Our Favorite Tools
Explore the best tools we use to create fastknowers.com and our client’s websites. Happily, we shall also show you expert step-by-step guides on the Fastknowers blog on how to use them.
1. Web Hosting
Web hosting is a company that stores your website data and can keep it up and running for your users through the usage of servers.
Every website in the world has a host server, and many of them use a web host to manage that storage. There are a lot of web hosting companies that are happy to bring your dream to reality.
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note that factors such as uptime guarantee, website loading speed, satisfying customer care services, return policy, flexibility to transfer your website from them when you don’t like them, and a lot more should be in your mind because these differ from one web hosting provider to another.
So, what is the best web hosting company that we can recommend to you? The answer is it depends on what you want to achieve with your website and the type of website that you want to create. Perhaps, below are our recommended web hosting companies.
Our recommended Web hosting companies
In a simple term, hosting is the source or office of your website. It is where all your website files such as images, videos, documents, pages, posts, etc. are stored.
That is why it is good to deliberately think about which company you should buy their hosting service, which plan of hosting you want, and the level of support you are expecting from them (especially if you are a beginner) and your website is going to have a lot of files, traffic, security, and lot more.
Note that whenever we recommend web hosting or anything to you, it means we have already used it. Before our reviewing process, we have also gathered reviews of other happy users of the products or services we recommending. So, check out top best web hosting companies that we have used their services.
Best web hosting companies we have used their services
1. HostMarda
During our last review in December 2022, HostMarda web hosting:
- Offered discounts on cPanel Shared Hosting.
- Was selling Dedicated CPU Servers.
- Had a WordPress Hosting for selling.
- Their domain checker was of the best that I have ever used to find a client’s domain name all on domain names.
- They were also selling Cloud VPS Hosting.
- They could also sell the domain to their customers.
HostMarda is a USA web hosting company based in Delaware specialized in selling of all types of WordPress web hosting plans such as shared hosting, cloud hosting, VPS and dedicated hosting. They also sell cPanel hosting.
One thing that distinct them from other web hosting company which we love is they emphasize reasonable costs and dedicate time to excellent customer service.
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FastComet
FastComet is another best web hosting company that we wholeheartedly recommend. We are presently using it to host our websites and that of our customers.
Better pricing
While the FastComet web hosting provides a professional services, it’s priced-affordable.
Fast SSD Storage
On any FastComet plan, you will have a fast SSD storage to enable your site to load faster.
24/7 Technical Support
FastComet customer support service teams work tirelessly day and night to help you with any technical support you may need at any point of time.
Hack-free protection
At FastComet web hosting, their customer security at their top most priority. And that is why they carry out back-up twice in a week.
2. Theme
With WordPress, you mustn’t be a programmer or a professional coder before you can create a website. You can install a great free or premium (paid) themes to establish your online presence.
Themes are files (graphics, style sheets, and code) that dictate the overall appearance of your blog or website. They can control the design of your website.
- You can choose between free and premium WordPress themes.
- The paid ones value for money
- They are totally unique
- They are responsive design
- The themes are easy to customize
- The paid ones, especially are coded in an SEO-optimized way
- Themes developers regularly update the software
- You have access to the theme support service.
What are the top best WordPress themes in 2023
Telling you the best theme that you can use on your website is highly dependent on what your website is all about. However, we recommend Astra, OceanWP, Divi, Hestia Pro and among others. You can also visit www.themeforest.com and buy any premium theme of your choice for your WordPress website or blog.
3. Plugin
Just like we told you recently the work of themes. Plugins add functionality to your site without writing any single programming code.
Importantly, there are paid and free plugins. And here is the distinction between paid and free plugin that you need to know.
Paid pluginIn WordPress, yes, you can create a website using a plugin and theme even though you don’t know how to code.
There are both paid and free plugins that you can install on your website. The premium plugins are well-coded and don’t have negative effect.
Just like anything in the world, the paid plan is always better than a free plan. Importantly, as a beginner in the journey of website creation, you may not have a lot of money to afford the paid plans for everything you will use.
However, you can use the free plan plugin like contact form7 to create a contact form page, carry out SEO optimization, lessen your file sizes, etc.
What are the top best plugins for WordPress websites and blog?
Do you want to find out top best plugins for your blogs or websites? Here, we shall list and discuss with you the top best plugins that every WordPress blog should have.
If you have just created a blog or website using WordPress, here are our top best collective hand-picked free and paid plugins that you can download or purchase for your site.
Read more4. How do we design images
If you are blogging or designing websites, you need to use a lot of images. Sadly, you can’t use other people’s work due to a copyright infringement. For you to display any image on the internet (websites), you need to own a copyright claim of it.
However, you may not be able to afford paying graphic designers for designing image for you all the times. Thus, you can go to Pixabay.com and Pexel.com for royalty free images. You can get royalty free music, video, etc.
If you know how to do graphic designing, you can download Photoshop on your device to design images for yourself.
5. Sales Funnel
Do you want to manage an online presence like us? In this article, we shall show you the tools, software and resources we use
Using these resources will enable you create anything you want with basic knowledge or no knowledge at all. Now, let’s get started.
Money for creating a website may be a problem to some new digital marketer. That is why Sales funnel has come to help you save money, time and energy in creating a professional website for your business for free or for a small amount of money.
Sales funnel is the process of getting sales via a professionally created page presented to customers in such a way that make them easily buy your product or service or use your tools.
We and our clients are using MailMunch tool to create a sale funnel. For more information, please visit their website at www.mailmunch.com. You may also see our expert guide on how to build an email list for your businesses‘ email marketing.
Frequently asked questions
Here are the frequent questions that we get asked by our readers. Read below as each of them carries an answer.
Which web hosting do you use?
We presently use FastComet web hosting on fastknowers.com and on some of our clients website. Visit www.fastcomet, sign up and buy your domain and hosting.
What are the important plugins can I install on my website?
As a beginner to the journey to become a webmaster, you may get confused about the plugins you need to install on your website. We recommend you to install Contact Form, SEO plugin, Security plugin, and any other two plugin you know it’s important for your website.
How many plugins are currently installed on this website?
According to experts who have been a webmaster for decades, they reveal that having a plenty number of plugin installed on your website is not ideal. Hence, we are presently using five different plugins on our website. You may see our expert guide on top best WordPress plugins for optimizing images on your website.
Can I design my website by myself?
According to experts who have been a webmaster for decades, they reveal that having a plenty number of plugin installed on your website is not ideal. Hence, we are presently using five different plugins on our website. You may see our expert guide on top best WordPress plugins for optimizing images on your website.
Can I design my website by myself?
Yes, especially when you choose to use WordPress. There are plenty of themes on the internet which you can install and activate on your website to give a professional design to it.
We have previously shown you the best themes that you can install, activate and customize on your website according to your own pace. If you want to create website by yourself, always visit www.fastknowers.com for expert tips, guides and information on how to bring your dream into reality.
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We won’t leave you at the middle of sea when you allow us to design your website for you. We are constantly updating our blog page to help you with expert step-by-step tip and information to guide you. Here are recent guides updates on our blog. You may visit www.fastknowers.com/blog/ for more guides.