HOSTING & MAINTAINING WEBSITES SINCE 1998

No worries!

You're probably way too busy like all of the rest of us business owners. You don't want to add website maintenance to your long list of daily chores. Well that's no problem at all because I can take care of it for you. My goal is to keep you worry-free when it comes to your website.

As a one-person business, I'm very flexible. I'll figure out how website maintenance integrates best into YOUR specific situation. Maybe you just need some standard text and photo updates every week or so. I can do that. Maybe you need a shopping cart or blog added to your site? Or maybe you need someone to take pictures of your product. I can do all that. How about if you need to send out an emailing to your customers the third Friday of every month? I can do that too! What is it that YOU need? Call me and let's talk!

Need a fix it button for your website?

Do you already have a website but for one reason or another, you're having trouble getting it updated? Well good news, I'm here to help! I've seen all sorts of scenarios over the past decade in this business. Most of the time the original website developer has gone out of business (this happens a LOT) and their customers are left with dead-in-the-water websites that can't be updated. Other folks have a friend build their website; someone who knows how to make websites but doesn't do it as a full-time job. All fine and dandy until the friend is too busy with their day job to keep the website maintained.... I've seen other people have their 8th grade nephew build their website. Sure Johnny took an HTML class in high school but that doesn't mean he's professional enough to build your most important marketing tool. And then Johnny goes off to college and there's another unmaintained website.

If YOUR website developer has disappeared for whatever reason, I can work with you to get your pages updated and make any needed changes to your website. Sometimes we've got to do some digging to find out how to access your pages and get control of your domain name (see domain name info at the left). Each website project is a different adventure with mysteries to be solved. But remember, I'm flexible. I'll keep working on it until I find your solutions.

Maybe your web developer hasn't gone missing but you're having trouble. I don't like to take business from other developers but some web developers just take way too long to make updates or charge unreasonable fees for each individual update. That's not good business in my book. Customers end up not wanting to ever ask for updates... and then you've got yet another out-of-date stale website.

Keep it current!

I WANT my customers' websites to stay up-to-date and relevant. Nothing sends a worse message than a stagnant website that hasn't been changed in years. So I've put together a plan that will make it easy and affordable to keep your site current. My most popular maintenance plan is up to an hour of updates for $35 per month (only $30/month if I'm also hosting your site). You can send me updates as you think of them via email, fax, or phone. Whatever works best for you. I'll usually get the quickie updates online same or next day. And I work FAST. I can get a LOT done in an hour so usually that's all the maintenance time you'll need every month (however I do offer custom plans for customers who need more time than that). And if one month you need a little more than your hour and one month you need a little less, that's okay too. I'm flexible! I keep tabs on everyone's time and make sure that it all evens out in the end.

Well what do you think? Sound like service you need? Give me a call (314-839-0634) or email me and we'll discuss your project.

 

 

 

Wouldn't that be nice? Just push a button and everything's okay. If your website needs some fixing, I can point you to your very own fix it button... your telephone! Give me a call (314) 839-0634 (or email me) and we'll discuss your project.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR DOMAIN NAME

If you've had someone else design your website, We might need to get control of your domain name. Domain name issues have been some of the stickiest situations I've encountered.

I've seen too many people lose their domain names. If you've already got a website with internet visitors and lots of business cards and other marketing pieces with your domain name plastered everywhere, then losing your domain name would be very inconvenient and expensive. So I want to try and make sure that doesn't happen.

First of all, we need to make sure that YOU are the legal owner of your domain name. You can find this out by going to WhoIS.net and typing your domain name in the WhoIS Lookup.

If you are listed as the "Registrant" that is GOOD! That means you are the legal owner. If somebody else, like your website developer, hosting company, or internet service provider is listed as the Registrant, that could be bad... we've gotta try to work with the owner of the name to have it transferred to you. Afterall, you probably paid for it, right? So you SHOULD be the owner but that's not always the case.

If YOU registered your own domain name then we'll need to find your user name and password for your domain account. If you've got that info, then all is well and this potential problem has been solved. Now I can access your domain account and direct your domain name to your website if we'll be moving it to another server.

If you don't have your user name and password, then we'll need to contact your Registrar (the company you used to register your domain name). They'll have to verify your identity. Every Registrar has a different set of hoops for you to jump through so the process could take a few days. We should get to work on it as soon as possible.

QUESTIONS? Give me a call at (314) 839-0634 and let's talk!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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