You will need to know your audience and develop a strategy.
Websites are one piece in a larger marketing plan which could include
direct mailings, newspaper, radio, etc. We can help you identify and meet
your audience both on the Internet and in printed media through our
partnership with Kwik Print Plus. We'll create a marketing strategy
tailored specifically to your business and intended audience.
An e-commerce website, or online store, differs from other websites in that it offers
the ability to purchase products directly over the Internet. Orders can be
collected for manual entry at a later time or debited immediately
using a credit card and an online processing facility. Both options require
encryption via a secure certificate to protect customer privacy and a merchant
account to process the credit card transaction. An existing merchant account may
be used with the manual option, but a special Internet capable version is necessary
to process transactions automatically. We'd be happy to work out the details and
help you sell your products online.
We will collect your domain preferences before we begin a project and will do
our best to register the name you request. Your initial year's registration
will be included at no additional cost. If the name you would like is
unavailable, we will contact you with available substitutes. Domain registration is
an annual expense and will be part of the hosting package we offer to you when
your first year is nearing completion.
We purchase web space on a large server complete with daily backup,
redundancy, 24/7 monitoring and tech-support, anti-virus and anti-spam,
as well as a host of valuable services and security measures. We
monitor our host regularly to ensure that you receive only the best of
service. If we locate a better choice in hosts, we will contact you and
offer to switch. After evaluating the options, we believe outsourcing
our servers provides you with the highest value and security.
The first year of hosting and domain registration is free when we build
your website. As your first year comes to a close, we will offer to
continue hosting your site for a small monthly fee. However, you own
your site and are free to move it to another host at any time.
We specialize in the creation of content managed websites. Such sites
allow you to maintain your content through a web interface including a
wysiwyg editor. You will be given a login and password which you may
use to edit your content or add new pages from anywhere in the world.
Site visitors will see your changes immediately. All sites will also
have FTP access to the hosting server which may be used for uploading
batches of images, etc. If self maintenance is something you would like
to avoid, we also offer maintenance plans by the hour or on a
contracted basis.
