The single best advertisement for your business is its own web site. If you're
serious about doing business on the Web, you need a custom web site that is
specific to your business. There are three parts to a great web site: (1) design,
(2) hosting, and (3) maintenance.
- Design: Your web site needs to fit with your company. How many
times have we seen web sites that seem to show one company
culture, but it's not the way the company really is? If your web site
design, just like your other advertising materials, reflects the company
properly, viewers will be much happier with your company.
But that's not all that makes web site design work. Proper use of
graphics, interesting text, etc., are all important enough to make a
custom site need a graphic designer as well as a Web programmer.
- Hosting: Once you have a well-designed web site, you need to put it
up on the Web. For this you need a hosting service. You need one
that will not lose your site, that will serve it to the viewing public
rapidly (since the main complaint about web sites is that they show
up too slowly), and that is attached via a fast connection to the
Internet (for the same reason).
If you're like the average e-mail user, you probably get bombarded
with offers for inexpensive--even free--web site hosting. These are
generally not a good deal. Since it costs a considerable amount to
buy the computers your web site will be hosted on, and it costs even
more to keep it connected to the Internet, anyone charging little or
nothing for web site hosting will give you exactly that--
little or nothing.
- Maintenance: One of the most overlooked parts of a professional
website is maintenance. This is making sure your web sites stay up,
making changes as needed, and submitting them to Web search
engines so they can be found. (Why would you want a web site that
is hard to find?)
On a major corporate web site, maintenance can be a huge expense.
A recent survey showed that large web sites typically paid between
$30,000 and $100,000 per month for web site maintenance. But
without it, you might as well not have a web site at all.
Dello & Associates, Inc., is a complete web service provider. We offer pro-
fessional web site design (by graphic designers working with Web designers), high
quality hosting (at a reasonable price), and the best in maintenance. For more
information, or a price quote, click here or call (310) 815-0701. Here are a few of
the many web sites we have designed, and host & maintain:
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