How It Works - Acquiring Your Website

People often ask, "How much does it cost to have a website?" Well answering that is

like asking, "How much does it cost to go out to eat?" It depends on where you go and

what you order!

How much time do you have? How valuable is your time? If you have hours and hours

of time to try and figure out quality web design for yourself, you maybe can find

something "a little bit cheaper" as a way to go. In the long run though, the price

difference saved is not usually that much, and you end up still looking for help or spend

hours you did not plan on. Do you just want a boxy make shift web site? Then you can

go cheap. You can try the "Do It Yourself" kind. But the truth is that someone else has something

quite similar and your time to learn it (which will be hours I promise) will take quite a bit

of your valuable time. Plus you have to pay for it all over again if it does not work!

We will custom design your site with YOU in mind - your pictures, your text, your theme

and your style. If you don't know, we have lots of ideas! Our work with your input will

reflect your individuality and works with you to promote your offerings! It's just a matter

of how professional you want it to be. Our experience in this area shows.

Maybe you started with one of those programs and messed it up. We can fix it for you!

We can enhance and place your text and pictures and design it for the best possible

look to make it unique to just you! You aren't stuck in their limited boxes.

If you want it done right with the professional touch and want to have someone on your

side with a knowledge base of how the web really works, we can do that and save you

both time and money.

Our rates are reasonable; our work is good. Many hours have gone into classes and

study to learn thesw skills. Because we can do hard code html, we know what is going

on "behind the scenes" on the page. Our goal is to make you proud of your website. We

want your guests to find your site an easy and enjoyable place to come visit and then

desire to come back again.

People often worry about update costs. Simple text updates or simple picture swaps are

cheap. Most spend much less than $30-40 a year on that. We do not try to make that

difficult or expensive for you. We charge for the time and skill it takes to accomplish all

your goals.

Here is what you need to know. STEP 1: You must choose and purchase a domain name. YourOwnDomainName.com - $15 per year - assuming that it is available. This also

includes all the management fees that go with that. (For names that end with .com, .net,

.org, .us, .info, .name, .ws, .biz)

STEP 2: Once you have a domain name, you must rent space on the internet to host

your website files under your registered domain name on a server.

We offer Reliable Web Hosting For One Year - $45.00 (That is less than $4.00 per month

which is a great price, which includes WebMail access to your mail from any online

computer anywhere (or on your computer), with up to 15 different email addresses

@Your-Domain-Name.com). Our large web host system has a 99%+ uptime with a back up system for your hosted

work. We prefer to use our own hosting system for many reasons. We know it, we trust

it, and we get good and fast support! If we must use another, we will have to assess its

quality and the learning skill curve. We will try to work with you for your best cost to

cover that.

NOTE: We must secure your web host server in advance to upload your pages and

picture files to your site space there. This $45 fee will also be your renewal fee each

year. If you just want a quick mini-site, a small site with mostly text pages only, that

pricing can also be discussed. We do not put any unknown ads on your site, unless you

are the one requesting them there.

If you want to manage some of your content for updates, we can link a blog to your

main site so you can do that through the blog. This works well for many people.

STEP 3: Then you must have your web page designed. A simple 1 page site professionally designed starts at $100. These are called a

"business card" site that features your company name, product picture and generous

description attractively styled, with your contact information. And it could include a feed

back form. People who want a personal intro page to a marketing site find these ideal.

We can include a counter on that as well to help you determine the visitors you are

getting. (Forms are considered an extended feature because of the formatting time

involved, but are reasonable.)

A simple 2-3 page website is approximately $200-250 depending upon what is on it. A 4-

5 web page site is around $300-350. MANY other web design companies charge much

more, often starting at $700. We save you time, frustration and research hassles and

deliver you a professional website you can be proud of.

Included in this pricing we offer is your supplied keywords coded in for the search

engines, and will include a Google & MSN & Yahoo Search Engine submission of your

site. (These have over 80% of the search engine traffic and your site will be ready for

any other search engines where you would personally choose to submit it.)

We will give you good suggestions on what key words to put in and will use your input

on that as well. We have no control over how search engines list sites, but we do have

experience enough to know what they look for! This can also save you a lot of money.

Additional similar formatted pages designed (text and pictures only) will be in the range

of $20-30, depending on the amount of detailed work involved. Remember, we have to

charge for the time and skill it takes, which would include any research time you would

want us to do for you on any special features.

We will be upfront to tell you what skills we can and cannot do at the current time, and

most of the time we will work to get it. You will find we are very reasonable. It's really

great when you can give ideas on the style and features you want from other pages

you've seen as examples. We really want you to like your website!

More pages or many details and graphics designs or other features desired will

obviously cost more, but we are priced very reasonably. We can usually do something

similar if you have a site you have admired online. We can work with some Word.doc's

and .pdf’s but website coding has a different code format, especially with the different

page interlinkings and the graphics placement. So they surely can be helpful to

understand your placements ideas and .pdf files can be utilized.

Later site updates are also very reasonable. For example: Simple wording text changes

for each one area of update will be $5.00 each per time, or a picture swap-out of a

similar formatting will be $5-10.00 each. The update fees can be a little less if minor and

grouped to be all done at one time. We don’t try to take advantage of you, we just have

to charge for the time and skill it takes.

We also can set up one or more of your page links to link to a blog you can keep

personally updated. We will even help you set up your blog. This often helps many

people who want basic content on their website and then one page for their frequent

updates. Basically, when it comes to web design, you will be charged for the reasonable time and

skill it takes to set it up. There is not an extra "set up fee." We will be fair to the current

market value or often better, and we believe that you will be pleased with the clean,

professional and trustworthy site we deliver.

STEP 4: To get things going we will require upfront: $15.00 - (for 1 year) To register your web domain name (securing for multiple year

discounts can be done) $40.00 - (for 1 year) For web hosting (on a server) where we upload your web files so

they can be seen on the internet

$150.00 - For beginning design work and theme of the first page, with full balance due

upon completion phases of work.

Most beginner sites cost around $300 and take about a week or two to complete. You

can pay with PayPal or with your credit card via PayPal. Click on the Payment button

below for an easy, encrypted and secure payment system.

Once we determine the approximate cost, it usually works out to half upfront and the

balance due immediately upon completion. At this time, most websites can be

completed in one week. If you need something really fast, we will work with you on that.

We can work with your current site or build from scratch.

Email us for your estimate questions. We can set up a time to talk on the phone. And

feel free to check our references!

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