Best DNS Providers, and Best Domain Companies. Register.com rejected my application to be an affiliate because the web site wasn't up yet. Duhh. I received the same kind of rejection from Carbonite.com which I intended to feature on my Best Backup Sites. There seems to be an elitist attitude present in some of the leading providers of web services. It seems kind of ridiculous to me. Why wouldn't you want more people pointing to your web service?

Best Backup Sites Again

The Best Backup Sites website is now up. It provides information and options on how individuals and small to medium companies can safely and securely backup up their valuable data.

Best Backup Sites

The site I am currently working on is entitled Best Backup Sites. In this site I am explaining the importance of backing up data, what data should be backed up, and what the various types of backup are. I then recommend a couple of local and internet-based backup solutions. I am waiting for affiliate relationships to be formed before I can upload the site to the Internet. Lesson learned from this is some affiliate relationships take time so do not wait until you are developing the web site before forming these relationsips.

Update

To date my web sites have been very basic. The one that I purchased from Niche Power Group is the hardest one to edit and I haven't quite figured out how to do it yet. The rest of the web sites are relatively simple to do. Netscape is my editor of choice and I simply edit templates found at my hosting company.

Although I have a technical background (I work in network security) I have no love of programming. For readers who work in IT you know that it isn't uncommon for the network team, or the security team, to be in conflict with the programmers/developers. We come from different worlds, with different mentalities, and different levels of discipline. Developers tend to be liberal, creative, and undisiciplined. Network and security professionals (I work in both) tend to be the opposite - conservative, disciplined, and structured. Creativity is essential for programming. Our creativity is limited to problem-solving. Naturally such generalizations do not always apply, but they are nonetheless accurate in a general sense.

Finding a method that minimized the programming was essential for the reasons cited above. I just don't fit into the programmer's model.

Secure My Office PC

My latest website Secure My Office PC is now up. It is designed for the small to medium sized business that has little or no technical support staff.

Google AdSense

My Google Adsense account was approved. It was quite simple to reapply. All I had to do was click on a hyperlink in the email that informed me why I was turned down in the first place. It actually was relatively simple to do. Kudos to Google on a creating a simple process.

Slow

Work on the web sites has slowed down for personal reasons. I have a funeral to speak at this morning although I may finish the Secure My Office PC website by the end of the day. I will keep you posted.

Web Site Title

Last night I noticed that since I had started out Secure My Home PC using the pages from Starting Up Online, that Starting Up Online was appearing as the page's title in my browser. I had to go change the title value in each of the web pages and resubmit them. Its the little details like that and the favicons that make for more professional appearing content. I'm going to have to learn them all.

Little Icons

I am having trouble creating the necessary links so that my web sites have those little icons next to the title in the Favorites menu, browser window, and Google Chrome tab. I've found several web sites who claim to tell you how to incorporate these "favicons" but no luck so far. HELP!

Secure My Office PC

The next site I will put up is Secure My Office PC which will contain a lot of the same content as Secure My Home PC. Some changes will be made but it will be among the easiest of web sites to do.