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Showing posts with label Web Hosting. Show all posts

Sunday

How To Earn Money Online As Web Designers And Web Developers

Posted By: Poketors - September 01, 2013
If you are a web designer or a web developer then you will definitely find this article helpful. If you are not then also you will find the ways and learn how to earn as a web designer or a web developer.

How To Earn Money Online As Web Designers And Web Developers

Lets start with the people who don't know about web designing or web development at all. If you are looking for resource for learning web designing, here are some landing pages that we would like to recommend:

Learning From Free Website :

1. Codecademy : Easy tutorials available on JavaScript, HTML and CSS, jQuery, Ruby, and Python from scratch and for free.

2. W3Schools : This website is one of the most visited websites for learners. It is a preferred place to start learning HTML and CSS, the foundations of building a website.

Learning From Paid Website :

1. TeamTreeHouse : Informative video tutorials available about business, web design, and web development for the absolute beginner.

2. Tuts+ Premium :  It offers several courses and video tutorials about web design and web development, this is one of the most popular learning website available today.

What is a web designer and a web developer?

A web designer designs templates in Adobe Photoshop (or another editor) and that’s the end of it, while web developers are responsible for the code that is written. It is a requirement that every web designer knows how to code their web templates, it basically means knowing how to use HTML and CSS which helps to develop websites.

Web Designers And Web Developers

How To Earn Money As A Web Designer :

If you have a good understanding of HTML and CSS and Adobe Photoshop then you are ready to start your job as web designer. Do not be disheartened. If you know you can do it, you can do it. 
Here is a list of things for web designers, web developers, graphic designers, and other tech savvy people can do to earn money online.

1. Writing How To Articles For Web Design Blogs :

If you are aware of the web designing technologies and have in depth knowledge then you can start writing articles for web design blogs so that you can get paid for your articles. Depending on the web design blog you are writing for, they pay you around $50 to $100 per article.

Required Skills : 

1. Proper understanding of the web technologies topics for which you will be writing
2. Good at writing in English

How To Start : 

1. Start your own blog and share your tips and techniques there and earn from advertising (which takes months before you actually earn).
2. Be a guest blogger and write for any established web design and web development blogs 

2. Print Designing :

Plenty of print design jobs are available over the net. If you know how print design works, you will never have problems accomplishing tasks given to you.  But remember one thing your work should be unique so that you can get noticed.

Required Skills : 

1. Designing, creativity and unique style
2. Should have knowledge in image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop.

How To Start :

1. Get requirements from clients
2. Send some sample designs to clients
3. Once client finalizes one of them, work on that and provide best service to your client
3. Selling Web Templates :

This is little bit harder task bur very much interesting thing. If you know the whereabouts of web designing and development things then it is very much easier job for you to create web template and offer to your clients. It is also a great way to build up a portfolio and show it on your blog.

Required Skills : 

1. Understanding of designing and development tools.
2. Should have knowledge in image editing tools like Adobe Photoshop.

How To Start :

1. Design a web template or web elements.
2. Show products in marketplaces like Elegant Themes with price tag.
3. Market your products to increase the chances of people buying your stuff by sharing in social media.

4. Selling Graphic Elements - Logos, Icons :

You can design logos and icons for web and mobile interfaces, web elements so that other designers can use for their designs.

Required Skills : 

1. Designing of icon and logo efficiency.
2. Knowledge on Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop or similar tools.
5. Offering Web Design and Web Hosting Combo :

You can offer your clients web designing as well as web hosting service which would be a complete solution for your customers. They need not to go to a vendor for hosting and other for web designing.
instead of doing this you can host their websites with a monthly fee. You might offer some free maintenance service to delight customer.

Required Skills : 

1. Understanding of how web hosting services work, how to set up a website, how to manage through the control panel. A lot of reseller packages have free tutorials that can get your web hosting service running in few hours.
2. Web design skills to make a website according to your client's requirement.

How To Start :

1. Set up your web hosting service. it may take some time.
2. Once you have started the hosting service, promote your service to attract clients.
3. If you get customers and start building their website and host their website on your server.

It is a great idea to host your clients’ website which means receiving monthly payments. It’s one of those source which will ensure your regular monthly payment.

Resource : Web Hosting For Beginners

How To Earn Money As A Web Developer :

If you’re aware of the web development skills then it will be very easy task for you to go ahead. if you're new to web development but you want to be one, here are some resources and guides that can help you to be a web developer.

1.  Website Handyman :

A web developer who can fix a website’s problem, upgrade or develop extra features whenever required, and like a website’s resident web developer.

Required Skills : 

1. Knowledge on web hosting
2. Should have knowledge on PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and some other web development languages.
How To Start :

1. Can start your service as adding features, upgrades, and maintaining the entire website, or network of websites.
2. Can take up project based work that take days or weeks to accomplish. It is basically a time framed task.

2. PSD to HTML/CSS :

You can convert PSD templates into working websites with the help of HTML/CSS coding.

Required Skills : 

1. Knowledge on Adobe Photoshop.
2. Knowledge on HTML/CSS
How To Start :

Get clients and take orders and accordingly convert their PSD to websites.

3. WordPress Theme Developer :

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform and it is growing day by day. Be a theme developer and sell your theme or temple online.

Required Skills : 

1. Knowledge on HTML and CSS
2. Understanding of PHP 
3. WordPress platform, tools and plugins
4. Knowledge on desiging

How To Start :

1. Start designing a web template
2. Convert into HTML/CSS file
3. Make the WordPress theme,
4. List your themes online for sale.

Resource : WordPress To Go: How To Build A WordPress Website On Your Own Domain, From Scratch, Even If You Are A Complete Beginner

4. Selling Scripts and Snippets :

A lot of website owners are looking for ready made scripts and snippets and if you provide them as per their requirement then you can make money by doing that.

Required Skills : 

1. Knowledge on JavaScript or PHP
2. Knowledge on HTML and CSS

How To Start : 

Design the template and make sure that your scripts and snippets are compatible and can be run on all the blogging platforms.

Find below some best selling paid tutorials which will give you step by step instructions on building website and hosting it, at the same time learning HTML/CSS, PHP, JavaScript and Photoshop Tools.

  

Here is what we have for you if you are ready to make money as web designer or a web developer. Share your views too if you find any other way.

Thursday

How Safe Is Your Website [Infographic]

Posted By: Poketors - August 15, 2013
Thousands of website owners and bloggers complain about the problem related to site hacking or tampering. But have you ever thought that how many of them are able to protect their blog/website from this issue? Very few because they keep committing mistakes like hosting their sites on a very cheap domain hosting service provider, giving a weak username and password, gaining access to FTP link and several threats to website/blogs.

How Safe Is Your Website [Infographic]


What is the solution for this. There is not a single or one word answer for this. You have to opt for a better and secure hosting, give strong password, verify your website with crawl errors, visibility. We found a very well described infographic which explains how to make your blog safe.

How Safe Is Your Website
Source : WhoIsHostingThis

Saturday

How To Select Free Web Hosting For Your First Blog

Posted By: Arin Dey - September 24, 2011
Blogger or WordPress are basically the blogging platform where you launch and start blogging. But as you grow as a blogger on web and have published good amount of posts, it's time to move or opt for web hosting. The reason behind is that you will be now concentrating on earning from your blogs and mostly you need to pay attention to your blog readers. Here you need to switch to web hosting; it means you need to move your whole blog from Blogger or WordPress to some web hosting sites where you can manage your blogs and modify using coding which was not allowed in those blogging platform. Now you can choose a hosting domain from various hosting providers and that are offering a free service with premium features.

How To Select Free Web Hosting For Your First Blog

Most of the bloggers opt for a free hosting as they are not ready to invest for monthly fee or their blogs are not getting that much viewers. So overall you can get your blog on a platform where you can design and modify as you want.

Basic advantages of Free Web Hosting :

To host a blog free of cost is somehow saves money and somehow bloggers get the experience of web hosting. No monthly or annual fee is required for your domain to be hosted on web. If you want a domain name then you can go for a domain name with a small payment. 

We can line up some of the benefits of free web hosting:

1. No burden of paying the hosting company on monthly basis or yearly basis and no time frame is there.

2. Free web hosting companies do not limit your number of blogs to be hosted on their domains hence eliminating the option to think that you have a limitation. So you can create a second or third blog easily whenever you want.

3. Most of the free web hosting companies have similar features to that of premium web hosting with some useful features.

4. The basic features like cPanel, Website Builder, Email accounts are also available in free web hosting sites.

Well, now it's the time to move your blog to some free web hosting platforms mentioned below :
www.000webhost.com, www.free-webhosts.com, www.webs.com, www.x10hosting.com, www.freehostingeu.com, www.biz.nf, www.biz.ly
Please check the terms and conditions before you move to free hosting domains.

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