This is the most important 1st step to your project, yet most people get this wrong. The fact that our domain is "affordablewebsites.net" is not by accident. We've included a great keyphrase "affordable web sites" for easy searching in he major search engines.
Try to incorporate a key keyword/keyphrase into your domain name?
Q). What Is The 1st Thing I Need To Do To get Started?
A). The first thing you need to do before you hire any designer is to check to see if the name you want to use is available. We have our own domain registrar at http://www.affordabledomains.ws. Do a simple search to see if the name you are considering is available.
You can either go ahead and register the name you want or we can do this for you. All domain names for the 1st year ARE INCLUDED in our rates.
What Are The Basic Web Site Requirements?
Domain name(yourcompany.com), layout design, hosting account, and marketing. You then add the features to make your web site custom or to make it do what you need it to do.
If you are setting up an online store, you can add a shopping cart/order page, hosting account. Optional, but recommended items include a digital certificate.
How Do You Charge For Your Services?
There is no one way to charge for web services. Some designers offer "packages" that you choose from to best meet your small business web site design needs. Some charge per page. Some offer a quote on the entire project. Some charge by the hour. Some forgo the design fee for a very high monthly service fee (over $50) and require a lengthy contract. While this no-money down up front scheme may sound attractive, you will probably end up paying much more in the long term.
How Do You Handle Support?
Q). How do you handle support issues?
A). We have a simple support page at http://www.affordablewebsites.net/support.html, but for items that need to be done right away, just pick up the phone
and call us at 478.922.8979.
There is never a charge to troubleshoot and correct any issue with your web site. However, there may be a fee to modify features or to update your web site.
Q). Who handles the hosting?.
A). Affordablewebsites.net leases it's own server at three of the top hosting companies in the industry. Instead of your account being shared with hundreds of companies, your account is only shared with affordablewebsites.net clients. The advantage is that there is decreased down time, problems, errors, etc.
All you need to do is keep focusing your developers and resources on your web sites and applications. The infrastructure, the network and your hosted environment are taken care of by affordable web sites.
Q). How Do You Handle Maintenance?
A). We offer 3 levels of maintenance depending on your requirements. At the basic level, you provide us with your modifications and we update your site. If you want to provide some of your own maintenance, we can develop a software or browser based content management system?
Should You Use Paypal or A Standard Payment Gateway?
Paypal is a great way to get started. However, we have found that the ultimate payment gateway solution is to use both. We recommend if your budget is real tight, start with paypal, but try to get your own standard merchant account in the future.
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How Do You Handle Marketing?
A). We have a web site netpromotions.com dedicated to marketing of your web site. Services includes, but are not limited to:
- Net Exposure
- Sear Engine Optimization
- Search Engine Submission
- Search Engine Advertising
- Email Marketing
Q). Are Your Designs Search Engine Friendly?
Yes they are. The content on your web sites to include in most of our features are fully accessible to search engines, keyboard users and assistive readers.
Most of our NEW designs support the following browsers
BROWSER COMPATIBILITY
- IE5.5 and higher
- Firefox
- Safari
- Chrome
- Opera
- Opera Mobile
- Android
- iPhone
- iPod Touch
- iPad
Should I Use Flash?
Flash is an exciting, attractive, but an expensive technology. Affordable Web Sites provides flash spices. we really do not recommend flash for start up companies, you'd be better off investing in marketing.
What's Special About Your Forms?
All of our forms are programmed and processed on a separate server to reduce spam. They use the "captcha" system that forces you to enter a character into the form before it can be submitted.
