Advanced Drug
When I was approached for some work on a website for Advanced Drug Solutions, they had a project which had stalled, and they had largely... Continue reading→
East Lake Macquarie Anglican
The amalgamation of four parishes has resulted in the new Parish of East Lake Macquarie. This is, as it happens, the second website for the... Continue reading→
Mothers’ Union Newcastle
Mother's Union is so prevalent, and so quintessentially Anglican, that in many ways it seems a surprise to realise that it was founded internationally fairly... Continue reading→
Taree Anglican
There was an older website that this was written to replace. And this is indeed a second rewrite of the site following the appointment of... Continue reading→
WordPress Web Design
I work with clients. Together we develop a WordPress Web Design.
I want to help each client promote their business or organisation.
To attract visitors to their site.
My services include design, set-up, training and hosting.
The initial basic SEO is part of what I provide.
Website Information Document
Forms, in general, are nobody's favourite thing, however, they do represent a way of quickly assembling ideas and information. The form here, is not compulsory, however, I have found that it does have the capacity to speed up the process of building a website. (OK – yes I do know that it needs updating and that will happen soon enough.
Speed
Many Factors govern the speed of delivery of the landing page to the browser. These include
- content
- behind-the-scenes code and scripts.
- speed of database query execution.
- speed of the network on the web-server
- speed of the CPU on the server,
- and the capacity of the server to handle the bandwidth.
Many of the factors come down to the web host. To this end I have updated my hosting account to what is described as "turbo hosting' and my observation is that it is a good deal quicker.
Cost
In the end, you only have hearsay until you bite the bullet, open an account and check out what really happens. I have been using Crazy Domains for most of my WordPress sites, though for clients who already had sites I have used, MelbourneIT, and HostGator Currently, I am using A2 as a web host provider, though I normally manage domain name registration through Crazy Domains.
Hosting
So with some experience, I started off on the search for something better and I suspect that whilst better, some are more expensive. Charges seem to range between numbers like $29-$99 dollars a month. Ultimately I concluded that was not what many of my clients would want to pay, though I think there is the odd one around who would. I have used A2 Web Hosting for a number of years, They have been clean, consistent and easy to deal with. Their new turbo hosting option is a big step forward.