Hi Joe,
How are you? Hope this message finds you well.
I have a friend who is thinking of putting up a website and was wondering all the details needed… starting up a website and maintaining it, all that good stuff. Do you have any suggestions? How much will it cost with creating one and maintenance?
If you [...]
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“My hosting provider (.asp based) doesn’t support blogs. Do you set up WordPress sites?”
“Hello Joe,
“After we spoke tonight and I was driving home, I realized I might be able to use your services. I want to create a word press blog to go with our web site. Our hosting company is an [...]
A server is simply a computer that is set up to “serve” (or host) a website. This is where websites exist— computers that are always on and connected to a phone line. Virtually any internet enabled computer can be used for this, although some are more ideal for the job than others. Factors that [...]
What’s happening: .gif images are either 100% transparent or 100% opaque. There is no in-between. So Illustrator, assuming by default that your background is going to be white, fades the edges of you image to an almost-white, then cuts to transparent. This of course would make for a nice clean edge on a white or [...]
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, which translated basically means a standard for transferring files.
For a more thorough understanding of FTP visit this basics page on FTPPlanet.com.
There are various tools that will publish your website for you (e.g. Adobe® Dreamweaver), once you’ve built it, but without a basic understanding of what it’s doing for you, you risk running into problems you won’t know how to solve.
So, assuming you already know what server, FTP and Hosting mean (and a few other terms), [...]

