1. Firstly you should be aware of what types and how many scripts are included in every pages of your website.  Use good quality scripts and avoid alphas and betas.
2. Remove any unnecessary script that many be included on many pages of your website, like script for embedding flash content and page may not have any flash content at all. Keep watch on those heavy frameworks scripts too!
3. If you use mailing script for sending mass emails to your users, make sure you have some delay while sending mails. Sending 1000 emails at once is a big no but sending 1000 emails with gap of 30 seconds after every 10 emails is ok.

When you are doing a dynamic website project, it may need you to make forms to collect user information. Almost every website has contact us form which mostly consist of name, email, comment and phone number etc. These forms are easy to make and data can be sent to an email id or stored somewhere. If all you want is send data to an email id, then all you have to do is write few lines of code and use mail() function but if you need to store the data, story is different! Storing data means use of database and since you cannot read data directly from logging in database panel and reading tables, you will need to make an interface from where stored data can be read. This is where admin panel is needed. Making form and then connecting it to database, setting up admin panel to view stored data requires lot of coding. If you know coding well even then it takes some time to do this, otherwise you hire a programmer to do it for you.

Form tools make things easy for you. This free open source script is not only highly customizable but also works with variety of forms. All you have to do is make the form and then connect it to form tool (installed on your server) and that’s it! Form tool will collect data from the form, store in database and present you in clean tabular and printable format. Connect your form to Form tool is very easy and anyone without knowledge of coding can do it. I think Form tool is one of the best tool for every web developer. Download it free from formtools.org

Website uptime depends on your host. While most of the web host these days claim to have 99.9% uptime, but it’s really unfortunate to know that it’s not always true. It’s like whenever a web host setup his own website, the web designer gifts him a 99.9% uptime icon without even knowing whether the host will be really that good or not. Thumbs rule is to choose a host which is well known in industry and have been in business since long. Few names which come in mind are: HostGator, 1and1, godaddy, bluehost etc. Going with one of these means a good service and rare downtimes. Good uptime will make sure that your site is available for your visitors whenever they visit your site which is very important. If site shows unavailable then it gives a bad impression and one can notice a drop in hits and page views. I recommend WebCEO for monitoring your website uptime. They are really good in providing timely reports right into your inbox (no spam whatsoever, only reports) which is really useful as you can show it as a proof to your host if he is providing a bad uptime.

There are people who consider blog as a blog and some think it as a website with categories, achieves listed on side. But just like you cannot use a bike engine to run a car (well it may be but it will be a bad idea), similarly a blog is a blog. What I mean to say that if you need a company website for official use, make it a proper website with the html, PHP or whatever language you want to use in it and not simply install wordpress and use a free template to save time. You will say, why not do that when it’s simpler, look nice and saves money. You never know how many people are going to get a bad image about your company. There are two kinds of people, one who know what a blog is and others who are completely unaware. So people who know blog will at once sat, “oh this guy is so lazy and cheap that he installed blog and showing it as a website” and other who don’t know must have seen many blogs and they must have an image that this is something easy (maybe they know its free) as everyone is having it. So overall, it’s better to have a true website when there is a need of website and not a blog. At this point you will say that you can find some template or customize it to look just like any other website! But if you are doing so much, what’s wrong is making a normal CSS design? You will have better control over its layout and it will be lighter on system too. it doesn’t take long to XHTML a template psd. Having a /blog with a proper website is a plus point and I always favor that. Its good SEO wise too.

Today it’s hard to find a good .com domain and everyone working online looks for grabbing a good domain whenever available. So you end up buying a good number of domains every year. Mostly people leave those domain parked but I make a website, not a big one but simple and use it for the domain I just bought. For this, a web host is obviously needed as soon as you have bought a domain. Looking for a webhost is not difficult anymore because of web hosting directory which really helps in finding a good deal in web hosting. Find a host from there which meets your requirement and build up a simple site for the domain and see how worth the site looks. If you get some rank, then it’s a plus point. You will definitely get some rank if you have made a site with good keywords, just parked domains don’t get rank. So a little bit of work and you can get a well ranked site in few months which you can either use yourself or resell for a good price easily.

Starting a website means lots of work. First of all if you don’t have a domain, you start with searching for the best domain available which will suit your website. Then you either make it yourself if you know or you get in touch with a web designer to get it done for you. In both cases you know which type of hosting you want, like windows or linux, which features it, must have and you also look for perfect pricing. If you are getting it done from a web designer, he tells you what he will need in a web hosting. To make it easier, there are sites like web hosting choice which provide detailed review on almost every popular web host. You can view at a glance what every host has to offer like disk space, bandwidth and compare. It becomes really easy, otherwise going to each hosting site one by one and then comparing is time consuming job. Also you can miss some good host if you don’t go to all webhost websites and later regret when your friend tells you about it. So don’t give that chance to your friend and always make the best choice in choosing web host from now.

There are so many hosting websites and everyone proving itself to be the best; it becomes hard to select one for your website. Many people ask me which hosting is the best and I tell them to look at their requirements, note it down somewhere and then see which hosting is best suited for you and how much you have to shell out is also important. Comparing webhosting by visiting their sites randomly is not an easy task, a web hosting reviews site is best for this work. At the hosting review site, you will find all the popular webhost listed with their full review. You can now easily find a host now which fits your budget and offers everything you needed. Don’t forget to read user feedback in their review because only then you will be able to know about the quality of that particular webhost. Finding a good web hosting has now become very easy now, thanks to web hosting reviews site. As you must be aware that there are some web hosts which offer free domain with some of their plans, you can find those entire web host listed separately for your convenience on web hosting review site.

Being a freelance web designer I get a chance to experience many web hosts and till now I have seen almost every big host. From cheap shared web host to dedicated server hosting, I have tested all and found that it’s not always necessary that a host which have costly plans are going to offer you an excellent service. However in case you are looking for cheap host, chances are more that you may get a bad host so you will have to choose after some deeper research but if you are willing to pay more for web hosting then you can go for any popular host without thinking much and you should get a decent service and support. While talking of support, you should choose a host which offer good support to their customers. This is also true for cheap host. If you are buying a cheaper plan, then also you should get an equally good support just like a customer is getting with premium plans. If you are new to website stuff then you should always ask someone who is experienced in these things or simply look for reviews online. Online reviews can not always be true and can be false as well! If you want some honest web hosting reviews then you should look on hosting and tech related forums where people have discussed their experiences and problems related to their web host. Now you will get a clearer picture and you should be able to sort out bad host from good ones.

Recently one of my client who is using a dedicated server plan for his website had his site down for whole week and all because of bad hosting support. He called me several times for but I could do anything since the problem was from hosting side and hosting guys were just too lazy to fix things up. So what I am trying to say here is that a good support is a must to look for when choosing a host, other wise you may experience problems. No one wants his website to be down for several days. To ensure that the web host you are going to choose does offer good support, you can also read web hosting articles where you will also find some good tips and further details on how to choose a web host. Remember that all the hard work you do for choosing a web host is one time pain and then you can host your site peacefully which is really worth the time you spend in choosing the web host.