By Ditlev
The domain name is an essential part of any web site and registering it can be a tricky business. The good people at Nominet have written a guide on how to pick the right domain name.
I thought I’d pass on their recommendations and paste their guide below:
Top tips for registering a domain name
The domain name is an essential part of any web site, but
choosing and registering it can be a tricky process.
By Ditlev
Hey - a while back I told you how easy it was to launch your own web hosting service using our hosting reseller setup at autica.com. Today we put a new daring design live on autica.com - I think its a fab design, but I’d like your input - take a look: www.autica.com and tell me what you think 
By the way, you can see the old design here…
Ditlev
By Ben
For part 5 of our help guide we have an interview with James Crooke on the challenge of designing ecommerce based web sites as well as search engine optimisation, usability, and the importance of accessibility for your website.
James runs CJ Website Design and does a wide variety of design work on ecommerce and other websites. He also offers search engine optimisation services and you can view his full portfolio here. James is 23 and based out of Derby. He has three years of commercial web development experience, particularly in ecommerce and transactional websites.
If you missed the previous interviews on how to improve your internet marketing efforts and website you can read part 4, part 3, part 2, and part 1. All feature interviews with some of the leading web designers in the United Kingdom!
By Ben
Today for part 4 of our series we have an interview with the UK designer Richard Stelmach! Richard is going to talk to us about finding a balance between making your site unique and brandable versus usability as well as search engine optimisation and the uses of business blogging.
Richard runs the design company Creative Binge and you can view his portfolio here. He also runs a very useful design blog. Richard has been working in the design industry for 4 years and lately has been playing with social media sites and the traffic you can generate from them. He received a lot of traffic from Digg for a post entitled “What will Facebook look like in 40 years?”.
If you missed the previous interviews on how to improve your internet marketing efforts and website you can read part 3, part 2, and part 1. All feature interviews with some of the leading web designers in the United Kingdom!
By Ben
Ever wondered how your business could improve their online brand, or how to use social media to drive sales, or even how to setup a blog for your business? Well today we hope to provide the answers to those questions with an interview with Chris Spooner! This is part three of our small business help series and you can read part 1 and part 2 if you missed them.
Chris is a full time designer working in Sheffield, UK for his company Spoon Graphics. You can view his design and illustration portfolio here. He also runs a great blog on design and other subjects and I highly recommend taking a look at its gorgeous design!
By Ben
For part 2 of our help series we have an interview with Mathew Browne on what a small business can do to improve their web page and their search engine optimization efforts.
Mathew Browne is one of the leading web designers in the United Kingdom and provides design and search engine optimization services through his company MB Web Design! You can view his portfolio here and some SEO success stories here.
Mathew is 23 and got his start with web design at an early age, he won several national web design competitions before he had even finished school! He is a graduate of Computer Science at UCL and just finished a three year stint working in web and multimedia design at University College London. When he is not working he is posting on his blog or watching one of the big drama series Lost, Heroes, or Prison Break.
By icklekaskas
Today we have an interview with Nathan Beck on what small business owners in the United Kingdom can do to improve their website and their understanding of internet marketing!
Nathan is based in the UK and you can view his design work at NathanBeck.co.uk and SansDesign. He also runs the tech and design related blog RedSwish. Which I highly recommend!
Nathan is 18 and has been doing web design and search engine optimization for a little less than two years. He should serve as great inspiration for those new to internet marketing and design as he is self taught through books, online tutorials, and blogs!
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By icklekaskas
UK2 is proud to announce the launch of our first help guides.
In this first edition we will be focusing on helping small businesses improve their understanding of web design and Internet marketing! We have lined up five interviews with some of the leading UK web designers on subjects such as web design usability, search engine optimisation, the benefits of blogging, social media, web accessibility, and a lot more! We will post the first interview very shortly!
Why Is UK2 Doing This?
Being a small business owner can be hard, you have to juggle so many jobs to run your business and the Internet is a new medium that requires a lot of time to understand. We are going to help you in these first help guides by providing five experts who will help beginners and advanced understand what their website needs to do and how to improve their business using the Internet.
The first interview will be coming very shortly so get ready!
By Esther Josiah
Hi guys,
Thanks to all who took part in our Easter Egg Hunt. I hope you all had fun locating the Egg.
The winners picked at random from all correct entries were…
1st Prize of a Nintendo Wii goes to Clive Cross who found the egg on the 19th of March. Well done Clive!
2nd Prize of a UK2 Bronze Server for a year goes to Mandy Bristol who found the egg on the 20th of March.
3rd Prize of a UK2 Business Web Hosting for a year goes to Philip Taylor who found the egg on the 20th of March.
Congratulations to all the winners, and remember to keep checking the UK2 blog for more competitions.
By Ditlev
Greetings!
We are often asked questions like that - “Do I need a dedicated server for this site?”, “what is the advantages and disadvantages of having my own dedicated server” and “Would my site be faster on a dedicated server?” etc. etc.
I thought I’d sum up a bit on the typical answers to those questions, and outline a few typical situation where you may want to go for dedicated hosting rather than shared - UK2 provide both dedicated servers and shared hosting, but I will try not to be too “salesy” (more…)
