I want a website, where do I start?
I am Self Employed, would a website help?
How much does it cost to build a website?
What is a Domain Name?
What is a Hosting Plan?
What is search engine optimization?
Why Validate my Website?

I want a website where to start?

• Surf the internet with google and look for an appealing website that you can afford. Look at your competition and see what they have.
• Set a budget to build the website.
• Decide how many pages you will need to cover the content that will represent your services online.
• You also have to decide how many photos you want to insert.
• Do you want some kind of animation, flash format, slide show, photo gallery or simply spread the photos through the website?
• Do you need a logo?
• Do you want search engine optimization services?
• Contact a website design company for a free website quote with your details ready.
• A consultant will give you a website quote base on your information.
• If you accept and both agree on the cost to build a website, a deposit will be required before the project begins.
• You chose a domain name or you can ask your web consultant for some advice.
• The web design consultant will also advise on the proper hosting plan.
• Base on your information we will give you three templates to choose from or more simple is for you to show two or three websites on the internet that you favour.
• Together with the web designer, you will plan the structure colors, links etc…
• The project begins and here you work closely with a website designer.

 

I am self employed, would a website make a difference?

Even if you are self-employed the fact that you would have your own website will increase your every day workload. Whether you are self employed strictly working for yourself or own a small business that only employ two or three employees having a Small Business Web Design online will help your business grow.

Regardless of the type of small business, you want to start or already own, the days of searching pages after pages of the yellow phone book are gone. Now days every one turns to the internet using keywords to find what they need.

A small business webdesign does not need to have many web pages. The chances are that five web page would be more than enough to cover your services depending on what you have to offer.

Five web page would include:

• Home Web Page
• About Us Web Page
• The Service Web Page details what you offer
• Online form if needed for potential clients to request a quote
• Contact Web Page
  
  

How much does it cost to build a website?

Something simple with a basic template can cost you as low as $300 - $400 plus your Domain Name and Hosting Plan. The cost to build a small business website all depends on what you need but rest assure, it's very affordable.

What is a Domain Name?

The Domain Name is your website URL address. A Domain Name is registered with a Website Hosting Provider. For example, you would register yourbusinessname.com all in lower case with no space, but not necessary with the .com extension.

The file extension is what follows the period. It can be .com, .net, .info, .biz, .ca, .us, .uk and so on, as they are many of them. Of course the oldest and most popular is the .com which is very hard to get on popular keywords because it has been around since the beginning.

The cost to register a Domain Name can be from around $8.95 to $... per year plus applicable taxes. When possible you want to choose a Domain Name that would be relevant to your business as well as a popular keyword in your field would increase chances to better visibility.

Talk to our Website Design Consultant before you register your Domain name. We can register your Domain Name with a hosting provider, or at the very least guide you in the right direction.

What is a Hosting Plan?

A hosting plan is purchase from a website hosting company. Most hosting company offers different plans, some more than others, as cheap as $3.95 to …. Some companies even offer a free Domain Name with the purchase of a hosting plan. The average plan is around $6.00 to $10.00 a month, paid on a yearly basis.

You can secure a hosting package for as many years as you like but not less than one year. You would choose a plan that is appropriate for the type and size of website you have.

You need a website hosting plan to place your website on a server, (A Large Computer) that is always connected to the internet. In other words, you are buying “renting” storage space to store your website. Think of the large computer as a Mall with many stores.

Servers through out the World Wide Web is all link together and there you have the internet with billions of web page floating electronically from your computer screen to another.

What is search engine optimization?

Search engine optimization is about having a friendly website. It’s about successful ranking, it’s about increasing traffic, and more important, it’s about turning hits into sales.

A website can be optimize for search engines with the proper Meta Tags, keywords, copywriting relevant text, anchor links all set in place. You will achieve some visibility on some keywords, and some clients will find you. Although chances are that, they will not find you on all the chosen keywords, therefore, this signifies less visibility.

Any successful SEO campaigns require a plan, but know that there is no exact science as every search engine optimization campaign, is specific to each individual websites. Therefore, first, we need to analyze the problems and the competition, and then we put a plan in place. Knowing your audience and target area will help determine some of the campaign strategies to be use.

A SEO website optimization campaign is successful over time. By planning and using the proper SEO solutions moving forward one step at the time before going to far is the way to achieve this task that requires endless hours of patiently waiting for results.

A successful SEO web search optimization campaign does not accomplish it self overnight.

Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services, at the tip of your fingers.

Why Validate my Website?

W3C Markup Validation is used to clean code errors that might have been left behind by careless website designers. The backend part of a web page that you don’t see is full of codes and if careless, that can lead to, too many code errors. The latter will create difficulties for search engines to crawl a web page.

Validating Codes behind the scene is as important as spell checks your text content for mistakes. It is even more important than spell check a document that only people will read because codes are specifically written for search engines. Therefore, cleaning code errors will enable search engines to crawl the entire web page and even Alexa ranking will be able to give you a better ranking. The latter will even help in some ways to better ranking.

Another problem with code errors is, if you do not validate—clean code errors­­—a web page will rely on the web browser for correction. Although a page might display properly in the latest version of Internet Explorer, it might display with missing text, content shifted or completely blank in an older version or another browser.

From one browser to another say for example Firefox and Internet Explorer can and will often show a difference, in a webpage. You might even see a bigger difference on Mac or Unix/Lunix. A popular term to define this is “WYSINWOG” meaning “What You See Is Not What Others Get,” therefore, if you are a web designer or website owner remember that not every one uses the same browsers or same version of browsers to view websites on the internet.

Remember a browser that will show a page differently does not mean that it’s been infected with a bug. People build web browsers and people are different, that’s the answer to this problem. Hence, the reason why a web designer should validate a web page and proof the website in a few different browsers.

With W3C Markup Validation Services you can have a website free of errors.

Plus, when we build websites we proof them in several browsers:

• Firefox
• Internet Explorer
• Safari
• Sea Monkey
• Chrome
• Avant Browser
• AOL
• Opera
• Maxton2.

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