Free Website Design For Small Business – New Year Promotion
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- Did you just start a new business and need a website design for your new company?
- Have you had a business for awhile but been waiting for the right time to get a website up and running?
- Do you have limited funds to invest into your online web presence?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions then you’ll definately be interested in the limited time promotion being offered by AvekHost.com. For a limited time (very limited) we will be providing free basic web design services to any small business organization needing an online presence.
So What’s The Catch?
The catch is pretty simple… First you must be an organization based in the United States. Second, you must agree to host your newly designed website with us for at least 12 months on our Advanced Hosting Package and purchase your domain name through us. Our advanced hosting package provides virtually everything you will need to maintain a presence on the world wide web and at an affordable cost of just $9.95 per month. Perhaps one way to look at… it’s like financing your web design project over a 12 month period. Our domain names start at just $15.99 per year.
How long will this offer last?
Our goal is to provide at least 100 small business the opportunity to gain an online presence at an affordable cost. Once we have completed our goal of designing 100 web sites the deal ends. Considered it the AvekHost.com Stimulus Package!
How Can I Take Advantage of This Offer?
Simply send an email to us at designpromo@avekhost.com with the following information to apply for consideration of this offer:
- Company Name
- First and Last Name
- Address, City, State
- Phone Number
- Fax Number (if available)
- Email Address
- When was your organization established?
- Do you have an online presence currently?
- How many pages do you envision your new website to have?
- Tell us a little about your business… What do you do? Who is your targeted audience?
- How would an online presence benefit your organization?
- Will you agree to use AvekHost.com to host your website for 12 months via the Advanced Hosting Plan for $9.95 per month and purchase your domain name through us?
Once we receive your request, it will be reviewed to determine acceptance (unfortunately some requests will be denied), then a member of our design team will contact you to further discuss the details of your new website design.
We look forward to showcasing these new designs in the near future and doing our part in 2010 to give back to our community.
How To Access cPanel When Blocked By A Firewall?
This article will provide you with a solution to the below common questions…
- How do I access cpanel when blocked by a firewall?
- How can I bypass my company firewall and access cpanel?
- How do I access cPanel behind a firewall?
- Can I access cPanel if my company uses a firewall?
- Can’t access cPanel due to firewall, what can I do?
Rest assured there is a solution for most situations in which cPanel access is blocked due to a firewall in place on the network. Just following these simple steps to bypass the firewall and still gain access to cPanel.
Note: AvekHost.com web hosting clients can avoid these below steps by submitting a support request. Our support team will be more than happy to do this for you. Or, you are welcome to do yourself.
- Visit http://cpanelproxy.net and download the zip file.
- Extract your zip file
- Log into cPanel and create a sub-domain titled cpanel. Note you will need access to cPanel from a computer in which most folks are able to do so from home.
- Once you create your sub-domain name in cPanel upload the contents from the file you just downloaded into the cpanel subdomain name folder which is usually in this directory: /public_html/cpanel/ directory. Note: include all files including the .htaccess file.
Once these steps are completed you should be able to access cpanel by visiting http://cpanel.yourdomain.com and access cPanel and webmail when you behind a firewall.
Free Education Web Site Templates
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If you are in need of “Education Website Templates” we have you covered. In fact, when you sign-up for premier web hosting services at AvekHost.com;you’ll have access to one of the largest databases of web site templates. So large that it covers over 110 different categories/industries and offers over 4,000 templates to choose from. Just check out these free education web site templates you’ll have access to when you sign up for our premier web hosting service.
Drupal Web Hosting
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:
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:
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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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.
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.
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.
How Much Hosting Space Will I Need For My Web Site?
How Much Hosting Space Will I Need For My Web Site?
If you conduct a search today on Google using the terms “Web Hosting Service“, you likely get over 20 Million results to search through. Conducting the same search on MSN’s Live Search you’ll likely get over 269 Million Results and on Yahoo Search over 1.2 Billion results.
Now granted there are with out question multiple listings within for the same site within these search results but never the less you’ll quickly come to understand that there is a lot of competition in the web hosting industry. It is also fairly safe to say that with more competition comes more aggressive marketing in effort to earn your business. Personally, I feel that many hosting companies mislead consumers through there marketing tactics by selling services they either don’t need or in choosing there company based on the positioning of there hosting plans such as “Unlimited Web Hosting” or “200 gigabytes of space”. So, you as the consumer make choices based on perceived value that truly does not benefit you in anyway. For example, if you are hosting a small business web site that only has a few images and few pages (let’s say fewer than 10 pages) and you’re looking for a hosting company to host your site do you choose the company that offers 200GB for $5.95 or the company that offers 500MB of hosting space for $5.95? Truthfully a site of this size will likely never use the allotted hosting space from either company; but you knowing that GB is larger than MB, might go with the company that offers the 200GB because of the perceived value of getting more “bang for your buck”.
Basing your decision on who to host with merely on the perceived value of the hosting package could send down the path of having some very negative experiences with the hosting of your web site. So how much space do you really need? At the end of the day it truly comes down to what you plan to do with your web site. A site offering movies and music for downloads will need much larger space because the files themselves are very large. A web site that has 100 pages offering “How to Information” for example with a few pictures on each page would require significantly less space than one offering music downloads.
Step 1 – Is to determine what your site will be used for.
Step 2 – Is to estimate what the space you will need. If you plan on allowing web visitors to download music use an estimated size of 5MB for each song you will have available to your clients. Some songs will be larger in size while others will be small. I personally went through my MP3 songs and most were between 2.5MB and 4.0MB and estimating by 5MB will help ensure you have some cushion along with my suggestion in step 3. You’ll also need to calculate the number of pages you will have to display information about your available songs and for your clients to click and download which is in the next paragraph.
If you are hosting a web site that offers information to your clients, prospects, etc. than you can estimate that the average page will be about 20KB in size (again some will be larger and some will be smaller), for each image you can estimate around 50KB in size, and add 5KB for perhaps a java script you might run on the page. Using this calculation the average size per page being hosted would be about 75KB per page on average. If you have 100 pages that will be hosted you will need at least 75,000KB of hosting space. Remember KB (Kilobytes) is smaller than MB (Megabytes) and that roughly 1,000KB = 1MB and roughly 1,000MB = 1GB. Take 75,000KB and divide by 1,000 and you’ll need roughly 75MB to host the pages to your web site.
Step 3 – Triple the amount of space you calculated. Why? To provide you and/or your company with a safety net when it comes to the future needs of your web site. For example, some hosts may include email accounts and databases in the hosting space. In addition, you don’t want to have to worry about upgrading your hosting account every time you decide to add to your site or take it to the next level. In theory a web hosting plan that offers you at least 225MB of hosting space would be more than enough to host your website of 100 pages full of information. Even if you get one that is 5 times the size you actually need you would still only need a hosting account that offer 375MB or for 10 times the size you would need just 750MB. So going back to my second paragraph in this example you really wouldn’t need a hosting account that offers even one GB of hosting space.
You might ask what my point is. Basing your decision strictly on the package size of your hosting plan is not always the best choice for deciding who to host with and ultimately you could be missing out on some very good features, functions, benefits, and most importantly positive experiences by using hosting space as your only choice for deciding on whom to host with. When choosing a web hosting provider, consider these following things:
1. How long have they been providing hosting services?
2. How is there reputation online?
3. Does there hosting package meet my needs for my site, domain, email, etc.?
4. Did they respond within 24 hours to my email? Be weary of organizations that respond to fast as they could be more focused on gaining new customers than servicing existing customers. You’ll likely want to be apart of an organization who services there existing client base prior to servicing prospective clients.
5. What does your gut feeling tell you? Go with your gut!
I hope you find this information to be useful and welcome any questions, comments, and/or concerns you may have through our blog at http://www.avekhost.com/blog/.
Avekhost.com Provides Free Web Hosting For Start-Up Businesses
AvekHost.com Provides Free Web Hosting For Start-Up Businesses
Starting up a new online business? AvekHost.com is providing 3 months free web hosting service to help you get your new business off the ground.
Manchester, MI (PRWEB) July 9, 2008 – One of the toughest aspects of starting a new online venture is raising start up capital and AvekHost.com wants to eliminate this concern. Our goal at AvekHost.com is to help as many individuals and small businesses make there presence on the web during the month of July. To support this initiative, we are offering three (3) months of web hosting service absolutely free on our “Basic Hosting Package”.
Aside from benefiting from the first 3 months of free web site hosting service; new web site start ups will enjoy a healthy 125 MB of web hosting space, unlimited email accounts, free site builder to assist in developing the new web site, 24/7 online customer support, and so much more.
New start-ups can purchase a new domain name, use an existing domain, or create a sub-domain to coincide with there new web hosting account provided by AvekHost.com.
“This incredible offering is only available during the month of July 2008″ says Michael Orta, owner of AvekHost.com and “In order to take advantage of this 3 month free promo new webmasters would need to visit http://www.avekhost.com/ , select the basic hosting package, and use coupon code “newbizhelp2008″ during the check out process.
About AvekHost.com:
Since 2001, AvekHost.com has been providing quality web hosting services at an affordable monthly price. To learn more about AvekHost.com and available product offerings visit http://www.AvekHost.com.
Contact:
Michael Orta
AvekHost.com
734-657-5182
http://www.avekhost.com
Free Web Hosting From AvekHost.com
YES I HAVE COMPLETELY LOST MY MIND!
For a limited time AvekHost.com is providing 75MB of web hosting space absolutely free. This is a perfect opportunity for you to start working on that new site you have always want to with out the overhead, well since your web hosting is absolutely 100% free.
Now there is no doubt in mind that I will come to my senses shortly so you’ll definately want to take advantage of this limited time offer. It could end 20 minutes, 60 minutes, 24 hours, 1 week, but when it ends, it won’t be back anytime soon.
You can order your free web hosting account at http://www.avekhost.com/freewebhosting.html
Just check out what you’ll get included with your web hosting account…
No Forced Ads
Instant Account Set-Up (No SET UP FEES)
75 MB of space
1 GB of bandwidth
Online Support
PHP
CGI
Frontpage
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited Park Domains
Unlimited Sub-Domains
Unlimited FTP Accounts
Cpanel Control Panel
Free Site Builder
mySql database
Frontpage Extensions
PHP MyAdmin
Custom Error Pages
Email Filter
File Manager
Cpanel Control Panel
Website Statistics
Perl
SSI
Real Audio/Video HTTP Stream
4+ Instant Blogs
3+ Instant E-Commerce Systems
3+ Instant Image Galleries
2+ Instant Discussion Boards
Over 53 Pre-Installed Scripts
Web visitors/hit stats
Cronjobs
Password Protected Directories
web based email
and so much more.
Script Installer Information:
Blogs, b2evolution, Nucleus, pMachineFree, WordPress, Drupal, Geeklog, Joomla, MamboOpenSource, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, Siteframe, TYPO3, Xoops, CraftySyntaxLiveHelp, HelpCenterLive, osTicket, PerlDesk, PHPSupportTickets, phpBB2, SMF, CubeCart, OSCommerce,ZenCart, FAQMasterFlex, ViPERGuestbook, AccountLabPlus, phpCOIN, 4ImagesGallery, Coppermine, PHPlist, AdvancedPoll, phpESP, PHPSurveyor, dotProject, PHProjekt, ProEdition, TemplatesExpress, TikiWiki, PhpWiki, Dew-NewPHPLinks, Moodle, NoahsClassifieds, Open-Realty, phpAdsNew, PHPauction, phpFormGenerator, WebCalendar.
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