That was well said. Always appreciate your indepth views. Keep up the great work!

John

You’ve got it right. I do promote some hosting accounts that provide you with templates and direction on building html websites and a hosting account that allows you to have multiple domains.

I’ve been building websites myself for the past 10 years now, and helping others get their own businesses started, and I’m finding that people new to this have a much smaller learning curve and better chance of success when they don’t have to build the types of websites that sitesell style hosts teach.

Sitesell, and most other hosts who provide templates and direction, teach people to build html driven websites with very little flexibility until you really learn the ropes of html design. Marketers make a healthy commission promoting these types of services to you because in the long run, you spend a lot more.

On the other hand, cheaper hosting accounts are the way most people are going now. They’re registering their domain names, and with just a few clicks installing content management software (called blogs) and start building their sites easily without all the fuss of cross linking, html code, and a pile of promotion and advertising.

This is too in depth to get into here, but blogs outperform html pages in the search engines, grow easily, and are far more visitor friendly. If you think a blog might be for you then make sure your new host is managed by something called cPanel (that allows for blog installs with just a few clicks). You also might like to see how easy blogging is by signing up for a free account over at wordpress.com. That free account won’t serve your needs in the long run, but you’ll learn the basics of WordPress (how to add an article, change page formats easily, make text bold, etc.) and you’ll also see how the site manages itself without having to learn html coding.

I may have added to your confusion about your best course of action to take with your website, but I wouldn’t have done it if I didn’t firmly believe that this is a much easier, more manageable way to get started online.

Truly, Laura Childs

Thanks for your reply. I’m glad I persevered there.

I think I’m thoroughly confused now. You see I got the impression from your website that this was a website building package,ie it teaches me how to build a website rather like sitesell. I’m looking at as many options before I commit myself.

Have I got it wrong or am I missing something here?

Your reply is much appreciated.

Regards
Bea

I sent you an email a few days ago where you asked this same question, but it must have been blocked by your email filters.

Here’s what my message said:

Bea, you don’t ever have to apologize for emailing me. Although sometimes I get out of my mind busy, I do my best to reply and help visitors as best I can…

If you click the link at the bottom of this page, that says My Favorite Host, then click on Web Hosting, and then you’ll see the Baby account.

It’s $9.95 month and you can host as many domains as you like with just that one account. It’s definately the best deal on the web, with great support and uptime.

Now for $6.95 month you can get the hatchling, but only ever host one domain on the account. And I do believe, that once you get one site up, you’ll want more so you might as well spend the extra $3/month.

At any rate, drop me a line whenever you need to ‘connect’ or ask a question about this business.

However, you’ll probably get a faster reply if you leave a message on the site, on any post, here: http://www.smartzville.com/marketing-help

Truly, Laura

I’m seriously thinking of having my own web site. On one of your previous pages you mentioned a ‘Shared – Baby’ package. could you please provide me a link or any additional info.

A reply would be much appreciated.

Regards
Bea