A few years ago, getting started on a new website, whether for blogging or commerce, required you to have the technical smarts to build it from scratch. For many, that meant paying hundreds to thousands of dollars to web designers, front- and back-end engineers, and even going through the hurdles of registering your ideal domain. Fortunately, today we have all-in-one website builders available to us at much lower costs, like Zyro. In fact, Zyro is currently offering a significant discount, exclusive to ZDNet readers, on all of its web-building services.

The use of eCommerce websites has never been more in demand than now. People these days are primarily introverts; we don’t usually like going outside if we can avoid it. As people grow more accustomed to their lives spent indoors rather than outdoors, reaching a customer base can be difficult when it comes to real life.

There’s only one obvious solution, take your business online! It’s easier said than done, but the results are incredibly fruitful and can help your business expand exponentially. You’ll have to use specific techniques to grow your business in the eCommerce world, which we all know as SEO.

SEO stands for search engine optimization; if you’re new to the eCommerce market, you may not know much about how best to convey your product out on the market. Luckily, we got…

Social media has revolutionised the way in which we interact with businesses and each other and has shown that it can be a generous friend to business owners and entrepreneurs, helping them to harness a following, build their brand and grow a worldwide customer base. The success of widely known brands, such as the Body Coach, Huda Beauty and Glossier, are testament to this; their founders capitalised on the reach of social media to plant the seeds of, and then scale, these now highly successful businesses.

The UK has long been a place of innovation, and the pandemic seems to have catalysed this further. During the recent lockdowns many discovered (or rediscovered) talents, skills and ideas, or simply dedicated more time to their existing passions. Through sharing posts on social…

HostGator offers three plans for shared web hosting, all with competitive pricing. The company also offers introductory offers where your first contract can be as low as $2.75 per month. After the terms of your offer are finished, the service goes back up to the standard pricing.

You can select between annual payments or a monthly plan. Here’s how the cost of each plan breaks down:

Hatchling plan:

• $10.95 per month for the month-by-month plan
• $8.95 per month for the annual plan (one payment of $107.40)
• $6.95 per month for the three-year plan (one payment of $250.20)

Baby plan:

• $11.95 per month for month-by-month plan
• $11.95 per month for the annual plan (one payment of $143.40)
• $9.95 per month for the three-year plan (one payment of $358.20)

Business…