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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.

Every website host is a little different, so making the right selection will differ greatly depending on what you intend to accomplish as the website owner. In definition, your web host acts as the storage location for the contents on your website, including the relevant files, photos, data, style sheets (CSS), and videos.

To provide guidance, we have provided a detailed outline of the steps worth considering to ensure your website can succeed with several criteria up for consideration.

Prioritize site features

Long before you begin evaluating website features, teams must sit down and determine their desired outcome, working backward to create a list of features that may help them achieve this. Website owners should write their list in order of priority to ensure that they can…

Over the past decade, the concept of the shop has been slowly but surely shifting from the old-fashioned brick-and-mortar business to the brand new world of virtual shopping. After this shift was accelerated by the pandemic, many shopkeepers were forced to choose between moving their stores online or closing them for good.

Some of these stores already had an online presence in the form of a website, so the only thing left to do was to upgrade it with a suitable set of ecommerce tools (basically, everything an old-school shop has but on the Internet). Other shopkeepers were new to the ways of the web and were challenged to start everything from scratch.

Gator, which is a part of the web hosting platform HostGator, is an affordable website builder ideal for creating simple websites with a template. It was listed as one of our top 10 website builders of 2021. The website builder is easy to use and comes with a drag-and-drop editor to make the process of building a website seamless and intuitive. There are two editor options: Traditional and Express. The first one comes with a list of templates, and the second one offers an even easier solution by building a template automatically based on your website category. Both of these options are available in Gator’s website builder packages.

Gator offers three different tiers for their subscription: Express Start, Express Site and Express Store. Here’s how the price…

With regular news stories about companies being hacked, database breaches, internet-breaking vulnerabilities and online credit card theft, web users are justifiably anxious about making online purchases for fear that their personal information will be compromised by attackers. But where does legitimate concern end and outright paranoia begin? In this post I will try to dispel some of this anxiety and equip users with knowledge on how to make safe purchases online.

It’s a Big, Scary Web

In a previous two-part series on this blog we detailed the general overview of the web’s ecommerce environment and discussed why some websites are more prone to credit card theft than others.

Ecommerce websites can be boiled down into two main categories: Ecommerce websites managed by dedicated…