Recent content by DomHobson

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    how to find customer ?

    Spread the word of your business. Let people know about it, what it is, what you do, and why you do it better than others. If you do this and truely offer a useful service, then they will come in time.
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    Page Ranking

    I'm not sure about it being useless. The PageRank algorithm is what made google famous. It's a recurssive algorithm the rates sites taking into account not only on the number of links to it, but also the pagerank value of these links. Even if it does get discountinued for use, it's still an...
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    What about Domain Hosting if I switch to Virgin Fibre Optic Broadband?

    Business lines have better retention ratio, so less people occupy the same wire which prevents slow downs at peak times. If you're wanting to host yourself, and you have a residential internet line, read your ISP ToS because some will not allow you to run webserver software. You can host with...
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    Ebay, Amazon and...own Website???

    I had a friend that tried this a couple of years ago. He was selling sports goods and memorabilia on eBay and doing a good job of it. He splashed out £1k on a website for it. It was quite a nice looking website, lots of keywords ranked okay, but never really took off. Despite having a presence...
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    SearchACampus - need help regarding promotion/marketing

    Yup, advertise to students, fliers etc in local university hotspots. Also, there's loads of student forums out there. Posting useful and helpful content in those, with a link in your signature will also help a lot:) Dom.
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    Website been hacked how can I clean & protect it

    First thing to do would be change your account passwords just to be safe.
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    site traffic distribution seems odd

    Is there any other info in your logs that suggest strange behaviour? e.g. are your average page viewing times abnormally short? Also, have a look through your referring pages in AWStat, see if there's any major indian traffic sources. Hope this helps:)
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    Do you need to be a formally registed company b4 thinking about investment/trading

    I went to the back to setup a business account. It was quite qiuck and easy although i wasn't looking for money, just a business account. I initially wanted to register a limited company but decided going as sole trader would be more appropriate. It's very quick and easy to set up as a sole...
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    Hello there=]

    Hi, I'm Dom, just going into my last year of a Computing Science degree in North Wales. I've been doing bits of web design on and off since the ages of 16, and am now in the process of starting a web design and hosting business. This forum seems a good place to get help and advice I need - I'm...
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    Advice on what to use......

    Alternatively, if you have photoshop, theres plenty of tutorials on creating professional looking designs from scratch - I regularly checkout pages like that when looking for web design effects, ideas and how to apply them. I'd post a link, but I'm still too new:( Dom.
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    How to get my documents online?

    Either that or try google docs or similar, you'll be able to access and edit documents on computers without word on them too:) Dom.
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    Ian Huntley sues for damages.

    I don't think he shoud be sueing the prison. I don't think he should have his throat slashed either. BUUUT he wouldn't be in a situation to get his throat slashed if he hadn't of murdered people. "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime" Dom.
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    Interesting idea for a website !

    Haha, a very smart creation. I was a bit confused at first, but it was worth the wait. Dom
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    Mobile broadband for watching TV on demand

    o2 offer boltons and such with their Pay as you go sims which can get you free bandwidth. If you don't already have a phone capable of supporting TV on demand, i'd recommend looking at a contract - that way you get a phone and a loads of included internet time.
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    upload area/ member profile areas on website

    Joomla! would be able to do it. However, there are a lot of scripts tailored already for job agencies. You pay for them (either one off or monthly) and you can customise it how you like. A quick google shows this page with a few job agency scripts: < wouldn't let me post a url as im a new user...