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Drupal Web Hosting From AvekHost – Your Premier Web Hosting Provider

AvekHost.com is premier web hosting provider that offers extremely affordable web hosting plans for hosting your Drupal installations on our Linux servers.

You can install Drupal by logging into your Cpanel -> Fantastico -> Content Management -> Drupal and get your own Drupal Content Management System (CMS) running in less than couple of minutes.

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations are using Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including:

Community web portals

Discussion sites

Corporate web sites

Intranet applications

Personal web sites or blogs

Aficionado sites

E-commerce applications

Resource directories

Social Networking sites

Drupal is ready to go from the moment you install it from your control panel. It even has an easy-to-use web installer! The built-in functionality, combined with dozens of freely available add-on modules, will enable features such as:

Content Management Systems

Blogs

Collaborative authoring environments

Forums

Peer-to-peer networking

Newsletters

Podcasting

Picture galleries

File uploads and downloads and much more.

Drupal is open-source software distributed under the GPL (“GNU General Public License”) and is maintained and developed by a community of thousands of users and developers.

We have even provided you with a quick video below that shows you how easy it really is to install Drupal.

 

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Search Engine Optimization Tips and Tricks

1. Use a meta-tag title, description, and key words on every web page.
   1. Use a different meta-tage title for each of your web pages.
   2. Use a different meta-description for each of your web your website pages.
   3. Use different meta-keywords for each of your pages.
   4. Your meta-tag title and description should inlcude your main keywords for that particular web page.
      1. Include key words that appear at least 4 to 5 times within the web page content.
2. Avoid keyword overstuffing. You’re keyword should appear at least 4 to 5 times on a given page and not 2,000 times. When you overstuff your keywords search engines view this as spamming.
3. Use more detailed key words. For example, if you sell houses don’t settle for Houses For Sale as your key word. There is simply to many sites using this keyword for there site making it near impossible for you to see immediate results. Try something more detailed like “Homes For Sales In Tampa, Fl”. By creating more specific keywords you’ll have better chances of increasing your sites position in the search engine rankings and gain traffic that is your specific targeted audience.
4. Use image alt tags to describe your images and include the necessary keywords. For example, if you had a picture of yourself on your real estate website you might want to include the alt tag as follows: “Tampa’s Best Real Estate Agent.

Make no mistake about it there is many more tips and tricks to search engine optimization and we’ll continue to post more of these search engine optimization tricks in the feature. Be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed so you won’t miss out on these. You can subscribe to our RSS feed by click on the link at the very bottom of this page.

How To Install Plugin’s Through Your Wordpress Blog

If you have 6 minutes and 49 seconds you can learn how to install wordpress plugins to your blog. This video will take you step by step on how to install the wordpress plugin, where to find the wordpress plugin, how to activate the plugin, and how to configure your plugin.

Plugins can be great tools to assist in the functionality and promotion of your wordpress web site. Once you watch this video you’ll be armed with the knowledge it takes to start making your web site more interactive. If you are need of a premier web hosting company you can sign up for a basic hosting plan through AvekHost.com and get your first month free by using coupon code “YouTube” or save $5.95 off your initial web hosting order when activating a standard or advanced web hosting plan.

All of hosting plans include the ability to instantly install Wordpress blog. See also our how to install wordpress through cpanel training video.

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Cheap Web Hosting – Discovering Quality Web Hosting

Naturally we all want the best products and services for the least amount of cost to us. It’s simply human nature! However, when it comes to getting cheap web hosting or simply searching for a web hosting company that truly provides cheap web hosting than you must be, and I repeat must be, carefull to not fall in the traps of typical marketing tatics to capture business.

For example I ran across a web hosting advertisement the other day for a competitor that offer fantastic web hosting for just $1.67 per month. Being in the web hosting industry I couldn’t do anything else but wonder how any company could truly provide great support, quality web hosting, solid up-time, etc. That is till I visited there web site and discovered there marketing strategy.

Yep, the sure do offer web hosting with a lot of great features, functions, and benefits for just $1.67 per month but (you knew the but was coming) you have to pay for 10 years in advance! That is not a typo, yes a whopping 10 years in advance to get that out of this world price of just $1.67 per month. Your search for cheap web hosting now provides you with two options 1) pay a 10 year price of $200.40 now or 2) sign up for a month to month plan for just $7.77.

I suspect that most visitors to the web hosting service sign up for the monthly plan because they are looking for cheap hosting and $200 + off the bat doesn’t sound ideally all that cheap for an upfront cost. So are they really getting cheap web hosting like they thought? I let you be the judge of that when you compare it to our premier web hosing service starting at just $5.95 per month and with out all the marketing tricks, tatics, and strategies.

Whether you decide to get cheap web hosting through AvekHost or go through another hosting provider just be smart about your decision. Ultimately it will cost you more time and money in the long run to have down time, move your site, loss of customers, etc. if things just don’t work out.

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Features From Within Our Hosting Control Panel

Imagine having some of web most popular scripts at your finger tips. Just imagine if all you had to do was simply click a button or two to automatically install these awesome web programs. When you choose to host your web site with AvekHost.com this can become a reality and we deliver it through a program called Fantastico! The only thing better is that we automatically include this feature with every web hosting account. Just check out some of the great things Fantastico includes.

Blogs

• b2evolution – A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs.
• Nucleus – A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
• WordPress – WordPress is a blogging software with a focus on ease of use, elegance, performance, and standards with a huge selection of themes and plugins.

Classifieds

• Noah’s Classified – A classifieds system featuring categories and subcategories in unlimited depth, image upload for categories and classifieds, variable fields per categories, customizable email notifications, locking categories, classifieds approval, auto-thumbnail generation, classifieds management by user, send classified to a friend.

Content Management

• Drupal – An advanced portal with collaborative book, search engines friendly URLs, online help, roles, full content search, site watching, threaded comments, version control, blogging, news aggregator.
  Geeklog – A portal system with a wide range of modules.
• Joomla 1.5 – Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
• Joomla 1.0 – Joomla! is one of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.
• Mambo – A professional level yet easy to use Content Management System featuring inline WYSIWYG content editors, newsfeeds, syndicated news, banners, mailing users, links manager, statistics, content archiving, date based content, 20 languages, modules and components.
• PHP-Nuke – One of the most popular community-based portals with a big choice of modules and languages.
  phpWCMS – phpWCMS is perfect for professional, public and private users. It is very easy to learn and gives you the flexibility to separate layout and content. Lots of powerful but simple implemented features assists publishers and web developers too.
• phpWebSite – Very powerful Content Management System with document manager, announcements, menu manager, photo album, block maker, FAQ, web pages maker, polls, information categorizer, calendar, link manager, form generator.
• Post-Nuke – A Content Management System with focus on flexibility and security. A big variety of modules and blocks makes this CMS an allround tool.
• Siteframe – A straightforward content-management system designed for rapid deployment of community-based websites. Nice-looking templates, oriented toward document-sharing, clean interface.
  TYPO3 – TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules.
• Xoops – A very popular advanced portal system.

Customer Relationship

• Crafty Syntax Live Help – A Live Help chat system featuring monitor your visitors, proactively open a chat session, multiple chat sessions, referrer tracking, page view tracking, multiple operators, canned responses/images/URLs, multiple departments each with different icons, leave a message.
  Help Center Live – Very powerful all-in-one help center including Live Help, Support Tickets and FAQ. Features include unlimited operators/departments, monitor visitors, initiate chat, collect visitor’s information, track visitor’s footprint, auto save chat transcripts, canned messages, leave a message, auto-assign tickets to operators, unlimited FAQ topics.
• osTicket – A Support Tickets system featuring email piping, pop3 login, unlimited email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, avoid auto-responder loops, limit maximum tickets user can have opened, accept attachments and limit size, pager alerts for admin.
• PerlDesk – PerlDesk is a feature packed browser based help desk and email management application designed to streamline the operation of managing emails, support tickets and customer communications, with built in tracking and response logging it is an ideal help desk solution for companies with one or more members of staff or for those who want to organize client communications.
• PHP Support Tickets – A simple, one-admin Support Tickets system featuring self-registering, emailing to admin, attachments.
• Support Logic Helpdesk – A Support Tickets system featuring multiple email addresses, admin/staff/user panels, canned responses, HTML tags support, email limit on a per user/day basis, attachments.
  Support Services Manager – Program/Script description not available at this time. Please contact our Sales Department for a demonstration of this particular script.

Discussion Boards

• phpBB – A widely-popular open-source bulletin-board package, works well, simple user interface and admin panel, clean look, scales well, and can be customized.
• SMF – Elegant. Effective. Powerful. Free. SMF is all of the above. SMF is a next-generation community software package and is jam-packed with features, while at the same time having a minimal impact on resources.

E-Commerce

• CubeCart – An easy to use yet powerful shopping cart featuring unlimited categories and products, multiple payment gateways, downloadable products. The design is very easy to modify.
  OS Commerce – A power-user shopping cart with a big variety of modules and support of almost every payment gateway. A big developers community is ready to offer custom solutions depending on your needs.
  Zen Cart – Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; a free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart system. The software is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think e-commerce could be and should be done differently.

F.A.Q.

• FAQMasterFlex – Unlimited categories/questions/answers, web-based administration.

Hosting Billing

• AccountLab Plus – AccountLab can lookup over 180 TLD’s, have unlimited hosting plans, offer monthly, quarterly, six monthly and yearly payment options, handle tax. AccountLab works with PayPal, WorldPay (FuturePay), NoChex, 2checkout and offline payments such as checks or bank transfer.
• phpCOIN – A full billing/invoicing application, perfect for web hosting resellers.

Image Galleries

• 4Images Gallery – An Image Gallery system featuring unlimited categories/subcategories, web-based and FTP images upload, auto-thumbnails, comments, send a picture, rate a picture, random pictures, extensive administration panel.
• Coppermine Photo Gallery – An Image Gallery system featuring categories and albums, thumbnails and intermediate size pics, search feature, new and random pictures, user management (private galleries, groups), user comments, e-cards feature, slideshow viewer.
  Gallery – An Image Gallery system featuring albums within albums, thumbnailing specific picture area, captions, rotate, reorder pictures, album-based attributes, album mirroring.

Mailing Lists

• PHPlist – A powerful mailing list featuring multiple mailing lists and attachments.

Polls and Surveys

• Advanced Poll – A highly windows-inspired poll script.
• LimeSurvey – LimeSurvey (formerly PHPSurveyor) is an open source online survey application. It enables users to develop, publish and collect responses to surveys. Surveys can include branching, custom preferred layout and design (using a web template system), and can provide basic statistical analysis of survey results. Surveys can be public, or can be strictly controlled through the use of “once-only” tokens for each survey participant.
• phpESP – PhpESP is an effective, capable, web-based survey application that enables businesses to create complex and advanced surveys, view results in real time, and carry out advanced analysis.

Project Management

• dotProject – Project Management featuring companies, projects, tasks (with Gantt charts), forums, files, calendar, contacts, tickets/helpdesk, language support, user/module permissions, themes.
• PHProjekt – Project Management featuring optional group system, privileges, calendar, contacts, time card, projects, chat, forum, request tracker, mail client, files, notes, bookmarks, to-do list, reminder, voting, language support.

Site Builders

• Pro Edition – Beginner-friendly and expert-flexible. An arsenal of cooperative tools to help you build twice the website in half the time.
• Templates Express – Use Templates Express to install static templates to your website. You will need to use FTP and edit the html files, replacing the default text with your own text. Standard information like title, name, address and similar will be collected during installation and placed into the installed template in the appropriate locations.

Wiki

• TikiWiki CMS/Groupware – TikiWiki is designed to be an international, clean and extensible Content Management System and Groupware that can be used to create all sorts of web applications, sites, portals, intranets and extranets. TikiWiki also works great as a web-based collaboration tool. TikiWiki has a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as you need them.
• PhpWiki – PhpWiki is a web site where anyone can edit the pages through an HTML form. Linking is done automatically on the server side; all pages are stored in a database.

Other Scripts Included In Fantastico

• Dew-NewPHPLinks – A Link Directory featuring categories, reviews, popular links, new links, links approval.
  Moodle – A course management system designed to help educators create quality online courses. Available in 34 languages and features a WYSIWYG HTML editor. The teacher has full control over all settings for a course. There is a flexible array of course activities (Forums, Journals, Quizzes, Resources, Choices, Surveys, Assignments, Chats, Workshops), user logging and tracking, mail integration and much more.
• Open-Realty – Real Estate listing system featuring attachments, flexible search, template system, Yahoo Maps interface.
  phpAdsNew – A highly professional complete ad server featuring different types of ads, display based on keywords, zones, hour of the day, day of the week, extensive statistics, client statistics.
• PHPauction – The GPL version of PHPauction featuring email notification of bids, attachments, reserve price, minimum bids, standard and dutch auctions, bid history, send auction to a friend, highest bids, auctions ending soon.
• phpFormGenerator – A form generator featuring up to 100 form fields, all kind of input fields incl. file upload, customizable fields attributes, send submitted data to an email address or store them in a database, admin panel.
• WebCalendar – A very powerful web calendar featuring private and public calendars.

New Design For 2009

We are pleased to announce that we have implemented a new design for AvekHost.com, a premier provider of web hosting services. If you haven’t had the time yet to check out it be sure to do so.