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Nigerian Website Designer: Getting a website is quite easy, only 4 steps are required, too many people are scared of the whole concept because they think its cumbersome expensive and stressful. Here are the four(4) basic steps required (from my perspective) in getting a website. here’s How to get a website

1. Discover why you need a website and what you want your website to do for you

Over the years working with clients, one scenario keeps repeating itself, some clients have no clue of what they want! This could be a problem for both the website developer/designer and the client (project owner). From the client perspective, he knows the internet brings exposure and he wants the benefits of that exposure and that’s all he knows, this state of mind can sometimes lead to insatiable clients, they may never be satisfied no matter what they get!
From the designer/developer point of view, this can bring confusion, when you don’t know what your client wants how can you deliver it? Experienced designers/developers know how to solve most of such cases (some can never be solved, trust me!)

2. Find a Website designer/developer

It is important you do this first before jumping to the last two steps, I’ve met clients who did this last and till today, they’re regretting their actions. Meeting a web designer/developer first can save you a lot of stress and money, the developer would help to guide you decipher what you really need for your company/ business/ church as the case may be. The designer/developer would also give you options as regards hosting and web technologies to be used, giving you the downside and upside for each option for you to make a choice. This step alone would shape the entire process, it would help you get an estimate of the total cost, information required and the roles you need to play in the whole process. click here to contact me to help you

3. Pick a domain Name

The importance of this is gross and should never be done without the advice of your selected web designer/developer, its implication includes SEO, uniqueness and many more.
The client (to be site owner) must understand the following things about domain names;

Domain names are paid for annually forever!
They are your trademark (there can be only one yahoo.com, it belongs to yahoo)
Changing domains like hair styles and shoes is lame and would cause serious confusion for the client’s(to be site owner) clients(site owner’s clients), if I used to find your site at http://www.ibrucentre.org , I expect to find it there everytime I go to that address.
Domain name extensions have meanings: .com –commercial, .org organization etc (I advice Nigerians to take advantage of the .ng extensions)

4. Get hosting for your website

It is important your web developer/designer help you decide this, two main reasons for this are stated below:

The payment problem
I’ve met clients who believed anything foreign was the best, they eventually paid for foreign hosting of which renewal became a problem and the unsteady nature of the forex market meant they couldn’t exactly tell the cost of their hosting monthly/annually as the case may be. In truth Nigerian webhosting companies don’t host sites in servers based in Nigeria since we do not have reliable power supply and quality/cheap internet services to power servers, they buy the right to use/control oversea servers and control it from Nigeria, and this makes it easier for prospective site owners since they can now pay for hosting in naira and in our local banks.
The technology problem
I’ve also had a client once who after agreeing with me what technology and cms, went ahead to buy windows hosting for a linux project, this made things very complex for me and the project was quite unstable until she realized and accepted the blunder and decided to buy the appropriate hosting with my guidance, but she had already wasted over $300 for the wrong hosting.

Note: payment for hosting like the domain name is recurrent of which can be monthly, annual, bi-annual payment as the case may be!

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Tablets are currently developing and evolving very fast, with the introduction of better processors like the tegra 3 chip which consumes less power and does more work, Tablets are fast becoming very capable devices. They are fast evolving from a luxury device to devices with quite some capabilities. They could be equipped with as much as 1gb of ram and 1Ghz processor. But let’s face it, they still have a long way to go in being a replacement for the laptop/ notebook/ netbook or even being a very capable must have mobile device. I’ve written out some things/features you might see in future tablets.

Improved Batteries and/or Inbuilt solar charging system

Tablets still can’t perform a host of task laptops and desktop can. Tablets still can’t run high end apps like Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop and other apps like it with a high system requirement.

Tablets would get better in the future; they’ll get more powerful and the more powerful they get the more power they would require to run. As a result of this development, either or both of the following scenarios would take place:

Better Batteries would be developed
Tablets Would have inbuilt alternative solar charging system

Improved OS

This is a key factor in the future of tablets; The Os of a tablet is an essential core as regards its ability, capacity, price and use. Tablet Os which includes iOS, Android, WebOs, Blackberry and the upcoming Mozilla Firefox Os have come a long way already. As the Os develops, the inbuilt apps are improved for stability, a better user experience and increased functionality. New and very capable app apps are also developed frequently taking advantage of the Os development.

Improved Hardware

Like the desktop, tablets would keep evolving, better processors, better scratch resistant HD displays, scratch proof, shock proof casing are all expected in the future. Even add-ons like CD-ROMs are a possibility in the future.

Dedicated Tablet Functions

As the Os and hardware of tablets improve, the functions of tablets would expand resulting in a drastic increase in their use. I see tablets evolving from being just accessories to essentials. Tablets would become much more capable devices in the future and as such they’ll have dedicated functions such that it wouldn’t make logical or financial sense to perform such functions with some other device. Take Access control for example, organizations may prefer to install tablets that can function as a facial recognition hardware via camera, retina scanner via camera, finger print scanner via touch screen, palm reader via touch screen, voice recognition via microphone, barcode scanner via camera than to install a dedicated hardware for the same purpose.

One might argue that the cost of one tablet compared to the cost of any of the above access control systems would be higher and as such become a disadvantage, however one tablet can function as voice recognition hardware, facial recognition system, retina scanner, fingerprint scanner, palm reader, barcode scanner and a password restriction system and this would be its selling point, Imagine having all this security options in one device alone and this device being cheaper as one item purchase compared to buying multiple devices for each of these purposes. The cost of installation and maintenance would also favor tablets.

Access control tablets can also function as communication devices between entrance points and the restricted area.

Organizations would prefer to install tablets instead of dedicated hardware since they could also be transformed for other use if need be making them the ecological and economical smart option.

A Universal Docking Port

With both Os and Hardware development on tablets, their purpose would greatly increase and tablets would replace lots of gadgets. We already know how tablets are currently replacing GPS devices in cars and public places. I envisage they’ll do a lot more replacement and as such, a universal dock/port for maybe not all tablets (iPads especially) but most tablets be adopted. Tablets may adopt USB 4.0 or 5.0. Tablets would in the future replace more than mobile music players and cameras, it would replace entertainment systems in airplanes, ships, trains and even cars, it’s already doing so, Coach travelers on Singapore-based carrier Scoot have already replaced their entertainment systems with iPads, I expect to see data centers adopt the new Microsoft surface within four years of its inception.

External Devices

As a result of all these replacements, tablets would be made to function with a lot of external devices, Microsoft surface which has a USB 3.0 port can already work with external CD roms, external hard drives, almost any printer (with existing drivers for windows 8), USB converters like USB to RJ45, etc.

There would also be scenarios where there would be need to use tablets as an external storage device or even connect an external storage device to it. Tablets could also metamorphose into driverless devices such that users would be able to connect it to almost any kind of printer, scanner or any other hardware either wirelessly or wired without needing a driver. This without driver installation method was adopted in windows 7 such that pc owners could use some printers, scanners and other USB devices in a plug and play fashion.

Conclusion

Research shows that the average tablet owner’s usage a tablet is 35% for surfing the web, 22% social media, 12% playing games, 12% watching videos and 19% usage goes to other apps. In the future, I expect this to change drastically.