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Websites
from less than £100.00 - contact us
for a quote
If you are a small business and have wondered
about a website but never ventured into
this because you believed it would be too
costly knowing that some companies charge
hundreds of pounds, then Biz and Bytes will
be able to help you and offer their low
cost website creation service.
Biz and Bytes can provide you with a choice
of anything from one or more pages for your
website, with a one page website created
from just £90.00. Your website can
contain not only important facts and information
about your business but a guestbook where
visitors can make comments, forms which
can be completed and emailed to you, basic
or fancy looking menus, special effects
on text or images etc. As
you may already know, websites can be viewed
all over the world and updated within minutes,
once you have your website created it can
easily be changed and there are no expensive
long term costs, there are just a few things
to bear in mind which are explained below.
Things that you need to consider are:-
Name
(known as Domain) - this will be your
website address, for example BBC Television
use their name of bbc within their website
address which is www.bbc.co.uk we can help
to advise you on a suitable name appropriate
to your business after running a simple
check to ensure that the "name"
is not already in use. For example, you
would not be able to use www.bbc.co.uk as
it is already owned by the BBC Television
Company. The cost of this domain name and
registration can be as little as just over
£3.00 per year with a minimum of a
two year commitment. Alternatively you could
use a free domain name by registering with
a host company that will require you to
use their domain name and provide you with
the option to have your name as their subdomain.
An example of such was our old website which
was named www.bizandbytes.0catch.com, here
we used the domain name from 0catch after
our name. Another example was when we looked
to use Wanadoo's services of free hosting
we ended up with a rather lengthly name
of www.bizandbytes.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk.
The choice of course is entirely up to you.
Of course the advantage of a these are that
you don't have to purchase a "domain
name" however the disadvantage is that
you are having to use part of someone else's.
Hosting - this is your website's home,
where it is stored and saved. It is adviseable
to use a reliable host provider whose computers
do not break down and who regularly back
up their files. Biz and Bytes are always
reviewing hosting companies and will get
you the best, most reasonable and reliable
offers available at the time. There are
also free hosting companies some of whom
offer free hosting of your website but they
have banners and pops-ups of other people's
websites advertising their services etc.
An example can be seen if you go to our
old website www.bizandbytes.0catch.com
this host company provided us with free
hosting however as you will notice there
are several banners and pop-up windows from
advertisers and other businesses that appear
on the screen as you try to load this website.
There is no control over what types of banners
or pop-ups that will appear by you and you
may end up with helping to promote anything
from free screensaver downloads to adverts
about loans etc.
There are some free hosting companies that
do not allow banners and pops-ups and we
should be able to arrange for your website
to be stored on to this. However, there
is normally restrictions placed on this
such as limited bandwidth. What this means
to you is that once this bandwidth has been
reached, your website is no longer available.
We can recommend some alternative low cost
hosting which can be as little as only £2.00
per month.
Updates - you may on occasions wish
to change details on your site, there may
be contact details that have changed, prices,
dates etc. Biz and Bytes can continue to
service your website for you at their low
rate charges when this is required. Updates
can be made immediately to websites so that
your details are never out of date for too
long.
Visitors - it is always nice to know
how many people are actually visiting your
website and it is useful to receive feedback
from visitors. Biz and Bytes will install
a hit counter on your website so that you
are able to see how many people have actually
viewed your website. We can also, if you
wish, install a guest book so that visitors
are able to enter comments which you are
able to review.
Email - although you may already have
an email address, this may be your personal
address that is used by friends and family.
Biz and Bytes would recommend that a separate
email address is created that reflects your
business' name and used solely for your
business requirements. This can be arranged
for you at no additional cost and dependent
on the host provider that looks after your
website, you will probably be able to have
an email address such as enquires@mybusinessname.co.uk
making your website and business look truly
professional.
Bed and Breakfast standard packages
- we are presently running a service to
help promote bed and breakfast businesses
in Cornwall so that they are able to open
out their business market at a very special
offer with prices just starting from £70.00.
With Cornwall's airport link, more and more
visitors are being attracted to visit the
South West from overseas as well as from
the rest of England, Scotland and Wales.
With London hosting the Olympic Games in
2012, now is a great time to start getting
your business online as so many people of
all generations now use the Internet to
locate accommodation, things to do, places
to go etc. Having your own website not only
promotes your business but attracts people
from all over the world to visit Cornwall.
Email
us
for a copy of our bed and breakfast website
creation service package.
enquiries@bizandbytes.co.uk
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