First Time Web Presence
Most web design training companies including ourselves, offer their students project based tuition teaching their students all aspects of web design using programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver and Flash based on the students own projects, whether it be an exist project, one which their company has asked them to develop or a personal project that they are building in their spare time.
If students would like to have project based tuition but are not sure of the kind of project they would like start our consultants work with them to help them find a project that is both interesting and suitable for our training in order to get the best out of our courses.
Offers of Free Hosting
In order to learn every aspect of web design including buying and managing a domain name, changing name servers, managing their hosting accounts and uploading via an FTP server most training companies offer their students a free domain and free hosting from two weeks to two months so that students can be taught how to upload and get to know the CPanel but are then pitched to buy the hosting from the training company a short time after the course finishes.
Free Hosting Accounts Forever
At IT and Web Design we encourage our students to use free hosting and free domain names for their very first projects. There are some very good companies that offer banner free web hosting with their own control panel and in our experience the only negative side of using free hosting is that they lack good stat report facilities like Awstats and Webalizer but these days it isn’t really a concern as Google Analytics used on your site is a very good substitute.
One company that we tend to use for free webhosting and would refer to anybody is www.xtreemhost.com which offers 800mb of free hosting, their Vista Panels are very simple to use and supports Mysql and Myadmin. The only downfall we have found with using Xtreemhost is that if you have broken links on your site or links to pages that don’t exist or you’ve forgotten to upload your audience will find themselves in unchartered territory browsing round Xtreemhost’s sponsors’ websites.
Free Domain Names
For free domain names we recommend www.co.cc you might be put off from using a domain that ends in co.cc but to be frank we aren’t and it is well worth paying their site a visit and seeing what domain names they’re giving away. Co.cc domain names are great for getting to your targeted audiences but don’t expect grander names like ww.carinsurance.co.cc to be free. Prices on their site range from free to very expensive.
Do Free Domain Name’s and Free Hosting Affect Your Site’s Performance?
The answer is a simple no. As long as your free web hosting has its own FTP account then the only factor that can affect your sites performance is if your site isn’t search engine friendly or if you perform your sites SEO duties badly.
Conclusion
We have numerous partner sites that have been created with a free domain name and hosted on free hosting and all have a first page position with excellent page rank that get thousands of unique visits per month. Proving to us that free hosting and free domain names are well worth using.
www.itandwebdesign.com and www.seoservicesbangkok.co.cc are in no way affiliated with www.xtreemhost.com or www.co.cc .
