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Personal ~
Because it is fun!
Because you have a message to send!
Because you want to share your hobby or area of interests!
Because you want to share family photos and history! (you can restrict the entry to your site to whom ever you want)
There are as many reasons as there are people out there surfing the net. What ever the reason we can get you started.

Business or Club / Association ~
Because your competition probably already is.
Because it provides convenient 24 hour, 7 day a week information access.
Because it is visible to millions of people with above average household incomes.
Because it conveys a professional image of your company or association.
Because the internet is where more and more people are looking to obtain service and information.

What type of web sites do you make?
We are able to make sites for individuals wanting to share their interests and hobbies with the world and sites for small businesses and associations wanting to expand their presence and advertise their services. They can be simple, with only a logo and heading followed by some simple text or they can be full of pictures and facts encompassing several pages.

What type of sites do you not make?
We do not make sites that are not acceptable for viewing by the whole family.
We do not prepare detailed sites with large inventory data bases and complicated order forms.

Can I have anything I want on the site?
Sure, its your site. Keep in mind the restrictions above and the more complicated the site, the more it will cost.(But at our prices, no problem!) Also, you must hold the copyright to things posted on your site or have permission to use them. (You have the copyright to your own photographs and artwork and there are all kinds of graphics and photos available for use in non commercial applications.)

How do you get my photographs or graphics for my site?
You will provide the photos or graphics either by sending them electronically (e-mail), by sending us a C-D or the original photos by mail. We can discuss this with you when you e-mail or phone us. We can provide some generic graphics if you wish.

What are my costs to have a web site made by you?
Our minimum charge is $25.00
We call our pricing VALUE PRICING because we are very inexpensive!

We love building web sites and do so mainly as a fun activity. As a result, we keep our prices very low and unlike other site builders we do not have a price per photo or per line of prose. We will discuss what you want and make a nice site at a price you are happy with.
Most personal sites are priced between $50.00 and $100.00 and are set up with free hosting services such as Tripod, Anglefire, Yahoo, Cool Free Pages etc.

Free is a relative term. Nothing is really free and your site is paid for by advertising that appears with your site. As you look at the sample sites listed, they are being hosted by different services so you can see some of the form advertising can take. For the most part the ad's are not too intrusive and are a small price to pay for a free site.

Straight forward Business Sites are similarly but can have added costs for hosting, domain names etc. They can be placed with a free service as well but are much less effective without your own domain name and with ad's from another business, no matter how small the ad may be. Of course, the sky is the limit, depending on what you want.

We will work this out with you by e-mail before we get started. Remember, we normally will work with you and get the site set up before you pay anything.

What are my on going costs to maintain the web site?
See above answer. On personal and hobby sites on going costs would be minimal. With the free hosting the only costs would be adding or deleting something to the site. Look at the cost of the original setup. Unless the changes are astronomical they have to be considerably less than the original setup.

On business accounts, annual and monthly fees can be in place for hosting and domain names and will be outlined at the outset.

What are your qualifications?
Like most web designers - none. We have taught ourselves as we developed our own sites and enjoy building sites. This is a hobby basically and as seen in our pricing we are not out to make a fortune here. If you don’t like the site we put together you won’t pay and if you do the fees are pretty small.

CLICK ON THE LINKS AT THE LEFT TO VIEW SAMPLE SITES FROM SIMPLE TO ELABORATE AND TO SEE DIFFERENT TYPES OF FREE HOSTING.

MAKE SURE YOU VISIT OUR PHOTO~SOLUTIONS SITE. WHERE WE PROVIDE CORRECTION, REPAIR AND MANIPULATION TO PHOTOGRAPHS .