Custom websites - small business prices

Economical... Custom web sites, using an approach that keeps quality high while staying within the budgets of local small business owners and local organizations. (See our gallery for some of our work.)

Easy... One of our long term clients described the process in "Studio Photography" magazine: "I wrote the copy for the site and selected the images, and let the designers do their thing. My website has proven to be the cornerstone of my success. When potential clients visit my site, they like the easy-to-navigate, laid-back approach." (Read the full article)

Effective... Later in the article he wrote, "I’ve essentially dropped all other kinds of advertising and let my website do all my talking."

Essential... It's not just for shopping online. A recent Nielsen consumer survey found that 80% of respondants use the Internet to find and learn about a local business before making offline local purchases.

Websites under your control^®

A website should be an asset, not a liability! You want your website to display current information, to announce upcoming specials, to respond to business conditions immediately — not become a costly maintenance headache.

While we are always glad to update your site whenever you wish, we build websites that you can change, whether just a bit of text, a new image, or new pages to match the rest of your site.

Nothing to buy, and if you can use a mouse, you already know how to update your own website!  See how easy it really is!

Websites under your control^® — a concept so unique that we registered it as a trademark!

Everything you need for your Internet presence

• Our design group creates a custom look for your website, to match the established look of your business.
• Optionally, we develop text and select graphics for your website.
• We set up all pages on the website with easy-to-use navigation.
• You get the "www" domain name of your choice at no charge.
• You get server disk space sufficient for hundreds of web pages.
• You get as many "POP" email boxes associated with your domain name as you want.
• You get industrial grade anti-spam/anti-virus screening for your email.
• You get full use of our Toolkit for revising and extending your website.
• We publish your website to the Internet.
• We track every visit to your website, so you can always know where your visitors are coming from, when they visit your site, what pages they visit, and even how long they spend on your site.
• Optionally, we can set up and maintain Internet marketing programs for your website.
• Your website is hosted on our own servers, housed at one of the top computer centers in the country. We carefully control who uses our servers — we don't rent space on someone else's shared server for the websites we develop, and we don't offer accounts on our servers except to our own clients. (Even though this cuts into our profits, it insures that our hosting is on servers that are deliberately kept at well below capacity, so the responsiveness is quite snappy, compared with those hosting services that put thousands of busy sites on a single server.)
• Your website is connected to the Internet with multiple independent and redundant ultra high speed "backbone" connections — so your site is always accessible, even when there are multiple Internet bottlenecks.
• Every day, we back up your website and email. We save the last 7 backups, plus the last backup of the previous month. In addition, we copy your most recent backup every night to a different server.

You tell us how much it should cost!

We tailor our projects to accommodate our clients’ budgets. We show our clients how to keep their costs down, and when there are limitations to their budgets (as there always are), how to obtain maximum impact for minimum costs.

Budget Planning: The websites in our gallery typically cost from $500 to $1,000, when we're using client-supplied text and photos, and we develop the layout. It can be less when the client is especially organized, precise about what they want, and/or the budget is tight. Occasionally, clients ask us to figure out what to say and also to come up with images for the site, and then go through multiple iterations with different layouts, different wording, and different graphics. Obviously, the costs are higher in these cases.