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#hosting – for small business

You need to have a vision for your online presence, but  do you know how to make it a reality?

Our team at  North Devon Web can provide a full range of services that will help you achieve your goals. We can repair and add new exciting features and functionality to your site. Whether your project will take minutes or  hours,  we are available to help you each step of the way. ‘Green’ web site – #hosting is available from us.

  • We can host websites on 100% wind energy servers
  • We offer very affordable hosting and design packages
  • Get your project delivered within a specific time frame
  • Perform regular maintenance on your website
  • Ensure good search engine optimization is employed
  • Send out professional HTML newsletters
  • Reduce your project costs
  • Build forms, databases, blogs and forums
  • Design images and logos
  • Test your site’s navigation

We can host websites on 100% wind energy servers. As energy awareness continues to grow, people are not just looking to make lifestyle adjustments, they want to make environmentally responsible decisions, this site is powered by renewable energy.

WordPress – a small business tool

Small businesses need to increase their web presence effectively and cheaply. There are a lot of free, and exceptional efficient tools out there and some are more powerful – getting your products into search engines – than expensive branded software and tools. This little step will help you stay in business.
One of our favorites is  WordPress which delivers a mighty bang when optimising a website. WordPress appeared in 2003, with a few users who were looking for a way to  enhance the typography of writing on the Web. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.
WordPress is in principle a blogging tool but, with the new updates, can be used to create a dynamic business website. It does require a bit of technical knowledge to set up, like creating and linking to a MySQL database – but we can help you.
MySQL is a database that is frequently used for Web applications. It’s fast and reliable and can store large quantities of data; several high-traffic Web sites use MySQL for data storage, including Google, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube and Wikipedia. When you install an application, such as WordPress, you need a MySQL database.
North Devon Web can help you with setting up a small business website powered by WordPress. North Devon Web  belongs to a network of websites that host in a green way.  North Devon Web is helping to prevent the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year by hosting on ‘Green Servers’ – as a result,  the network’s energy efficiency is equivalent to planting approximately 2,390 acres of trees, not driving 6.1 million miles, or removing 510 cars from the road. 

A schematic map of your website

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XML Sitemap protocol allows a webmaster, site owner or business to inform search engines about the pages on a website that are available for crawling. Likewise you can keep some pages ‘private’ by not listing them and providing there are no other links on your site to these private pages they will not be read by Search Engines. A search engine is not ‘magic’ you have to invite them in to crawl your pages, you have to open the door for them.
Complicated concepts when explained in a simple way make things easier to understand. Knowledge enables understanding, a schematic plan, a diagram or a map, is a key or a link to this understanding.  A Sitemap is an XML file (and this is exactly what it  is, a schematic map of your website) that lists the URLs contained on a site and contains additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.
Once you have created an XML sitemap and have loaded it up to your site what do you do with it? Google recommends you to first submit your Sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools. This means you will be able to validate your site, claiming ownership or access rights to the site, informing them you are responsible for updating, managing or optimizing etc. This will ensure that your Sitemap details are in your Webmaster Tools. In addition to your Webmaster Tools, you can also submit (and resubmit) your Sitemap using the following methods:
• Sending a HTTP request to Google
• Including your Sitemap location in your robots.txt file
If you want us to give you a Quote for a ‘Green’ web site, or manage your site, optimizing and generally removing the pressure away from you daily on line business please contact us via email.

#hosting – ‘Green’ web site

 North Devon web belongs to a network of websites that host in a green way.  North Devon Web is helping to prevent the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year by hosting on ‘Green Servers’ – as a result,  the network’s energy efficiency is equivalent to planting approximately 2,390 acres of trees, not driving 6.1 million miles, or removing 510 cars from the road.

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‘Green’ web site – #hosting

 North Devon web belongs to a network of websites that host in a green way.  North Devon Web is helping to prevent the release of 2,660 metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year by hosting on ‘Green Servers’ – as a result,  the network’s energy efficiency is equivalent to planting approximately 2,390 acres of trees, not driving 6.1 million miles, or removing 510 cars from the road.
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