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When Webstart was first formed in 1997 the internet and the web services Webstart offered were very different from what they are now. With our focus strictly on the future of the internet and the technical developments surrounding it the name Webstart was becoming ever more dated, and so, Webstart has now become DoTech Web Solutions.

One of the deciding factors to move away from the ‘Webstart’ brand was that almost everyone has, or has had involvement with a website. There are not many businesses or entrepreneurs who are literally ’starting’ in the web world. Most will have good knowledge of the web, its benefits and the requirements to stay competitive in the on-line world.

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What happened to Webstart?

EditPages was developed after several requests by our clients to have more control over the content of their websites. The requests were for a system that was simple to use, would not interfere with the main structure of the site, was available 24 hours a day from any location, was inexpensive to use and if required the updates could be published to the live website immediately. We also added in some other features such as a history log in case mistakes were made, online help and multiple page editing from the same location.

Some features of EditPages are…

• Full WYSIWYG editor (like using Word)
• Can be added to any website (no need to be hosted by us)
• Image uploads and insertion
• Create hyperlinks, mailto links and anchors within the page
• Revert to the last saved version or original version of a page (a lifesaver!)
• Change fonts, colours, font sizes
• Intuitive table support for advanced formatting
• Edit different pages from the same interface
• Saved changes can be published immediately on the website or saved in draft mode
• Full source code editing option (knowledge of html required)
• Simple annual licensing no matterwhat size your site is
• Preview pages before publication

For more details on how to get EditPages please visit the EditPages website.

My sleepless nights were based on this statement on the google webmaster guidelines page… “Don’t create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content.”… alarm bells start ringing as I realised that my new site was being mirrored on each domain I had mapped it to.

The site is a new online directory which has an ever increasing number of business listings (www.pulsating.com if you are interested). The original idea was to have a single directory for a specific town – Crawley, West Sussex – so the site began as www.crawley.co.uk . This was great but restricted us to just one town so the idea to expand to the whole UK was developed and the name changed to www.pulsating.com. Now here lies the problem, www.crawley.co.uk was mapped on top of www.pulsating.com so both would effectively serve the same content – now we have a big problem in google crawling duplicate content. The recommended way to move content is via 301 redirects so we need to use this method. We didn’t want to stop using the crawley.co.uk domain on the new site because we had already done some promotion on this domain and Crawley was well represented for business listings within the site anyway. The solution came by using the php auto_prepend_file directive – which is about the same as having an include statement at the top of all your php pages. To get php to prepend all the php files you simply put the directive in your .htaccess file, here is the line of code …php_value auto_prepend_file “/path/to/public_html/somefile.php”

Now every php page that gets accessed will call the somefile.php page – in that page is where we put the code to do the 301 redirects – just as Google likes it! Here is the code we use…

1) $looking_for = “crawley.co.uk”;
2) $moved_to = “www.pulsating.com”;
3) if (eregi(“$looking_for”,$_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"])) {
4) $this = “http://” . $moved_to . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
5) header(“HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently”);
6) header(“Location: $this”);
7) exit();}

Some explanations of the code above:
1) The text (domain) we are looking to redirect from
2) The domain we are looking to redirect to.
3) This checks to see if the text is in the host part of the url
4) Here we rebuild the url replacing the domain with the one we are redirecting to
5) 301 redirect header to indicate the permanent move
6) Go to the redirected page
7) Stop anymore script executions as we are off to the new page!

This is not perfect, you will need to check for https if your site has ssl and this only works for sites using php pages. For static html pages the mod_rewrite function may be better suited.

But once the deal has been struck and their file is closed what happens then?

If you are a busy business the chances are nothing, which begs the question…

Who are they talking to? What are they buying? How do they view your business?

If this sounds just a little to near the truth why not consider the benefits of running ExtraMail, the brilliant new email based contact system from Webstart Ltd

• To highlight specific sales promotions
• To send press releases and newsworthy stories
• To send service information
• Newsletters
• Website update notifications
• Personal introductions
• Fun communications
• Rewards and loyalty bonus schemes
• Quick quotes
• Just to keep in touch (any excuse)

ExtraMail is a web based mail program that unlike most programs allows you to send beautifully formatted, highly compelling messages to your target market without compromising your network (or upsetting your ISP).

• You can create professional looking, strongly branded communications direct to the recipient’s desktop.
• It is fully configurable – you can set the layout to your specification easily through our simple interface.
• You can add images and manage them using your very own image gallery
• You can create links back to specific areas of your website
• You can personalise emails for greater impact
• You can create manageable client groups for even greater message control
• Subscribers to your website are added instantly to your mailing list (subject to your webmaster)
• It doesn’t compromise your bandwidth or connection speed
• It’s completely virus free
• You can easily import databases into the system from common programs such as Excel, Act and Outlook

In all this is an awesomely powerful program allowing sophisticated mass broadcasting without any of the fuss and bother of so-called dedicated software.

For more details please visit www.extramail.net or contact us

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