Domain Names - One of the first thing you need to think about is a domain name that reflects your store, organization or individual interest. This is a form of address that uniquely identifies your web site on the Internet. It takes the form of www.yourdomainname.com for example where www stands for the "world wide web" and the extension "com" stands for commerce. There exists many other forms of extensions such as .net, .org, .tv, .biz, .info, .co and more . You can get your own name from a "service provider." This is referred to as a "domain name service."

Service Provider - A "service provider" also can perform another necessary function for getting on the world wide web, namely "hosting" your web site. This means providing a computer to contain your web site files and make them available 24 hours a day for access by visitors to your web site. This provider may also be your domain name provider but is not necessary.

We can help you get your domain name and provide a hosting service or provider reference.

Web Designer - You also need someone to design and build your web site. This person is called a "designer" and will perform the tasks of helping you decide the web site style, page layouts, colors, typefaces, and selection of clip art and images to be used to communicate your message, deliver your products or provide entertainment to your visitors. This person is like an architect and is responsible for the design and specification of your web site, like creating a blueprint for your house. You help by specifying the number of rooms and size and various other features. The designer turns your dream into a web specification or blueprint.

Web Developer - The designer person may also perform the function of building your web site. The builder is called a web site "developer" much like the person that builds your house. The steps involved includes construction of the detail web pages, inserting your content information and images, and testing that all features and functions work as you expected.

Design, Build and Test - We perform all of the design, build, and test tasks and have extensive experience with simple to very complex web sites. Of course we want to be your designer/developer. That's why we provide this information to help get your started.

Launch, Publicize and Manage Content - The last step involves launching your web site to make it available on the Internet, submitting your site to search engines so people can find you, helping you to develop a content maintenance strategy to keep your content fresh, marketing your site on the Internet, and publicizing your web site to help you achieve your objectives.

A detailed development process guide is available that can be used as a checklist list for the seven steps we use to develop all our web site regardless of size. Download this document to learn more about the tasks necessary to complete the process from start to finish. [download development guide ]