Website Development and Design

CURRENTLY BOOKED FULL -- NOT TAKING ON NEW SITES

I specialize in well written searchable websites that actually show up in search engines (SEO - search engine optimization). This is important because many sites do not, except maybe by business name. If customers know what they're looking for, but don't know your name, how would they find you? They need to be able to find you by product or service names. My philosophy is, "Nothing is gained by having the most state of the art beautiful website on the internet if no one can find it!" Think about it.

I know a lot about what the search engine crawlers look for as they crawl the web. I also know how to write: correct grammatical usage, correct spelling, correct punctuation. A quality website is written responsibly. Grammatical and punctuation errors, along with incorrect synonyms make text difficult to properly understand. Correctness speaks of competence and professionalism.

I am able to design web graphics and do photo editing. For that matter, if you are close by, I have a good camera and know how to use it. Photos can be processed on-site, to ascertain that they are of a desirable quality.

I personally recommend sites be hosted at Christian Web Host and domain names be purchased at Go Daddy. I've found the best pricing with these two providers, plus CWH has an Express Plan for $59.40 annually that is sufficient for many personal and small business needs. If you prefer using form mail, the next step up is $107.40 annually. This provider has a highly reliable server, sensible control panel interface, and excellent overall functionality for proper development of a website, including great extra features and extremely competent technical support.

By contrast, I've recently been dealing with two other hosts. (Webmasters can't control what owners purchase when the owner buys before hiring the webmaster.) I'm dealing with one that provides a built-in cgi script for processing form mail. It is incompatible with some versions of the commonly used Norton Anti Virus, which renders it useless, thus defeating the purpose of form mail. (Form mail is useful for preventing the harvesting of email addresses by spammers.) Their technical support people suggested I find a different script to use, but they weren't helpful with configuration information for their server, and important things like path to sendmail are not posted in their help files. I never was able to get a different script to run on the site, and strongly suggested they correct their provided script. They said they might--eventually.

The other host I've been dealing with does not even have help files in their control panel, or anywhere. I had to keep calling technical support. They don't provide a form mail processing script, but told me to go find one. I found Matt Wright's script, configured it, tried to run it, but it wouldn't work. I contacted technical support again. They then sent me a link to a script they recommend (and I wished they had done so in the first place). Of course, due to the lack of help files, I had some difficulty getting it to run, but eventually succeeded. Also, due to no help files, I had to call technical support to find out how to get their pop3 email service to function with my email client.

These scenarios represent several hours of unnecessary experimentation and grief that could have been avoided. Again, I recommend Christian Web Host. Period.

I design sites that are easily and efficiently edited for future needs as your information expands, which means I can probably be very prompt about making updates and additions to your site, if you retain me as your webmaster.

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