WEB
HOSTING SERVICES ... For
purchasers of our Classifieds, Market Center and Artist Showcase web
pages, web hosting is built in to the price. For those not familiar,
web hosting is the act of storing your web page and it's graphic content
on a world wide web server, thereby making it accessible to anyone on
the internet. There are a number of places to store web pages, on your
ISP's server, AOL, Compuserver, MSN, etc. . .
Let's
take an example of a fictitious business named Urban Diner. If you want
to have a unique URL or web address that contains your name such of
www.urbandiner.com then you will need a web host that will allow
you to have a custom domain name. Domain registration can be an extra
cost, but some vendors will now pay your registration fee for you, included
in your regular web hosting price. This is the case with our web host
vendor, Yahoo.
Some
services only offer their domain name with your name attached, similar
to our Market Center. In that case Urban Diner's web address would be.
www.claritygmi.com/mc/urbandiner.htm
or
on America Online it would be
http://members.aol.com/urbandiner/index.htm.
Web
Hosts also offer a varied range of products and services, including
the amount of space for you site, the amount of data you can transfer
per month, different server specific functions such as MIVA, CGI scripting,
access to Front Page extensions, and etc. . . These are options that
we can go over with you when we decide what type of site you need. Clarity
gmi is not a web hosting company!!! We
are a web design company and marketing organization. To give you the
best possible web presence we have teamed with select web hosting companies
and we highly recommend them for your web hosting needs. Bottom line
though, you choose your own web host. If you contract us to design your
site, it is at your discretion where you choose to host. We only offer
recommendations. The businesses that we recommend we also use for our
own web hosting needs, so don't take our recommendations lightly. We
depend on them as well to bring you the pages that you are currently
viewing.
We offer for your consideration the following
4 web hosts in no particular order. They offer varying degrees of entry,
price, and feature sets. Please contact them for complete information
on their services.
Yahoo
Small Business Services. Great entry
and pro levels, easy to maintain. various packages available to accomodate
most web sites. Prices started at $9.95 a month for consumer level.
$19.95 a month for business level.(Yahoo is currently our website vendor)
INTERLAND.
Interland offers a wide variety of hosting services, from $16.99 a month
and up.
EARTHLINK.
Need a reliable website you can launch quickly and easily? EarthLink
offers three basic Web Hosting packages.
SBC
AMERITECH . For advanced websites
with a high level of fuctionality, consider SBC Ameritech. These services
are more costly than the others, but they offer an expanded range of
services that businesses may find useful down the road. Maybe overkill
for the small business owner but starting at $50 a month, is not too
totally out of reach.(We
choose SBC Ameritech for our high volume music and video website services.)
Instant
E-Store. We've searched the internet
and after careful research we have found the best way to get your own
online store. Instant e Store is the place, and offer a template based
online store solution that is not only easy but extensive and comprehensive.
For only 50 a month you can have your own online store, with hundreds
of products, search funtions, and etc. and it's easy to program yourself
via your own browser. If you purchase the service from us, we'll be
glad to program it for you.(Instant
E Store is currently our vendor for our online store, (TCS, The Clarity
Store)
As
we continue to search the web, we'll add more recommendations as we
see fit. You are more than welcome to search yourself and and as we
stated, if we become your web designer, you are in no way obligated
to host your site on one that we recommend. The files are yours to do
as you please. We wouldn't have it any other way.
We
hope you'll give great consideration to expanding your business to the
world wide web and let us offer you a turnkey solution to your website,
marketing and E-commerce needs. Feel free to email us at claritygmi@aol.com
if you have additional questions.