JMedia

Is your church looking to update your existing site? Come check out all the features of one of JMedia’s customized church websites. View Demo

GoVarner.com

Incorporates video lightbox, constant contact newletter form, featured slideshow and more.

Syndicated courtesy of Wilson Internet Marketing

AlabamaLandBrokers.com

Custom Open Realty website. Integrates lightbox features and custom google maps.

LakeMartinOutdoorExpo.com

Features simple, easy-to-read layout and photo gallery.

You’ve registered your domain name, and paid for hosting with a hosting provider, and uploaded your website to the web server. If this is all done, why can’t you see the results of your hard work right away? What is this DNS propagation people keep telling you about?

In order to understand DNS propagation, you must first understand a little about how DNS works. When you set up your website with your hosting provider, they create a Master DNS record in their Domain Name Servers. Your domain registrar (the company you paid for the honor of owning your domain name) points to your web host’s DNS server as being the master authority of your domain.

When any outside source wants to know how to find your website, they first go to the registration database to find out who the DNS authority is for your website. Then they visit your hosting provider’s DNS servers to find out what the IP Address is for your domain name, and from there your audience can now view your website.

The problem with this whole scheme is that in order to speed up the rate at which their customers can view the internet, each Internet Server Provider caches their DNS records. This means that they make their own copy of the master records, and read from them locally instead of looking them up on the Internet each time someone wants view a website. This actually speeds up web surfing quite a bit, by (1) speeding up the return time it takes for a web browser to request a domain lookup and get an answer, and (2) actually reducing the amount of traffic on the web therefore giving it the ability to work faster.

The downside to this caching scenario and what makes it take so long for your website to be visible to everyone, is that each company or ISP that caches DNS records only updates them every few days. This is not any kind of standard, and they can set this time anywhere from a few hours to several days. The slow updating of the servers cache is called propagation, since your websites DNS information is now being propagated across all DNS servers on the web. When this is finally complete, everyone can now visit your new website. Being that the cache time is different for all servers, as mentioned above, it can take anywhere from 36 to 72 hours for DNS changes to be totally in effect. – Rich Smith

Need an easy solution to showcase your real estate listings on the web? We specialize in customized Open Realty scripts. Here are just a few of the features: (techie stuff)

*  All dynamically generated site-visitor content validates to XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS 2.0 standards.
* Graphical site administration interface.
* Built in WYSIWYG page editor for creating and modifying the content of key pages, including the one presently being viewed.
* Keeps property listings updated — no special skills required to add, delete, or modify listings.
* Built-in photo management — upload photos via a web browser. If photos are not uploaded for a property listing, a default “photo not available” image will be automatically displayed.
* Automatically creates thumbnails — smaller versions of your photos are automatically created using the industry standard GD Graphics Library.
* Optional “Search Engine Optimized” (SEO) page links, and optimization features.
* Flexible database abstraction — compatible with mySQL, postgres, MS SQL, and Oracle via. the ADODB lite database library.
* Secure — no one but the site Administrator or delegated Agents can modify or add listings.
* Showcase specific properties — built-in featured listing management allows custom placement and arrangement of special properties.
* Flexible search — Browse properties according to a definable criteria.
* Configurable search forms and fields — All search forms and fields included in Open-Realty® are completely definable to meet any needs.
* Powerful and professional commercial add-ons available.
* Many, many, many more features.

What does that mean for you, the Real Estate professional? It means you can show off your listings…without having to be a computer/internet expert…so you can concentrate on what you do best, SELLING!

Empoweret.com

Built on the WordPress platform, this website includes many features that are easy for the client to manage. A simple, clean, professional  design.