This is an article I wrote on important information you should know about your domain name. Not keeping track of this could cost you one of the most important pieces of your online business… your domain name.

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::ToddS
DW Kickstart - Learn to build and market your own website

If you are a non-techy kind of person then name your home page either index.html or index.htm and skip the rest of this article. That should work 99% of the time for you.

Still here…?

Okay, let’s start by saying that for the most part it doesn’t matter which combination of default, index, html, or htm you use. These are just settings on the web server and can be modified.

Default and Index are the two common default directory documents. Meaning that if you don’t tell the server specifically what web page to load, it will check that directory to see if one of those two files exist and load it.

IE If your default document is index.html and you type http://www.dwkickstart.com it will load http://www.dwkickstart.com/index.html.
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Hiya,

Just finished a new article for you. It takes a look at evaluating your website from your customers perspective.

If your customer has to fight with your site to get at the answers or to make a purchase, chances are they will hit the emergency “Back” button and look elsewhere.

So as you are putting together your site plan, step back and ask yourself if this helps your customer reach their desired result.

Better yet, ask them!

Resource:

• [Article] What does your customer want that you’re not giving them?

::ToddS
DW Kickstart - Learn to build and market your own website