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It
is important to understand the costs of maintaining a website before you
start the web development process. With this information, you are better
prepared to make decisions regarding the scope of the site and the initial
investment.
Domain registration: Although the initial registration is a one time
cost, you will have to pay a small yearly fee to retain the use of your
domain name (yourname.com).
We can take care of this for you and let you know in advance when this
fee is due. (You can pay for more than one year at a time if you wish)
Web site hosting: This is a regularly incurred monthly fee. As part
of our service we oversee the web hosting and can bill you monthly, quarterly
or yearly. There are costs in establishing the site initially as well
as ongoing monthly maintenance fees. The actual cost depends on how high
powered your site is (requiring secure processing for credit cards and
shopping carts, dynamic processing using Active Server Pages and Cold
Fusion). We can give you a better idea of this cost once we have the direction
you want to go.
Search Engine Submission: In the past it has been possible to manually
submit your website to search engines and directories. However, recently
it has become a complex process. There are still some free search engine
submit pages ...but they are few and far between. We will submit to the
free top search engines for you, but we cannot guarantee if and when the
search engines will index any website. We will work with you on the best
deals available for the fee based search engines.
Ongoing site updates: Keeping your site updated and fresh with new
content (specials, news updates) will keep your customers coming back.
Complexity of the site and frequency of updates will vary the cost for
this service.
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