You can use your own web address, also called a URL or domain name. You can either re-delegate your domain and use our DNS servers. Or you can create an A-Record in your existing DNS service to point your domain to your new site at HeySmartGuy - it's up to you. For instructions on this, see our knowledge base article.
Yes it does include hosting and it's very similar actually to web hosting too - some people call HeySmartGuy a "next generation" hosting solution because of all the built in goodies that it comes with. You'll have an FTP account to upload web pages, CSS, flash, javascript and images. It's also true to say that anything you can do with a regular web hosting company, you can do with us.
Yes indeed it is. Is your website? Because HeySmartGuy will respect your HTML code and won't change it, your website's XHTML compliance will depend on the HTML code that you or your designer has created. However if you do insert any system modules onto your web pages, the system will generate XHTML compliant code.
Yeah, sure! Anything you can run on another HTML page or on your blog will work just fine. Remember that at a base-level HeySmartGuy is like any other web hosting platform.
HeySmartGuy is a hosted service and is not available as a download, so you can't install it on other servers. Trust us - this is a good thing. Managing, configuring and maintaining servers is a hardwork. Servers can be picky and have mood swings. Just ask our engineers - you don't want to carry around a machine that goes "BEEEP* at 3am in the morning when something needs attention. We handle any issues that might come up, so you can rest soundly and confidently.
Yes, HeySmartGuy includes a POP3 email service and webmail, too!
Yes, but you won't get the full benefit of having everything "all-in-one". You'll need to import and export contact information back and forth between the systems in order to use the email marketing solution. If you've got some programming skills and some spare time, there is an API built to help you sync your customer databases that you can leverage.
Our goal was to create a platform that fulfilled the needs of 90% of all business people, so they didn't need to get their nephews and granddaughters to program for them. So the answer is no, you can't run PHP, ASP or other server-side code. But you can probably replicate the functionality, and then maintain it yourself without a problem.
No, HeySmartGuy doesn't believe in "locking" people in. You can use the built-in report generator to export all your customer data, including cases (web form submissions) and eCommerce orders.
In terms of web pages, images and the like, these are easily exported using FTP - simply log in and download them.
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