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Setup
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Setup

Naming Your Site

We'll help you set up your website address. That includes finding a good domain name for your website. Sometimes we recommend buying similar names to prevent problems with other people who also like the name you choose. We'll help you navigate the sometimes confusing world of domain names.

Purchase. Find and purchase a domain name for one year. Private or locked domain names as well as additional domain names require extra charges.
Link to Website. Activate and point the domain name to a web hosting account on our servers.

Email Addresses

If you want to have credibility, it's better to have your email use the same domain name as your website. We'll also help you set up your email tools like Gmail so you can read your email how you like.

Accounts. Create up to 5 email accounts that use your domain name. Additional email accounts are $5 each.
Spam Control. Activate Spam Assassin on your email host.
Reader Set-up. Set up your email in your web browser or email client depending on how many computers you use for your email.

Website Hosting

Hosting

Your website has to be placed on servers at a data center and managed by a hosting company. There are hundreds of hosting companies and a few large data centers. Most are similar. We prefer those that use standard setup tools and have good site security and support.

Account Setup. Create a website account on our server space at HostGator, one of the best website hosts featuring a capable help desk, site security, and robust equipment. If you require a high capacity website, we'll set up a cloud-based system that charge according to your usage level.
Content Management System. Install Joomla, arguably the best content management system available for full-featured websites.
Backup Tools. Install website backup software.
User Friendly Editor. Configure our website editor for your use. (If you can use a word processor, you can use our editor.)
Tools for Photo Upload. Install media managers for uploading photographs and other images.

Technical Stuff
Content

Technical Stuff

Customizing

Templates. Install up to 3 website templates to allow you to choose your site's look and feel. Our basic templates are free. Commercial templates require additional charges, usually less than $50 each.
Article Organization. Define up to 5 content categories for articles (stories) linking to menus. Additional categories are $10 each.
Email Contact Organization. Configure up to 3 email contact categories. Additional categories are $5 each.
Main Menu Structure. Configure a Main Menu with up to 10 options. This will enable approximately 10 primary web pages with many more drill-down pages automatically created by the system. Each additional menu option is $10.
Management Menu. Configuration of a private User Menu for website content development, photo uploading, etc. Additional, specialized menus are available $10 and $10 per menu option.
Visitor Monitoring. Installation of Google Analytics for monitoring of visitors and website errors.
Search Engine Tools. Creation of a sitemap for Google and other search engines.
Specialized Tools & Content Rendering. Placement of two specialized modules, e.g. breadcrumbs (navigation aid), newsflash, event calendar, site search, poll, or other tools. We install additional tools for $25 plus any commercial costs.

Content

Most Important: Content

Dummy Content. Draft webpages for menu options with dummy text content and photographs. Dummy content allows you to visualize how your webpages will look.
Logo. Text logo and slogan for all pages. Graphical logos require additional charges depending on the fees of our professional graphics artist.
Page Footer. Custom footer for all pages with copyright notices and custom message.

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