Web Design FAQ'S:

Common Website Design Questions:

Q: I want to sell my products online. What type of e-commerce solutions do you offer? And what can you tell me about Miva Merchant?
A: There are many options depending on the number of products you may have and your business situation. Learn more details in our article E-commerce 101.

Q: What color do you think is best for a website?
A: Colors can be a powerful element; some of the most popular are blue, green, and grey. But a lot depends on your products, services or organization.

Q: Can you set up my new e-mail accounts?
A: Yes we can redirect domain based emails from your website to your current e-mail account or set up entirely new email boxes. We can add auto-responders or customize several different kinds of e-mail accounts if needed.

Q: We really need a new website, how should we proceed?
A: Read our short article Getting Started for some good tips.

Q: Can you build a website that will allow us to make changes within the site ourselves?
A: Yes, You will however need to purchase Macromedia’s Contribute program. You can download it from their website and they offer a free 30 day trial. This program allows you to edit content and photos on your site.

Q: What can you tell us about pay per click or pay for inclusion?
A: Visit our article on Website Promotion for an explanation of these options.

Q: We aren’t sure what appearance our new website design should have, how do we choose?
A: We recommend selecting websites that you like the look and feel of, and then we can give you our input based on our own design experience and the type of business you are in.

Q: Can you build custom forms?
A: Yes, we can build forms for almost any type of information that you want to collect including contact forms. However, because many internet users are reluctant to fill out forms, there should always be another way to contact you such as an email link or phone number.

Q: Can you do PDF conversion for our reading materials?
A: Yes we can. Learn more about these website services.

Q: What hosting company do you use to host new websites?
A: We like using Linksky for brochure website's and Earthlink for e-commerce. Both these companies offer quality hosting, domain name registration and excellent customer support available by email or toll free phone number.

Q: Will you make changes to our website if we need them or do routine updates?
A: Absolutely, we currently have several accounts we maintain with regular updated changes. Our hourly rate is $55/hr.

Q: How many search engines should my website be on?
A: Basically three - Google is by far the #1 search engine, also Yahoo, and MSN. These three search engines comprise over 90 % of all searches on the internet!

Q: Are search engine submissions included when you build a new website?
A: Yes we submit all new websites to the major search engines as part of your web design package. Where applicable we also submit to “Google Local” which will list your website in your areas “Google Local Directory”, this service includes a map location of your business. Read details and more on web promotion.

Q: We have an existing website with an average design and need to fix it up as it has some problems, can you work with that?
A: The answer would have to be no. Our experience has shown us that the time it takes to unravel a “problem site” is better spent on building an efficient user friendly website you will really like. We can however, use the photos, logos and language in your previous site to help jumpstart a custom new website.

Q: Some one told me if I have better key words I’ll get more customers. Is it that simple?
A: Good key words help the search engines find websites that will deliver results for that specific search. But several other elements are just as critical, read more details in our article Website Promotion.

Q: We have a lot of photos we thought should go on one of the pages of our website; any ideas on that?
A: We can build either an album style page or go with a slide show off to the side of your text area.