Web Hosting and Design

Web Hosting and Design

With so many hosting services and options out there, determining exactly what to purchase and when can quickly get confusing. We address all technical aspects of getting your web-site on-line, from initial domain registration, to designing and hosting your web-site and making sure it stays up and running with adequate equipment and bandwidth to service all traffic to your site.

Getting on-line

The first step is simply getting on-line. That involves choosing a domain name that isn't already taken, registering the domain, and then pointing that domain to a physical machine somewhere on the Internet that will serve up your site's content.

The next step is setting up the physical machine on the Internet or finding a reputable web hosting service to monitor the machine and make sure it stays up and running at all times. This also involves choosing your platform (Microsoft IIS or Unix based, Apache, AOLServer, etc.) and deciding on whether your site is largely static or dynamically built and also whether it will be driven by a database.

Cybrains takes care of all aspects of getting you physically wired to serve up your site whether you choose to host with us or have us set up a web server off your office's current high-speed Internet connection. In most cases, we can also work with any existing web hosts you may have in place.

Whatever it takes to get you connected, we take care of, and we also attempt to educate our clients in every step of the process in terms they will hopefully understand because we believe that an informed and educated client is a better client and this approach serves to build better relations between us and our clients for on-going work.

Getting Published

Once all the physical connections are made, you are ready to start publishing. Again, we will help you understand the choices involved in choosing platforms, database systems to drive your site from and the ins and outs of e-commerce. We will work with you to get the appropriate content up and properly formatted.

We have excellent graphics designers on staff and can help you with everything from initial logo designs to scanning and enhancing product photos especially for the web. Our graphics designers will also help in color selections and general layout of your site to ensure it has the kind of professional impact you are looking for.

We aim to build sites that are fast and responsive, even for the lowly 28.8K dialup connections that are still quite prevalent today. We avoid common pitfalls in designs frequently made by even professional web publishers that make your site hard to navigate or render improperly if the user doesn't have just the right browser set up. If a visiter to your site can't figure out how to use your site instantly, he will hit the back button very quickly to find another site. Just think of your own surfing habits. We constantly keep these usability issues in mind as we work on your design.

Generating Site Traffic

Once your site is up, if you want to bring a lot of traffic to your site, you have to advertise and register with search engines. We can help you register your site with the various search engines as well as help you find low cost advertising avenues that are sure to generate traffic to your site. In the case of search engine registries, we help you formulate the appropriate tags and keyword meta tags that help the search engines properly categorize your site in their directories.

Getting Started

We will be more than happy to discuss your web-site project and give you a free estimate for building and hosting your web-site. Please Just click here to contact us for more information.