Web Site Basics

Building affordable web sites is not a trick, it's an understanding. An understanding developed over years of working with computers and web sites. Web Rigger delivers that understanding to you!

Web sites creation consist of 4 main factors. These factors are key to determining the final cost of your web site project. We work with you to ensure that we both fully understanding these factors as they apply to your web site. This allows you to personally decide upon and control the price of your web site.

It is our goal to help you develop your web site using the most affordable option available to you.

Domain Name

Every web site has a name. It's the address that you use to reach the web site. This address is also called the URL, which stands for "uniform resource locator". To have a web site, you have to register a domain name. It can be your business name, your personal name or anything else.

All domain names must have a suffix. This suffix can be a ".com", ".net", ".org", or the new suffixes ".name", ".info", ".us", or ".biz". The ".com" suffix was created for use by commercial ventures but is really used by everyone as it was the first widely available suffix. The ".net" suffix was created so that more names were available. The ".org" suffix was intended for non-profits. And the new suffixes were created to allow people to have a wider selection of names when choosing their domains. You can choose any name and suffix you want as long as it's available for registration.

Domain names are "registered" (think of rented) on an annual basis. The price goes from $20 to $35 per year and they can be registered up to 10 years at a time.

Since you have to have a domain name, this is one of the prices that you must include when determining how much it will cost you to have a website.

We maintain low registration prices and discounts when you purchase multiple years. We also offer a low introductory transfer price of only $15. Our domain name registrations start at only $20 per year.

Hosting Service - This is the place that stores your web site and makes it available to others to see. Everyone must host their website somewhere if it is to be available for viewing on the Internet.

Hosting services charge a monthly fee for storing your website. The price is usually dependent on the size of your website. The larger it is, the higher the price. Prices start at $5 and can go into the hundreds of dollars per month.

One way to save on your hosting is to determine if your email provider, usually your ISP (Internet Service Provider) gives you free space with your email service. It is common to get free space, although, the space is usually small. If it is big enough for your first site and it can save you money!

WebRigger provides many hosting plans starting at $5.00 per month.

Design Services

The development of the actual web site. It is where you decide on the layout and appearance of the web site. Designs can be basic or they can be fancy, they can be affordable or very expensive, it's your choice.

It is most affordable when you have thought about your web site and can easily answer the following questions:

Why do you want a web site? (For business, just for fun, sharing with friends?)
What should it do? (Promote you or your products, be informational)
How should it look?
What colors or images do I want to use?
Do I already have my messages (text) created and ready to use?

WebRigger's one page "Introductory" web site design package with one year of hosting starts at $99. It's a great way to have a presence on the Internet.

Promotion

Its great to have a fantastic website but it's no good if nobody knows about it. WebRigger can help you promote your website both locally and over the web.

Local promotion can be as simple as using your new web site address in all of your hardcopy materials, publications, and advertising. We can help you develop a cost effective strategy to ensure that people know your web site exists.

Internet promotion usually starts with registration with the major search engines. This allows people doing a search to see your name in the response. Other Internet promotion can use links to tie you into similiar sites or listings.

We can also research additional ways for you to gain web site exposure.

WebRigger can help you promote your web site to gain maximum exposure.

Maintenance

This consist of ongoing support, upgrades and changes to your web site. Web sites are not static (never changing), they are usually dynamic sources of information. If they don't change, people don't come back to them. If this is important to your goal, then frequent changes may be desireable.

Maintenance is the most overlooked expense for web sites. If you want changes to your web site, someone must make those changes. These can be simple changes of text or pictures or more complicated like adding new pages or complete design upgrades.

WebRigger provides reasonable fixed and hourly maintenance rates.

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