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There as many answers to this question as there are people asking it and you do not always get what you pay for.
Generally the big firms will charge at least $1000 for a simple brochure website because you are getting the skill sets of several people but this does not always equate to a better website. -> Read more
Web pages are made for a purpose (if it is not made for a purpose then it is art not a web page), so the first test should be, Does it accomplish that purpose? Fix this purpose in your mind. The average user having thousands of choices will give yours about 10 seconds. OK quick look at your web page, can you see in ten seconds how to accomplish that purpose? In the real world of pass or fail e-commerce that is the only consideration. -> Read more
Hot linking is the practice of linking directly to content on another website. There are cases where this is OK and in these cases it is known to the website or content owner. What about if someone links to an image on your website and puts it in their content. Imagine also that this other website get a lot of traffic. Your web server would also serve up images to this traffic. In this case the would be a lot of traffic to your server and you would be paying for this bandwidth yet the other website is getting the benefit or revenue dollars. -> Read more
If you have not all ready, read http://www.dashaver.com/Add-Content-Drupal-WebSite Under the are where you add your text you should see an area which says Attached images. If you don't see this it is because the image module has not been installed, email me and I will install it for you. Click on Attached images and in the drop down portion you should see Upload image and the browse button. Use the browse button to find the image on your computer. The image will be uploaded. You should put in an Image title. The image will appear in the area marked thumbnail.
Drupal is an open source content management system, that allows users to manage the content of their website. Drupal enables a user to edit the content of their website using a browser such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Drupal is an interface between the user and the programming code allowing users to also change the content of their own website. Originally the web was composed individual pages that were each made separately by developers. These pages are called HTML pages. This led to problems because it violates the basic principal of data integrity, which is information should not be listed in more than one place to insure its accuracy and timeliness. Imagine a website with the address at the bottom of each page and as the website grows any changes will have to be made to each page. Think of a very large e-commerce web site with a menu on each page. What happens if one link changes? In a content management system like Drupal these bits of information are stored in a single database called MySQL and retrieved each time a page is requested by the user. -> Read more
