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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.

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.