Hampton Shores is a brand of teak furniture and household items. Sold through distribution, as well as direct to the public, Hampton Shores wanted a website that was as distinctive as their product. They came to Total Hosting with an existing website based on the Miva Merchant shopping cart system (which we offer, and fully support) that needed to be properly configured with the right modules and a more cohesive design and organizational structure. Total Hosting delivered them a great site that pushed the envelope of what can be done with a little planning and the right enhancements to Miva Merchant. Visit HamptonShores.com   portfolio/hamptonshores-header.png|center||0||bottom||

Eric Taylor is a rising-star on the motivational speaker circuit. His website is as dynamic as he is. Eric is a busy professional that needs to keep his website up-to-date, but doesn’t want to spend hours doing it. Using a great content management system, Joomla (available for free with every Total Hosting account) and the very easy to use X-cart shopping cart system, Eric can update any content on his site, as well as sell event tickets, hard goods and egoods. Visit EmpowermentGroup.com   Tools: Joomla Customized Components X-Cart Shopping Cart Constant Contact portfolio/empowermentgroup-header.png|center||0||bottom||

Based in Ocean County, NJ, Final Cut is a custom engraver of awards, gifts and other items. They came to Total Hosting to convert their old website from a static collection, to an easily updated one. Along with the ability to control the site themselves, as well as allow direct purchases, Total Hosting delivered a solution that truly sets them apart from the competition. Visit FinalCut.com   TK portfolio/finalcut-header.png|center||0||bottom||

Managed Dedicated Servers When it comes time to expand your business you need more than just a server, you need a solution. Total Hosting features managed dedicated servers using Dell PowerEdge Servers, high quality bandwidth, and exclusive server management services. A Managed Dedicated Server at Total Hosting includes full server monitoring and recovery, patches and upgrades, advanced technical support, and enhanced security features. By partnering with leading vendors such as Microsoft, Red Hat, cPanel, Urchin, and many more, we are able to create a solution that meets the needs of your organization. {tab=Dedicated Server Basics} Brand new Dell PowerEdge Servers 150GB of Pure, high-quality bandwidth 100% Network Uptime Intel Celeron CPU standard 1 GB RAM standard 80 GB Sata hard drive standard See Full Details tab for other … Continue Reading →

If you frequently write articles for your website, a great way to get extra traffic to your website is via RSS syndication. So what is RSS syndication? Read on… RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. RSS was designed as a means to create a summary of articles on your website. This would allow readers to see what was new on your site at a glance, without actually having to visit your web page. (Take a look at our RSS feed to see what one looks like.) This can be done in a number of ways. Readers could check your RSS "feed" from an RSS viewer, which allows for feeds from many websites to be checked via a single program, similar to a web browser. This feature was then … Continue Reading →

Add high-resolution images to your website without taking up a lot of screen space on your web pages. Learn more about the free and easy-to-use Zoomifyer EZ. One of our favorite new tools is a Flash image "zoomer" called Zoomify. They offer several products, including plug-ins for Photoshop and full Flash-movie access. Their Free Zoomifyer EZ is the one we will talk about. The Issue: You want to be able to show great detail for your products. The Problem: The only way to do that online is to make the images REALLY big, since screens have very low resolution (72/96dpi vs 300dpi+ for print). The Solution: Use a Flash-based player to create a smoothly scrolling, image zooming widget. There are two parts to integrating Zoomify. Once you download … Continue Reading →

One of the most often asked questions that new or perspective clients have is "How do I get my site to the top of Google?" Getting to the top of Google can be easy if you remember to follow a few basic rules when designing your website. First, and this may sound silly, you need to remember to actually put the name of your product or service on your web page. All too often we see web sites where the name of products are contained on pictures of the product or where only a picture of the product exists. When Google visits your website to determine what your site is about and how to rank it, it sends a robot (sometimes called a spider) out to read all … Continue Reading →

One of the most useful features of our web hosting packages is cPanel control panel. Surprisingly, this is often the most overlooked feature as well. Lets take a few minutes to go over some of the control panels features. Once you see all that this this easy to use control panel has to offer, I think that you will agree that this is one of the most important features a web site administrator can utilize. To log into cPanel is easy. Simply use the following format: www.yourdomain.com/cpanel. Be sure to replace the "yourdomain" with your actual website name. A pop up box will appear and you will need to enter your account user name and password. If you are unsure of this please review the message that we … Continue Reading →

I went shopping today at a local department store to buy some Halloween candy. I know it's only September. And I know the candy won't make it to Halloween. I walked into the store and "WHAM!" They already had the Christmas Trees out. Santa's all around. It was 90 degrees here in New Jersey, yet I was staring at Ol' St. Nick already. I hadn't even been thinking about the holidays. At least not those holidays. But that raises an interesting question. Are YOU ready for the Holiday Selling Season? Are you ready with your traditional holiday mailers? Do you have your promotional items and give-always on order? Does it prominently display your website and your email address? Is your website ready? If you are a foot-traffic driven … Continue Reading →