More and more people and businesses use the Internet to find information, it is convenient and saves time. Having a website is becoming so mainstream that customers and the general public almost expect a company to have a website. If people want information on a product or service, they are now saying, "I think they have a website, I'll check that out first." Below are just some of the benefits you can expect from a website:

• Increases awareness of products/services
• Expands market place
• Increases hours of operation
• Marketing tool - replace or complement existing sales and marketing channels
• Reduce costs / Improve efficiency
• Build branding
• Enhance your image / Reflect your spirit
• Improve customer service / Reduce costs
• Improve Efficiency
• Provide information
• Create a competitive edge
• Open new channels of communication with staff, partners and suppliers

Time frame is typically 2-4 weeks. This is largely determined by web site complexity, web site size and our schedule.

Reserving a domain name is easy and very cost friendly. The big name companies like Register.com and NetworkSolutions.com charge ridiculous prices such as $30-35/year for one domain name, and you get the same service at 1and1.com or other registars for much less.

A web host is a company that has computers that are hooked up to the internet 24/7. These computers are called servers and they are assigned IP numbers in order that they may be found by other computers hooked up to the internet. It is on these servers that all your web files are stored, be they HTML files (web pages), graphic files, CSS files, Javascripts or whatever.

Basically what happens is when you type a web address into the address bar of your browser and then hit Go, your browser sends out a request to 'get' that web page. The request travels across the internet to the appropriate web server and attempts to locate the web page on that server. If the request is successful (web page exists) then that web page will load (or download) into your web browser.

These web hosting servers that store and serve up web pages to the internet cost money to set up, configure and maintain and thus web hosting providers that own these servers typically charge you a monthly or yearly fee to, at the very least:

• Allow you to save your web files to their web server (called uploading)
• Perpetually be ready to serve them up to the internet (make available for downloading)

Web hosting has become a very competitive business and, in order to entice more customers to sign up with them, web hosts now offer all kinds of bells and whistles to the deals or web hosting packages they make available.

Maintenance is a monthly fee to add, change or remove your web site content. Most good web sites regularly update the content so visitors have a reason to return.