Web Design

Do you have a business that you would like to get on the Internet?

Is your business already on the Internet, but you want more control?

Are you paying extra for having email, storage, or databases?

Do you have a static site right now and want to make it dynamic or create an e-commerce site?

If the answer to any of these is YES, then let us show you how to make your presence known on the Internet.  From brochure sites to database driven e-commerce sites, we can get you setup and running in no time.  Without advertisements or pop-ups!

Web Hosting and Web Site Development Pricing

You want to put your business on the Internet. Everyone else has and you want to jump right in. Great! The process to putting your business is a three step process:

1.  Finding your domain name. This is what people put into their Internet browser window to find you. Domain names should reflect your business, either by the actual name or something that people will associate with you. For instance, Peet’s Coffee and Tea Company in Berkeley, CA has the domain www.peets.com but they also bought www.coffee.com too. See not only the big companies can get the generic names (you would have thought Starbucks would have snatched up coffee.com). We can do a search for domains to find an available domain for your needs. Don’t be discouraged if your name isn’t available, as generally a .net, or .biz address might be. So instead of www.mycompany.com being available, www.mycompany.net or www.mycompany.biz might be. The best is the .com since that is what people generally type.

2. Getting your site hosted. Once you have found your domain, now where to put it. There are two parts to that, what is affordable and expandable to your needs, and what is best for your navigation of your customers.

3. Actually getting the pages up there. There are three types of sites you can do.

A . One is a static site, known as a brochure site. It consists of several pages of information and pictures that do not change dynamically. This is the simplest site to create and the least expensive. This is good for information about your business that doesn’t require things like selling online or a rotation of a product line.

B. The next is a dynamic site, usually using a database for images and text that allows you to show your products or in the case of real estate and such, homes. This is not to be confused with e-commerce sites, the next type. Dynamic sites are more complicated to put together and of course cost more to develop.

C. The last type is an e-commerce site. Full ecommerce sites allow you to show products, have users put them into a shopping cart, then check out and purchase, including shipping and handling all from a single site. If you have product that you wish to sell online, this is how you do it. It is comparable to the dynamic site, but has more steps to follow through on by the business owning the website, such as credit card purchases online and merchant services.

What you get with a hosted website from Copy.It.Mail.It:

Besides the website, there are a few features that you receive with your monthly subscription:

• Web based e-mail – If you are out and about, if you can get to the internet, you can check your email online. It includes a spell checker, attachment support, and Multilanguage support. You can also setup filtering options, change passwords, setup out of office autoresponder’s all online.

• 800MB Disk Storage – This is website, email, databases, files online. The average website is about 6MB in size. This is more than enough room for anything you plan, and if you need more, you can easily upgrade.

• MySQL databases – unlimited. For dynamic sites, MySQL is the database that runs your ecommerce/dynamic sites. There is no limit to the number of databases that can be created.

• E-mail accounts (mailboxes) 60 – most site plans give you 5 or 10 and charge for any additional email boxes or addresses. We provide 60 mailboxes. This doesn’t include the addresses associated to the mailboxes. There is an unlimited number of those. If you want fred@mycompany.com, info@mycompany.com, and sales@mycompany.com all going to one mailbox, you can! There is no limit to the number of addresses that can be created. And you can have those email addresses forward onto your personal e-mail addresses if you wish or go to multiple mailboxes.

• POP3/SMTP access / IMAP access – You can choose the method you want to access your email. POP3/SMTP is you connect to the mail server in your email client (like Outlook Express) and you download your email to your computer. IMAP is different in that your email is maintained on the mail server and that way if you travel, have a laptop and a desktop, or work and home computers, you can see the same e-mails in both locations without having to “synchronize” your accounts. Instructions on setting up both types are included in the website setup.

• Spam Filtering - Now just one click is all that stands between you and unsolicited commercial email. Our spam filter (powered by Razor) flags incoming e-mail messages that have a high-probability of being junk e-mail as spam. Razor relies on a centralized spam database to help it analyze potential spam messages. While not completely perfect, (and no spam filter ever truly is,) Razor can do wonders for cleaning up your inbox!

• 15 sub-domains hosted – A sub domain is one that is created to make a separation between functions on your website. For instance, maybe you are going to have a community function on your website, where people get together and talk about the industry you are in. If your domain is www.mydomain.com a sub domain is community.mydomain.com.

• PHP/MySQL support. PHP is a Unix based standard for dynamic pages and sites and MySQL is the database backend. The alternative is ASP/SQL which is a Microsoft Windows based system, which costs more to host and generally more to develop on.

• Daily Data Backups – Your data on the webserver is backed up daily so you don’t have to worry about losing data.

• Daily Access Statistics – Wonder how many people are visiting your site and from where, you can get statistics showing not only who (by domain and location like .ca for Canada) but where they are getting referred from (like advertising or search engines) This allows you to guage how well certain search and advertising schemes are working.

• Pass worded Directories – Perhaps you have a file or files that you want only certain people to access. You have a directory that you can put a password and ID on that you can give to those people to access files placed there.

• QuickTime/Real Audio/Real Video streaming – Movies, audio, video can be streamed off of your site, perhaps for viewing products or showing something of your business in action (remember that space taken up by video and audio is part of the 800MB mentioned before.)


As you can see, you get a lot when you have Copy.It.Mail.It take care of your site.

Customer responsibilities:
A website is no good if it doesn’t have content, meaning pictures, logos and written text. You know your business better than a web designer does and you need to have well thought out ideas on things like About Us, Contact Information, your product(s) in both pictures and words.

The means to a good website is color, usability, content, and planning. If you have those four items and you will have return customers.

Have you ever been to a site where you have to go through 5 pages just to get to a contact page? That is bad usability .

Ever seen a site where you can’t make out the text because the background was too busy or they put red text on a blue background? That is bad coloring.

Go to a website where it really doesn’t say anything? You got it, content. Click on a link on a website and it doesn’t go anywhere or there are too many distractions to getting where you want to go to (pop-ups, ads, distracting cursors)? That is bad planning.

We have over 8 years of actual website development and know what works. Sites that normally cost $5 - $10,000 to get setup and maintain, cost a fraction of that. Also to save you hassles and money in maintenance and reworks, an example of your site will be placed in what is known as a development server. You can view this site and use it as you would a normal site, but only you can reach it. This way if there are changes to be made, then it can be done prior to the site going “live” for the public. This is included with all the site plans.

Pricing:
(Domain Setup and Monthly Fees)
Domain Registration: $25 per year.
If you host with Copy.It.Mail.It, first year domain hosting free.

Setup of Domain: $24.95
Monthly Hosting: $9.95
Yearly Hosting: $119.40 (no setup fees)
2 year hosting: $190.80 (no setup fees)


(Website Development)
Static Brochure Site - $75 per page (no setup fee)
Dynamic Site (includes database setup and work) - $650 setup fee
E-Commerce Site - $1000 setup fee (includes setup of credit card/PayPal/shipping –if provided) + $5 per item in store. *

(Email)
Setup, documentation, instructions on how to access and setup in Outlook/Outlook Express - $100

(Maintenance)**
Minor Maintenance – No charge
Minor Structural Changes - $75 per hour in 15 minute increments
Major Maintenance - $80 per hour in 30 minute increments
Major Structural Changes - $100 per hour in 30 minute increments

Full documentation of the website to include UserID’s, passwords and server names is included when the site is delivered.

*Customer is responsible for setup of online credit card processing or setup of account with UPS/USPS.
**See below for definitions of major and minor maintenance.

** Minor and Major Maintenance

• Minor Maintenance – If the company has the tools to replace text and pictures on the website, then all the information to accomplish this is in the provided documentation. Images can be changed once submitted via email to a supplied email address for corrections. Images will be changed within 24 hours. There is no charge for minor text or picture reworks.
• Major Maintenance – If site coloring, fonts, logos need to be changed site wide or site portion, the $80 rate is in effect.
• Minor Structural Changes – Once the site is online, changes that require portions of the site to be structurally changed (structure does not include color, logo, image, or font changes), then the customer will be billed in 15 minute increments at $75 per hour (no minimum)
• Major Structural Changes – Once the site is online, changes that will require a complete site wide structural change (rework), then the customer will be billed in 30 minute increments at $100 per hour. Structural changes must be approved by both Copy.It.Mail.It Web Design and the management of customer prior to being implemented.

 

Contact Dave Kingsbury about how to get your company online.