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I’m offering two different plans right now. All of these plans offer a variety of support or mentoring to help with establishing your website.

Getting Started
Before you pay a penny, I will contact you to find out your needs, your skill levels and web hosting management needed. I will then offer you a proposal which we can discuss to see if it is appropriate or not. After that, you can think about it.

Two Plans for You!
Once payment is received, it will take about three to four days for everything to be completed. All plans payable on an annual basis ONLY.

Plan Double Espresso Plan Cappuccino Plan
Price Per Month $6.95pm $8.95pm
Your own domain .com/.net/.org/etc. .com/.net/.org/etc.
File Space Available space 25GB space 50GB
Transfer Data transfer 50GB transfer 100GB+
FTP User One FTP User One FTP User

Additional Features

I can help installing and making sure the PHP applications that you want to run are up and working. You can use this space to:

  1. host your blog with WordPress or some other choices
  2. email and file storage (no need to run around with discs, CDs or USB keys anymore) with your own downloadable application that turns your online storage into a virtual diskdrive, just like c:/ and accessible everywhere.
  3. personal homepage via HTML
  4. photograph album with Coppermine or Zenphoto.
  5. your own online store with Zencart.
  6. your own discussion forums with PHPBB2 or SMF forums.
  7. your own online magazine/content with Joomla or another CMS system
  8. you can create an online classroom environment with Moodle.org
  9. your own Wiki!..

Each of these will come with its own database, management of which I will help with until you’re confident.

I’ve handled websites with clients for several years, so you can have a look at the client list (updated Feb. 1st, 2009).

Payment Methods

Once you reach a decision, payment can be made in several ways:

* Paypal (will include a 5% surcharge to cover Paypal’s increasingly extravagant charges),
* Bank or Post Office transfer (only in Taiwan),
* NT$ check drawn on local bank,
* US$ check drawn on a US Bank (will include a NT$200 surcharge for cashing),
* Cash in person (if you come to Taipei!)

Acceptable currencies are US$, Euros and New Taiwan Dollars (exch. US$1=NT$30.5 approx Feb 27th, 2014.)

Contact Me!

Contact me with Hosting in the subject. I will contact you within 24 hours. Before you consider purchasing any webhosting anywhere, you should note: Any activity/website hosted must agree to the terms and conditions of my own upline hosting company. Failure to abide by these terms may result in immediate termination of the agreement/contract without refund. I will supply a complete TOS to those who are interested.

Best Wishes
Kenneth

Would you like to create a blog for your company or existing site?

This was written as a proposal for a project last year. I thought I would share the outlines for readers interested in blogging part- or full-time or looking to develop a portfolio for an existing static site.

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Are you considering having a blog to complement your existing website? Do you need help to get started with the whole blogging thing? If so, then this paper outlines the basic idea in section 1; the steps to implementing the program in section 2; and Developing your Properties in section 3.

1. A BLOG: A natural traffic magnet

I think the best way to attract traffic to your website would be to use a blog as a blog has a natural advantage over a static site. In fact, a blog can attract traffic with quality posting as long as you have something to say of interest to people. Additionally, having a blog allows you to build traffic through RSS Feeds, comments, trackbacks and a whole host of online aggregators and web 2.0 media.

This would be the fastest approach to gaining traffic, though when I say fast it would be some months to build up a following. The blog would need an identifiable persona that can play off the notion of credit cards and build some fun into the whole process of searching, applying for and using credit cards. It is also a way to bring people BACK to the website… otherwise you may see traffic apply for cards and NEVER come back because they can’t find or don’t remember the website.

2. Steps to Implementation

  1. First, Setting Up A Blog. Establish a blog (WordPress 2.7) with a bunch of themes, and a selection of plugins in a subdirectory of your main website. Set up a blog as integral part of your site, linked from an obvious place in the top of the bar and in a very similar ‘theme’ to the website. The blog of course would have links to the rest of the site as well.
  2. Second, Metrics. Establish some metrics as a base from which to start. The metrics would help establish tracking and even help target customers to the offers in the other part of the site.
  3. Third, Regular Posting. Start a regular posting schedule. With some initial content, say 20 posts that are quality and not too long, begin the next step. Do make sure your content is unique, well written. It doesn’t have to be long, but it has to be pertinent.
  4. Fourth, Publicity. Have the blog join all sorts of Web2.0 communities to gain friends/traffic, such as Technorati, and several other blog services. This would certainly help but it would require some weeks or even months of work. There are a number of other tips and tricks that can help to establish a blog that can drive traffic to your website.
  5. Fifth, Capitalize on the Traffic. This is where your efforts on the website would pay off by capitalizing on the resultant traffic. Slowly add advertising in whatever form you think is appropriate for your audience. Don’t go overboard.

3. Developing your Property

There are tons of new ways of getting traffic these days: Twitter, Flickr, Squidoo, Hubpages, Technorati,… while it’s not important to stay on top of them all. There are just too many to start with. You may want to pick a few of the services, and learn how to use them. Each one you learn paves the way for a future project, traffic or opportunities.

Much is made of Web 2.0, and much is hot air. But you may find that there are valuable tie-ins to your proposed blog from communities of like-minded people. Then you’ll find that Web 2.0 really works.

Conclusion

Obviously you have to decide if this is a route you want to take, whether it is worth spending so much money on your website, and what metrics you will need to use to evaluate success or failure. I do believe that adding a blog can really add a whole new dynamic to your existing site. But it isn’t an instant success. It needs application, focus, and time.