Picking up with the cost savings structure and implications to us, your host, is important to understand, ie, "our savings is being passed along to you."     First, we set you up at below any competitive rates, including set up cost averaging over $250, and second, for your business, give you the most competitive web-hosting package you will ever hear of or be fortunate enough to experience.

    When you consider your own website, overhead begins with an annual $35 URL registration fee (annual.)     You then can expect to pay anywhere from a long-term contract program of $5.95-7.95/month to rates of $25.00/month.     For an analogy, I remember the days of pioneer microcomputers and the huge variance in hardware, software and computer supplies, eg, diskettes based upon where you shopped.     The computer warehouses or superstores arrived, and several years later all these little computer retailers disappeared.     (If they didn't disappear, they were being supported by corporate contractual support agreement and/or someone like me with a consulting business as a "loss leader" store front that I still could deduct taxes for losses of rent, etc. overhead until I got sick'n tired of wasting my time and effort to have a "store.")

    In analogy terms, that was the "left foot dropping."     Now, for the "right foot to drop," and reality to set in -- your own website means you are responsible for everything, eg, publishing, ftp, marketing your site (that's a good one) to all-important-maintenance.     Now, this can be a complicated calculation based upon what your expertise are and what your time is worth and what you want your website to look like !     I think I could make a pretty good living of performing "re-designs" or an analogy of a beauty salon -- f@celift™ when business owners do the following:     register their site, pay web-hosting charges, buy a book and put something that resembles a 4th grader project to represent their business (image.)

    Now, I am (really) going to keep the math simple and say you will pay, up front, for all the incidental overheads around $100/year and then you are going to waste another $100-1,000 in waste of your time and do something like I mentioned above, non-professioal business image.     This is a proven fact by a journeyman web "surfer."     "I've seen it all..." really does apply.     Real Estate agents' page or website where I couldn't find their telephone no. -- let alone their address !     People get impressed with odd (dark) wallpaper schemes or similar color schemes that are fitting of the 60's hippy generation.     If I didn't spell "hippy" right, I appologize -- I was too busy soldiering.

    The last part of this equation is the task of promoting or marketing your website.     In actuality, it is quite simple, but (evidently) a lot of people don't "get it."     You make a title for your homepage other than "home" or "homepage" and you add a few "meta tags" which describe and provide keywords to the various Internet search engines (SEs.)     Submit to the major SEs, minimum, and then a lot of the smaller SEs will follow along.     Statistically, if you aren't in the major SEs, don't expect people to find you !     End of story, or "equation for failure" and just another advertising campaign gone bad.     Oh yeah, for those that have "surfed" around the "submittal" sites that quote you thousands of SEs they will submit you to:   there less than a dozen key ones.

    You didn't turn to a professional.     You treated it as if it did not require any skills beyond your level -- especially if you can go to your local bookstore, or online and order something that says "..you will be up'n running in half a hour."     Right.     You pick a web host that has out-dated hardware servers with poor bandwidth, ie, "broadband" channels and you find out that you only have a few megabytes a month "transfer rate."     Huh?     Yeah, you don't know this business and you feel because you have a browser software product that makes the Web look like reading a book, only with links, can't be anymore difficult than a word processor ...

    That's my way of explaining "why not do it right the first time,"  enjoy 24/7,   and be published with a professional business image that will make you proud.     I often times ask my clients what material they have been using and what ideas they want to make sure are included and then I make suggestions.     Generally speaking, it is a very rare situation where my displayed expertise is ever vetoed.     (I'm not a politician either, did I spell veto right?     Oh well; "old school" -- I still code/publish by hand, no generated html code and you get the best bandwidth performance possible!)

    Bottom-line:     you don't want to make a "project" out of this, if you have any questions about not having your own website and why you still benefit from having your page(s) hosted within our webportal, a large shopping center on the Internet, please do call me.     I have all the space in the world to go crazy and try to explain everything to both novice and so-called "computer literate" folks, but I can not read your mind and what concerns you, ie, customer satisfaction -- concerns me !

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