Updating site: The beauty of a website is that it is not static like a brochure or printed document. You can change it to reflect new products or new developments in your enterprise. You can launch new campaigns, and at any time you can add more content.

The problem for some companies and individuals is that after they have paid a good amount of money to have their site built, they do not have any personnel who can make changes to website, such as adding new text or photos etc. One solution to this is to make sure you have a good maintenance plan included in contract or agreement you make your with your web designer, so that minor changes can be made by your original designer

Another solution, and one that gives you more flexibility, is to train someone in your organization to be able to work with an html editor (like Frontpage, Dreamweaver, or other similar programs). While not everyone has skills to design a site from scratch, someone who is able to use normal word processing programs can learn how to modify text and upload files to server.

inconsistency of pricing from vendor to vendor. But establishing a web presence can be simplified if you follow these four steps.

1. Website Name Registration

Choose a name that best represents your business or organization. while a short, concise name is generally preferred, sometimes a longer name may be remembered by potential users and thus be a better choice. For example, www.mooreselectric.com is not shortest name possible for moores electrical construction website, but it clearly describes site and is easy for user to remember.

When selecting names, come up with several alternatives because your first choice may not be available. Name availability can be checked quickly at: www.networksolution.com

once at Network Solutions website, Click on "WHOIS" link to see if name you are interested in is available. If your first choice isn't available, a number of similar options will be displayed including those with variety of extensions like .info, .biz, .org .ws, .cc and .be.

I recommend that you stick with either a .com, .net and .biz extensions as most other extensions will not be remembered by your users.

The Cost to purchase a website ( Domain Name) is approximately $20.00 to $35.00 per year. Even if you are not quite ready to develop a website, you should purchase Domain Name you want if it is available since cost is low and name may not be available in future.

2. Website Design

The cost to develop a webpage is affected by amount of content, complexity of site and web designer you hire. Because of these wide ranging variables, it is very difficult to estimate what might be considered reasonable design costs.