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Websites are critical both for conveying a brand identity, communicating information and performing transactions. While it's not necessary for leaders to know how to build websites, they benefit from understanding how websites can be constructed economically and impressively.
-When you buy a domain name this does not actually give you the capability to post content on your page. You must first choose a method for "hosting" your site.
-For large organizations such as Amazon, hosting generally means owning either owning one or many powerful computer with all your website content hosted. Setting up a system like this requires significant investment, specialized knowledge and upkeep.
-But for most small website builders, the better solution is to buy the right to host your website content on a 3rd party's system. It's analogous to renting a car for a day – you can use it to handle your traffic, but at the end of the day it's returned to the owners garage.
-The difference between a great hosting service and a bad one depends on a combination of price per bandwidth and storage combined with customer service and reliability.
-Website Hosting:
-For large organizations such as Amazon, hosting generally means owning either owning one or many powerful computer with all your website content hosted. Setting up a system like this requires significant investment, specialized knowledge and upkeep.
-But for most small website builders, the better solution is to buy the right to host your website content on a 3rd party's system. It's analogous to renting a car for a day – you can use it to handle your traffic, but at the end of the day it's returned to the owners garage.
-The difference between a great hosting service and a bad one depends on a combination of price per bandwidth and storage combined with customer service and reliability.
-Website Hosting:
-Barring highly complex and customized interfaces, when you hire a programmer to build a website, he's likely to be about 75% finished before even starting. This is because, like most other areas of life, the expert works from a template rather than from scratch.
-It's like starting a pitch with forty standard slides out of fifty at an investment bank or using classic chords in a novel combination as a musician.
-Rather than taking offense at the template strategy, try to use it to your advantage.
-If you find a website that you really like, consider figuring out who programmed the site, then contact them and ask for a near clone at deep discount.
-Assuming they don't have an exclusive agreement with the website owner, chances are they'll agree. The website designer/programmer's information is often displayed at the bottom of the homepage.
-Website Templates
-It's like starting a pitch with forty standard slides out of fifty at an investment bank or using classic chords in a novel combination as a musician.
-Rather than taking offense at the template strategy, try to use it to your advantage.
-If you find a website that you really like, consider figuring out who programmed the site, then contact them and ask for a near clone at deep discount.
-Assuming they don't have an exclusive agreement with the website owner, chances are they'll agree. The website designer/programmer's information is often displayed at the bottom of the homepage.
-Website Templates
-Wikis are "websites or similar online resources which allow users to add and edit content collectively."
-They were popularized through the creation of Wikipedia, but have many possible uses beyond encyclopedia articles. For example, wikis can be used to explicate the rules, regulations or culture of an organization. They can also be used to capture the knowledge underlying a manufacturing or routine process.
-Thanks to open source code, even moderately competent programmers can build basic wiki functionality into an organization's website and good programmers can incorporate highly customizable applications
-Wiki Websites:
-They were popularized through the creation of Wikipedia, but have many possible uses beyond encyclopedia articles. For example, wikis can be used to explicate the rules, regulations or culture of an organization. They can also be used to capture the knowledge underlying a manufacturing or routine process.
-Thanks to open source code, even moderately competent programmers can build basic wiki functionality into an organization's website and good programmers can incorporate highly customizable applications
-Wiki Websites:
-Part of running a successful organization is to make sure you have useful feedback from your operations.
- Brick and mortar businesses use such tools as managerial accounting, defect measurement, and so on.
-The analogous feedback mechanism for a website is to track traffic statistics.
-At the most basic level, a "hit counter" records the number of visits to the page per duration of time.
-At the most sophisticated levels, stat trackers will record everything imaginable about the activities of users on your website including how many pages they visit, for how long and which links they click on to navigate.
-There are literally hundred of stats tracking companies that vary by price, quantity and reliability of data.
-Statistics Tracking:
- Brick and mortar businesses use such tools as managerial accounting, defect measurement, and so on.
-The analogous feedback mechanism for a website is to track traffic statistics.
-At the most basic level, a "hit counter" records the number of visits to the page per duration of time.
-At the most sophisticated levels, stat trackers will record everything imaginable about the activities of users on your website including how many pages they visit, for how long and which links they click on to navigate.
-There are literally hundred of stats tracking companies that vary by price, quantity and reliability of data.
-Statistics Tracking: