Following is a list of the most frequently asked questions in website design, development and hosting. Please feel free to contact us anytime with any questions you may have!
Domains
- Will I be the owner of the domain when I register a name with Power Systems?
Yes, If we will register a domain name for you we will include you name or business name. You will be the rightful owner.
- Do I need to keep track of expiration dates and renewals?
No, we will take care of that for you. Each year we will automatically renew the domain. We can assure that your domain name will not expire as long as you pay the registration fee. You will never lose a domain if you register it through Power Systems.
Design
- If you design a website, who will be the owner of the design?
If we may design a custom web template for you, you will have all copyrights. We will deliver the original files on request and we will never use your design for other purposes or clients.
Source Code
- Who will be the owner of the website and web pages?
If we program / build a website for you (in HTML /CSS or a CMS), you will be the owner of all code we write. Please note that we often make use of Open Source CMS systems (such as WordPress and Joomla). We can not give you ownership to these CMS systems (because we do not own it ourselves) but we can give you all source code, so that you will able to move the website and use it with other providers / web developers.
Web Jargon
- What is a CMS / Content Management System?
A CMS for websites (also know as Web Content Management System (WCMS) is a software system that provides website authoring, collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative ease. A robust CMS provides the foundation for collaboration, offering users the ability to manage documents and output for multiple author editing and participation. Most systems use a database to store page content, metadata, and other information assets that might be needed by the system.
- What is HTML?
HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML is the basic building-blocks of webpages. The purpose of a web browser is to read HTML documents and compose them into visual or audible web pages. The browser does not display the HTML tags, but uses the tags to interpret the content of the page.
- What is CSS?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages.
- What is a Markup Language?
A markup language is a modern system for annotating a text in a way that is syntactically distinguishable from that text. A well-known example of a markup language in widespread use today is HyperText Markup Language (HTML), one of the document formats of the World Wide Web.
- What is Web Hosting?
A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center.
- What is FTP?
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. With an FTP program you can upload files (web pages, images, etc…) to the web server.
- What is a Domain?
A domain name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are hostnames that identify Internet Protocol (IP) resources such as web sites. An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. Domain names are often referred to simply as domains and domain name registrants are frequently referred to as domain owners, although domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.
- What is a TLD?
A top-level domain (TLD) is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet.The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a fully qualified domain name. For example, in the domain name www.example.com, the top-level domain is .com. Management of most top-level domains is delegated to responsible organizations by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).
- What is an URL?
In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where a known resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. Every URL consists of some of the following: the scheme name (commonly called protocol), followed by a colon, then, depending on scheme, a domain name (alternatively, IP address), a port number, the path of the resource to be fetched or the program to be run, then, for programs a query string and an optional fragment identifier. The syntax is scheme://domain:port/path?query_string#fragment_id. For example, a web browser will usually dereference the URL http://example.org:80 by performing an HTTP request to the host at example.org, using port number 80. The URL mailto:bob@example.com may start an e-mail composer with the address bob@example.com in the To field.
- What is an IP address?
An Internet Protocol address (IP address) is a numerical label assigned to each device (e.g., computer, printer) participating in a computer network that uses the Internet Protocol for communication.An IP address serves two principal functions: host or network interface identification and location addressing. The designers of the Internet Protocol defined an IP address as a 32-bit number and this system, known as Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4), is still in use today. However, due to the enormous growth of the Internet and the predicted depletion of available addresses, a new addressing system (IPv6), using 128 bits for the address, was developed in 1995,standardized in 1998 and is being deployed worldwide since the mid-2000s.
- What is DNS?
Domain Name System (DNS), one of the two principal name spaces of the Internet. The most important function of DNS servers is the translation (resolution) of humanly memorable domain names and hostnames into the corresponding numeric Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, the second principal Internet name space which is used to identify and locate computer systems and resources on the Internet.
