What’s Involved

There are many processes when setting up a web site, these include buying your domain name, hosting your web site, maintaining, after service and technologies involved. By analyising your business needs we can recommend your best options, at the end of the day the choice is yours

What is the Internet

Basically the internet is just a few million computers which talk to one another, some of these computers are known as Servers, an individual like you and me type an address and these servers know exactly where to take you and what to display. These Servers run 24 hours a day 365 days a year

What are Domain Names

Domain names are names that people use to associate with a company or web page, for instance www.fredblogs.co.uk or www.fredblogs.com, more professional examples will be www.imaging-transitions.co.uk or www.whsmith.com . It is common practice to use your company or name. Don’t forget how many web sites exist, if you make it to complicated or long people will forget it, it just needs to be simple yet eye catching. Depending on your location and type of business you can use, .com, .co.uk, .org, .gov just to mention a few

Why do I need a Web Site

Majority of people today still use a travel agent to book their holidays, with the use of the Internet, major flight operators can use web sites and advertise more cheaply cutting the cost and negating the use of an operator. The profits are then passed onto the customer by means of cheaper flights. You can now book hotels, seats at a restaurants or cinema, national lottery and so forth. In order for a small company to expand, they have to establish customer relations, advertising might be done by HCV movements, adverts, sporting events etc, this can be expensive. By creating a web site, you can advertise free of charge by using friends and families web sites, adding your site to another companies site, business cards, word of mouth and so forth. Most companies now sell on Ebay or Amazon. The world is your oyster, customers are looking to find the best price for their goods. Your company can provide the solution.

Point of Contact

You can still use your company telephone number, facsimile and mobile, additional methods include email, this stands for Electronic Mail. An email address will consist of your name followed by the at sign ( @ ) and your domain name. A common problem with emails is the constant abuse from Spam, we can breakdown your email address which fools spamsters. For larger companies you might use several email addresses, for example, sales@blah.com, orders@blah.com, support@blah.com and so forth. This ensures that the appropriate department receives the correct emails and thus saves your company time on manpower wastages.

Design and Speed

Many websites use animations and moving movies, with the use of broadband this cuts down the download speed although it still takes time before the user see’s anything. By all means build an eye catching web site but keep it simple, most users will only wait 10 seconds or so before giving up and finding an alternative product Large professional companies can afford to use movies or animations, smaller companies are looking to save money where possible to enhance their growth and customer base.