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Over the past 12 days we’ve recommended 12 different retailers to you for Christmas present ideas.  As we are at the end of it all we thought it would be a good idea for us to do a quick review of who the 12 retailers were.

1. Apple
2. 123-Reg
3. Dell
4. Amazon
5. AVG
6. Misco
7. CD WOW
8. Dabs
9. HMV
10. PC World
11. The Carphone Warehouse
12. I Want One Of Those

Which retailers have you used?  Who is your favourite retailer?

Following a successful series on Planning a Wireless Network, we have decided to continue the trend with a short series on Planning a Basic Website!

This series is part of the weekly Quick Tips, which are supposed to be short, this set will be a bit longer in order to help beginners understand how to setup a site and provide resources or suggestions of what to use for this.

The things we will look at are:

• Domain Names
• Web Hosting
• Tools to create the site
• Site Optimisation

Today, we will look at Domain Names. A domain name is the web address that people will use to access your website, e.g. www.pctoolbox.co.uk, www.brandstar.co.uk or www.google.co.uk. These are also often referred to as a URL. If you are really interested in know more about domain names then Wikipedia can help!

When choosing your domain name consider the following:

1. Needs to be easy for people to remember, so generally shorter the better
2. If you can get the .com version of the domain then go for it, this is the domain level that most people remember. Bet you wouldn’t remember a site that ended with .uk.net!
3. It needs to be available!
4. Should ideally be the name of your site / company, OR tell the visitor what your site is about
5. Don’t pay too much for it! We tend to find 123-Reg.co.uk* to be the cheapest and provide a generous amount of tools on the control panel to manage your domain.

Struggling to think of a domain name? or finding that all the ones you choose are taken, try nameboy.com for some help!

Next Week, Web Hosting!

*this link is an affiliate link, we have to run the site somehow if you want a link without the affiliate link then try this one: www.123-reg.co.uk. Please note, our affiliate status has no effect on us recommending 123-Reg.