Building a bespoke tailoring website
Domain Name - This was an easy choice for us since http://www.greenandjacks.com/ was available
Hosting - If you will believe it we have moved around a bit after we first migrated from the software companies web hosting. We started with a hosting that was recommended by the software company which we subsequently found that it did not have some of the components which were required to make our site work. We then moved to a UK hosting company which was the right thing to do for SEO and capturing UK related traffic. After experiencing intermittent service quality we decided to move to hostgator in the USA who seem to be brilliant at what they do. This also shows that we were prepared to forgo and work harder at the SEO to get a quality service. To date I have no regrets on this since we were not prepared to take a low quality service to me its the same as the raw materials we purchase we were not prepared to compromise on quality for an easier way! The other piece of advice is to always have two hosting accounts with the same provider a live and a test site so that you do not play with technology that your customer may be using at the time.
Technology - We went for the LAMP architecture. LAMP stands for Linux, Appache, My SQL, PHP, For the fellow technophobes out there I may sound clever but I did not know about this till I started working on http://www.greenandjacks.com/. As far as I know there are two popular routes for building database driven websites. .Net and LAMP. LAMP is the open source version and .NET is the Microsoft equivalent. We decided to go for LAMP since there were lots of companies and freelancers available to program with this technology.
Requirements - We had so many changes in requirements since what we started with was an offline process and by the time we finished we realised that we had over engineered some requirements and not thought about quite a few items. So my lesson was to choose a provider who will be flexible and will not charge a lot more to change a few a the requirements.
What next?
Choosing the technology provider
Bye for now
Jack @ Green and Jacks - Bespoke Shirtmaker
Hosting - If you will believe it we have moved around a bit after we first migrated from the software companies web hosting. We started with a hosting that was recommended by the software company which we subsequently found that it did not have some of the components which were required to make our site work. We then moved to a UK hosting company which was the right thing to do for SEO and capturing UK related traffic. After experiencing intermittent service quality we decided to move to hostgator in the USA who seem to be brilliant at what they do. This also shows that we were prepared to forgo and work harder at the SEO to get a quality service. To date I have no regrets on this since we were not prepared to take a low quality service to me its the same as the raw materials we purchase we were not prepared to compromise on quality for an easier way! The other piece of advice is to always have two hosting accounts with the same provider a live and a test site so that you do not play with technology that your customer may be using at the time.
Technology - We went for the LAMP architecture. LAMP stands for Linux, Appache, My SQL, PHP, For the fellow technophobes out there I may sound clever but I did not know about this till I started working on http://www.greenandjacks.com/. As far as I know there are two popular routes for building database driven websites. .Net and LAMP. LAMP is the open source version and .NET is the Microsoft equivalent. We decided to go for LAMP since there were lots of companies and freelancers available to program with this technology.
Requirements - We had so many changes in requirements since what we started with was an offline process and by the time we finished we realised that we had over engineered some requirements and not thought about quite a few items. So my lesson was to choose a provider who will be flexible and will not charge a lot more to change a few a the requirements.
What next?
Choosing the technology provider
Bye for now
Jack @ Green and Jacks - Bespoke Shirtmaker
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