Monday 04 April 2011 at 12:48 pm
Some websites have an interesting behavior when you click on the email button. Your outlook or outlook express program opens up with the address to which the email shall be sent already filled in. Big whoop. I will call this an old way of doing things, and perhaps also a dead end. Many home PC users no longer use the email clients, they go directly to yahoo or gmail in a browser to do their e-mail. They have never configured the pop settings for the email client program, much less the smtp. This means that for many prospects, you e-mail contact method will fail.
Form mail is the preferred and professional way to allow prospects to request contact. They will be required to enter their name, comments, and email address. Everything is done within the browser window, which is generally Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Chrome or Opera. Within the displayed web page is a 'submit' button, which may be named something else. No outside program opens up, nothing to surprise the user like a jscript box.
In the early days that Microsoft pushed their IIS, weak email smtp support required them to do things the average Microsoft way. But the dominance of Apache Server program has lead a revolution toward leaner and more friendly contact web forms. Most any web hosting plan these days includes email form support.
Ideally, I like to use Apache and Php for email forms. We also like to add logic to verify return domains. But there is another way. Some companies might consider creating an email address, such as info@mansup.biz or customerservice@markthemover.com and assigning the receptionist to comb through the mailbox looking for relevant prospects. The trouble with this, is that the spammers love to send their spam. So expect to get a lot of spam by publishing your email address. But even Form Mail leads to some spam.
Search Engine Submission - AddMe
Monday 04 April 2011 at 12:33 pm
Drupal addin features, links at the end of each blurb will take you to the drupal project page
FileField helps with CMS applications requiring a great deal of files and robust file management. FileField also has a file manager API. filefield
WYSIWYG - improved 'What you see is what you get' editor
Drupal allows text and html editing, probably with the tinyMCE library, but WYSIWYG allows you to integrate your preferred editor, e.g. TinyMCE, YUI, CKEditor, FCKeditor, jWysiwyg, markItUp, NicEdit, openWYSIWYG, Whizzywig, or WYMeditor. wysiwyg
Webform - contact form, survey, poll, etc.
Webform allows you to quickly create a form, and can save the submission in a database table. webform
Google Analytics
If you have not installed Google Analytics on a website, you have been missing out on a robust and simple tracking tool that shows charts, emails reports, even analyses keywords used to find nodes on the drupal site. A simple plugin would only need the UA code for basic functionality. google_analytics
Ubercart - shopping cart, ecommerce
For Drupal, Ubercart was developed for usability, and can handle shippable real goods, music downloads, software downloads, memberships or subscriptions. The extension purports to offer integrated order processing including payment and shipping processes. wow! ubercart
Drupal is a CMS, or Content Management System, is open source, runs on LAMP and offers newbies the ability to quickly post their content on the internet without the constraint and boredom of wordpress.
Monday 04 April 2011 at 12:27 pm
What if you don't have a website design yet? What do I need to consider? How much should I spend?
- Logo - Modern business graphics requires logo design in a digital format. It can then be used for business cards, email, and the website. Budget $200 to $2000 for Logo design.
- E-mail Accounts - Do you need to have email accounts set up? Will you be using Outlook or webmail. Do you need forwarders to interface with yahoo or gmail?
- Will you be need a copywriter, or do you have your text ready to go? Even if you have copy, our linguists / computer scientist will read through it and make enhancements to improve the SEO potential.
- Flash - This is embedded video. A little motion and pizazz is good to hold the visitor, but too much interferes with peoples decision making, and slows down the process, or turns people off completely. If you have existing video, we will convert it and embed it for $ 500-2000.
- Slideshow - Probably also in flash, this is often a sharper method of holding visitors that are attracted to a little sizzle.
- Content Management - Do you need to update some of your site without using the web designer? A simple Wordpress or Joomla module can be done for as little as $ 100, or much more to match style and pizazz with your home page. Logo and layout integration on this 'blog section' generally starts around $ 2,000 and can be higher, if desired.
- Online Store - We can implement Zencart, without style and analytics, for as little as $125. Style, artwork, SEO, and analytics add up around three times quicker than for a wordpress blog.
- Credit card processing - A simple payment portal starts around $ 350, integration to shopping carts or online accounts can be much higher. A third party such as authorize.net or paypal is used.
- Community Bulletin Boards - We will talk about the responsibility and overhead of moderating this sort of thing before we talk money. This could cost one of your employees hours every day to maintain.
Monday 04 April 2011 at 11:48 am
Zerocatch - you get a subdomain that is also your login name, lots of ad banners, but good performance. ftp and direct html
blackapplehost
hostse - mysql !!!
Squdoo - squidoo.com - intense page design tools limiting you to their page formats.
topcities - topcities.com, ftp and direct html
hostrator - ftp and direct html
webng, 1sweethost,250free,freewebpage.org
Saturday 01 January 2011 at 08:36 am
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