The domain name is the “address” that you type in the browser to lookup one website, for this web site you surely typed www.bimos.be this is our domain name. A domain name can be bought from various vendors on line like www.godaddy.com there are others as well. The cost of a domain name varies from a vendor to another as well as on the “extension” you buy “.com, .be, .eu etc.” The “extension” is the end part of your domain …for commercial web sites .com is the most used. Some “extensions” have rules so not everybody can buy one. For example .ie domains can be bought only by Irish citizens or companies outside Ireland that can prove that they do business with Ireland.

If you want to know more about one particular domain name, you can go to www.who.is and type the domain name you want to look up, as a result you’ll get a lot of information about that domain: who owns it, when was it bought, when it was last updated, when will it expire and so forth. For the .be domains you can go to www.dns.be as well.

Domain names are paid once a year, they can be sold or transferred; there is a real market for domains out there. Once you have a domain name it’s your and you can sell it for a lot more that what you paid for. The most expensive domain in history as far as we know was www.business.com and it was sold for 345 mil $ in July 2007, bought by R.H. Donnelley.

A web hosting package:

This is the space on the internet that your web site will occupy, usually a web site is not big (between 50 MB and 200 MB max) unless you have lots of big movies or pictures. Every movie and picture has to be web adapted, that means that it’s size has to be maintained as small as possible while the quality stays fairly good!...if the size of a certain movie or even picture is big than certain internet users with a slow internet connection will have to wait to be able to see your content, and we don’t want our users to wait too much!

But the web hosting package is not only for your web site but will host your e-mails as well, once you buy a domain name ex. www.yourdomain.com you’ll also be able to set up e-mails like name at yourdomain.com, those e-mails will be hosted on the hosting package.

So how do I connect to this “hosting package” as to upload my web site?

This connection is done usually through a FTP-File Transfer Protocol and we have lots of software that does this mediation between your PC and your server Ex. CuteFTP or Total Commander – we recommend Total Commander as it’s free and work really well. Through this type of connection you can do all sorts of actions on your server like: upload, modify, rename and organize files.

A hosting package has a bandwidth limit what is that?

The bandwidth is the amount of transfer that your server is allowed to support. I say allowed because this allowance can be modify buy the hosting company! Let’s go back to the bandwidth and explain some more – Every time an internet user look at your web site he downloads temporarily parts of your site to his PC. That uses a little bit of your bandwidth and once you reached a certain limit your site will no longer be visible. But this is an extreme case as before the limit is reached you will repeatedly be warned.

A well design Web site:

A well designed web site is a website that points the user directly to what is important for him!

A well designed web site is a website that www.google.com prefers over other similar web sites competing for the same key words.

A well designed web site is a website that makes internet users talk about it.

A well designed web site is a website that looks the same in Fire Fox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape Navigator and other internet browsers.

A well designed web site is a website that will integrate new modules at a later stage without having to do major changes.

A well designed web site is a website that is designed by BIMOS.Be