What is a web presence?
• A web presence is a way to show the information you have to offer.
Your web presence is created when you begin work on your web site or web
page. The type of presence you choose is very important, because
each visitor to the page or site will be evaluating your presence by the
way your information is presented.
What types of sites/pages are there?
• Personal, family sites, hobby sites, soapbox sites...... there
are a million reasons Business - as a billboard or advertisement,
to sell something, give product information, a place for employees
to look up information, to get feedback from customers
Non-Profit - churches, service sites: Lions Clubs & Districts,
local government, Tourist associations, etc.
Within this FAQ we will discuss the uses of a web site/page for
the sole purpose of promoting our Lions Distinct, or club.
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What is a web site?
• A web site is a collection of several pages used to present your
subject to the world.
LionNet International and LionNet Michigan are two different (2)
types of web sites.
LionNet International uses a flat page system. LionNet Michigan
uses a frame system.
Each of these sites uses several pages to give you an idea about
what they are doing.
What is a web page?
· A web page is a single page of information.
all the information is gather on to one page.
If you have visited a Lions Club Site hosted
by lionWap like Empire
Lions then you have
seen a web page.
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How fancy does it have to be?
• The complexity of your site depends on your tastes and desires.
Many should avoid the fancy stuff and get right to presenting the information.
I myself prefer what is call a frame site as it allows for better
navigation and easy location of needed information, without the use of
plug-ins. This way the page loads much faster and is less apt to
be discarded by those who don't want to wait. If you take a look
at the Manistee Lions web site http://lions.silverthorn.biz/manistee,
you will see that I used graphics (pictures) to draw the visitors attention,
without the need for special plug-ins. Remember the fancier you get
the great the possibility that some of your visitors may not be able to
view your page.
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What information should I include?
• Always include the important information.
Since this FAQ is structured for Lions, be sure to include your clubs name,
the meeting location, the time you meet, officers, activities/events, any
announcements, and the most important thing of all contact information.
A website/page has no value to the visitor if there is no contact information,
or it is hard to find.
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How do I use my pictures?
• Pictures are used to give a visual presentation
of what you are trying to promote. Please remember use the best pictures
you have, this way you show them a full visual display of the subject.
Picture can be scanned, or developed and put on disk. In order to
use these picture on the web, they must be made into .gif or .jpg format,
and should also be optimized to keep file sizes small.
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How do I get my web site on-line?
• You will need to find a web host for your
web site. A Web Host is nothing more then a home for your web site.
Just as each of us has a home in which we live a web site must have a home
for it reside.
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What is a web host?
• All web sites are hosted by a server. a server
is a computer tied to a vast network of other computers, much like the
different towns we live in are tied together by roads. Every website
has an address or url which is very similar to our street address
at home. A web site must have a server and address in order for other
in the internet community to find it much like how our mail is delivered.
A hosting service also keeps your site assessable and deals with any technical
problems that come up.
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Do I need a domain, or sub domain?
• That's always a matter for debate. If your
business or organization expects many visitors or your product is heavily
associated with your name you may want to invest in a domain name, otherwise
you might want to consider a sub domain as it is less expensive.
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How much is it?
• Depending on how you decide to host your site, the cost can range
from free to $30 per month and have up to 150 Mb of space. the average
cost if we setup the hosting is:
• Hosting with LionWap.
There is no hosting fee and the site is created in a simple to use
form.
All you need to do is enter the information, |
• Hosting with a free service.
there is no fee, and some of these services even provide a simple
page builder. Many of these free service sites require you to have
ads and return links to the service main page, in return for your free
hosting |
| • host your website lions.silverthorn.biz as a sub domain site,
the cost will be $5 for ftp access setup, no hosting fee. |
| • If you choose to go with a domain LionNet Michigan hosts your
site and the cost will be $48 per year, with 10 Mb of space, and
a one time setup fee of $15. |
links for full details of free and cost hosted sites are on
a hosting links page shown above
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What is the advantage of cost/free?
• For a sub domain hosted on one of our domain the cost is inexpensive
and there are is advertising or pop ups on your page(s), however a link
back to the domain site would be appreciated (but is totally optional).
We hate, illegal or sex sites, are they will not be hosted. Our Domains
are Child safe Sites.
• for the domain site there can be many advantages. Less down time
if you have a popular site, several added services for the domain such
as chat room and guest books (with no ads or pop ups), and the best one
is you can keep the length of you web site address short. these are just
a few of the advantages to a domain.
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What will my web address be?
• For a sub domain site your web address would be http://www.(domain
chosen).com/yourname
Ex. http://www.byrdcountry.com/gregssite
• For a domain site your web address would be http://www.(domain
chosen).com
Ex.: http://www.gregssite.info
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How do people find me?
• There are three (3) ways to be found.
1). It is a good Idea to
have your website address and email on all printed advertisement you distribute.
2). Have others with web
sites link to yours. If they like your site they will link to you
and tell others.
3). Have your web site listed
in the search engines. In order to be listed in search engines
you must register with them. Please remember that METATAGS, Description,
page title and more are necessary for the engines to catalogue your site
properly.
4). Get Linked at LionNet Michigan
and LionNet.com. LionNet.com is
checked by many search engines regularly, so your
website will eventually be
added to other search engines and directories
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Is email available?
• Yes, the email cost varies with the hosting you choose.
• If you choose to host on this sites as a sub domain
you may have one email address for $2 a
month.
YOURNAME@(domain).com Ex: gregsemail@silverthorn.biz
• If you have a domain site, the number of email address
you can have
will vary but your email will be yourname@(domain).com
Ex: gregsemail@Gregssite.info
• If you host your site on LionWap there is no email you
will need to use one of the free service.
• or you may choose from many places where you can get FREE
lifetime email address.
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Are chat rooms & other services
available?
• Yes, Silverthorn Enterprise has the ability to support Chat Rooms
and other added services, with out pop up ads. Our domain host servers
do support these services as well
• If the pop up adds do not bother you, Beenseen
will host those services
for you for free.
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Can you you help with my page?
Sure can, I am a web designer and will do what I can to help you,
your club or district get your site online as soon as possible. Please
continue to read our FAQ page it will help you in some choices you'll need
to make in order to get prepared for a web site.
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How do I get you my info?
• If we are to do your site you can deliver information
and pictures through US mail, FTP access, or drop it off which is the preferred
method so we can discuss what you want your web site to look like.
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