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		<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Typography</strong> is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/web-hosting-articles/35-fresh-high-quality-free-fonts-for-professional-designers/">35 Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Designers</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk">Build Me A Fab Website</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Typography</strong> is the art and techniques of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Display typography is a potent element in graphic design, where there is less concern for readability and more potential for using type in an artistic manner.</p>
<p>The proper selection of typography can convert your normal design into very attractive piece of art. Among other things, effective typography manages to achieve three necessary objectives of web designing are Look, Appearance and Outcome which helps you to keep apart from normal wave.</p>
<p>Below you’ll find <strong>Collection of Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts to Enhance Your Designs</strong> by which you can save money and focus on making great applications.<br />
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<p>The basic purpose behind this post is to show you <strong>Popular, Artistic and most importantly Free Downloadable</strong> font types to save your time searching them online. Direct download link available for the entire fonts.</p>
<p>You can also find some related free references at the end of the post. Just make sure to read the license agreements carefully as they can change from time to time.</p>
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<h1><span>Fresh High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs</span></h1>
<p>We know that typography can be used as a way of mutual understanding between you and your users. To communicate effectively, typography requires appropriate typefaces as there are a lot of unsung fonts out there that have really inspired us. Color and size of type elements are much more prevalent than in text typography. Most display typography exploits type at larger sizes, where the details of letter design are magnified. Color is used for its emotional effect in conveying the tone and nature of subject matter.</p></div>
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<h4><span>01. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Piron</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.typedepot.com/fonts/Piron" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/870a4_fhqfffpd-01.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.typedepot.com/download/49" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>02. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Crimson Text</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://aldusleaf.org/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8e41c_fhqfffpd-02.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://aldusleaf.org/crimson_text_100728.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>03. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Amperisk</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.110design.ru/download.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8e41c_fhqfffpd-03.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.110design.ru/download/Amperisk.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>04. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">AGE</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontfabric.com/age-free-font/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6682e_fhqfffpd-04.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontfabric.com/downloadfont/age.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>05. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">St Ryde (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/stereotypes/st-ryde/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3fcb3_fhqfffpd-05.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/stereotypes/st-ryde/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>06. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Planer (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/northernblock/planer/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/3fcb3_fhqfffpd-06.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/northernblock/planer/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>07. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Oblik (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.fontspring.com/fonts/tour-de-force/oblik" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/508e5_fhqfffpd-07.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.fontspring.com/fonts/tour-de-force/oblik" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>08. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Oblik Serif (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/oblik-serif" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6610c_fhqfffpd-08.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.fontspring.com/fonts/tour-de-force/oblik-serif" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>09. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">SAF</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontfabric.com/saf-free-font/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6610c_fhqfffpd-09.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontfabric.com/downloadfont/saf.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>10. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ingleby</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.dafont.com/ingleby.font" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/4abb1_fhqfffpd-10.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=ingleby" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>11. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">St Marie</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/St-Marie/551975" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9a29b_fhqfffpd-11.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://files.stereotypes.de/type/StMarie-Thin.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>12. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fat Vodka Font</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://ataldathais.deviantart.com/art/Fat-Vodka-Font-171929981" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9a29b_fhqfffpd-12.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/171929981/Fat_Vodka_Font_by_ataldathais.otf" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>13. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sumkin</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Sumkin-Typeface-and-Bext-type/582490" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/720f5_fhqfffpd-13.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://narod.ru/disk/22817758000/Sumkin%20type!.zip.html" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>14. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Folk (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/tipos-pereira/folk/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/22e32_fhqfffpd-14.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/tipos-pereira/folk/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>15. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Raptor Sans</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Raptor-Sans-Free-Font/600147" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/22e32_fhqfffpd-15.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/124430703/Raptor_Sans_font_by_rotweiler83.ttf" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>16. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Eordeoghlakat</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://bumbayo.deviantart.com/art/Font-quot-Eordeoghlakat-quot-173602901" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/84237_fhqfffpd-16.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/173602901/Font___Eordeoghlakat___by_bumbayo.rar" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>17. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Adec</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Typeface-Adec-%28free%29/626869" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8a49d_fhqfffpd-17.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://sergeshidesign.narod.ru/fonts/ss_adec.otf" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>18. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Octavius (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/354734" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8a49d_fhqfffpd-18.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/354734" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>19. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Olney Light (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/philatype/olney/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/12987_fhqfffpd-19.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/philatype/olney/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>20. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Sega</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://26plus-zeichen.de/fonts/sega/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/11a96_fhqfffpd-20.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://26plus-zeichen.de/wp-content/uploads/3h_sega.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>21. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Aura</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Free-Font--Aura/614976" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/43ac5_fhqfffpd-21.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.jamesbirks.co.uk/Aura-Regular.ttf" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>22. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Guayule (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/308677" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/43ac5_fhqfffpd-22.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/308677" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>23. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Irvine High</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://asianpride7625.deviantart.com/art/Irvine-High-172110221" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9d550_fhqfffpd-23.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/172110221/Irvine_High_by_asianpride7625.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>24. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bext type!</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Sumkin-Typeface-and-Bext-type/582490" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/43d29_fhqfffpd-24.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.dafont.com/bext.font" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>25. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Alter (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/andrey-kudryavtsev/alter/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/43d29_fhqfffpd-25.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/andrey-kudryavtsev/alter/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>26. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">CR21 Modern</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.dafont.com/cr21modern.font" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1d6ad_fhqfffpd-26.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://img.dafont.com/dl/?f=cr21modern" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>27. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">HoneyScrip’</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://letsgetcrazier.deviantart.com/art/HoneyScrip-171865985" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/1d6ad_fhqfffpd-27.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/171865985/HoneyScrip___by_letsgetcrazier.rar" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>28. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">A/BRU Subtle</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://alexbruno.net/work/abru_subtle/abru_subtle.html" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/796c0_fhqfffpd-28.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://alexbruno.net/work/abru_subtle/ABRU_Subtle.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>29. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Depot Trapharet 2D (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/2d-typo/depot-trapharet-2d/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/56886_fhqfffpd-29.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/2d-typo/depot-trapharet-2d/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>30. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nobile</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.newtypography.co.uk/" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7816f_fhqfffpd-30.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.newtypography.co.uk/fonts/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>31. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Legere (Registration Required)</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/326545" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7816f_fhqfffpd-31.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/fontstructions/show/326545" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>32. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">01.BASE</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/01_BASE/583294" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c63a4_fhqfffpd-32.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.filefront.com/17107005/01.BASE.zip/" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>33. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ElementalEnd</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://futuremillennium.deviantart.com/art/ElementalEnd-172517311" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c63a4_fhqfffpd-33.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/172517311/ElementalEnd_by_FutureMillennium.zip" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
<h4><span>34. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Alt Retro</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.behance.net/gallery/Alt-Retro-Typeface/592502" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6e980_fhqfffpd-34.jpg" alt="instantShift - Latest Free Fonts For Your Designs" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.mediafire.com/?kd1i1x618mg1ipn" target="_blank">Font Download</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Search engine optimization used to be the holy grail of getting more traffic. Placing high in search engine rankings for prime keywords related to your niche could send thousands of visitors to your site on a regular basis. But more and more, search engine traffic isn’t as important to most websites. They’re finding their traffic from other places.</p>
<p>What do you think the reason for this. Here in this post we trying to explain why search engine optimization doesn’t matter anymore and what are the alternatives for getting more and more traffic.</p>
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<h1><span>7 Reasons SEO Doesn’t Matter Anymore</span></h1>
<p>Social media is a big part of the blame for this situation. People can now ask their friends or complete strangers for recommendations on virtually anything, and get human-filtered results within minutes through Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking sites. Internet users are also becoming more savvy and can cut through search results to find the best content, regardless of optimal placement for the best keywords.</p>
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<p>Even in cases where search engines still send significant traffic to a site, search engines are becoming so much more intelligent that it’s getting harder and harder to get good placement unless you’re providing the best content.</p>
<p>Read on fore more information about what’s making search engine optimization less important, what you should do about it, and even when it still is important.</p>
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<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">1. Facebook</span></span></h4>
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<p>More often than not, people aren’t using search engines to discover new content online. Instead, they’re turning to their friends. And with its new “Like” button appearing all over the web, Facebook is becoming an ever-more-important source of finding content online.</p>
<p>Rather than using Google or Yahoo! to find information on a topic, users are asking their Facebook friends and groups about whatever information they need. People also trust this information more, as it’s coming from people they know, rather than just being returned in what often seems like a random pattern.</p>
<p>According to a <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displaystory.cfm?subjectid=7933596&amp;story_id=16660401"><strong>latest research</strong></a> it’s been indicated that Facebook has currently More than 500 Million active users. If Facebook were a physical nation than this would make them the third most populous country in the world, after China and India.</p>
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<p>And if the service continues to grow as rapidly as in the three months to July, it will reach one billion in about 15 months—almost the size of India.</p>
<p><strong>What You Should Be Doing</strong> — Facebook opens up a host of possibilities for driving traffic to your website. Incorporating a “Like” button on your site should be your first step if you want your visitors to be able to easily share your site. You’ll also want to create a page or group for your company or website, and encourage people to join. You can put a link to the group on your website, as well as send out recommendations to your current FB friends. Another option with FB is targeted advertising, which can be relatively inexpensive.</p>
<p>Be careful not to use Facebook to spam your fans, though. Post information on your page or group that is relevant to your niche and will also be useful to your fans. If all you do is post about your company or product, you’ll drive away fans.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">2. Social Bookmarking and News Sites</span></span></h4>
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<p>A lot of people are actively involved in social bookmarking and news sites. Sometimes these are niche sites devoted to a particular industry, while other times they’re more general. In many cases, it’s more effective to turn to sites like this when looking for information on current events or information of interest than it is to use search engines.</p>
<p>Really involved users might turn to their social bookmarking and news sites when looking for virtually any information. Because of tagging and built-in search functionality on these sites, it’s easy for users to find pretty much anything. And the fact that someone else has already looked over something and decided it was worth saving for later reference or sharing with others, the sites found in this manner are considered more trustworthy.</p>
<p><strong>What You Should Be Doing</strong> — Adding social bookmarking links to your website is a great way to encourage your visitors to promote your pages for you. You’ll also want to set up accounts on the major social bookmarking sites (<a rel="external nofollow" href="http://digg.com">Digg</a>, <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://reddit.com">Reddit</a>, <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://delicious.com">Delicious</a>, <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://stumbleupon.com">StumbleUpon</a>), as well as any sites specific to your niche. Promote relevant content both from your website and elsewhere; otherwise you might be viewed as a spam account.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">3. Better Search Engine Algorithms</span></span></h4>
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<p>Search engines get smarter every day. SEO tactics that worked brilliantly years or even months ago don’t work as well now. Search engines know how to weed out the obvious SEO tactics to get at the meat of a site’s content. Because of this, SEO tactics are becoming less and less effective.</p>
<p>As search engines get even more intelligent, on-site SEO strategies will only get less effective. While search engines will still recognize good, relevant content, there will be few strategies that will give sites a boost outside of providing good content. Off-site SEO strategies will likely still work for quite a while longer, but search engines are aware of many of the tactics used to make sites appear more popular than they actually are. It’s a trend that’s going to continue for the foreseeable future, at least.</p>
<p><strong>What You Should Be Doing</strong> — This one is pretty obvious: you need to provide high-quality, relevant content on your site. Forget about keyword stuffing and writing with SEO in mind. Just provide content that’s important and useful to your target visitor and trust that search engines will be able to sort out the best sites in a given niche.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">4. Blog Roundups and Showcases</span></span></h4>
<p>There are blogs for virtually every niche in existence. And many of these blogs post roundups of content from various sources online. These roundups are a fantastic way of finding information about a given topic without having to wade through search results.</p>
<p>Again, one reason people turn to these types of posts is the idea that someone has already been through the content featured and has weeded out the content that isn’t any good.</p>
<p><strong>What You Should Be Doing</strong> — There are two ways to approach this type of content and promotion. First, if you have a blog, you’ll want to do a couple of these roundups. Include both resources from your own site and elsewhere. These types of posts get bookmarked and passed around for months after they’re written.</p>
<p>The second thing you’ll want to do is create content that’s well-suited to being included in these types of posts. Email bloggers who write about your topic and make sure they’re aware of your site (but also make sure you don’t nag them or become annoying). Getting featured in a post like this can drive traffic to your site for months.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">5. Twitters</span></span></h4>
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<p>When looking for information about a topic, a lot of users turn to Twitter. It’s easier to ask a question there than it is to do a search, and you often get much better results. In a lot of cases, people have more Twitter followers than they do friends on other social networking sites, and so there’s more chance to find the information they’re looking for. Plus, Twitter lets anyone see your updates (unless your feed is private, of course), which opens up some great opportunities for promotion.</p>
<p>Twitter is used for everything from breaking news to research. Trending topics give us insight into what’s going on at that moment, and what’s being talked about. Hashtags let us focus on particular topics and see what people are saying whether we’re following them or not. Twitter is a giant conversation, among both strangers and friends, that anyone can become a part of.</p>
<p><strong>What You Should Be Doing</strong> — Every business should have a presence on Twitter. Businesses should set up Twitter accounts to interact with their customers and prospective customers, and to see what’s happening in their industry. Businesses should also use Twitter as a proactive customer service tool. You can see the experiences users are having with your business almost in real-time. You’ll also want to follow relevant hashtags related to your industry and answer questions being posed by other users. This can be a great way to pick up new followers. If the information you provide is useful and relevant, people will view you as an expert and will turn to you next time they have questions.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">6. People Already Have Their Favorite Sites</span></span></h4>
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<p>Because the Internet has become such an integral part of the lives of so many people, most regular Internet users already know their favorite sites for certain things. If they’re looking for an apartment to rent, for example, they’ll go to Craigslist without bothering to search elsewhere. If they’re looking for a book, they might go straight to Amazon or Abe Books. What they won’t do is use a search engine.</p>
<p>Internet users find websites they’re comfortable with and are hesitant to deal with a new site, especially when it comes to actually purchasing something. When they do business with a new site, they often do so based on the advice of someone else, not based on search engine results.</p>
<p><strong>What You Should Be Doing</strong> — Figure out who the big sites are in your niche and then figure out how you can get your content featured on them. With some sites this is pretty easy. If you’re a local business, put ads up on Craigslist that direct people to your website. If you sell a product, see if you can become an Amazon Associate to sell through their website. If all else fails, see if you can place an ad on the site that leads your industry, or see if they’d be interested in featuring some of your content.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">7. More Savvy Searchers</span></span></h4>
<p>Internet users are much more savvy than they were ten or even five years ago. When someone goes to a search engine to find something, they often know exactly what keywords will yield the best results and can quickly weed through the results that don’t offer what they need.</p>
<p>Search volume also plays into this. Searchers can use very specific search terms and still often get thousands or millions of results returned. Because of this, they’re not afraid to search for very specific things, since they know they’ll still likely get enough relevant results. This is where the long-tail comes in, and the long-tail is harder to optimize for effectively, since you never really know how someone is going to reach your site, or what search terms they’ll use.</p>
<p><strong>What You Should Be Doing</strong> — Again, this comes down to providing great, relevant content. Stop trying to game the search engines and simply put the best content on your website that you can get. Search engine traffic is becoming a smaller and smaller part of traffic for more established websites, as they get more incoming links and referrals. Of course, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay any attention to how searchers are finding your site. And by all means, if you find some obscure search term is sending you significant amounts of traffic, consider adding more content around that term.</div>
<h1><span>When SEO Is Still Important</span></h1>
<p>All of the above isn’t to say that search engines have become completely irrelevant. There are still plenty of industries and niches where search engines are vital for sending new traffic.</p>
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<p>Informational websites are probably the most likely to benefit from good SEO. Part of this has to do with the volume of content. If a website focuses solely on providing valuable information, they’re already a step ahead when it comes to good search engine placement. Making other adjustments to further optimize your content (like good alt tags on images, etc.) only helps improve your placement even more. And people still use search engines when looking for information.</p>
<p>Industries that deal with things people might not be comfortable discussing with strangers (or even friends and family) also benefit greatly from SEO. After all, if it’s not a topic someone wants to ask their Facebook friends for advice on, they’ll turn to search engines. It’s still a relatively anonymous method of finding information online.</p></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In April Google officially announced they were integrating loading time into their algorithm. <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/using-site-speed-in-web-search-ranking.html"><strong>As they put it</strong></a>, “speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there.”</p>
<p>There are plenty of reasons a website could slow down such as large images, too many Flash files, video the list can go on and on. With that being said, there are plenty of tools and tactics to use to improve loading time for your clients webpage.<br />
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<h1><span>Why Speed Matters?</span></h1>
<p>People are impatient. We want things when we what them, and usually don’t want to wait for them. The same is true with loading times. If a user goes to a website, chances are you have less than a couple seconds for them to wait on your page to load.</p>
<p>According to <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.masternewmedia.org/why-website-speed-and-page-load-times-are-so-important-to-your-online-readers/"><strong>Jakob Nielsen</strong></a>, you can break down the user experience into three time periods:</p>
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<li>0.1 second—When your page loads within one second you are getting your message to the user when they want it. They feel satisfied and won’t leave unless they can’t find the information they were looking for.</li>
<li>1.0 second—On paper this doesn’t seem like a long time, but on the online world it is longer than you think. This, “is about the limit for the user’s flow of thought to stay uninterrupted, even though the user will notice the delay. Normally, no special feedback is necessary during delays of more than 0.1 but less than 1.0 second, but the user does lose the feeling of operating directly on the data. ”</li>
<li>10 seconds—Anything over a 10 second load time and a user will more than likely leave. Even if they do wait it out, they probably aren’t as focused as they should be, and might have even moved on to other tasks while the page was loading.</li>
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<h1><span>How to Improve Page Loading Time</span></h1>
<p>It’s not too hard to improve your page loading speed. Just follow the steps given below and you can improve your loading speed in no time.</p>
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<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Clean Your Code</span></span></h4>
<p>This is an easy step, and should be something you have in the back of your mind when coding a new site. You don’t want your code to look messy, or have any extra div files. The more basic your code is, the faster the loading time. It should look clean crisp and white.</p>
<p>“For a more definitive marker, if your page HTML is over 30kB-50kB, then you have an issue you need to address. This can be checked in the Web Developer extension for Firefox and Chrome,” says <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://searchenginewatch.com/3640536"><strong>Kristine Schachinger</strong></a> of SearchEngineWatch.</p>
<p>HTML is not the only code that should be clean—make sure your style sheets are in order as well. Keeping things neat and organized should ensure a faster loading time. When implementing large photo files, use a compressed file instead. This will also keep your CSS more clean and help with loading time.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">HTTP Requests</span></span></h4>
<p>This is a big one. The more HTTP requests you have the longer your loading time. Below is a <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-http-caching/"><strong>screenshot</strong></a> to help you better visualize how HTTP requests work.</p>
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<p>The more times your page requires these types of requests from the server, the longer it will take for the browser to display the page. Using AJAX is one way to help streamline your process, but as <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.die.net/musings/page_load_time/"><strong>Aaron Hopkins points out</strong></a>, “for many sites that reference dozens of external objects, the majority of the page load time is spent in separate HTTP requests for images, javascript, and stylesheets. AJAX probably could help, but speeding up or eliminating these separate HTTP requests might help more. ”</p>
<p>Hopkins goes on to say that most DSL/cable Internet connections, “have asymmetric bandwidth, at rates like 1.5Mbit down/128Kbit up, 6Mbit down/512Kbit up, etc. Ratios of download to upload bandwidth are commonly in the 5:1 to 20:1 range. ” To summarize, this means the requests can take the same amount of time to send as it would to display an object that is 5-20 times the request size.</p>
<p>One way to speed up your site if you do have multiple images is to set your keepalive active. “The Keep-Alive extension to HTTP/1.0 and the persistent connection feature of HTTP/1.1 provide long-lived HTTP sessions which allow multiple requests to be sent over the same TCP connection. In some cases this has been shown to result in an almost 50% speedup in latency times for HTML documents with many images. Toenable Keep-Alive connections, set KeepAlive On,” according to <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#keepalive"><strong>apache.org</strong></a>.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Caching</span></span></h4>
<p>When sending HTTP requests, many people implement caches to help with load time. This can be a great fix, but if you update your images and other cached items, it could actually take longer. “Even though the browser has the logo, it doesn’t know whether the image can be used. After all, the file may have changed on the server and there could be an updated version,” reports <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://betterexplained.com/articles/how-to-optimize-your-site-with-http-caching/"><strong>betterexplained.com</strong></a>.</p>
<p>You can get around this however in a few different ways. One being with an <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag"><strong>ETAg</strong></a>—which, “allows a client to make conditional requests. This allows caches to be more efficient, and potentially saves bandwidth, as a web server does not need to send a full response if the content has not changed. ”’</p>
<p>You can also have it figured so that the browser checks for the date of when the file was last modified. This can be a good fix, but the ETag is more preferred because of situations such as day light savings, the initial clock was wrong when programming etc.</p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Javascript and CSS Files</span></span></h4>
<p>When looking at your Javascript make sure you are putting your files on the external .js file. If you use JQuery, make sure you don’t have any unwanted script in your code. JQuery is known to have libraries of scripts you never use.</p>
<p>When using XHTML you can streamline your code to ensure your HTTP requests are limited. An <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.websiteoptimization.com/speed/tweak/http/"><strong>example</strong></a> of this is below:</p>
<p>So this:</p>
<pre>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/fonts.css" /&gt;
&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/nav.css" /&gt;
&lt;script src="/js/functions.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script src="/js/validation.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>Becomes this:</p>
<pre>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/css/combined.css" /&gt;
&lt;script src="/js/combined.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>Even better, XSSI these files directly into high traffic pages, like this:</p>
<pre>&lt;style type="text/css"&gt;
&lt;!--
&lt;!--#include virtual="/css/combined.css" --&gt;
--&gt;
&lt;/style&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
&lt;--
&lt;!--#include virtual="/js/combined.js" --&gt;
// --&gt;
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
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<h1><span>Tools To Put Into Action</span></h1>
<p>With all this being said, how will you monitor your efforts?  There are plenty of tools out there to help you manage your loading time. The most common 4 programs (and all are recommended by Google) are:</p>
<ul>
<li><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/"><strong>Page Speed</strong></a>, an open source Firefox/Firebug add-on that evaluates the performance of web pages and gives suggestions for improvement.</li>
<li><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/"><strong>YSlow</strong></a>, a free tool from Yahoo! that suggests ways to improve website speed.</li>
<li><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.webpagetest.org/"><strong>WebPagetest</strong></a> shows a waterfall view of your pages’ load performance plus an optimization checklist.</li>
<li>In <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools"><strong>Webmaster Tools</strong></a>, Labs &gt; Site Performance shows the speed of your website as experienced by users around the world as in the chart below. We’ve also blogged about site performance.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other tools include:</p>
<ul>
<li><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://tools.pingdom.com/"><strong>Pingdom</strong></a>:  “The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars. Every test also shows general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects.</li>
<li><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.xceptance-loadtest.com/products/xlt/about.html"><strong>Xceptance LoadTest</strong></a>:  “Xceptance LoadTest (XLT) is a tool for creating and running regression and load tests, in particular for web applications. XLT combines the automation of regression tests with the execution of load tests, as the test cases already created for the automated regression test can subsequently be applied as load tests. In short: Every regression test can also be a load test. ”</li>
<li><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.numion.com/stopwatch/"><strong>Stopwatch</strong></a>:  “The stopwatch is a small Javascript that runs on your computer (not the Numion server). It measures the time between the moment your browser starts to load the URL and when the browser signals that it has finished (”Done” in the status bar). The measurement therefore includes fetching and interpreting all HTML (including frames), images, and Javascripts. It does not include content that is handled by plugins. If the page is in the cache then the stopwatch will measure the faster loading time (see tip above). The accuracy is the accuracy of the Javascript timer, on most systems 10 milliseconds. ”</li>
</ul>
<p>Remember that loading time is not the end all be all for your SEO efforts. It is just one piece of the pie. Doing all you can to stay on top of Google’s ever elusive algorithm only helps matters. Let us know in the comments below what you are doing to quicken your clients loading time.</p></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cpanel is one of the most commonly used web hosting control panels these days. The company who develops cpanel puts a lot of thought into their product and has an established user base. However, Cpanel is not necessarily for everyone. It has a little bit of a learning curve and of course everyone has a different style of doing things. You can compare it to an automatic transmission and a manual transmission car. Both work and both get you where you need to go. And the same thing applies to cpanel and other web hosting control panels.</p>
<p>But what are alternatives to this web hosting control panel at all? While some people do not need a web hosting control panel at all and rather prefer to work via SSH (Secure Shell) on their web servers, others might not be that experienced in system administration. Commercial options to cpanel are Plesk and DirectAdmin. If you have a dedicated server you can also look at WebMin which is a free alternative that offers a lot of functioniality but is more geared towards system administrators and not webmasters. Some web hosts even have developed their own web hosting control panel to keep 100% control of their environment and to have a better hand at customizing the web hosting platform for their customers. IX Web Hosting is one of those companies that created their own control panel and seem to do a good job by looking at how many customers host domains with them and how long IX is actually around (over 10 years).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.directadmin.com" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9bc3e_directadmin.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="256" /></a> <a href="http://www.parallels.com/products/plesk/" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/153fe_plesk.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="256" /></a></p>
<p>You can (and should) compare the different options to see which one you like best. As mentioned, they all do a fairly good job and make web hosting easier. But as mentioned, there is always a cpanel alternative. However, you might have to look around to find those web hosts as cpanel is a clear market leader. Find a web host with a money back guarantee in case Plesk or DirectAdmin are not a cpanel alternative you expected.</p>
<p>So, what do you think? Is Plesk or DirectAdmin really an alternative to cpanel?</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You need a new web host. You do a Google Search for “Web Hosting”  and you feel a little overwhelmed by the 252,000,000 results Google presents in return. Admittedly, choosing the right host can be a overwhelming endeavor – no doubt. Now what? You pick a couple of web hosts and look at their websites, investigate pricing and hosting features. Now more confusion – all these web hosts pretty much look alike. Same pricing (though sometimes prices are $0.50 higher or lower), same features, same bandwidth and disk space and even the website design looks somewhat familiar going from host to host. It almost makes the impression they are running their web hosting business of the same blue print or the same manual.</p>
<p>Now, where do you turn to find a new web host? While you can use one of the many web hosting comparison websites (including my own list of <a title="Web Hosting Recommendations" href="http://www.webhostingresourcekit.com/compare-web-hosting-packages.php" target="_blank">web hosting recommendations</a>), the best way is usually to follow the recommendation of a friend or family member. Personal recommendations are the best way to pick a new web host.</p>
<p>But when these personal recommendations are missing, how can you choose the right web host? Use common sense, spend some time researching and then create a list of 3 possible web hosts you like to try out. Verify that each webhost offers a money back guarantee and then move forward. Using a web host that offers a money back guarantee is important as it allows you to leave quickly without occurring any cost. Important in my opinion is the choice where you register your domain name. I personally do not want to be tied to a certain web host by registering the domain name I use through the web host. I prefer 3rd party domain name registries like NameCheap as an example. I keep control over the domain name. If I would try a new web host and have my domain name registered through the web host, they might either keep the name or charge a higher than normal price or make it really difficult to leave. What good is a money back guarantee if you have to leave your domain name behind?!</p>
<p>So, register the domain name at NameCheap (or if really necessary at Godaddy (be warned of the many upsells Godaddy has)), then work your way through the list of 3 web hosts that you like to try. Keep a good backup of your website so that you can easily move to a new web hosting provider as needed. Some web hosts offer better pricing if you pre-pay for 12 months or more. While this is a good deal, you might want to go month to month first and once you like a web host, contact their billing department and switch your payment option and pre-pay. Or at least pick the lowest pre-payment option and then upgrade later on. Do not let the lowest price force you into a decision you do not feel comfortable with. Every webhost will want you to stay and so it is never a problem to change your hosting plan option later on.</p>
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<p>Yesterday I provided information on how to gain control of your domain name as a first step in the process of moving your business website to a different provider. Today I am going to show how to gain control of the files that actually make your website which is hosted under your domain name. Just taking control of your domain name is not enough as you would lose your website and your content unless you also gain control and physical ownership of your website.</p>
<p>I am assuming you are dealing with a web designer of some sort who is difficult to work with and makes it difficult to move away from him/her. You might have to get a little tricky to get copies of your website in those cases to avoid a situation where the web designer turns hostile and makes it impossible to move away without a major hassle. Any good web designer should respect your wish to use a cheaper web host. Anyway, how can you get a copy of your website? For one you need to determine if your website is just made out of static files or if there is an actual CMS (Content Management System) is used that also has a database backend. Your goal is to be able to upload everything to the new web host at one point and to have a working website.</p>
<p>One good way to ask for what makes your website is actually a valid business reason. Remember 9/11? When the towers of the World Trade Center went down many business were destroyed. Anyone who did not have an offsite copy of their data had lost all business records. 9/11 triggered a large wave of disaster recovery procedures where businesses realized how fast a fatal incident could wipe a business. As a result business started recording business procedures and stored them offsite with critical business data and backups of data. You can use the same reason to request a current copy of your website from your web designer. Explain that you are creating a disaster recovery plan which also includes the website and the web designer. What happens if the web designer gets hits by a bus tomorrow? How can you get your website? Properly explained it will be difficult for the web designer to deny you a copy of what you own anyway. Let’s take this a step further and use the same situation to have the web designer document your website at the same time. This will make it easier for your new webmaster or web designer to put all the bits and pieces together.</p>
<p>That’s it for today. In part III of this article I will provide detail f how to put all this together and how to move your website to a new webhost.</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is your website hosted with a local web host in town? Often web designers also function as a web host and sell this service is part of their package to you. This is often “justified” that they need to have control over the account to do their work and that other web hosting just does not offer the same level of control. And as a result the small business owner is kind of being held hostage by this web designer and his/her expensive web hosting. Any attempt to pick a cheaper option is kind of shoot down by these web designers which causes a lot of frustration with many business owners.</p>
<p>How can a small business take back control of their website, their domain, and their content then?</p>
<p>In the beginning of the effort to take back control of your website and your web hosting it is important to determine how trustworthy the web designer is. If it is a honest guy/gal they should understand what you are trying to do. They sell web hosting as part of how they make a living and should not hold you back, but rather support you. It could actually happen that they lower your web hosting prices without any need to do something.  Use my list of <a title="Recommended Web Hosting Providers" href="http://www.webhostingresourcekit.com/compare-web-hosting-packages.php" target="_blank">recommended web hosting providers</a> to find a new host and see if your web designer can work with one of those web hosts. You should then still make sure you are registered as the owner of the domain name. It is also advised to have local copies of all files and images, too.</p>
<p>If the situation is not that easy, a business owner should first start taking control of the domain name. If the domain name is registered to the web designer it is important to change that right away. Depending on how difficult the web designer is to work with, you should eventually approach this from a legal and accounting perspective and explain that the domain name is accounted for as an asset with a certain price in the books and to make sure the IRS does not complain about it during an audit the domain name needs to be registered to the business. I am not a legal expert and are not sure how feasible this is, but this might be just enough to take ownership of the domain name. Think about other reasons like this and approach the web designer in a friendly way so that. Than have the domain name transferred to your ownership.</p>
<p>This is part one of my guide on how to move your website from an expensive, local web host to another web host and how to save a fortune along the way. The second part in this article series will talk about <a title="Cheap Web Hosting" href="http://www.webhostingresourcekit.com/927.html" target="_blank">cheap web hosting</a> and how to take advantage of it with your website.</p>
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<p>Why is Fantastico so successful? Fantastico is extremely easy to use. As example if you are trying to manually install WordPress blogging software you first have to obtain the software from WordPress.org. Then you have to create a MySQL database and a database user with appropriate permissions is needed, too. Then you need unzip the installation files and upload them to your server. You might be surprised how many people still use dial-up or are on the slowest cable Internet package or DSL package with minimal uploading speed. The entire process can take 15-30 minutes depending how savvy a web hosting client is. Fantastico cuts the time needed down to about 1.5 minutes. This is just one example, but you can imagine how this looks like for other scripts.</p>
<p>Now you need a web host who offers Fantastico. Fantastico usually comes in combination with the famous cPanel web control panel which allows a user to easily manage an entire domain and web hosting account. So, you want to be looking for a cpanel web host and Fantastico is usually included. Here is a short list of web hosting providers that offer cpanel Web Hosting where fantastico is included totally free of charge.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The modern era require all the things that can make changes a face of the companies and industries, including the flexibility and connectivity as a part of it. <strong>e-commerce</strong> are becoming very popular these days, all sales are done directly&#8230;</p><p><a href="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/web-design-articles/the-ultimate-guidances-of-e-commerce/">The Ultimate Guidances of E-Commerce</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk">Build Me A Fab Website</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The modern era require all the things that can make changes a face of the companies and industries, including the flexibility and connectivity as a part of it. <strong>e-commerce</strong> are becoming very popular these days, all sales are done directly or more familiar that you can called with traditional sales. Where seller and buyer meet at the same place then conduct the payment transactions. But now, Internet can make connected people all over the world, and also tools such as credit card payment transactions and electronic money such as PayPal which has made e-commerce as one of the leading industry.</p>
<p>Are you considering selling products online? The process involves many aspects of the internet, enough to detour someone from even considering it. This article will help you think through some of the sections on e-commerce industry that is relevant than you walk around over the net.</p>
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<p>E-commerce has also become very popular that there are a lot of people engaging on this business that means your business would have many, many competition. And not only competition but some of these wannabe online business owners would try to imitate your site to the extent that they would bypass the law on piracy and plagiarism.</p>
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<h1><span>E-commerce in History</span></h1>
<p>Back to the invention of the very old notion of “sell and buy”, electricity, cables, computers, modems, and the Internet. E-commerce became possible in 1991 when the Internet was opened to commercial use. Since that date thousands of businesses have taken up residence at web sites.</p>
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<p>History of E-commerce is unthinkable without Amazon and EBay which were among the first Internet companies to allow electronic transactions that change the traditional markets into a modern market transactions and the internet to educate business users. Thanks to their founders we now have a handsome ecommerce sector and enjoy the buying and selling advantages of the Internet. Currently there are 5 largest and most famous worldwide Internet retailers: Amazon, Dell, Staples, Office Depot and Hewlett Packard. Now, you can even buy anything via internet. According to statistics, the most popular categories of products sold in the World Wide Web are music, books, computers, office supplies and other consumer electronics.</p>
<p>So this is a history of a new, virtual world which is evolving according to the customer advantage. It is a world which we are all building together brick by brick, laying a secure foundation for the future generations.</p>
<h1><span>Brief Description of E-commerce</span></h1>
<p>The term electronic commerce (commonly known as e-shopping, E-commerce  or eCommerce) meant the process of execution of commercial transactions electronically with the help of the leading technologies such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) which gave an opportunity for users to exchange business information and do electronic transactions. The ability to use these technologies appeared in the late 1970s and allowed business companies and organizations to send commercial documentation electronically.</p>
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<p>Today the largest electronic commerce is Business-to-Business (B2B). Businesses involved in B2B sell their goods to other businesses. In 2001, this form of E-commerce had around $700 billion in transactions. Other varieties growing today include Consumer-to-Consumer (C2C) where consumers sell to each other, for example through auction sites. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is another form of E-commerce that allows users to share resources and files directly.</p>
<p>Electronic commerce is generally considered to be the sales aspect of e-business. It also consists of the exchange of data to facilitate the financing and payment aspects of the business transactions.</p>
<h1><span>Advantages and Disadvantages of E-commerce </span></h1>
<p>E-commerce has quickly became a way of life, but like with anything – there are a number of advantages and disadvantages of conducting business in this manner. It is important that you know the advantages and disadvantages of each so you can ultimately succeed with the online business world.</p>
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<h4><span>Advantages of E-commerce:</span></h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Time saving</strong> – is the reason number one for using electronic commerce. People now have access to their money and what they need to buy from home and work all from a desktop computer.</li>
<li><strong>Consumers have an access to a wider range of products</strong> – company now can use internet sites as shop fronts, so consumers can browse, buy from many different sellers and making it easier to find exactly what they are looking for.</li>
<li><strong>Allows small businesses to mix with the big business online</strong> – with a relatively small cost, a new business can set its self up to conduct transactions online.</li>
<li><strong>Provide benefits to suppliers of goods and services</strong> – company now can target a wider variety of consumers even take the product or service international, allowing them a means of supplying their goods to places that were before unreachable.</li>
<li><strong>Business is Open 24 x 7 x 364 7/8</strong> – it works while you play or sleep. They are open for business every hour of the day, every day of the week, every week of the year. Your receptionist, greeter and front people are always working for you because they are your website. They do not complain about the long hours.</li>
<li><strong>Messages spreading (world wide market space)</strong> – advertising on the web can make a big or small firm’s promotional message reach out to potential customers all over the world quickly and small cost as an online marketing strategy.</li>
<li><strong>Help protect against frauds and theft losses</strong> – electronic payments can be easier to monitor than payments are made by cheques.</li>
<li><strong>Thinking Outside the Globe</strong> – selling something made by someone else, shipped by yet another and the money handled by yet another is the heart of the advantages e commerce brings to the business world. You can even employ an international staff. Some work you may need done can be more effectively done by companies or even individuals in other countries.</li>
</ul>
<h4><span>Disadvantages of E-commerce:</span></h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Purchase to Delivery</strong> – when making a purchase at a brick and mortar business, you get the product when you pay for it. On the web, there may be a time lag from purchase to actually being able to consume. The consumer will have to wait for delivery of physical goods.</li>
<li><strong>Inability to Feel the Physical</strong> – it is nearly impossible to sell things like furniture and tires online. Furniture is something people like to sit on and know the feel. Tires need to be installed once purchased. The old tires also need to be disposed of. In both instances, there is a need for real actions to fulfill the reason for the purchase. That’s why things like food, jewelry, antiques etc. can never turn to E-commerce.</li>
<li><strong>Trouble recruiting and retaining employees</strong> – the company needs well-expert and skilled staff to keep up and create the ecommerce facilities of the company. Many companies favor to outsource their improvement and programming tasks to decrease labor costs.</li>
<li><strong>Consumers feel less confident with their credit card numbers</strong> – most of the consumers are still not confident in providing their credit card numbers for making payments on  the website while shopping on the Internet.</li>
<li><strong>Not every company can take the benefit</strong> – some of the small companies may not be able to take the benefit of E-commerce for example the lack of expertise and lack of technology. The legal environment in which E-commerce is conducted is full of unclear and conflicting laws. It should be noted that mostly these disadvantages stem from the newness and rapidly growth of the technology.</li>
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<h1><span>Things to Consider When Starting an E-commerce Business</span></h1>
<p>Leaving many people around the world consider their work in progress and start a business online. They have dreams of relaxing in the comfort of your own home, no travel, no distractions and flexible hours. Of course there is a lot to consider when starting a business. Here are a few thoughts.</p>
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<li><strong>Purpose </strong> – at the very top of the list is what you want the purpose of your website to be. While this may seem basic, many people jump into building a website that they have glorified in their head only to find weeks later that the idea looked better in their head than on paper when it comes to actually making money. Try to creating list of categories that would be included on your site and range age of your consumer as target markets. Such as Converse, which only provides shoes that consists of several categories and 8 years to 35 years are their target markets. You got my point?</li>
<li><strong>It will need long learning curve</strong> – what profitable things in life do not require learning? Additionally, web success is a constantly moving target. Success will require continuous education. Try to learn and make some study case from big players that have goods and valueable services and how they can long run in this industry. Give more your attention for what condition and criteria of goods and services that consumers wants from your site. Stay hungry, stay foolish just like Steve Jobs said. This phrase means we should always want more, never be content and when you want to do something that others say is foolish, but you need and you believe it, do it anyways!</li>
<li><strong>It will need long start to success time</strong> – at the minimum it will take 6 months to get recognized by the Google search engine. Some have found that it may take up to 2 years to make a minimum income of a few hundred a month. Many if they do make an income will only make a few to several thousand dollars a month. If you just want instant success, this industry is not for you. Just go check out one of the get rich quick schemes out there! So, are you ready to be a part of this industry, ask yourself again.</li>
<li><strong>Marketing</strong> – how are your potential customers going to find your online store? While it’s true that search engines will provide some traffic, to be successful requires advertising your online business just as if it were a physical location. Building awareness for your product, brand, or store takes time and money. It will often take as much or more than the website development costs. Some key components of a good Internet marketing plan include search engine marketing, website advertising, social media, and offline advertising. And don’t forget to create email marketing for effectiveness online marketing strategies while spreading your messages, promotion or anything. Need resources? You can find here, <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.instantshift.com/2010/03/29/bulletproof-email-marketing-overview-tips-and-tools/"><strong>Bulletproof Email Marketing: Overview, Tips and Tools</strong></a> that I’ve written previously on InstantShift.</li>
<li><strong>Logistics </strong> – an E-commerce website is your storefront. So, where is your warehouse? Where will you store and fulfill the inventory? Who will manage this process? Anyone with retail experience will tell you that inventory control will make or break your business. The other logistical challenge that can have a huge impact is shipping. The shipping carriers you utilize and your shipping charges should be determined based on the type of products and your target market.</li>
<li><strong>Customer Service</strong> – the best E-commerce businesses collect and use customer feedback. Feedback it possible to understand, anticipate and meet changing internet customer needs and wants because people come to your E-commerce web for goods and other information. The various aspects of customer needs can be provided as a resource to solve many customer service issues. It does not stop there. Sometimes a living human touch is needed. What better way to handle customer service than actually having customers who have solved complicated problems themselves help. Yes, you need good customer service to begin.</li>
<li><strong>Security</strong> – even with the enhancements with knowledge encryption, there may be still the hazard of somebody getting a maintain of your personal and financial information. Remember, it’s better to prevent than cure your system. Always making sure your customer knows that your website is secure and that their privacy will never be compromised goes back to the issue of trust. It does not take much effort to display a message telling your customers that they are safe in your hands just because a footer link to your privacy policy is not always enough.</li>
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<h4><span>And why do I need WordPress for E-commerce site?</span></h4>
<p>As we already know that WordPress is one of the best open platform for now. Because it’s free, which has become one of our point in the advantages section that I’ve mentioned above, SEO friendly and the flexibility of WordPress has always been its strong point. The fact that you can tweak and twist (easy installation, easy customization and maintenance) it to your own will with just a bit of knowledge and an extraordinary support from a large community of developers and blogger (plugins and themes) transformed what initially was a blogging tool into a powerful website CMS, may it be a blog, photoblog, portfolio, simple presentation website, or even your E-commerce site.</p></div>
<h1><span>Effectively Tips for E-commerce Store</span></h1>
<p>The most critical aspect is in your launch is just getting the E-commerce site off the ground. Once it’s safely in orbit, you’ll have other priorities. For now, here’s where you need to expend your energy:</p>
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<li><strong>Keep it simple.</strong>Many people cite overly complicated navigation or too many pages in the purchase path as reasons they don’t complete their online sale or abandon their shopping cart. Successful eCommerce sites simplify the checkout process and display clear pricing and shipping information. Putting your brick and mortar store’s phone number in a visible place on your Web site is a good idea.</li>
<li><strong>Optimize your headings layout.</strong>Headings are the main place where you can persuade users to stay on your website for another few seconds. If your heading is too informational or puts them to sleep you have missed your chance. Use clear, descriptive headings that get to the point and provide users with a source of relevancy.</li>
<li><strong>Make payment processing easy.</strong>After all, it is easy to set up a website that shows off your product, but unless you have a way for customers to pay, there is no use in doing so. You can accept credit card payments with either a PayPal account or an online merchant account. PayPal is ideal for anyone trying out the E-commerce waters since there’s less of an upfront commitment, but you may end up paying more per transaction. The thing to note about PayPal is that both the buyer and the seller need a PayPal account, but that’s hardly a barrier to entry. It’s so easy to create a PayPal account that more than 96 million consumer accounts have been created at PayPal since it was founded in 1998.</li>
<li><strong>Optimize your internal site search.</strong>This is more of a usability tip, but it applies perfectly within the context of E-commerce SEO. Because your visitor found your site via a search engine, they will likely expect your internal site search to work as well. I’ve found that many first time visitors landing your site from a SERP will search for the exact same term they typed into Google.</li>
<li><strong>Provide professional product images</strong>One of the best parts about walking into a brick and mortar store to make a purchase is that you are physically able to pick up and examine a product. By giving users multiple images online allows us to overcome this barrier. On top of giving users multiple images, give them professional images from different angles and in different environments. Show them a shirt from the front, back, side, as well as on a model.</li>
<li><strong>Leave a trail.</strong>Incorporate “breadcrumb navigation” into your online catalogue pages. This will show where in the site hierarchy the currently viewed web page is located and it will give the visitor shortcuts to instantly jump higher up the hierarchy. It’s good practice for usability and for Search Engine Optimization.</li>
<li><strong>Product reviews.</strong>A great strategy for guaranteeing unique content is displaying user generated content from your customers. Allow customers to review products they’ve purchased or comment on one’s they haven’t.</li>
<li><strong>Market your site once it’s live.</strong>It’s not enough to just build a Web site. You need to make an effort to market and promote your Web site to new and existing customers. Collect email addresses on your site to help you keep in touch with customers and consider creating a newsletter that I’ve mentioned on things to consider section above.</li>
<li><strong>Study your customer’s every move.</strong>Watch how your customers use your website and learn what frustrates them. Analyze your visitor’s traffic patterns, invite customers to complete a survey after they purchase and have informal brainstorming sessions with your most valuable customers. More research, more effective to learn habits from your customers.</li>
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<h1><span>Showcase of E-commerce Sites for Inspiration</span></h1>
<p>E-commerce sites are more complex than static websites or blogs. Here I have collected e-commerce sites which are nicely designed and can be source of inspiration for web-designers and developers working on such type of projects.</p>
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<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Fox Cubs</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.foxcubs.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/df38b_ugoe-06.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.foxcubs.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Incase</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://goincase.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2416d_ugoe-07.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://goincase.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Cosmicsoda</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.cosmicsoda.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2416d_ugoe-08.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.cosmicsoda.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Threadless</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://threadless.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e11de_ugoe-09.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://threadless.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Djin</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.djin.se/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/eeb7c_ugoe-10.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.djin.se/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Pure Volume Store</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://store.purevolume.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/eeb7c_ugoe-11.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="https://store.purevolume.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Brand Nuesense</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.brandneusense.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/96962_ugoe-12.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.brandneusense.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Emptees</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://emptees.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c43ea_ugoe-13.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://emptees.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Victoria’s secret</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www2.victoriassecret.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c43ea_ugoe-14.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www2.victoriassecret.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Archiduchesse</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.archiduchesse.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0611c_ugoe-15.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.archiduchesse.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Me &amp; Mommy-to-be</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.meandmommytobe.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/0611c_ugoe-16.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.meandmommytobe.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bridge 55</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.bridge55.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/e3687_ugoe-17.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.bridge55.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Itself</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.hereitself.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c8197_ugoe-18.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.hereitself.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Mozilla Store</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://store.mozilla.org/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/c8197_ugoe-19.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://store.mozilla.org/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Decoder</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thedecoderring.com/shop/posters/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/eb796_ugoe-20.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thedecoderring.com/shop/posters/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Nicholas Deakins Clothing</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://nicholasdeakins.com/deakinsclothing_collection.asp"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/98dcf_ugoe-21.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://nicholasdeakins.com/deakinsclothing_collection.asp" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Designbyhuman</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.designbyhumans.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/98dcf_ugoe-22.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.designbyhumans.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Clever Craft</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.clever-craft.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/29c31_ugoe-23.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.clever-craft.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">HelmetDress</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.helmetdress.com/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8127c_ugoe-24.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.helmetdress.com/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Free People Clothing Boutique</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.freepeople.com/index.cfm"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8127c_ugoe-25.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.freepeople.com/index.cfm" target="_blank">Official Link</a></div>
<h1><span>WordPress Themes and Plugins for Quick Starting</span></h1>
<p>If you want to sell goods from your web site, you may want to look into shopping cart software so you can process your orders. These days you don’t have to design your cart, you can just choose a web hosting company that has a built in WordPress Installation or you can install WordPress by yourself. Hope you know that how to do that and use a third party merchant like PayPal. Many developers offer subscriptions to all their stuff specially WordPress themes and plugins for a monthly fee.</p>
<p>Developing a shopping cart by using a WordPress, integrating with PayPal or Authorize.net and sell products using WordPress? Now it’s not a big job anymore with this excellent piece of Software. There are three main options for setting WordPress up as a store :</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>1.</strong> Install WordPress on your domain</li>
<li><strong>2.</strong> Activate a Theme related to Shopping cart</li>
<li><strong>3.</strong> Integrating a Plugin</li>
</ul>
<p>But now I’m not going to tell you how to build an e-commerce site on your WordPress machine, just because there are a lot of useful tutorials out there that provided by another blog design/developer magazine that you can find via internet. Or you can just easily choose one from list a lot of great e-commerce tutorials through this post <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/the-big-list-of-wordpress-e-commerce-tutorial/"><strong>The Big List of WordPress e-Commerce Tutorials</strong></a> that was written by my friend, Anggi Krisna from <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://icreativelabs.com/"><strong>iCreativeLabs</strong></a>. It contains article and video tutorials that have collected by Anggi.</p>
<p>WordPress looks like the ultimate platform to build a site nowadays. I’m extremely pleased let you know that you can build an Ecommerce site from WordPress with this themes and plugins. Now, you are spoilt for choice!</p>
<h1><span>Great WordPress Themes to Create Your Own Online Store</span></h1>
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<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WP Store</span> [$65 for single use license]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/news/wp-store-premium-wordpress-theme"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/9bdc1_ugoe-26.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/news/wp-store-premium-wordpress-theme" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/demo/wpstore/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">e-Commerce</span> [$65 for single use license]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/ecommerce-themes/e-commerce"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7fcc1_ugoe-27.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/ecommerce-themes/e-commerce" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/demo/ecommerce/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kidz Store</span> [$65 for single user license]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/news/kidz-store-wordpress-theme"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/15299_ugoe-28.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/news/kidz-store-wordpress-theme" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/demo/kidzstore/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">eShop</span> [$65 for single user license]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/news/eshop"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/15299_ugoe-29.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/news/eshop" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://templatic.com/demo/eshop/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ArtShop</span> [price $30]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/artshop/25348"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/36495_ugoe-30.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/artshop/25348" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/artshop/full_screen_preview/25348" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">AppCloud</span> [Free License]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/freebies/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b546d_ugoe-31.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/freebies/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://demo.icreativelabs.com/ecommerce/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">AppCloud Premium</span> [price $35]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/premium/appcloud/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/b546d_ugoe-32.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/premium/appcloud/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://demo.icreativelabs.com/appcloud/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Kelontong WordPress E-Commerce Theme</span> [price $35]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/premium/kelontong/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6dd65_ugoe-33.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/premium/kelontong/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://demo.icreativelabs.com/kelontong" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Dangdoot online music store theme</span> [price $35]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/premium/dangdoot/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7c1ae_ugoe-34.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://portfolio.icreativelabs.com/wordpress/premium/dangdoot/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://demo.icreativelabs.com/dangdoot" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">ShopAholic</span> [price $25]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.tobacamp.com/featured/tobashop-wordpress-ecommerce-theme/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d7970_ugoe-35.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.tobacamp.com/featured/tobashop-wordpress-ecommerce-theme/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://tobacamp.com/blog/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ecommerce WordPress Theme</span> [price $75.95]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://ithemes.com/purchase/ecommerce-theme-1/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/d7970_ugoe-36.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://ithemes.com/purchase/ecommerce-theme-1/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://demos.ecommercethemes.com/index.php" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Crafty Cart</span> [Free License]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/34a77_ugoe-37.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thekingcart.com/2008/10/02/crafty-cart-free-wordpress-ecommerce-plugin-theme/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://demo.billionstudio.com/?wptheme=Crafty%20Cart" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Clothes Shop</span> [$42]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/the-clothes-shop-wordpress-ecommerce/64132"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/eb436_ugoe-38.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/the-clothes-shop-wordpress-ecommerce/64132" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/the-clothes-shop-wordpress-ecommerce/full_screen_preview/64132" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Furniture Store</span> [$47]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/the-furniture-store-wordpress-ecommerce-shop/69996?ref=Sybe"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/eb436_ugoe-39.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/the-furniture-store-wordpress-ecommerce-shop/69996?ref=Sybe" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/the-furniture-store-wordpress-ecommerce-shop/full_screen_preview/69996" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WPShop Reloaded</span> [$37]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/wpshop-reloaded-wordpress-ecommerce/53051?ref=Sybe"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f9602_ugoe-40.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/wpshop-reloaded-wordpress-ecommerce/53051?ref=Sybe" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://themeforest.net/item/wpshop-reloaded-wordpress-ecommerce/full_screen_preview/53051" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Vanilla Cart</span> [Free License]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://shoppingthemes.com/vanillacart/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f9602_ugoe-41.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://shoppingthemes.com/vanillacart/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://shoppingthemes.com/demo/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">SimpleCart(js)</span> [Free License]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.chris-wallace.com/2009/07/17/simplecartjs-a-free-wp-e-commerce-thematic-child-theme/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/f1437_ugoe-42.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.chris-wallace.com/2009/07/17/simplecartjs-a-free-wp-e-commerce-thematic-child-theme/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.chris-wallace.com/simplecart/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">wpStore</span> [Free License]</span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://wpfeed.com/2009/07/wpstore-free-wordpress-e-commerce-theme/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a7081_ugoe-43.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://wpfeed.com/2009/07/wpstore-free-wordpress-e-commerce-theme/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://wpstore.wpfeed.com/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></div>
<h1><span>WordPress Plugins that are Very Useful for E-commerce Sites</span></h1>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a7081_ugoe-44.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></p>
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<ul>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.instinct.co.nz/e-commerce/"> WP e-Commerce</a></strong> – is a very popular and free plug-in and can be installed right from the plug-in section of your hosted WordPress admin tool. There are several modules for this product including drop shipping, digital downloads, members only, and an affiliate option. These modules are reasonably priced, but can add up if your trying to be cost conscious.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://shopplugin.net/"> Shopp plug-in for ecommerce</a></strong> – this plug-in is not free, and you will pay for enhanced features. But the thing you really like about this product is it’s breadth of features. From the WordPress Dashboard integration to the drag and drop functionality of putting products in the shopping cart. You’ll find advanced features like inventory management, multiple shipping types, data export for Excel and Quickbooks, and various language translations through this plugin.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.briggs.net.nz/log/projects/yak-for-wordpress/">YAK for WordPress</a></strong> – is another free and simple shopping cart plugin which allows you to run WordPress as a shopping cart. There is a whole long procedure of setting up the plugin and how to configure it, to ensure that you can display the products and receive payments through cheque, deposit, credit card form or through PayPal.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/eshop/">eShop</a></strong> – this is WordPress 2.5 and above compatible shopping cart, which is actively developed at the moment and has got some of the most wonderful options. It’s one of my first suggestions to anyone, who wants to use WordPress as a shopping cart too.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://tribulant.com/products/view/10/wordpress-shopping-cart-plugin">Tribulant</a></strong> – costs $49.99 is a full shopping cart plugin to help you get an online shop going, you can categorize, organize and add categories fairy easily. It works with PayPal, 2checkout, moneybookers, bankwire, and credit card.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.shopperpress.com/">ShopperPress</a></strong> – pretty darn good its a shopping cart theme, so not just a plugin but an entire theme making the whole process of getting setup very very quick and it works with every payment gateway you can imagine! There is a free trial version costs you nothing to download, a vip version which is $69 and developer version which is $175 I would highly recommend checking this out if your looking for a fast solution that looks good.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-shop/">Quick Shop</a></strong> – QuickShop supports any WordPress that has the Sidebar Widgets installed, really. It adds a SideBar widget that shows the user what they currently have in the cart and allows them to remove the items, not to mention a TinyMCE button to easily allow you to add products to your posts/pages.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-liveshopping/">Wp Live Shopping</a></strong> – this widget enables you to display all relevant live shopping offers within your WordPress blog in one single widget. You can add the widget to your sidebar and customize its appearance as you like inside the boundaries of LiveShoppingWidgets presentation options.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://arepaypal.ehibou.com/">Are PayPal</a></strong> – this plugin is used to monetize WordPress blog content using PayPal. It is designed to sell your knowledge. Seems to be having issues right now. Basically it works with PayPal.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.sitemile.com/p/storePress">StorePress</a></strong> – is a full e-commerce WordPress plugin that accepts PayPal, Authorize.net, and 2Checkout out of the box. It includes multiple widgets, dashboard widgets, shortcodes, and works using WordPress pages to keep everything nice and simple. Costs $49 very similar to shopper press, works with PayPal and its a theme and cart together.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://pixline.net/2008/05/paypal-shortcodes-plugin/en/">Paypal Shortcodes</a></strong> – let you to insert PayPal buttons in posts or pages using short code, no management panel though.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.freerobby.com/artpal/">ArtPal</a></strong> – ArtPal is a free (GPL) WordPress plugin, originally written for Artists, to seemlessly integrate PayPal with their WordPress blogs so that they can sell their work online. It’s totally free.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.markettheme.com/">Market Theme</a></strong> – costs $55 or $150 for developers, is a theme and cart. It works with PayPal only though, though there is a Google checkout module available.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.wposc.com/">WPosCommerce</a></strong> – or the WP.osC plugin for WordPress is a modified version of the popular ecommerce solution osCommerce. WP.osC allows you to integrate osCommerce with existing WordPress website. The plugin displays latest products, random products, top 10 best sellers all on your WordPress blog post page. It adds a dynamic widget in your blogs sidebar to display the products.</li>
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<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Other Plugins</span></span></h4>
<p>Well, the above mentioned plugins are good enough when it comes to setting up the shopping cart, however there are several things for which you may not need a e-commerce solution. Here are some of them which have nothing to do as far as e-Commerce sites are concerned but are worth to mention.</p></div>
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<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.wpbankroll.com/">WP BankRoll</a></strong> – this is a free/premium plugin, which allows you to earn money by allowing you to sell reviews on your blog. This plugin integrates with PayPal and if installed you get the ability to sell the reviews and also even lets you configure things in a way that an advertiser can write the post himself. Ah! that’s a neat thing, isn’t it ?</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/zencart-and-wordpress-user-integration/">Zencart &amp; WordPress integration</a></strong> – this plugin is not a shopping cart however, it integrates wonderful and open source shopping cart software i.e. ZenCart with WordPress.</li>
<li><strong><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.voiceoftech.com/swhitley/?page_id=129">EasyPayPal</a></strong> – if you want to charge for your content, then you can do that with the help of this plugin. It also lets you help in creating various other type of payment pages which completely depends on your need. Without mentioning this plugin, this post would have been incomplete.</li>
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<h1><span>Icon Resources for Your Themes</span></h1>
<p>E-commerce web design brings some unique requirements, and this usually includes the need for specific icons such as shopping carts, credit cards, and others related to the online shopping experience. In this section, if you want to improve your themes for development, you can use this icon sets, it’s free resources. Undeniably, icons are far easier to understand and creates more life to the site, more shiny and catchy in visitor’s eyes. It also produces a feeling of invitation to explore the site more.</p>
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<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">glossy eCommerce icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.starfishwebconsulting.co.uk/articles/free-ecommerce-icons"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/78575_ugoe-45.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Free for private and commercial use, featuring the so needed shopping cart, money signs and credit cards.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.starfishwebconsulting.co.uk/articles/free-ecommerce-icons" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.starfishwebconsulting.co.uk/goodies/glossy_ecommerce_icons.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">FRESH Add-on</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeden.com/icon/fresh-addon-a-free-iconset.html"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/78575_ugoe-46.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Business icon pack featuring some must-have pieces.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeden.com/icon/fresh-addon-a-free-iconset.html" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeden.com/download/32/Fresh.addon.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">WP WooTheme Icon Set</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/02/wp-woothemes-ultimate-icon-set-first-release/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a85e2_ugoe-47.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>This is the first release of the WP WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set and the idea is to expand and build on the set (which contains 79 icons at the moment) in the coming months. The free download contains all 79 icons, sized at 256×256 pixels and available in both PNG and GIF formats. As an added bonus to our users, they will also be able to download Nishan’s Illustrator file, which will give them high-res, vector copies of the icons.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.woothemes.com/2009/02/wp-woothemes-ultimate-icon-set-first-release/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.woothemes.com/free-downloads/wp-woothemes-ultimate-icon-set.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ecommerce Payment Icon Pack</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thecolourmill.co.uk/graphic-design/ecommerce-payment-icon-pack/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/a85e2_ugoe-48.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>A free set of icons including credit card and popular payment gateway symbols in a mini format that’s perfect for ecommerce websites and online payment stores.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thecolourmill.co.uk/graphic-design/ecommerce-payment-icon-pack/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.thecolourmill.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/ecommerce_payment_icon_pack.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Payment Option Icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://theroxor.com/2009/12/02/20-free-payment-option-icons/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/17195_ugoe-49.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>This set contains 20 icons for popular payment methods such as MasterCard, PayPal, Visa, American Express, Diner’s Club and much more. All icons are in PNG format and come in three different sizes: big (130×80), small (80×49) and tiny (50×31).</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://theroxor.com/2009/12/02/20-free-payment-option-icons/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://theroxor.com/wp-content/uploads/Free-Payment-Icons.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Payment type icons and buttons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://blog.webasyst.net/payment-type-icons/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/23ec3_ugoe-50.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Collection of payment type icons (buttons) which you can embed into your website or online storefront to show which payment types that you accept.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://blog.webasyst.net/payment-type-icons/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.webasyst.net/collections/design/payment-icons/payment-type-icons.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chalkwork Payments</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/payments/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/23ec3_ugoe-51.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/payments/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/icons/chalkwork/download?file=chalkwork-payments.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Credit Card Images and Test Numbers</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.infomerchant.net/creditcardprocessing/credit_card_images.html"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/2f5fc_ugoe-52.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.infomerchant.net/creditcardprocessing/credit_card_images.html" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Free E-commerce Vector Icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://designm.ag/freebies/e-commerce-icons/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/15dd7_ugoe-53.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>The set includes five icons that were created for use in e-commerce websites. The icons are free for personal or commercial use.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://designm.ag/freebies/e-commerce-icons/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://designm.ag/downloads/ecom-icons.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Exclusive E-commerce Icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://playground.ebiene.de/2316/free-ecommerce-icons/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/15dd7_ugoe-54.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Available e-commerce icons may be used in any projects, whether commercial or private nature.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://playground.ebiene.de/2316/free-ecommerce-icons/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://files.me.com/sergej.mueller/lkpbnv" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Free Checkout Process Vector Icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.jakubstacho.cz/checkout/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/ad4bf_ugoe-55.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>Set of 6 free icons in sizes 16×16, 32×32 and 48×48 in PNG and ICO format. Vector source file also included.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.jakubstacho.cz/checkout/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.jakubstacho.cz/checkout/checkout-icons-8.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shopping Basket Icon</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://kyo-tux.deviantart.com/art/Basket-129616195"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/76c0d_ugoe-56.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://kyo-tux.deviantart.com/art/Basket-129616195" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.deviantart.com/download/129616195/Basket_by_kyo_tux.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shopping Cart and Basket Icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.bazaardesigns.com/5335-shopping-cart-and-basket-icons/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/76c0d_ugoe-57.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.bazaardesigns.com/5335-shopping-cart-and-basket-icons/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.bazaardesigns.com/file/455" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">CSS Globe Icon Set</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://cssglobe.com/post/3949/interview-with-logo-designer-luka-pensa/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8c5a4_ugoe-58.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>CSS Globe offers an icon set that includes shopping cart icons.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://cssglobe.com/post/3949/interview-with-logo-designer-luka-pensa/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://cssglobe.com/articles/misipile/icons.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Shopping Cart Icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.intersmash.com/300images/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/8c5a4_ugoe-59.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.intersmash.com/300images/" target="_blank">Official Link</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Money Icons Set</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeasy.com/iconset/money-icons/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/bb0ec_ugoe-60.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>There are 10 icons in this set.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeasy.com/iconset/money-icons/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeasy.com/icon/zip/Business/Money/Money%20png.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Milky – A free stock vector iconset</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeden.com/icon/milky-a-free-vector-iconset.html"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6be26_ugoe-61.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeden.com/icon/milky-a-free-vector-iconset.html" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.iconeden.com/download/30/Milky.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></p>
<h4><span><span style="text-decoration: underline;">243 Country Flag Icons</span></span></h4>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://365icon.com/icon-styles/ethnic/classic2/"><img class="alignnone size-full top_m" src="http://www.buildmeafabwebsite.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/6be26_ugoe-62.jpg" alt="instantShift - The Ultimate Guidances of E-commerce" width="500" /></a></p>
<p>With such a large selection, you are sure to be able to find the flag you are looking for. These are free to use for personal and commercial projects.</p>
<p><a rel="external nofollow" href="http://365icon.com/icon-styles/ethnic/classic2/" target="_blank">Official Link</a> <a rel="external nofollow" href="http://365icon.com/wp-content/downloads/Flags.zip" target="_blank">Download</a></div>
<h1><span>Summary</span></h1>
<p>I would encourage you to re-check into how an e-commerce shopping cart website could benefit you, but be aware of the challenges too. It is important to work with someone that knows what they are doing and has experience with this type of website development.</p>
<p>After all, now is time to sharing! What’s on your mind about e-commerce industries? You can also adding other great themes, plugins and icon resources that I missed by commenting on this page. Please feel free to leave your comments if there ever had experience from this industry. I think, share would be very good for each other. Si ya!</p></div>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nowadays you see so many web hosting providers offering so-called unlimited web hosting. Unlimited bandwidth here and unlimited disk space there. It seems like the only limit is the sky. Well, the truth looks differently of course. There is no such things as unlimited bandwidth or unlimited disk space. Unless you have seen a hard drive with unlimited disk space somewhere on sale – I haven’t. The same is true for a network switch that could handle unlimited traffic. And then of course there is the web server hardware which has limitations – even though those boundaries really go high up quadruple quadcore CPU configurations and memory levels of 128 GB and more (there is more to this to say, but you get the idea).</p>
<p>So, what does unlimited really means? It’s a numbers game and a marketing game. Web hosting is a business often based on average values. The average website never uses more than X GB of bandwidth and on average only uses X amount of disk space. A web host – based on his/her experience – can now work these averages into a business model and create web hosting plans around it. A web server with 8 GB RAM and 1 TB disk can hold many more websites under this business model than the same web server where only the available physical disk space can be sold. This process is called “overselling”. This is nothing bad as long as the web host monitors the server closely and makes sure the physical limits never get reached.</p>
<p>Now, when it comes to unlimited web hosting you always have 1% of the users taking these offers by the word. Initially you would think this is more an accident, but most of these users know that they need a dedicated server and not a shared web hosting account. So, these users grab every available resource of a web server with their websites and that ruins the experience for everyone else. The server slows down and eventually crashes. The user gets suspended and complains in a public forum how bad this particular web host is . So, web hosts have recognized this problem and put a limit on unlimited into their terms of service. Unlimited means web hosting within certain limits and those limits are usually CPU and RAM of a server. Most users will never even come close to these limits and so it is a non-issue. However, it is an issue for those 1% of web hosting customers that take the web hosts by their words.</p>
<p>Conclusion: Unlimited web hosting does not exist even though it is advertised all over the place. It is a marketing gimmick and should be treated as such. For you, the normal web hosting just take it as it is – you get a web hosting account with huge allowances for a really low price. Do not expect unlimited resources though, because there is a reason why dedicated web servers exist. And unlimited web hosting is just one of them …</p>
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