Tekkyboy: why do you clear your post? Besides how much is your dot com domain registration,i wish to partner with you if your cost is not too high.

You noticed ? I accidentally saved over it thinking I was responding to another post.

.com is 2000 Naira per year and the web hosting is relatively affordable. And we offer 100% free domain transfer should a customer require it.

bukeka: Ha- I have a sumsung galaxy S4 so its eating my airtym so plz help me with the settings

I have a Samsung, and I think you are likely having data roaming issue, but here you go

Tap the Menu key and then tap Settings.
Tap Connections.
Tap More networks then Mobile networks.
Tick/Untick Data roaming to turn On/Off.

http://ee.co.uk/help/phones-and-device/samsung/samsung-galaxy-s4/samsung-galaxy-s4-top-phone-tips/samsung-galaxy-s4---switch-off-data-roaming

Hope that helps.

agonbello: Good evening fellows.

I have a question regarding domain name registration.

Assuming I register a domain name titled jegede.com. I notice that someone somewhere can also register jegede.org, or jegede.ng or jegede.com.ng.

Now, my question is: How can I stop anyone from using the word "jegede" ?

Thanks and remain blessed.

As far as the Internet is concerned, there is no law and there wouldn't be any that would stop anybody from registering jegede.whatever

The best you you can do is to purchase the whole jegede.whatever which is basically pointless...

ProGSM: Hi,

I will love to hear what you think about online chat support for a company.

Are you likely to join a host with online support chat than a host that has not online support.

Let's talk about it.

Although we have online chat system available 24/7, but strangely enough 85% of our customers prefer to submit support tickets instead on online chat. I guess IamGodzilla is right from a client's point of view. In our own case, there has never been a delay in response via ticket submission or online chat. I think people would be contented as long as they get prompt support regardless online chat or ticket submission.

kingthreat: So far, what I paid for web development and graphic design tutoring is over N250k and the spending doesnt stop. Now you want to learn it all for N5k? Goodluck. No wonder whack sites everywhere

I totally agree with you, funny every one these days class themselves as web designers just because they have a blog or know how to use wordpress I will like to put all these companies that offer 5k web design training to the test, wont you buddy... ?

pelij: What platform is Myschool.com.ng built on?

-Joomla
-wordpress
-html
-drupal
-other(specify)

Lets hear you out!

Briefly looking, it looks like custom built, although it is possible to completely remove all traces to most of the content management applications out there. I don't think html belongs to that list, most sites have a bit of html codes in them.

Tekkyboy: who have test the nigeria paypay in
online market stores? does it work
perfectly well? And where exactly do
you test/use it? I need your reply pls

We actually accept PayPal payments and so far has been working well.

honor2011: Pls I want to know if anybody has done any biz with a company known as web4Africa. The company claims to be in Ghana and Nigeria. There are telephone nos at the site but u cannot get through any of the local nos and when you want to send email to them you cannot do so unless you go to their website to fill form. Has anybody in the house done any biz with the company? Thank for ur response

Not sure about the company you are inquiring about, but here we go;

If you are truly seeking a quality Nigeria web hosting company with all the bells and whistles, HostNigeria! is all you want.

Why patronise web hosting companies or any company for that matter, that don't even pay taxes here in Nigeria ?
With all due respect, at HostNigeria we pay our own share of taxes contributing to our own economy not carting it away.

Not dissing anybody here, unlike many web hosting companies here in Nigeria, we don't jump on the bandwagon, we are CIW qualified webmasters, 4 staff with over 18 years of experience and we have 2 interns.

We offer great web hosting services with convenient payment terms, 30 day full money back guarantee and a true 24/7 customer support, what have you got to loose ? try us out and see for yourself. You can pay with cash, HostNigeria credit, debit or credit card via QuickTeller and PayPal

We have a few clients here that can testify to the quality of our services. We don't play games with you, your time, your money and business.

We are just happy to provide you quality service that will help your business stand out.

I hope this helps.

lcoral: I received this mail fro yahoo stating; Your Access to e-mail is about to expire,You have used 14.91 GB (99%) of 15 GB of your email account quota.We recommend you open the attachment to update your account immediately to avoid the suspension. 
Thank You.
Yahoo! Member Services
Please house how do I go about retrieving my address so that I don't get suspended. This is really a serious issue because it the official e-mail address I use. Has anyone experienced this before. Your help is highly appreciated.

It sounds like you are exhausting your disk quota. Delete all the old read and unimportant email messages in your account, including those in your SPAM box and you will save yourself some disk space.

Hope that helps.

Doclight: and d nigerian is u

jideflash: Wanted: Graphic Designer / Web Developer...

Wow so much for one man job

WebclickNG: My twitter handle is @webclickNG

Y'all listing your twitter handles here but no one seems to be reciprocating, including the OP... It works both ways you know ?

Sorry I'm unfollowing yous...

WebclickNG: My twitter handle is @webclickNG

Wow, you are following over 1000 people and you only have about 70 something followers ? I think you should start unfollowing those that are not following you. This is mine @HostNigeria and I will follow back within 24 hours.

feelib: This came as a surprise to me. Overtime, so many Nigerian web gurus's activities online were limited somehow due to the fact that Paypal, the o number one online payment processor decided not to allow Nigerians access to it portal but here is the goodnews! PAYPAL now accepts Nigeria and Nigerian cards. You can quickly sign up for it and get verified with your Nigerian bank issued debit or credit card. Now you bob shop anywhere online. Yes! I know you understand. I have my own verified Paypal account now no probs. Visit paypal.com to sign up now or www.feelib.com to see how you can make money online with your paypal abount. I'm out!

Yeah that's been a while now and it's a good development We now accept Paypal at HostNigeria! Unlike before, we can now accept all forms of credit/debit card in multiple currencies; NGN, USD and GBP with PayPal. I think other businesses should signup as well for the simple reason that Paypal 100% supports SME. No upfront payment unlike the ridiculous 150,000 Naira we were asked to pay just to setup account excluding other charges by some of these naija payment collection companies... you know those I mean ?

We will start to see price slashing in Nigeria online payment companies...

joyous: Hello my people , which of These Webhosting is available for Nigerians to purchase among. Hostgator, namecheap and godaddy. And which of the Nigerian Webhosting can offer unlimited hosting and bandwith.
Thanks

Hello, check out HostNigeria! for quality, reliable and affordable web hosting services in Nigeria.

Don't take my words for it, do a thorough research yourself and find out more about web hosting. Unlimited space and bandwidth are only used to persuade potential customers, you'll never find any web hosting company that will ever give you that where ever you go and no matter how much you pay, even if you own the servers and the warehouse etc one day you will surely run out of space and bandwidth.

The buffet guy still rocks, it's the best and most friendly explanation ever. It's always a tricky one to explain, but I'm going to take it a little further.

Something most people probably don't know is that all the foreign web hosting companies like the ones you mentioned don't even own their own servers, they rent the servers on a monthly, yearly basis, depending on the contract, in most cases, not-binding contract, then they sub-rent it to the public. This is why you see most web hosting companies using different server locations, because once they exhaust their allocated disks, they move on, either to another server location, with the same company (call it provider if you like) or with another provider. For the sake of this article, provider is the [Real Owner] of the servers

Here is a break down for you to better understand the hierarchy- Listed according to their importance

[Real Server Owners - 1] - They own the servers, locations (Rented/Owned warehouse-mostly in remote areas), with high security etc - multi-billion investments - These guys don't normally get involved with web-hosting or have any direct relationship with the end-users. If these guys don't invest, build or manufacture servers, there would be no web hosting today, most of their servers are custom built to suit them.

[Big Hosting Companies - 2] - GoDaddy, Hostgator, Namecheap, Resellerclub etc have to pay [Real Server Owners] above to rent servers, then resell directly to the [Resellers] and the [End-Users] below. (Big Investment may be involved, mainly on advertisements etc.)

[Small Hosting Companies - 2] - Like the [Big Companies Above], the small web hosting companies can get their servers directly from the [Real Server Owners] above as well, but they may not necessarily have the enough capital to invest in ads like the [Big Hosting Companies]

[Resellers - 4] - These guys basically resell for the likes of the [Big Hosting Companies] listed above and sometimes for the [Small Hosting Companies] as well - you don't need big capital here, just a little less than the [Small Hosting Companies] really.

[Affiliates] - This are the guys that pass on the words to the end-users to be - here no financial investment at all, may be a bit of time here and there advertising the products from all or any of the above will quickly earn you some commissions.

I know my response is beyond what you asked for , I felt compelled to pass this on, there is nothing like unlimited space or bandwidth.

And finally, nothing those big companies can do that we cannot do here, well! apart from their bigger advertisement budgets.

Hope this helps

coded01: BRAZIL VS NETHERLANDS 3RD PLACE FINALS

Stadium:- Estadio Nacional Brasilia (BRA)

Date:- 12 Jul 2014

Play-off for third place

Local Nigerian Time: 9pm

Jose Mourinho ‘approached by Brazil’ over succeeding Luiz Felipe Scolari after World Cup

coded01: BRAZIL VS NETHERLANDS 3RD PLACE FINALS...

Mourinho watching David Luiz like...

immortalvoices: This commentator is just so sarcastic lmao..

Do you blame him ?

Brazil had been cheating their way through the tournament, they are now suffering the consequence. What a crap team Neymar in or not.

omoharry: Please I was given an assignment by my company to look for an advert person that can advertise our services which can appear on all site on the internet. Just like Jumia and Konga who seem to always appear at every site you click on. Who are the agencies involve and how do i contact them. Does any one have an ideal of what it will cost to be everywhere on the internet? I will be very grateful if any one can suggest or tell me about it in term of the cost and duration of such services.


Thank you

Hi, contact this company Dentsu Aegis Media Fuse Limited - Phone 07032062656

They are based in 95B Oduduwa Crescent, Ikeja GRA, Lagos.

Hope that helps

Joel3: hello i have a facebook like counter on my test run site. how do i iintegrate my facebook page like botten so that any like on my site will also be on my facebook page?

Any help?

<div class="fb-like-box" data-href="Enter-URL-of-Your-FBPage" data-width="Enter-Your-Preferred-Width" data-height="Enter-You-Preferred-Height" data-colorscheme="Light-Or-Dark" data-show-faces="True-Or-False" data-header="True-Or-False" data-stream="True-Or-False" data-show-border="True-Or-False"> </div>

Edit and configure the code to fit your purpose.

Hope that helps, best of luck.

Fantasywrita:

Thanks I really appreciate your reply. I might host in Nigeria then but with a host company that can handle site with a large number of visitors..e.g nairaland

Glad to hear and best of luck.

Fantasywrita:

Thanks alot. Although I'm not satisfied. But I'm gonna take your advice on looking for hosting companies based on their features. If you have a good one in mind please do share.

Yeah, glad you are taking the advice. If you want a web host in S.A, I will say that you start your research based on web hosting companies in South Africa or if it's Nigeria, UK, US, you do the same.

If you are to host in Nigeria, there are few web hosting companies around, mine is one of them as you can see, HostNigeria!.
4 experienced staff and 2 interns. Over 18 years of experience collectively.

If you want to host in the UK and US I can recommend a few web hosting companies for you, as long as you are ready for scrutiny and intimidation.

When I was in the UK, I worked for Fasthosts and HeartInternet, massive web hosting companies they are. They have this preconceived opinion and as a result adopted this weird policies to vigorously scrutinise web hosting account registrations coming from Africa, them lot including, Enom, HostGator etc, they all do the same.

They will put accounts on-hold after collecting payment, for security and verification.

Absolutely ridiculous and this is why I personally don't recommend foreign web hosts. So if you ever wondered why Nigerian web hosting accounts get quickly terminated within months of registration there you go.

Hope this helps.

Fantasywrita:

Let's just say its more convenient for me to host in S.A than in Nigeria. But I want to know if they have a better hosting companies than Nigeria.

Alright, gotcha.

Personally I don't compare web services based on countries, it will be wrong to do so anyway.

You can't say US based web hosting companies are better than Uganda based ones and vice versa.

What you need to look for in a web host are the features, technicality, affordability, company's reputation and the list goes on.

Even the top review websites don't rate based on countries, although they may categorise web hosts based on countries, but it's one thing you are most likely not to get answer to.

Hope this helps.

Fantasywrita: Please I need to know if hosting my website in South Africa is a good idea?

Why would you want to host your website in South Africa ? do you live or work there ?

I will advice that you stay local buddy, if you live in Nigeria, then host in Nigeria.

NumberOne2: I had an experience today. A client had a domain but didn’t have a website. He wanted my company to do the website. He called the dude that registered the domain and the guy said he will send the logins. That was 2 weeks ago.
Now the site is done, the clown refused to send the logins. He kept giving excuses and asking the client for some fee to transfer the domain. The bottom line is, he doesn’t want to hand it over.
All I want to do is upload the site to the domain. The client already has existing email facilities on the domain which works perfectly.

The question is, why does he not want to hand over the logins?
Possible reasons:
1) He is scared that my company will start managing the domain.
2) The annual hosting or maintenance fee he charges the client will come to me.

Now the client is pissed and wants to register a fresh domain and has given me the go ahead.
As a business man I feel sad for him. He has to change his letter heads, business cards, email address and other contacts just because the previous developer refused to hand over the logins.

How much hosting and maintenance fee does he collect that is enough to ruin another person’s business?

There are few interesting points in the above responses that I agree with, how ever I disagree with some of the responses. But I guess your post is more of a concern rather than to spark a debate.

You can't blame the domain registrar, your client should have read the terms. And in most cases you would be charged a domain transfer fee anyway, so it's always good to read the terms, making sure it's well understood.

Secondly, you would find out that most people that claim to be web designers or developers aren't. You have wannabes, you have the self taught, they dominate the market and you have a minority of the real qualified ones. So you basically need a kin eye to separate the wheat from the chaff.

In web design or development, the tell-tale is always the price tag, that should send in the alarm bell

So my point is that, it's always a good idea to do a thorough research about a web design or development company before committing to part away with your hard earned cash.

And finally, if you know how, you can retrieve the domain name for your client, as long as the domain is registered in that client's name and within ICAAN regulations. I have done this a number of times for clients that found themselves in similar situation.

Here you go, make this your starting point https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-holder-faqs-2012-02-25-en

Hope this helps.

swift25: pls guys who has a idea of a v.good domain registrar apart from godaddy

Hi, you can register your domain name from any where you like, but for good nigeria web hosting service, convenient payment plan with guaranteed 30 day moneyback and true 24/7 technical support checkout HostNigeria. The fastest growing Nigeria web hosting company, 4 friendly staff with years of experiences and 2 interns.

callmejulian: I got into an argument last week with my room mates and i want to prove to them that there is actually a theme that resembles that of jumia.com and konga.com . i will really appreciate it if anyone can help because i would love to see the look on his face once i prove him wrong.

Jumia seems to be custom coded and I can only assume that the site's look is not based on any particular template. Jumia a Rocket Internet venture has online store in Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire and Uganda using the same look and feel all over the countries they operate in. It's multi-billion Naira business.

On the other hand, Koga the owner of Dealdey is developed with Magento, one of those popular ecommerce software. Even though Konga is powered by a well known ecommerce system, I would assume that they have built their own template.

Hope this answers your question

sqlmaster: Dear NL which web hosting in nigeria can tou categories as the cheapest and how reliable they are? you can aloe criticize
Note: before you criticize you must have tested their service.

Hi, check out this promotional video http://vimeo.com/97567879

HostNigeria is one of the fastest growing and cheapest Nigeria web hosting companies. And not just cheap and convenient payment terms, but also with years of experiences. Prompt response time for both inquiries and support.

We have a few clients here, hopefully they would testify to the quality of HostNigeria's services.

Sorry I'm not running a charity organisation moreover you've got one for free above, yet you are still not contented.

Funny enough, you can afford to pay for XenForo right ? yet you are seeking free service here. The software is not exactly cheap is it ? Or did you get it for free from Kier and Mike ? You could have asked them to do you the favicon for free as well.

Like XenForo has got business to run, so do I. I just don't get it why our people are happy to spend their money abroad to those companies that don't even pay taxes here in Nigeria, but when it comes to local businesses you would be asking for free services, you should love your country first you know ?

Anyway, you have options, use the favicon created for you above, get free publicly available ones on the Internet, make your own or keep searching for a good Samaritan. Better still you can publicly submit a proposal and your budget, then you will see how quickly people will respond to you.

Best of luck.

Do you have the resources to edit templates or css online ? You can do this conveniently via ftp if you have the access to your server.

Your css seems to be directly embedded into your template. Looking at your css codes, I'm guessing this is what you need to edit;

.main-inner .columns {
padding-left: 180px; ----- change to what ever >
padding-right: 180px; ---- change to what ever >
}

body {
min-width: 930px;
}
.content-outer, .content-fauxcolumn-outer, .region-inner {
min-width: 930px;
max-width: 930px;
_width: 930px;
}
.main-inner .columns {
padding-left: 180px;
padding-right: 180px;
}
.main-inner .fauxcolumn-center-outer {
left: 180px;
right: 180px;

Hope this helps.

HeWhoMusntBeNamed: ok bro, tnx so far. How would i find the width of my sites side colum, is it on template??

Okay, there are few ways to go about this, the easiest way is to go to where you are getting the banners from and request for banners that best fit the layout of your website, in this case, the right column. There will be dimensions in your css that controls the width of your site's side columns, find out what the width is and that will help you determine the width of banners you will be requesting for your site.

The other way round is if you are willing to alter the layout of your website to conform with banner dimensions, personally I will choose the first option over this, because in this case here, you will be altering your css every now and then just to conform with banner dimensions.

However, if you still wish to get down to the nitty-gritty, then locate your site's css and look for the part that controls the side columns, depending on the software you are using, some will call the sides "right column, left column", or "Left Block, Right Block" and different names like that.

You will need to find what your right and left side columns are called in the css. Once you find this, you will need to adjust the width to suit the size of the banners.

This shouldn't take you long to fix.

Hope this helps

HeWhoMusntBeNamed: this is my site.