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I have found that it is important to learn from those that have found a way to be successful. This is not to say to copy what they are doing, but how they are doing. Lauren Hatch is a writer for Entrepreneur magazine and she summarizes a great article by Tamar Weinberg about creating a successful blog.

A blog is a wonderful way for you to keep your customer base informed on the topics you are an expert in  or keep them updated to the services and products you offer.

Here is Lauren Hatch’s article with links to the original:

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The first step in getting your company on the World Wide Web is to select a company to create your web site. The second step is to determine where your web site will be hosted. We hope that you would choose CovilleDesigns as the designer of your web site and now you can let CovilleDesigns host your site.

In order for your site to be accessible to everyone else, you need to have a host server to store your web site. There are many features to look for when choosing a host but there are a couple of key ones.

1. Server capacity. This is the amount of space you are allowed to use on the host hard drive.
2. Bandwidth. This determines how much information you are able to send to your visitors from the server.
3. Email accounts.
4. MySQL Databases. These are used to expand the features of your web site.
5. cPanel administration. cPanel has become the standard for the interface you use to manage your host account.

At CovilleDesigns we provide the most competitive standards for a fair price. For more information on CovilleDesign hosting plans you can go here.

Let me tell you about one of the most exciting pieces of software I have ever come across. Joomla has allowed web developers to create beautiful web sites with lots of functionality and dynamic content. On the other hand Joomla allows anyone to be able to manage all that content and function with little or no programming experience.

Joomla is a CMS, what is that? CMS stands for Content Management System. A CMS is a program that is loaded on your web server, dynamically displays content and add/remove content from one administrators screen.

All though there are several CMSs out there I have found Joomla to be my favorite for two reasons.

First reason is the large amount of extensions available for it. Joomla has a very active community of programmers that are creating new add ons for it all the time. These extensions are then used to give your web site additional functions or different ways to display content. Extensions can be anything from a complete eCommerce function to adding a daily Garfield comic to your site. Other CMSs have the same ability but I have found that the amount and the diversity of extensions on Joomla can not be matched.

The second reason is the themes. Joomla gives designers the ability to create beautiful templates that can be applied to Joomla sites easily. Joomla gives us the tools to place images and colors in anyplace that is needed to make a theme for your website that is eye popping. Some of the features of Joomla allows these themes to be customized to your sites desired presentation, whither that is a blog, a corporate information site or a sales generating eCommerce site.

As you can see there is a lot to love about Joomla. I am excited to have found Joomla and look forward to seeing what it will allow me to do in the future. As always, if you would like to have Joomla set up for your web site send me an email and I would be happy to make that happen.

Till next time, have fun!

Mike Coville