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| Who owns the domain name? |
When you order your new website, you can choose to register a new domain name. We will register and maintain your domain name for you, but the domain name is owned by you. |
| Who owns the website design? |
While we own all the original website designs, you own your customized pages or template. If for any reason you decide to cancel your website services with our company, you will have the option of taking your customized pages & template files with you. |
| What does your hosting fee include? |
All our website hosting packages include normal website maintenance & customer support, email service (POP and/or forwarding accounts), 1000 Megabytes storage, 100 Gigabytes data transfer per month, website statistics, Cpanel...plus much much more...We don't like to nickel and dime our clients! Our Web Hosting Deluxe program allows us to act as your webmaster. Unless you are a web designer or know how to maintain a website yourself, you will need to hire a webmaster regardless of where you host your website. Part of the hosting fee is also for the use of our intellectual property (the control panel and back end of the website). |
| How would a prospect find my site? |
A prospect would find your site through your personal advertising (signs, business cards, etc.) as well as through the search engines. All of our packages include submission to Google - Yahoo - Ask - Alexa search engine's. Basic link page built in all sites. Link Management programs and SEO programs available. |
| How long will it take to get my new website up and running? |
New websites are usually up and running within 5-10 business days of your order. Your website may take longer to go live if you are transferring a domain name (as opposed to registering a new domain name). Domain name transfers take 24-72 hours to complete. |
| Can I incorporate elements of my current website into one of yours? |
Sure! We can incorporate your current website’s content, pages, images, documents, etc. into any of our website packages. If you wish, you can even use your current website’s design/layout instead of choosing a custom design.
| Q: Why is webdesignsllc.com the best choice for hosting my website? |
A: We contract our hosting services through large companies and buy in bulk from them. This allows you to have the benefits, reliability and speed of the large web hosting companies with small company, local, personal service. There are thousands of web hosting companies to choose from. Choosing webdesigns.com will give you the best combination of big national company features, speed and reliability, all uniquely combined with small-town (Kokomo, IN) down-home service. This wide range of choices and advantages is available to you from webdesignsllc.com at extremely competitive prices. |
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Definitions:
- Domain: On the Internet, a domain is a network address. This is similar to your home's address used by the postal system.
- Hosting: Hosting (also known as Web site hosting, Web hosting, and Webhosting) is the business of housing, providing a server, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites.
- Search Engine Optimization (SEO): means ensuring that your web pages are accessible to search engines and focused in ways that help improve the chances they will be found. Search engines are one of the primary ways that Internet users find web sites. That's why a web site with a good search engine listing may see a dramatic increase in traffic.
- Web Design: The arrangement and creation of web pages that in turn make up a web site. There are many aspects to this process, and due to the rapid development of the Internet, new aspects are continually being added.
- Webpage: On the World Wide Web, a page is a single file written with the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Usually, it contains text and specifications about where images or other files are to be placed when the page is displayed by a browser. A webpage (also spelled - Web page) is part of a Web site.
- Website: (also called a site) A Web site is a collection of Web files on a particular subject that includes a beginning file called a home page. You can think of a Web site like a book that arrives a page at a time as you request each one. Each page of this book is an individual HTML file with its own Web address.
- GIF (Graphics Interchange Format): One of the two most common file formats for graphic images on the World Wide Web.
- jpg or JPEG: (pronounced JAY-peg) A graphic image format. When you create a JPEG, you are asked to specify the quality of image you want. Since the highest quality results in the largest file, you can make a trade-off between image quality and file size.
- E-commerce: (Electronic commerce) is the buying and selling of goods or services on the Internet. In practice, this term and a newer term, e-business, are often used interchangeably. For online retail selling, the term e-tailing is sometimes used.
- link popularity: The number of links from other pages to your page. This could be someone else linking to your site, or it may simply be a search engine's listing of your site in its index. Link popularity has become one of the major factors used by top search engines in ranking sites.
- PageRank: A name used by Google to describe its own version of "link popularity". Uses a scale of 1 to 10 to reflect the page's importance to Google listings.
- positioning: (Search engine positioning) The art/science of adjusting a website in such a way as to create top rankings in various search engines on the Internet.
- rank (or ranking): Rank refers to the relative position that a website comes up on a search engine, when someone does a search for a given key word or phrase.
- spamdexing: The search engine's version of "spam" or unwanted actions. Spamdexing, a word taken from "spamming the index", means someone is trying to fool the engine to gain a better ranking. Some search engines penalize for this, others ban a site completely! Be careful.
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