Website of writer/editor/web designer and former psychologist Hugo Roberts. The home page of this site contains a description of the services offered, questions and answers about web sites, and options to discuss your needs and/or engage these services. Via the blue navigation bar you can link to webmaster and webdesigner tools in order to evaluate the quality of your site and find out how your site is ranked by the search engines (that means how easy can your site be found), to meet the staff, Meet Writer Hugo Roberts, to a page with new jokes every week, Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), Hugo Roberts's Travels (view the video and other images from Asia on flickr). Also, you can click to go to Quick Comments or scroll down to it and post remarks, feedback, or questions. Please help the author find a copy of a lost article and click contact for questions or feedback.
A. Website design and webmaster services: follow the directions (A) in red.
B. Writing, editing, and online appraisal of manuscripts: follow the directions (B) in black.
A. Website design and webmaster services.
These services, available on a freelance or retainer fee basis, include: website design and development, maintenance and management (for example, domain name selection, registration, and protection, website hosting, moving, changing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO includes pagerank and backlink enhancement, site improvement, protection and promotion). The webmaster services are also for web design, software maintenance and debugging, selection or provision of Internet services, webhosting, training, and the like. For prices and special offers visit Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) by clicking Web Sites or Services.
Please fill in the first four items (your name, email address or URL, subject, and indicate the service you desire in the Message box) of the service request form that will appear after you click below on: Service Request Form
B. Writing, editing, and online appraisal of manuscripts.
Submission and Payment Details
You can send us your work as an email attachment in .doc or .rtf format or instruct us where to download it from (in that case HTML format will also be accepted). Payments can be made through Paypal, cashier's checks (also called "demand drafts" payable in US dollars or Euros) or by bankgiro. We can bill you through Paypal or send you an invoice by email. After we've received your text and the payment, we'll start working on your text. You will receive our appraisal on or before the date stated in the order and payment confirmation. We send appraisals only by email or by registered mail to our clients (or upload them to a URL if we are instructed to do so).
The fee required for on-line appraisals will be emailed to you after you've submitted this form. If you agree and decide to use our services, let us know and we'll send you the payment instructions
and the time we need to get your work ready. Our turnaround time for short stories is 3-7 days and for novels 7-30 days.
Please fill in the service request form that will appear after you click below on: Service Request Form
Where can I find information on web sites and Internet?
Below I offer quite a bit of information. If you want to know more about (registering) domain names, (free) hosting, or other things about the web and Internet, you can read more about these subjects by clicking:
Webdesigner and Webmaster tools
or by visiting: http://www.hugoroberts.com/news.html.
How do I get me my own web site?
There are a couple of steps to take before you have your web site up and running. Before you do anything else, ask yourself a couple of questions, like: what this site is for (is it for business or for pleasure)? About the budget and size (is it supposed to be inexpensive and small, or the opposite?). This makes it easier to answer the questions you will have to face sooner or later. In the following sentences they are often stated as "If..."
1. Think up a domain name. If you've decided that this will be a funny site to entertain your family and friend, then a funny name may be appropriate. Other than that, it can be your name or anything else, as long as it is available. To find out if a name is available to use for your site, click: http://www.urlpagerank.com and type in the name as directed (usually a string of only lower case letters (and numbers), preceded by www. (WWW stands for World Wide Web, the application used for most Internet traffic). That string is called a domain name, so one of mine is www.hugoroberts.com. The .com is called TLD (TLD stands for top-level domain); there are several, the most popular ones are .com, .net, .org, and .info. Everybody can use .com and it's the most used TLD. It is customary to precede the domain name by http:// (http specifies that a browser such as Internet Explorer should use the http protocol). The final result is a URL
(a URL: Uniform Resource Locator) and includes the domain name. So my URL is: http://www.hugoroberts.com. Once you've picked a domain name/URL register it at once, or somebody else may and you'll have to pay more for another TLD or even dream up another name.
2. Then you have to find a place to host the site. This is a computer that makes the site accessible to anybody who wants to visit it. There are gratis hosts (often supported by ads), but usually you may have to pay a fee. Although free hosts offer a small monetary advantage, the disadvantages are: the ads, the limited possibilities and restrictions, and the danger of the host terminating the service for one reason or the other. No matter how small a hosting fee one pays a host, it constitutes business that the host may want to retain or sell. You can look up web hosting on Internet but don't click the sites that aren't approved by McAfee SiteAdvisor; even then, be careful. One of the tools you can use to find a host is: Web Hosting Reviews Thousands of web hosting USER reviews. Don't sign-up with any web host before checking out the web's biggest web hosting reviews site first, available at WebHostingReviews.com.
3. If your site is just for you, your family, and friends, all you have to do is to upload the pages of your site (the information you want to display on the web) the way the host tells you to, and you're set. Even if your site is meant to entertain your family and friends, it has to perform. In case of a business it has to perform well to stay in business. So design an attractive and effective site and keep it up-to-date.
4. If you want people to find you through search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb, there are a number of things you have to do even when you use your own name. It is more difficult if you want to have people find you under, say: accountant or hairdresser, since there are millions of those on Internet. There's where the SEO work comes in (SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization; you'll have to worry about PageRank, back links, etc; read: SEO terms explained). You can already do SEO work by doing some promoting on your own, for example by asking people to link to your site.
5. If your site is meant to be accessible by the general public, you have to have it verified (see Webdesigner and Webmaster Tools under: Site verification).
Then it has to be submitted to search engines (the major ones first; it can't hurt if smaller ones also know about your site). On practically all search pages of the search engines you’ll find a link to Suggest or Submit a site. Read more on this by clicking: Webdesigner and Webmaster Tools under Submit your site.
After your site is the hands (claws?) of these web crawlers, you can sit back, relax, and watch how your counter is tallying the visitors.
You can do all this by yourself. There are a few free courses you can take to learn about the Internet and to learn HTML (the language of the Internet). For example, About.Com: http://webdesign.about.com/ and Writers’ Village University: http://writersvillage.com
If you don't want to go through all this, but still want to welcome visitors on your site, I'll be happy set up your site for under $100.00 (click Service for details). As a bonus I'll throw in some SEO work if you need to increase your PageRank and/or back links (otherwise, they'll be 0). I can also move, change, update, or maintain your site for a small fee. For a free price estimate or to request my services, please click here for
Help or Services.
What does PageRank mean? What are back links? What does SEO stands for?
There are millions of web sites on Internet all competing for the search engines (such as Yahoo and Google) to locate them. These terms have all something to do with search engines and the way they find and rate sites.
PageRank: The most important sites are given a Google PageRank of 10 (PR10), while the least important sites are given a PageRank of 0 (PR0). For explanations and a link to find out and increase the PageRank of your own site; please click: http://www.urlpagerank.com Back links: One of the ways to increase your PageRank is to have sites link to your site. The link popularity of your site increases as there are more links to your site. To find out the backlinks to your pages according to the major search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, and AllTheWeb, to find out your Google PageRank, and lots of other useful information click:http://www.diagnosticoweb.com/webcheck/ or : http://www.diagnosticoweb.com/ SEO (Search Engine Optimization): You can read about SEO and marketing in the article “Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Content Relevancy and Link Popularity Explained.” Click http://www.seo-news.com/ By now you must have become aware that there is a lot to this business. In fact, many companies do most or all of their business via Internet. To increase their sales, they may hire consultants like me to do their SEO (Search Engine Optimization). This way their company is found quickly and they are listed first or at least on the first couple of pages when potential customers search for certain products or services. For a free price estimate or to request services, click: Do you need Hugo Roberts's help or services?
Services
Say, I want my own website. How much do you charge for your services?
We will set up a simple website for you for under $100.00 including 1 year hosting. Just send us the text and images (photos, and other illustrations). You’ll have two chances to make minor changes or you can take a service contract.
I have a question. How much do you charge per question and how do I pay?
Those are two questions. That will be $100.00 to be paid in US dollar bills only. Just kidding.
Most questions on writing or web sites will be answered free. If it involves a lot of work, we’ll give you a free price estimate.
Other Web Sites
www.hugoroberts.com
has the following features: links to writer’s resources (publishers, writing contests, courses, tips, etc.) and the possibility to play the national anthems of Suriname, The Netherlands, the United States, and Nepal. There's a list of the author's work, of his namesakes (you can find out about your own names and namesakes), and a link to news by or about him.
www.writerhugoroberts.com features: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), other writer’s resource--some of the author’s favorite books (most are on writing). Also, every week there is a page with lots of new jokes. Please click: jokes to laugh.
http://www.hugoroberts-writer-editor-webdesigner.com This site is home of the Webmaster and Webdesigner's Tools in addition to other pages, such as: Roberts's Travels (or view the video and other images from Asia on flickr). It features the speaking character/virtual employee.
Blogs http://writerhugoroberts.blogspot.com.
Offers an easy way to post comments/questions or discuss issues and displays a new Inspirational Quote every time you visit. You could read the latest news about computers and internet or look for a gadget, widget, or other program. http://hugoroberts.blogspot.com/
also offers an easy way to post comments/questions or discuss issues and daily displays a new Notable Shakespeare Quote. I also post some of my essays, columns, and articles here. You’ll also find Flight Status (airport arrival, departures, etc.) Personal Travel Agent (book your own low cost flights), and Travel coupon/promo codes. There is more for travelers on the page Hugo Roberts's Travels. http://aboutnamesakes.blogspot.com/ is a blog where you will be entertained and informed about names and namesakes. You’ll find out the meaning, origin, and popularity of your name, Famous Namesakes, statistics, history, etc. The meaning of most names is given, not only of American and Anglo-saxon names, but also of African, Arabic, Chinese, French, Hindi, and Spanish names. You can post questions, comments, or articles or discuss everything about names and namesakes. Feel free to add a link to your site in all comments, essays, columns, and articles posted here or on any of my web sites or blogs. This will increase the popularity of your site (see pagerank, back links, and SEO terms explained) also SEO WORK PAYS OFF).
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