Frequently Asked Questions

Here are some of the most common questions regarding web designing and hosting that you always wanted to know.

What is Web Hosting?
Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company so that you may publish your web site online.

You can either opt for free hosting that is usually supported with banners and pop ups, or may opt to get paid web hosting, which gives you complete control over your site contents.

What is Virtual Hosting?

Also known as shared hosting, this form of web hosting should suffice for most everyone.

Virtual hosting simple refers to the fact that your site is on one server, and that this server hosts mulitple sites. You are virtually shared - your site will not be the only one on this specific server.

Very few sites would actually need the power of a dedicated server, so this option provides to be a reliable and cheap solution. For sites requiring more power than what normal hosting can provide, a dedicated server is usually the better route to take.

What is a Domain Name?

A domain name is a word along with a TLD that uniquely identifies your website.

Please visit our domains page for more information.

How Do I Register a Domain Name?

Registering a domain name is very easy.

First you will have to make sure that the domain you want is available - using something called a WHOIS lookup at sites like  Whois Source you can make sure the domain you want is available for registration.

Otherwise you can always contact us and we will give you suggestion on the best names that you might want to book for.

My host offers unlimited bandwidth/space/transfer. What if take a limited bandwidth?

Every time you view a page, the content of the site gets downloaded to your desktop. Say if you visit yahoo.com, you download about 250kb of data including the advertisements.

Say your total site is 1 mb in size and one visitor is seeing the site fully.Then he is downloading 1mb of data and your server bandwidth usage is also 1mb.So if you buy a 250mb data transfer/month disk plan, only 250 people per month will be able to see your site. After that whoeverwants to see your site, will see a message “ bandwidth exceeded”.The page can not be displayed. Which is a matter of utter dishonor. Wouldyou want that?

That’s why we don’t offer any plan that does have a bandwidth usage limit.

What exactly is space and bandwidth/data transfer?
Diskspace is the size your website can be. Every single letter on your website has to be stored somewhere on your web host's server. Each letter is one byte, and a megabyte is roughly one million bytes. HTML pages are usually very small, but it is the extra images, scripts, and even databases that can take up large amounts of disk space.

Bandwidth/Transfer is the amount of data the server will allow your site to send in a month. Transfer is usually measured in gigabytes - billions of bytes. Once you go over your monthly limit, a host may either shut your site down for the remainder of the month or it can charge you 'overage.' This overcharge is usually about $2.00-$5.00 per extra gigabyte of transfer.

What do I need to do to put Flash on my website?

Flash is a client side feature - it runs on the user's computer, not on your web host. As long as the user's browser has the correct plugin installed, it will run on their computer.

How do I track how many hits my website gets?

There are a few things that need to be cleared in terms of terminology:

Hits - this simply refers to the number of 'elements' loaded on your site. If one page has five images in it, viewing that page once adds 6 hits (one page + five images).

Impressions - the number of times all the pages on your site are seen (also simply called pageviews). Impressions are sometimes referred to as 'hits' which can cause confusion

Uniques - the number of people that visited your site
So to clarify, if I visit your website, look at two pages, and each page has 5 images on it, then your stats increase by one unique, two page views, and 12 hits.

Tracking on your site can be either done server-side or remotely. With server-side statistics, log files are used to generate visitor information. This is usually much more accurate than remotely hosted solutions. In such cases, you usually have to add some javascript to your site. This javascript is then used to track visitor data.

If your host provides it (and many do), server-side statistics are a good solution. Otherwise, companies like Site Meter can be used to remotely track your visitors.

We have an after sales service. If you opt for that you get three months of visitor analysis for free. No headache. No extra pain and after that if you want us to report we will continue to do that for a minimal charge.Sounds interesting? Contact us for more details.

What are PHP, ASP, perl, etc?

These are all programming languages which are referred to by their acronyms.

PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
ASP - Active Server Pages
Perl - not an acronym

Each programming language has its own benefits and uses. It is best that you research on your own to find one that best fits your needs.

What is MySQL, MS SQL, etc?
MySQL and MS SQL are database systems. Depending on what your host provides, you can use a database to organize your data.

Although we offer both Windows hosting and Linux hosting, We suggest for small to medium budget clients to go for Linux hosting, It's much cheaper and useful if you are having small and medium sized website and audience ( Upto 50,000 visitor per month, linux hosting is what we suggest).

Do I have to change my domain if I get a new host?

No. Provided that the domain is registered in your name (as it should be), you can simply update your namservers (from where you manage your domain names) to that of your new host.

Will there be forced advertising on my site - things like banner ads or popup ads?

Not at all. You are paying for webspace that is only yours - no one may put ads on your site except you.

How can I pay for web hosting?

This depends on which host you decide to go with. Most web hosts will accept credit cards, and some will accept PayPal and/or a Money Order / Check.

There are currently six people in our team other than regular help from 4 more people.Two are designers, One project manager, One content writer and Two developers. We also take help from our design and program consultant and content writing help on a regular basis.

For whom we design?
Small and medium businesses like Hotel and Restaurants, Shopping Malls, Consulting Business, Model and Actors' portfolio design, Art Gallery, Online Shopping, School and Colleges and other Educational Institutions,Club etc. have already got benefitted from us.

What is our end-to-end solution?
We have seen from our experience that people are scared to have their own website because they think it's complicated.They feel they have no idea about how to go about a website and the website guy may cheat on him.This is true in some cases. Like every business there are some people who cheat people, take unnecssary advantage and give a product that does not match clients' expectation.
But apart from that there are people who make honest website at honest prices but have no clue how to market it.
We come in there. We understand that your website is just not a good looking thing and it needs to be marketed as well. You may or may not opt for it but we give our suggestions about how to reach more customers/potential business contacts and make the most out of it. Just give us all the materials that you have about your business, be it in printed or soft copy format and leave all the tension to us.
At Studio69, we srongly believe that an informed client is an appreciator of good work. That's why we believe in sharing our knowledge with our cutomers so that you also gain from it and don't feel alieneted in the process of web design.

Want association? We are for it too!

Most of our clients we have, are repeat clients as we don't market ourselves very much. So it's basically Word of Mouth publicity that makes us stronger. Once you work with us, we will realize why. Then if you feel that you can bring in more customers for us and for you, you are on. We will make us a part of our group and together we can grow stronger. It's always a win-win situation. Interested? Just mail us.

And if you already have enough customers and outsourcing all the projects? Why not consider us? IF you are interested in having a design studio consider us.Together we can do wonders.