Web Design: Establishing your Internet Presence

Establishing your Internet Presence

Written by Frank Voorburg

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Domain name registration. Your web designer will know where to go for this and who is offering a good mix between reliability and cost.
Obtain hosting account. You need to be able to store your website on a server computer that is connected to Internet 24-7. For this a hosting account is needed.
Website development. This consists of your web designer making a design and then implementing design of your website.
Search engine submission. Make sure your customers can find your website on Internet. For this it has to be submitted to search engines.
Free support. If a web designer believes in quality of his own work, he won't mind giving you free support for at least a few weeks regarding his work results.

How much it will cost There or two types of costs involved, one time costs and recurring costs. The latter consist of your hosting account and repparttar 132434

renewal of your domain name. Even if your web designer obtained these for you, they are your responsibility. These can vary greatly depending on your provider and website size and complexity. For a basic website you can expect these recurring costs to be approximately $100/year.

The one time costs consist of repparttar 132435 actual website development. A basic website containing up to 10 pages will take approximately 1 week to design and implement. The hourly rate for web designers varies greatly based on their location and skills and will be somewhere between $15 and $75.

Conclusion The contents of this article outlined what you should do to obtain a website that satisfies your requirements and expectations. It also gives you a guideline for calculating repparttar 132436 costs allowing you to properly budget your web development project. Let me emphasize it one more time: don't waste your time and energy, outsource your web development project to a professional web designer.

About the Author

Frank Voorburg is an ecommerce consultant and owner of Feaser LLC. Feaser LLC offers affordable ecommerce and webdesign services.

Are your SEO efforts going to waste?

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The colors you choose for your site also impact on whether repparttar visitor will make a purchase. A color scheme that hurts repparttar 132428 eye will turn visitors off which will lead to lost sales. Visitors may also question how accountable your site is. You cannot have a black background with white, yellow or neon green text. It hurts repparttar 132429 eyes. Color schemes such as that scare visitors away. With professional colors visitors will likely feel more secure and relaxed while surfing your site, which will lead to more sales.

A top position in repparttar 132430 search engines can provide huge amounts of sales, if your site can be trusted and appeal to visitors. With a defective design and color scheme, slow loading pages or lack of trustworthiness all of repparttar 132431 time spent performing SEO could go to waste. So get out, fix those flaws and discover more sales!

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Derek Croote is a SEO, web design and usability enthusiast. He practices ethical search engine optimization and strives to make sites across the web better for visitors. Derek is the webmaster of the http://www.saratogalakesideacresassociation.org/, a small homeowners association. You can reach him at dcroote@gmail.com.

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