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Introduction
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China Expats offer
website building, maintenance, and hosting services
China Expats currently build, publish, maintain, and
host this website + about one dozen other websites.
These range from simple personal websites, through more
complex websites for clubs and small businesses, to
full e-commerce solutions that actually work
First we need to ask you one question:
What is the purpose and function of your website?
In other words: Who is your target market and What do
you want the website to do?
Free solutions are always limited in what you can and
cannot do (Geocities, Facebook, MySpace, etc), and whilst
great for some - do not really allow individuals to
do other things, or have root access
This website for instance uses a lot of JavaScript,
and is designed to be accessed by people from all over
the world who seek information. However, a secondary
access system allows for all-comers, including blind
people. Every week it is accessed by somebody using
a Commodore 64! If you understand this, then the World
of Computer Zen has just been explained to you.
Now have a guess at which browser comes in at number
9 for surfers viewing this website during August 2009
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Clue 1: It was more popular than IE 5, IE 5.1, and IE
5.5 combined
Clue 2: It was only just less popular than Safari, but
beat Google Chrome
Clue 3: Of Netscape and clones, only Firefox 3.5 (vers)
was more popular
Now, the actual point is that you do need to adapt to
your surfer market, and make information available to
as many people and browsers as possible. Therefore,
if your website is an e-commerce solution, then this
will doubtless be accessed by those using fairly recent
computers and software. However, if you are a Charity
providing a contact portal for those in desperate need
in far-flung corners of the world, then this is critical,
and could mean the difference between life and death.
Therefore your website needs to be accessible to very
old computers, browsers, and associated software. These
people may not be computer literate, and could have
a poor command of English also. By an unusual quirk,
it may also need to be friendly to mobile phone technology
and surfing!
So, define your target market and build your website
to fit their needs - not your own 'good ideas'
We are currently posting our comments re W3CSchools
in our Forum - feel free to add your pennyworth
We also offer reliable e-Commerce solutions for online
trading that are simple and effective for you to use.
We can also sort out the 'Payment Gateway' for you =
how you actually get your money!
Taking things further:
1. We also specialise in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation)
and listing
2. Recently we started a brand new Business Directory
in association with Chinese Government, over 100, 000
Chinese Brands, and Western Companies. This is designed
to give you free and direct access to the products you
want to sell or buy (With no catches)
We are also willing to help other webmasters with their
own projects - however, please post in our Forum
first, before using the Contact
Us portal. Thank you
This is What we offer
Websites:
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1. Website Design
- Simple Websites and Blog's for personal
use
- Simple websites for small business
- Complex business websites
- e-Commerce websites
- These can be quite complex, and you
will find that most of these solutions
do not actually work in real life - even
though you have paid a lot of money for
them
- Our solutions do work straight out of
the box (Proven in real life).
- All you then need to do is add your
product sand updates, or ask us to do
it for you (For a minimal fee of course)
- Payment Gateways
- We can also supply Payment Gateways,
or configure your 'PayPal' for you.
- Please note: Unlike other more expensive
solutions. PayPal (In our personal experience)
- does have a nasty habit of making it
very difficult for Business users to get
hold of their money, unless you go through
the hoops they put in place (But don't
tell you about in advance!)
- However, their Virtual Payment Gateway
makes this a great choice for small and
start-up business requiring point of sale
handling of Credit Cards
- This choice is yours
Contact Us with details of what you require -
we can usually provide an immediate solution suitable
for your needs
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2.Website Maintenance
So you have your new website, and it is fantastic!
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- Later you may need to update it: add a blog,
pictures, or new content pages.
- Business users may wish to change product
specifications and prices.
We can easily do this for you, even if we did
not make the website in the first place. Contact
us for more information
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3. Website Hosting
Finding a truly reliable webhost is perhaps one
of the most daunting aspects of having a website.
Some of these are good, and some of these are
also free. Basically most will either provide:
abysmal service, not answer customer support queries,
put your website off-line for hours (Or months
at a time!), or basically only be interested in
your money. Sad but very true
China Expats use Vidahost from UK, a small and
individual service operated by Seb and Dominic.
We have now been together for 6 years +, and I
simply cannot fault them
They also regularly update their servers and supported
software/hardware + allow you very reasonable,
user friendly, server-side access. This is supported
by a growing list of auto-install Fantastico and
Softaculous features, and lots of technical stuff
we will not go into here...
But heah! You have seen what the rest do - now
try the very best! |
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4. SEO
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Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is only a problem
if you are stupid enough to use dim-witted programmes'
supplied by programmer geek's who only speak '.php'.
Otherwise this should never be a problem.
You will know this if your address bar has long
lists of Alpha-Numeric characters, instead of
real addresses. SEO actually means turning this
gobbledygook into real words, and it is also a
supporting con designed to make even more money
for the companies that supply this stuff in the
first place!.
Given you are daft enough to pay someone lots
of money to supply you with this crap, then we
are also daft enough to charge you a little money
to put it right for you. 'Nuff said! |
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| 5. Business Directory |
I think we are correct in assuming that any businessman,
be it Factory, Seller, Buyer, or Sourcer - is
very fed-up with the current business listing
directories. You always have to sign-up and pay
some money. Most of these do not give you direct
access to customers ... or manufacturers, restricting
you to third-party mechanisms for vaguely putting
you in indirect touch with the products or clients
you want. It really is a bit of a drag, Baby!
Imagine if someone offered you a complete Client/Company
access portal - either for free, free membership,
or a minimal fee? Wow!
But the crunch is that it actually works the way
you want it to! China Expats in association with
China Biz 21 have already got this passed by Government,
and we already have our first 100, 000 clients
businesses now online
Contact us for your personalised web portal, quoting
'Directory' in the subject line.
Actuality
What usually happens is that company directors
become beguiled by fancy presentations, large
price tags, and products that look great - but
the websites don't actually work (yet). We've
rescued a couple of these, and become embroiled
with Australian companies promising the earth
- only to later find them seeking our help to
sort out why their products don't actually work
to their customers expectations. The answer is
usually very simple - it isn't finished yet, but
let Dilbert explain this for you:
Dilbert© by Scott
Adams
... and you suckers buy this stuff. Amazing!
Here are some of the website we currently have
built ourselves, maintain and offer personal services
for our clients:
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This information is as supplied by China Expats, as
dated July 2010 or later, and/or other reliable sources.
Business e-Commerce websites
(Unless stated otherwise) are provided in association
with Norbert and Nancy of China Biz 21
Web: www.chinabiz21.com
Disclaimer:
Please check this information yourself as it may alter
without notice, and whilst we try our best to ensure
it is correct, please do not hold us responsible for
any errors - this is intended as a simple guide only |
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