F.A.Q's

Question - What is the purpose of a website?
Answer - Each type of website has a different approach but the main purpose of all website is awareness, whether it is a medical or business even customer.

Question - What are the different types of websites?
Answer - There are 4 main catergories of a website,
A. Forums or bulletin boards, these generally are used for finding help and a way of talking to real people for solutions.
B. Information websites, very simular to this website, a way of creating awareness of your companys service and expanding clientel. Also there are more information website that give details and advice on products or life situations.
C. Social networking Websites, Almost everyone know's what these are even without relising it, these websites are built on software to join people together, and if you haven't guessed already there are a quite a few about, here is a short list:- FACEBOOK, MYSPACE, TWITTER, BEBO.
D. Now the last type but not the least is commerce websites, these are unlike any of the above, commerce sites offer product in a exchange for money, in short ONLINE SHOPPING, such as TESCO, AMAZON, PLAY.COM the list is nearly endless.

Question - What is Hosting?
Answer - Hosting is a sevice which provides webspace.

Question - What is webspace?
Answer - Webspace is literally as it sounds, space on the internet, the purpose of this is to store information like websites, documentation and emails remotely from your home or business computers and is measured in MegaBytes (MB) and GigaBytes (GB).

Question - What is Bandwidth?
Answer - Bandwidth is the sending and receiving for information to and from your websapce, and is measured in MegaByes (MB) and GigaByte (GB) and is generally limited depending on cost.

Question - What is FTP?
Answer - FTP is technicaly known as File Transfer Protocol, in short is a way of transfering files to and from your PC, to your webspace.

Question - What is a domain Name?
Answer - A domain name is the address of your website (ie www.yourdomainname.co.uk).

Question - What is a name server?
Answer - A name server is where your webspace and website is stored, without this your site could not be found at all. not even by the domain name.