Initial consultation is always free
A professionally designed website is a cost-effective investment that yields significant returns.  Creating and maintaining your website is far less costly than ordering catalog reprints every time you have a change in policy or a new product to add to your inventory.   Consider your website an extension of your corporate brochure, available for updates 24/7/365.  The result is a website that promotes your goals, decreases your operational costs and improves your revenue potential.  Let us help you discover the financial advantages of a corporate web presence.

Website Fees

One size does not fit all
Web sites require different levels of maintenance. Some websites have static pages that require very little maintenance, but most  websites have content that requires regular maintenance, archiving  newsletters, product information, inventory etc..  We work with our clients to develop an ideal business solution that is right for you. 

Ad-hoc hourly fees = $125

We also offer very attractive pricing packages starting at $500 for a 1 page website which includes site creation, domain registration and hosting for 1 full year.

For larger sites of 20-50-100-500+ pages, we work with the client to determine their specific needs, whether it is a database of products that changes daily due to inventory, such as a wine store enthusiast, or a company that offers or sells subscriptions to their newsletter which may require a password protected website, online forms for people to sign up, credit card processing and a mailing list to send the newsletter out to subscribers. No project is too large or too complicated.

Here are examples of 2 distinctly different pricing strategies that we have employed;

Customer 1   
A small home-office with a hobby that they wanted to turn into profit for which we created a 3 page web presence hosted on a subweb
web pages are static
Fees - $500 which includes all the following;
    Domain registration and hosting
    Web Design
    Digital scanning and placement of your graphics
    Website statistics on every page

Customer 2
A consultant publishing a weekly newsletter
Offers professional consulting services.
Website pages are dynamic
More than 100 pages of archived newsletters
Needed professional hosting services
Needed unique domain name
Per page fees are waived and we will establish per hour fees with a price cap on the site.  A 120 page website with a price cap of $7,000 on the project. Pages include the following
    Cascading style sheets with your brochure
    Digital scanning and placement of graphics 
    Design and layout
    Online forms
    Email configuration & support
    Hit-counters on every page
    Auto responders and forwarding 
    Capture Email address and build list for newsletter
    Send out newsletter
    Guest book 
    Feedback form
    Ad-hoc requests
    Weekly statistical reports on website traffic
    Registration with the top 20 search engines
    WebTrends tracking & statistics on demand

Maintenance Fees

How much use would you get from your television if you had to call the cable company every time you wanted to change channels or adjust the volume?   A web site is a dynamic, growing, representative of your company - it requires maintenance for the interaction of those who make the business work. Structuring our fees this way allows you to minimize your startup cost and calculate business expenses into your monthly budget. 

Is this the best rate for you?   Take a look at some of our competitors fees and judge for yourself:

WorldCom
Desktop Webdesign
Red Hawk
Whizbang Media
Insite Webdesign
Landmark Net
Onyx Graphics
Ptd.net
Tabnet.com

How much should you spend to host your e-business?

You've probably seen the web hosting advertisements that offer massive amounts of data storage for only $9.95 per month. Caveat emptor! You get what you pay for.

Data storage is cheap and easy to supply, however it is much more difficult to provide customers with uninterrupted high-speed access, quality customer care, technical expertise, and 99.5% guaranteed uptime.  It is important to make sure that you get exactly what you need, and what you are getting, before you jump at a bargain. Choose a provider offering prices commensurate with the range and quality of its services.  We offer the most reliable and affordable web presence solutions on the Internet. For a few extra dollars per month, your web site can perform with the best.

What should you get for your money?

Data Storage (Disk Space)
In order to have your web files served to the world, you need to have a generous amount of disk space on our servers where you can upload your pages, images, sound clips, etc. and store them. 

Bandwidth (Data Transfer)
Bandwidth is the amount of data transmitted or received through a unit of time. In web hosting, bandwidth is consumed when visitors make requests for files on your web site and download them to their personal computers. When you add up the total of all files downloaded off of your site in a particular month, your total should be lower than the amount allotted with your hosting plan. 

Your Own Domain Name
A true virtual domain name (www.mycompany.com) gives your site instant credibility. New customers have a good first impression, and returning visitors don't have to remember where your site is hosted in order to reach you. It's like having a direct phone number rather than an extension.

POP3 E-mail Accounts
You can send and receive mail through Post Office Protocol 3 accounts, so that your e-mail addresses end in your Web site's unique domain name.

E-mail Aliases, Forwarding and Autoresponders
E-mail aliases and forwarding allow you to set up names@yourdomain.com that forward to a POP3 e-mail account that you may already have. This allows you to check multiple aliases by downloading mail from one e-mail account. Autoresponders are also a great feature with hosting accounts since you can automatically respond to customer e-mails sent to a particular address with a standard message, like "Thank you for contacting our Sales team. We will be responding to your e-mail within 24 hours."

Technical Support
Whether you are new to web hosting or an expert, you will want your hosting provider to have great technical support online, over the phone and through e-mail. This way, when you have a question or concern you can find the help you need in a timely manner and have the ability to find the information in the format you wish to receive it.

What operating system is best for your web site?

An operating system or "platform," such as Microsoft's Windows NT or DOS is the basic set of commands that tell your computer how to open applications and store files. In the early days of Internet activity, most servers operated on a Unix platform, an extremely powerful and flexible system that requires considerable technical expertise to administrate. Unix is still as popular as ever, but today you have a choice: Windows NT and Unix variations such as Sun Microsystem's Solaris, Silicon Grahics' Irix, and Berkeley's BSD.

Experts offer widely different opinions as to which platform works best for web sites. In the end, the choice depends largely on what you want to do with your site. For example, if you'll be using Microsoft applications such as MS SQL (a database program) or Microsoft FrontPage (a web authoring tool), you might be more comfortable operating your site on a Windows NT platform. Since NT, MS SQL and FrontPage are all Microsoft products, they are more compatible with one another. On the other hand, many engineers prefer the flexibility, security, and control of Unix servers. Unix also allows for more web sites per server, lowering the cost of hosting per account.

Redundancy
No matter how excellent the equipment, no matter how expert the engineers, technology fails occasionally. A web host with multiple routers and switches, secondary servers, and UPS systems with backup generators can provide consistent, high-speed access and guarantee at least 99% uptime.

Web hosting companies, unlike Internet Service Providers (ISPs), have high-speed lines connected to more than one Internet "backbone" provider. This is crucial to reliable web site performance, since network service can be compromised by technical glitches and unexpected surges in traffic. A redundant network design allows a web host to direct traffic away from Internet "hotspots" and along the fastest routes - and your site remains available even if one network's service is interrupted.

Reliability
Excellent web hosting providers can offer this guarantee because they've invested in the best automatic monitoring equipment; hired experienced engineers who can anticipate problems and emergencies; and installed redundant backup systems to take over the moment anything goes wrong.

If a web host guarantees only 95% uptime, keep in mind that this translates into 8.4 hours of down time per week: the equivalent of a "closed" sign on the door of your 24-hour business.

We guarantee 99.5% uptime.

Security
It takes many layers of Internet security, from password protection to firewall barriers, to prevent determined hackers from wreaking havoc with your Web data. Most hosting companies offer some assurance that their network and software are protected from unwanted intrusions such as spamming and hijacking. Make sure the hosting company you choose has enough security measures in place to ensure that your data is completely protected.

Our servers are well protected, both physically and digitally. Our advanced firewall system keeps intruders out of our network; our switches are configured to prevent data snooping; and we monitor site security 24 hours a day.

Servers
Although it's possible to host a web site on the CPU of an average personal computer, responsive web sites require high-speed SCSI disk drives, error-correcting RAM, and the most powerful microprocessors available. Reliable providers host their sites on equipment built to withstand the constant bombardment of web traffic.

We host your sites on the most popular platforms, and are constantly upgrading to maintain state-of-the-art technology.

Speed
Web hosting companies typically connect to the Internet through T5.
T (Transmission), OC (Optical Carrier), and DS (Digital Signal) lines. Many smaller web hosting providers still use T1's to connect your site to the world at a rate of 1.544 megabits per second. 

In addition to offering the fastest network connections, a host should provision its lines and circuits to use less than 50% of available bandwidth. Overburdened network connections will inevitably result in poor site performance - in fact, a lightly used T1 line will transfer data faster than an overused T3 connection but your best bet is a T5. 

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