MKT 250 Web Business Creations

W04 Reflection: Site Builder & Hosting

This week in Web Business Creation we learned about choosing a site builder and choosing a host.  We learned we needed to make the decision based on such things as our time frames, knowledge of HTML, our business’s requirements for size, power, appearance, ease of use, etc.

We learned about hosting and read information from these pages:

·         How to Choose a Host

·         Top Host (Links to an external site.)

·         Host Promo Codes

We learned about some of the criteria to look for when choosing a host also.  Things like price, discounts, ads, domain names, ads credit-google analytics, bing, facebook and Instagram.  We had to compare things like size, power, strength, capability to integrate with 3^rd party programs.   I wish we would have had some more guidance about things to look for as far as ecommerce sites and items needed with it.  I hope my choices not only meet my business needs, but also the requirements of the class.  Some of the site builder and hosts or both were GoDaddy, Blue Host, Square, Webgator, Wix, Weebly, Shopify, Ionis, etc.

This was the first time I have ever felt that the discussions helped me understand the information better.  There was a lot of information that the students gleaned from evaluating for their sites that brought frustration because we have to make these decisions fast and without a solid understanding.  Some of these commitments are for a couple of years.  That adds up financially.  It would be helpful and less frustration for students to have had a heads up from the instructors not just luck through other students or own searching.