Category: Science Read: 1463 By: Ptechloop

Launch Your Dream Website At Ease Without Regretting

Let's educate you on what website entails and different categories of it so you can make a good choice when lunching that dream site that matches your needs

What is a webpage/website?
A Website is a set of related web pages located under a single domain name that is served on a server online, which can be owned by individuals, organizations for commercial, personal, or dedicated purposes.
Website is basically categorized into two:

A Static website and
A Dynamic website

A Static Website is displayed in a web browser exactly as it is stored. It contains web pages with fixed content coded in HTML and stored on a web server. It does not change, it stays the same, or "static" for every viewer of the site. A static website does not require web programming or database design/storage.

A dynamic website contains information and content that changes, depending on factors such as the viewer of the site, the time of the day, the time zone, or the native language of the country the viewer. The content of your site (text/images) is stored on a database or content management system. When the information is updated or changed within the database, it changes on the site. A Dynamic Website requires web programming and database design.

What Are The Basic Factors That Affects A Website Design?
Launching a website is dependent on so many factors which are the determinant of the type of website and performance.
These Factors are: Domain Name, Hosting, SSL Certificate

Domain Name:

A domain name is a unique name that marks the identity of every webpage online. It is a web address consisting of a website name and a domain name extension. The name is up to you – as long as it consists of letters, numbers, hyphens, etc. Examples of domain names are: www.ptechloop.com, www.facebook.com, www.mypreferedname.org or .net, .edu, etc

The Extension in the domain name above, .com, .net, .org, .edu, .ng depicts the purpose of the website.
.com is for commercial websites and businesses.
.org is mostly for philanthropic websites and organizations.
.net is for groups or networks of companies, organizations, etc.
.edu is for academic institutions.
.ng is for institutions or companies that are based in Nigeria.
.us is for institutions or companies that are based in the United State Of America (USA). Etc.
This helps you to have a picture of the extension name your dream site will bear. In summary, to own a website, you must determine the purpose which will determine the suitable domain extension for easy recognition of the purpose of the site, at a glance of the domain name.

Hosting The Domain name:

After buying a domain name for your dream site, you host that name to the server so it can be accessed via the internet. Purchasing a domain name alone does not automatically get your website to the internet. We have different types of hosting available. Your choice of web hosting is determinant of the purpose of your site and most especially the traffic your site will have.

Types of web hosting:

Shared hosting

Cloud hosting

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Dedicated server

Shared hosting:
This is the most basic and affordable type of web hosting plan available. Shared hosting works for simple sites, the amount of storage and bandwidth required is a fraction of what a full server can provide. Having one server that’s shared by a number of different websites means they each split the cost, paying a small share of the whole.

Cloud Hosting:
doesn’t take place on one physical server. Instead, it happens over connected servers that link together to make up “the cloud.” That means a website that uses cloud hosting is never dependent on just one server. Cloud hosting is costlier than Shared hosting.

Virtual Private Server (VPS):
This is a higher version of shared hosting that supports some degree of server privacy compared to shared hosting. When you shared a server with some web pages, the portion of it you rent is partitioned off from the other parts, and you have your own reserved space unlike Shared Hosting described above.

Dedicated Server Hosting:
This is a complete server that you don’t share with anyone. This is obtainable for big businesses, websites that get a lot of traffic, and anyone who requires the absolute highest level of security.

NOTE: The type of hosting you choose depends on your need. Generally, owning a webpage for your business requires shared hosting, again, if your website is going to serve a large audience, it’s safest to go for a VPS or cloud hosting. This type of hosting is recommended for blogs with a lot of visitors monthly or a church or association with a large membership. Then dedicated hosting is for big companies like Meta, Google, etc. This is the costliest and most secured type of hosting.

SSL Certificate:

Secure Sockets Layer Certificate is a digital certificate that authenticates a website's identity and enables an encrypted connection. This is a security protocol that creates an encrypted link between a web server and a web browser. This will be integrated into your page to protect user data, thus another important website factor.

Other Factors That Affects A Website Design include:
The mockup and client's page contents and numbers determine heavily on the features of a page.
The developer’s expertise determines the unique functionality of the page, and this is also dependent on the mockup and the client's page contents and numbers. According to the developer’s knowledge and experience, you will get a replicate of the dream site you have requested.

Website Extra Features Integration

There are some website features we regard as extra features that add further functionality to your page according to the client's need and wish. They include:

Live Chat: This gives a live conversation in your site between your visitors and the admin management of your site, an opportunity to get in touch with site visitors, and provides top-tier customer service.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): This is improving your website contents creation which easily refers people to your website when people search the related content on the search engine.

Website Analytics: This helps you understand who is coming to your site and how much time they’re spending on it, the time and date they visit, and the country and region they are from. This kind of insight is great for analyzing the effectiveness of certain pages or content for the purpose of changing failing strategies, as well as knowing your target marketing channels.

Payment Gateway: A medium you receive payment from your site for your products and services.

Booking System: A dedicated platform that handles orders and booking of your business and other related services.

Admin Control page: Controls the entire functionalities of your site to make sure everything is in place and also monitors the users’ behaviors and other important features like sending jingle messages to your users, etc.

Customer Relationship Manager Integration: A platform for effective communication and analysis of your customers, to improve user experience.

Database Integration: Integrating a database to securely store a user's data. This is a must for every dynamic website. Etc.

Ptechloop Recommendation:

Based on our 8-years experience in web development and other related services online, we kindly recommend the type of website for you on what is obtainable across the globe viz:
Static Website 1 - 5 or more pages: Suitable for commercial, personal, organizations, governments purpose that that is meant to disseminate a piece of static information without user login systems, and doesn’t require data persistence, etc.
Dynamic Website 1 - 5 or more pages with some extra features: Suitable for commercial, personal, organizations, governments purpose that is meant to render dynamic information to the user, meant to handle higher user traffics. Users meant to create a dedicated page for themselves with unique features according to the information of the user, meant to have a secured database integration that holds users' data and some other information.

You may like us to guide you further for free on how to replicate your dream site into reality. Just send us an inquiry Here and receive feedback immediately.

You can as well our price list to see how affordable you can own a website within days.

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Website Type	Price	Delivery	Features
1-5 Page Static Site	$127 - $272 or (₦70,000 - ₦150,000) Determinat: content type, and design.	5 - 14 days Determinant: content type, readiness & availability.	Pages include any (5): Home, About, Contact, Gallery, Services, Team, Vission/Mission, Portfolio, FAQ, Client, Subscriber.
1-5 Page Dynamic Site	$363 - $545 or (₦200,000 - ₦300,000) Determinant: required extra features, content type, and design.	7 - 14 days Determinant: content type, readiness & availability.	Admin control page, database integration, live chat, Pages includes any (5): Home, About, Contact, Gallery, Services, Team, Vission/Mission, Portfolio, FAQ, Client, Subscriber Opt-in, etc.
Dynamic Site with User Login/Authentication	$363 - $1,272 or (₦300,000 - ₦700,000) Determinant: required extra features, content type, and design.	7 - 14 days Determinant: required extra features, content type, readiness & availability.	Client's required a number of pages, suitable extra features for the app like admin control page, database integration, live chat, etc.
E-Commerce Site	$818 - $1,818 or (₦450,000 - ₦1M) Determinant: number of products, required extra features, content type, and design.	7 - 21 days Determinant: number of products, required extra features, content type, readiness & availability.	Client's required a number of pages, suitable extra features for the app like payment gateway, admin control page, database integration, live chat, etc.
Dedicated Web Application	$909 - $1,090 or (₦500,000 - ₦5M) or more Determinant: sophisticated nature of the app, required extra features, content type, and design.	14 - 90 days or (more) Determinant: sophisticated nature of the app, required extra features, content type, readiness & availability.	Client's required number of pages, suitable extra features for the app, and client's chosen features, behavior, functionality, etc.