WEB PAGE STARTUP STEPS

  1. Determine what your Internet website name should be, for example  www.yourcompany.com.   Having your own name registered usually requires an expense of $20-$35 per year for registration.
  2. Choose a WEB Site "Host" company. This is the company that provides space on their equipment to store your WEB page information and makes it available "online" to Internet users 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. There are lots of Web site host providers offering a variety of services and prices. Give us a call, we’d be happy to host your website for $12 per month in most cases.
  3. Contract your host provider to establish your Web Site on their host system. If you’re using your own registered Internet name this can take a few days.  Some host providers charge nothing and others charge up to $50 or $100 for setup. We can help perform this coordination if you wish.
  4. Determine what you want to put on your WEB site. Some suggestions are:
  • Home Page (required)
  • Products, Services, and Prices
  • Frequently asked questions
  • Order form and ordering instructions
  • New products, services, or specials
  • Feedback to questions
  • Logos and Photos (we can scan existing photographs or brochures)
  • Your company e-mail addresses
  • About your company
  • How to contact members of your company
  • Links to other Internet Web Sites
  • Directions to your location
  1. Discuss your requirements and expectations with us. We can help you organize your information into Web "pages" or even take an initial stab at it to get your creativity started. During the development process we can either provide you with color printed pages or, if you already have access the Internet, we can place your new pages into a temporary Web site where you can review them online.
  2. When you are satisfied with the design and content of your new Web pages we will upload the final product to your Web Site on the host provider and make it functional. This includes submitting the appropriate "keywords" to the common Internet search engines, and adding "Meta Words" to each page so Internet users can find you.
  3. We charge $60 per page for simple text/table pages and $75 per page for those with graphics, pictures, frames or input fields (these take more time to prepare and incorporate). This one time fee includes a month of free maintenance and, of course, correction of any errors that we all missed during design and development.
  4. After the 1 month initial period, we will make changes to your Web site at an hourly rate of $60.  For example, a change to a price or product might take 20 minutes to edit, print, gain your approval, upload to the host, and test.  However, rearranging whole pages or creating new information might take an hour, or two, or more.
  5. If you know, or want to learn HTML development we will deliver your web page source files to you on diskette at any time and you can perform ongoing maintenance yourself. Or maybe a combination of self-maintenance and assistance from us. We’re flexible.

 

TYPICAL STARTUP COST

1. Register a custom Domain name (InterNIC)

Name Registration charge
Two year reservation ($35/year)



$70

  

(Payable to InterNIC)
2. WEB site Host Set-Up (Host provider)

$0-$100

 (usually includes first month’s service fee)
3. Design, develop and install Web pages (M&D)
Pages containing text and tables only.
Pages containing graphics, pictures, frames, or forms


$60/pg
$75/pg

(these take more time)
5. Host provider coordination and setup legwork if on another host provider (M&D)

$50

 (optional)

TYPICAL ONGOING COSTS

1. Monthly Host service fee (Host provider)

$12-$75/mo

 (usually includes email accounts, volume reports, FTP service)
2. WEB Page content and design changes (M&D)

$60/hr

 (first month’s changes and all error corrections free)
3. Internet dial-up Access (Internet Service Provider)

$60/yr-$40/mo

 (not typically included in the Host provider’s service fees)

EXAMPLE TOTAL STARTUP COSTS

1. Simple 5 page WEB, some pictures and graphics. Your own registered Domain Name. We perform
all setup and legwork with the Host provider.

$670

 (www.yourname.com)

(we provide monthly invoices detailing all tasks completed and itemized costs).