Basing your decision on experience on finding the best web hosting can be time consuming and frustrating, which is why its great independent sites such as Web Hosting Geeks provides web hosting reviews.

The reviews are by actual users, who can give an honest and real review on the web hosts. There are also “professional” reviews which are made available, but I prefer the reviews by the real users.

For people who are not certain of what exactly they are looking for, they can take a look at the web hosting articles featured on the site, which in detail explain various terms which might not make a lot of sense if you are new in the business. Are you looking for overseas hosting, or perhaps want to know exactly what the difference is between dedicated and shared hosting? Take a look at the articles section.

The design of the site is not amazing, but its efficient, and you get the feel it has been around for a long time, which brings credibility to the site. I would look into the site design if I were the site operator, but why fix something that works?

I would have liked to be able to find any kind of search function as well? A website without search? I wanted to check out another web host I use, Mediatemple, but I could find no such thing as a search-function. That was mildly irritating, but I got lost in the actual site as well and reading about other sites I’ve had hosting with or I have thought about using.

The footer boasts of more than 7000 articles, which should be enough to suit anyone looking for web hosting information.

On a sidenote: I’m glad to see that Bluehost is the best web host at the time of writing this review, which in fact is the hosting company for this very blog Good job Bluehost!

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How to find quality web hosting

I was very happy the other day when I located a cool place for mac games. They have lots of cool games, such as neptune’s secret for mac and Jewel match for mac.

There are a few things that I am not that happy about, and that is the choice of design for the website. It looks… Well… Not very cool.

As a MAC user I’ve grown accustomed to sleek and funky design with nice usability and very easy navigation. This site fails in that aspect. They have some fun games though, so its worth going there to take a visit.

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Excellent site for MAC games

Years ago when I started out it was a problem to even convince customers to get online, and even more to actually pay for the development costs.

For me it was always important to save costs on the development, and increase my overhead on small projects. One of the ways I did that, was to implement the use of web templates.

DreamTemplate
is just one out of many sites that offer that to their visitors. But that is where the comparison ends. They have a very excellent system where you get unlimited access to all their templates, but for a very fair yearly price, $59.95.

For that price you usually would not expect very much, but the price does cover instant access to more than 1000 well produced quality web templates, including full source files in html and the original Photoshop source files for additional tweaking.

Now, for me that would be more than enough, but the membership also includes access to over 15.000 different cliparts, 500 word templates, 8.000 TrueType fonts, and the list just goes on.

What more do you need? Click the link to the left (aff), take a look and sign up!

P.s. If I were to add something negative, its the music that automatically plays whenever you go to the frontpage. It only plays for a few seconds, but it is VERY annoying in my ears.

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Finding good webtemplates

Their own homepage is well designed, although I noticed a few errors here and there while going through the content of their site.

Their portfolio page displays a latin text in the top “Phasellus porta. Fusce suscipit varius mi. Cum sociis natoque pena- tibus et magnis dis parturient montascetur ridiculus mus dui. Fuscee feugiat malesuada odio. Morbi nunc odio, gravidaa” and has a bit of an error when I viewed that page in Firefox on my Macbook Pro. See below screenshot

Normally I would just notice this, and not be that focused on the error, but when being asked to review the design of a homepage, I had anticipated a well-worked through layout, at least a checked through design, and that the latin dummy text had been removed. Or is it me who should learn latin?

A few things seem to be missing as well. I could locate no detailed information about the company, such as size, and specifically location. For me that it important when hiring freelancers, that I have a better knowledge of who and where they are.The .us-domain should be a hint, but I have not read up on the requirements for purchasing a .us-domain.

On a side note, I would recommend them checking their site through a spell-checker as well when fixing above errors/bugs. “ammount” should be spelled “amount”, and there were a few others like that. Maybe checking the links on each and every page would be a good idea as well, I found a link to http://www.articles.stylishwebdesign.us/ on the front page (see bottom right corner on the front page under “Quick Access”

The Design directory contains at this moment just a few links to other sites, but I am sure that is subject to change very quickly. The layout is among the nicest I have seen in the directories I’ve seen around.

Go check out their homepage, and consider dropping them a mail. I am thinking about contacting them for a project I have in mind, I would be curious to see a quote from them.

This is a sponsored review

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