The answer to this question is neither short nor easy. With a little research and thought you can find hundreds of reasons, but there are a few general statements that may help you realize your needs. First a website can reach millions of people that might not otherwise be available. Second, customers can view products, services, or whatever you want to share from the comfort of their own home. Third, many people overlook the various products, services, or business processes they can include on a website. Any communication or interactions that happen within your business can be made easier and more efficient by the web. No matter what type of business you are in, there are ways to grow and make money on the web.

Ask yourself, "Does my business need 24-hour exposure 7 days a week, 365 days a year?"   The answer is obvious.  What other medium allows you to expose all the benefits of your small business to your target market at their convenience and provide a source of direct correspondence from them to you? The benefits of a website are innumerable.

When you receive a visitor to your site, they will instantly perceive the quality of your services or products. The first impression a customer or potential customer gets depends on the appearance of your website. A visitor will be interested and explore your site if it is appealing and easy to navigate. You are marketing yourself and your business to the world over the Internet and it is important to show your best.

A static site is one that is written in HTML only. Each page is a separate document and there is no database that it draws on. What this means functionally is that the only way to edit the site is to go into each page and edit the HTML - so you'd either have to do it yourself using a webpage editor like DreamWeaver CS3 or pay me to go in and edit the site each time you wanted something changed.

A dynamic site is written using more complex code and can do a lot more. For instance, I can make an area where you can log in and change various parts of the site, such as adding information or products. This is because each page is constructed based on the information in a database, and the information in that database can be changed via another interface.

Dynamic sites can reduce ongoing maintenance costs if you don't want to change things yourself with a webpage editor or with the HTML. They usually cost more to develop, as they require more complex coding and a content management utility needs to be developed to help you manage your website information.

Another benefit of dynamic sites is that they allow you to change only the content of the site and not the design, so you will not be able to accidentally break the visual style of the site. They have other benefits when sites start to get very large, as they make data management much more efficient and your site more expandable.

Many clients do a combination, having some dynamic areas such as a product catalog where they have to change information or pictures regularly, and leave other pages such as contact information as static pages.

The five easy steps we provide below will guide you in the direction of a professionally designed, developed and marketed Web site.

Step One: Planning – The planning is the most important factor to consider when creating a new site. It consists of site goals, target audience determination, market research and information gathering.

Step Two: Domain Name (URL) Registration -- This is the address people will use to access your Web site (www.yourcompany.com). Once you have determined that the URL you wish to use is available, the cost to register a name is anywhere from $9.99 to $35.00 per year. A domain name needs to be renewed periodically.

Step Three: Design of the Web Site -- This is where the look, feel, and content of the Web site are determined and created.

Step Four: Hosting Your Web Site on a Web Server -- This is basically where you rent space on a computer that is always connected to the Internet. Price will vary, depending on the amount of disk space you will have and the connection to the Internet.

Step Five: Marketing Your Web Site -- You should be thinking about the marketing of your Web site as it is being designed. The content of the site needs to reflex the search terms if you want your site to appear on search engines.

This all depends on how much content you have. Every business website should have an About Us page (or something similarly titled) to tell your visitors about your business. After that, it depends on what type of business you have. A good rule of thumb is to not overwhelm your audience with too much information on each page. Disperse the information and break it up into digestible pages and paragraphs. Long pages of text tend to overwhelm the reader.  Break content up to truly get your audience's attention.

No problem. In fact, we strongly suggest to get at least one page online to achieve a web presence. Whilst you'll likely need more pages in order for your site to become effective, we will help you develop a plan to accommodate this. Start small but do start now!

Almost anyone can create a web site with software available today. However, the success of a site is dependant on methodical planning and design that functions well and appeals visually to its intended audience. Software of this nature produce commonly used templates, so your site will lack flexibility and have the look of other common, software generated pages. Only a skilled, creative and an experienced web designer can create a tailored design for you, based on your own requirements. It's really a case of the level of professionalism you want to project to your audience and the effectiveness you want your site to achieve!

With an abundance of designers available, you are right to ask this question. Web Design Networks, LLC will help you in every possible way. We will plan, assist and develop the creation of your new site or improve an existing site and to provide you with honest, valuable information and resources. We trust the information and resources we provide on this site, verifies our sincerity to help you and your site become a success.

This question is difficult to answer as it will depend on factors pertaining to your own requirements. But generally it takes anywhere from 3 weeks to 3 months to design and develop a web site. Most individual and small business web sites take 3 to 4 weeks, medium business web sites take 5 weeks to 3 months, and larger web sites can take 3 months or more. As before, this comes down to the level of complexity and the nature of your site or page. We will however be better positioned once we know all the factors involved in your own case and be assured, we will commit to a mutually agreed schedule so there's no confusion from the start as to what is expected and when. You will be fully advised of this before commencement of any work.

We sure can. Many semi-personal, self operated sites tend to lack style and a professional appearance and all are almost not effectively designed for higher Search Engine ranking. We will assess your site for free and advise what's most needed to be cost effective before we worry about frivolous details. A fully detailed plan of our suggestions (including costs) will be presented to you and it will be your decision on what, if any part of it, you'd like us to achieve for you. Please get in touch with us.

Although not ideal without face-to-face contact, the global nature of the Internet means web sites can be just as effectively designed and maintained from anywhere in the world, regardless of location. We are accessible through many online and offline communication means so it's no problem where you are in the world!

No designer can perform all aspects of web design (effectively) and we are no different. Our ongoing communication with you and the help in information and resources we provide you will give us clear idea of your intentions. Only at this point will we be in a position to inform what we can and can't do for you. We may offer alternative design related options but the final decision is always yours and we will respect that.

That would depend on the goals of your web site. If you run a business website you would include as much information about your products or services that your customers would need to purchase from you.

This will vary based on what is being implemented in your web site. We will first need to know the domain name for your web site. Generally speaking we will need any marketing materials that you have used to market your business. Any images that you want to incorporate into your web site. All descriptive text that your site will need (page content in Microsoft word or comparable text editor). If there are going to be any forms on your web site that capture information from your viewers we will need to know what information you would like us to capture.

This question is unfortunately too broad to answer. Every site will differ in size, nature, complexity, functionality etc so it will be determined on factors like these. Generally individual or small business web sites run $500 to $2000, medium business web sites run $1000 to $5000, and large business sites can run from $5000 on up. In all cases, it's best to contact us with your requirements so we can best advice, based on your own particular requirements. Free Quote Page can give you a good idea of the cost factor.

We welcome your contact and are proud of our flexibility to provide meaningful feedback. In most cases, we don't charge for an estimate request or the like. If circumstances are such that a great deal of time and effort on our part will be necessary to provide you with an estimate, we will advise beforehand of this and the cost involved. In all aspects of our service, we do not adhere to hidden or surprise billing; you will always be aware if any costs are involved before any action is carried out on our part.

We attempt to keep things as simple as possible but we adopt some specific conditions which you will be fully aware of before any agreement and payment are made by you. Typically we require 1/2 of the total cost up front and the remainder is due upon completion of your site.

Yes, we offer discounts for schools and non profit organizations.

As we intend to develop a mutually rewarding relationship with you, we want to gratify you completely with our service. We will complete fully what we have stated in our agreement until total satisfaction. Our reputation is our best guarantee as our past clients will testify. We have not had a unsatisfied customer to date.

Like all designers, proof of quality can be attained by completed sites. This site is our best but just one example of evidence of our work quality. While quality in site design may mean different things to different people, we are of the opinion that HTML code validation, appearance, functionality and accessibility are the determining factors of quality. Some of these factors are hard to quantify as they are subjective but we will provide tools that can best determine the quality of work. We provide one example of this on the bottom of our home page as proof that our HTML coding is W3C compliant.

It stands for "Uniform Resource Locator ". This is the address typed in to view your web page on the Internet. For example, you would type in WebDesignNetworks.com to accessed our home page.

A domain name is a specific web site address that you choose and register with Network Solutions(the official registrar of domain names ending in .com, .edu, and .gov). Our domain name is “WebDesignNetworks.com".

This depends on how you are going to use it. If you are going to be telling people over the phone, choose one that is easy to say and spell out loud. Above all, I would choose one that is memorable and not confusing.

Yes. Your domain name is your address in cyberspace, and often it is the only way someone knows to contact you. It is important that you keep good track of it and keep your contact information updated on your domain record so that nothing happens to it. I always recommend that people have full control and knowledge of how to administer their domain name, just to be safe.

The files that belong to your web site need to reside on a computer running web server software. When we host your web site that means that we keep your files on our dedicated servers. We currently only use BlueHost.com We maintain the files and run backups on all of your files. Follow this link to view our web hosting plans.

Yes.

Search engine optimization is the process of choosing targeted keyword phrases related to a site, and ensuring that the site places well when those keyword phrases are part of a Web search.

If we are designing your web site we recommend that it be part of the design process from the beginning. This will only drive additional web site traffic that you wouldn't get if the web site wasn't optimized.

Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may require several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory. How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders. We suggest you use Guaranteed Search Engine Submit. Your site can be listed on AOL, MSN, Google in a couple of days.

Every website we build is submitted to the top 5 search engines. However, simply submitting doesn't mean that your site will rank at the top of a search engine when a user searches for content related to your site. A lot of work and research goes into getting your website ranked high.