Web Hosting
You can design and run your own website. The www started with the idea that we all could become publishers. I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. I’ve had websites since 1998, and blogs since 2004. If you are a newbie, you may want to try Blogger. It’s free and fairly easy to use. I started blogging by writing about some of my travels on Blogger.
I never thought I’d be writing about a web hosting company. But in the course of putting together this website, + Sustainable Design Update and others, I’ve had to work with several hosting options. Some were pretty bad, some were indifferent and Bluehost, the company I have used now for a year and a half, has been exceptional.
I’ve never met anyone from Bluehost. They just answer my phone calls, help me figure out how to run my websites and continually improve the quality and speed of their services.
The program I use to make these words appear on your computer is called WordPress. Bluehost doesn’t come with wordpress, I have to load it onto the server myself. I really couldn’t have figured out how to get WordPress working on my Bluehost account without their expert and patient tech support.
Hosting your own website gives you the greatest freedom to do what you want online.
Best Air Travel Site
I travel a lot. I book my own flights and I have an assortment of frequent flier miles to cash in. While the frequent flier miles do influence which airlines I fly, I like to compare flights across as many airlines as I can. Last year I used two online travel sites, Kayak and Sidestep. Both let you input your itinerary, search hundreds of airlines and travel sites and give you hundreds of flights to choose from. The flights can be sorted by duration, cost and airline. In December Kayak merged with Sidestep. Either website now gives you the same info.
Kayak doesn’t search Southwest but it does pick up Airtran and Jet Blue.
When planning a trip I start with Kayak. When dreaming of a tropical beach I search Kayak. If you haven’t given it a try, you should.
Check out: Cheap Flights You will save a lot of time and $.
-jsb