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Before we begin, we must come to a common ground in answering what is Landscaping?

Landscaping is an art of purposefully changing the natural features that exist out-of-doors, with the intention of making the environment more attractive and functional.

In other words, landscaping is creative art involving of living sculpture, works of art that change with the seasons and grows with the years. It's not simply an outdoor activity just involving plants, trees, and shrubs.

Thus it's obvious that landscaping is not a simple and easy task and at the same time one must not overlook the fact that a good landscape also increases the value of your property.

There is a lot of information you need to know if you want your home's landscaping to last long, be attractive, and at the same time to serve the purpose.

If not done right, one good rain storm could wash away all your hard work.
If landscaping is not done properly; you could end up with some serious consequences and end up costing you hundreds of dollars.

Therefore it's advisable to hire an experienced professional landscape designer who can very well understand your needs, your wants, and all the techniques which can help you avoid these kinds of situations.

Landscapes are made from various living and non-living materials.

Most people are familiar with the characteristics of construction materials like wood, stone, concrete, brick, and other substances and can confidently select one or the other based on appearance, suitability, and cost. However, they may not know where to shop for these and how to shop for these. A Landscape Designer can be of incredible use here.

Also, because of the diversity of available plants, some people feel less confident and have no clue about choosing the correct ones that suite their landscape needs. Again, a landscape artist can help you with this.

To get the most out of your garden, you need to research the type of plants you would like for your garden.

You also need to plant flowers in accordance to their height and spread.

Some plants grow taller than others and so they need to be planted accordingly. Also some plants flower all summer long, some only in spring, some in fall. So, before planting, you need to decide where to plant so that it can keep your garden look more exciting and colorful.

A professional landscape designer will know how to create a yard that performs well in your local climate with minimal upkeep and maintenance costs. Also one have to keep in mind that solid, nonliving surfaces require good drainage: some, like untextured concrete, can be slippery when wet.

Landscape designers do a lot more than just figure out where to plant flowers or what kind. They can design patios, fountains, pools, rock gardens, and other landscape installations that work well with one another including lighting and pools. Landscape designers are experts in exterior decorating, horticulture, and basic architectural design.

Therefore it's wise to spend a little more money by hiring professional landscape designer rather than doing by yourself and ending up spending more in the end.

Landscaping isn't just a weekend or do-it-yourself job anymore because it's scope has broadened over the years-a lot.

A true professional designer knows the latest styles and stays current with landscaping trends and can bridge your needs and wants.

In addition, they can install the latest equipments like good drainage and irrigation system to make your garden water wise and eco-friendly.

Another benefit that comes from a professional landscaper is that you get a chance to see the finished project in advance - the 3D Image. The ability to see the landscaper's vision in advance is invaluable and allows you to review, accept, or change the features that are being planned. However, not every designer provides the 3D image layout only true professional use this expensive and complicated technique so that they can serve their clients better.

Roxanne Kim-Perez, is an award winning landscape designer providing affordable landscape designs for San Diego homeowners. Her creative, energy efficient and low maintenance designs has improved the values of numerous homes by thousands of dollars. For all your current or future landscape design needs please contact us

The Internet and web hosting services that we know today are both far different beasts than those that originated almost forty years ago. Where that service was a system purely put in place to link computers of the company that was the precursor to NASA, today's incarnation has a multitude of services. Whether you're simply a single person looking for a website as a hobby, or a multi-million dollar company looking to prove more successful than your competitors, making sure you have the right web host is paramount. But what is web hosting, and what does the future hold for it?

What we know as web hosting today was first designed and used in 1990, by a single user, although it wasn't until 1991 that web hosting (where a company or organization will give you internet space to host your products or service) really came into its own. By paying a company a fee to host your services on the web, it takes a lot of the work out of your hands, such as admin, email accounts, libraries, etc, so that you can concentrate on the business at hand, whether that's writing a journalistic diary, or selling goods online.

Now, fifteen years later, web hosting is such big business that there are over thirty thousand companies offering some kind of web hosting service, whether it's space for a personal site or a business-heavy option. Such is the growth in this area that the traditional heavy-hitting companies like Microsoft and Yahoo are having to constantly re-evaluate what they offer their customers, who will quite rightly go to who offers the best package, not only now but for the future.

Yet surely this kind of growth can only accommodate so many people, or users, before it reaches its peak? Well, yes and no. With industry experts predicting that next year may see the highest yet for the web hosting industry, with over 100 billion dollars being spent on services, it's obvious that those web hosting companies who can adapt will come out the strongest.

It's no longer going to be enough to simply provide a service. Users have let it be known that they now expect a far more in-depth support back up; affiliate programmes are also becoming more popular, and by paying its "customers" to use their web space (via bringing other users on board), the web hosting companies that listen to their users will be the ones that continue to succeed and grow. And in an industry that's becoming more price-competitive than ever, it's this difference that will count the most.

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With hosting services waving and blinking at you on every virtual street corner on the Web, it is difficult to select the best one for your business and website. They all offer similar services with their multiple option packages. At times the price will be the same or so close that the difference doesn't matter.

Business owners, from the gigantic, major international corporations to the small "mom & pop" establishments found on the sleepy streets of any small town, are moving their businesses online in record numbers. The popularity of the original World Wide Web, and now Web 2.0 with all it's multimedia glamour, moved the entire world into our living rooms. Borders don't matter anymore.

When you are looking for a web hosting service for your business, whether a virtual storefront, Internet Marketing sales page or an information database to keep your customers happy, you need to know what options being offered are the best for your purposes.

The names of those options might seem strange and confusing to you at first, so here's a list of possible features to help you:

Disk Space: 50-100 megabytes should be enough for an average website. Hosting several domains on one account, or a large website with data tables, pictures of your products, video/audio enticements or explanations, will require much larger space requirements.

Bandwidth: (Data Transfer) 2-3 gigabytes should satisfy most average websites. More will be required for extremely large websites with interactive or multimedia applications.

Bandwidth is a measure of the amount of available website traffic available to you and your customers. When customers visit your website, data has to pass from your hosted website on a remote server to your browser. You will have a monthly limit expressed in either megabytes or gigabytes.

PHP: This is a language used to write instructions for a web server. There's PHP scripts offered all over the Web for your use, some free and some not. Check them out.

MySQL: This open-source (free) relational database management system is the most popular online database engine in the world. As a result, there's more support sites and tutorials than you could ever need. Using PHP and MySQL together will give you a powerful method to provide organized data to your customers.

SSI (Server-side Includes): a simple scripting language used almost exclusively for the web. Its primary use is to include the contents of one file into another one dynamically on a web server. Your hosting server should have a list of offered includes and some support for you.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol): This is a simple, secure way, to exchange files over the Internet. It is used to download files from the Internet to your browser and, more importantly here, to upload files from your computer to your website.

cPanel: This is the control panel you access to manage details of your website account. The graphic icons allow you to move easily through all the applications and options available to you as part of your hosting service.

Fantastico: Automatically installs scripts on your website, like blogs, forums, collections of images.

If you need more information on any of these common applications, use any search engine of your choice and you will find more sources than you can use.

Dan Thompson is a veteran website designer and has used numerous web hosts in his time. Dan specializes in writing web host reviews, his latest article is a Hostmonster Review. You can view Dan's latest web hosting review at http://www.hostmonster-the-review.com