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What you need to have
a Web site
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- A domain name. This is your URL,"
www.yoursite.com". The price varies depending on where
you go to register on the Internet. The most famous but
not the least expensive is Register.com.
GoDaddy
or WebHero
has been my choice of late.
- A Web site designer. This would
be Big Arrow Up. There are no set prices
because all of the work is custom. If you think your site
will be as big or as small as a site you found on the customers
link or if you have a specific URL you want to show as an
example of what you want then you will be given a ballpark
figure.
- Hosting. The files that BAU creates
to make your Web site have to be hosted on a server somewhere
so people around the world can access them. BAU prefers
WebHero Hosting
because the price is fair and the support is excellent.
The suggested plan for an average size Web site is the WebHero
Everything Hosting Plan, $95 per year with domain
registration.
- Search engine submission. Big
Arrow Up will optimize your site for major
search engines. Though BAU has achieved good results for
its customers, this does not mean you will be number one
in your keyword category. One way to be in the top search
results is to pay to be a sponsored site via Google
AdWords.
- E-Commerce. For a Web site that
you wish to sell items you will need all of the above plus
a few other things. A secure shopping cart, the ability
to accept credit cards securely, otherwise known as a payment
gateway and a computer with a printer to process the orders.
There are companies that offer complete solutions for not
only the shopping cart but for Web hosting as well. If you
think you would like to "test the water" with
an e-commerce Web site I suggest using the tools PayPal
offers. They may take a higher percentage of the sale but
you are not locked into anything if you decide to get out.
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