SITE TERMS AND INFORMATION |
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Website |
A digital image of content
that can be downloaded to any browser in the world. |
Domain Name |
Your domain name is a kind of address that lets browsers (like Internet Explorer) know where your site is located (hosted). You can pay for it one or more years and it will be yours as long as you keep up the payment. Any lapse in payment can lead to loss of domain name. Getting a domain name is called "registering" a domain. |
Hosting |
Hosting is the location of
your site content that will be downloaded in a browser for viewing.
It may or may not be at the same company where you register your domain
name. Your site will be on a server (computer) at this company and when
a browser looks for your domain name, it is sent to that server then
downloaded for viewing. Cost of hosting is affected by site size and
the amount of traffic. |
Site content |
You provide the content for your site. It is the images, text, and graphics that make up your site. The format and size of each of these affect the cost of making a site. If images are sized properly (I will tell you the size) and the text is in the correct form (I will let you know the format), it takes me less time to make a page or pages. You must assist in editing by reviewing pages that I make and approving the content. Any errors that I make will be corrected at no cost. Site description (what you are doing) and keywords (art, fine art, painting, etc) are provided by you and will be in what are called meta-tags, invisible to the viewer, but seen by robot search programs. The meta-tags affect your listing and rank in directories. |
Advertising a site |
A website is
not an advertisement. It has
to be advertised. You have to promote it by letting others know about
it. It is unlikely anyone will stumble across your site looking at the
billions of sites on the internet. |