Q: What do I need before I can setup a website?
A: You need to come up with a name for you site, they call these “domain names” which can be purchased for around $10. It has to be unique and we can assist you in finding out if your domain name you think of is available or not. You should also consider what you want on the website. Think about what you would put into a brochure or sales letter, and this is information you would likely represent on your website. Brochures without pictures don’t usually look very nice, so think about what type of pictures you want on your website as well.
Q: What do I need to setup a website?
A: You need a domain name, host, and website content. With our ASSISTED PLAN we can setup all this for you, all we need is for you to purchase the plan and give us a call!
Q: What costs will be involved in my website… and no sales rubish, I want to know how much I’ll be spending!?
A: Lets break this down into components.
- Domain Name: aprox. $10 a Year until you no longer want the website.
- Hosting (storing your website files): Our plans start at just $99 a year. No gimmicks.
- Setup Fees: NONE! Unless you need help and use our ASSISTED PLAN for only additional $100, there are no other setup costs.
- Email Addresses: Can be done for just $25! However, it can range from $10 per month per email address to $399 one time fee up to 50 email addresses. This cost will change greatly in price and will be recurring or static just depending on exactly what you need. We will give you a free quote based on your needs, call us at (480) 203-3753.
- Shopping Cart: If you want to sell items from your own website, its going to cost you. Custom ecommerce websites usually start around $3,000. Now you might be asking youself, “didn’t I see some cheap $15 shopping cart where I could sell my products?”. The answer is yes, but those sites will not build the shopping cart into your website or allow you to use your domain name. This means if you want customers to goto “mycompany.amazon.com” to buy something, you can get away with a lower monthly cost, however, if you want your customers to purchase items directly from your website, its a long and difficult process for website developers. If you are not sure what you need, give us a call at (480) 203-3753 and we will help you figure it out.
- Extras, Options, Add-ons, and Branding: You may decide your site needs to appear in 3D, or play music, or have a custom look and feel that matches your paper marketing materials. You may be able to get away without spending any additional money if your website needs are basic, but to get a entrprise level website, you have to invest more money. We will bid out any projects for you to custom design logos, create interactive website forms, google maps on your website, or anything else you find on other websites. Its usually better to consider making a marketing budget and letting our sales representatives tell you what you can fit into your budget.
Bottom Line: Get your basics for about $110 a year, let us do the setup work for you for only $100 more, and get an enterprise level or ecommerce website for around $3,000 to $5,000 of setup (ask about our financing options) and only $100 a year after that.
Q: What extras, add-ons, and options could I be looking at?
A: There are over 3,000,000 plugins that you can add to your website. Explaining them all here would be impossible so we will give you juse a few ideas: Website Visitor Tracking, Lightbox visual effects for enlarging photos, audio player, video player, youtube player, twitter facebook myspace and linked in connectors, gravatar images, easy forms, membership only pages, SEO Optimizer, sitemap generator, registration security, comment spam filter, page and product review modules, downloads manager, easy page bookmark, email this page to a friend auto link builder, and many many more.
Q: What do I need for a .htaccess file in order for wordpress 3.0 to operate smoothly?
A: Well, the answer depends on your exact install. However, we will provide you a sample .htaccess file here that might assist you in creation of the file, although wordpress usually creates most of the file for your automatically.
Options +FollowSymLinks
# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^extend/download/([^/]+)$ wp-content/plugins/download-monitor/download.php?id=$1 [L]
RewriteRule ^files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$1 [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/autopilot
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^ - [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]
# END WordPress
