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There are quite a few factors that are going to affect the ultimate cost of your web site. These factors include how many pages you are going to have, if you will sell products on your website, the graphic work involved, and how interactive your future web site will be. You will also need web hosting and domain name registration.

If you choose to use a
Central Coast Designs Web Hosting Plan,
you are entitled to a
free domain name registration
with your hosting plan.

Central Coast Web Design creates web sites for clients who are local as well as out of state. By using the Internet, email and the telephone, it is possible to communicate effectively with clients in any location.

The time frame is determined by the size of your web site, the complexity of your site design, and our current client design schedule.

It stands for "universal resource locator". This is the address typed in to view your web page on the Internet. For example, you would type in http://www.centralcoastdesigns.net to access our home page.

A domain name is a specific web site address that you choose and register with a domain registrar accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). An end-user cannot directly register a domain and manage their domain information with ICANN. A designated registrar must be chosen. Prior to 1999, the only com registrar was NSI, but the approval of the SRS opened up the opportunity for other companies to be designated as registrars.Our domain name is centralcoastsupport.com.

Yes, you can use any web host you like. Once your website has been completed you will have to provide us with your web hosting ftp login username as password so that we can upload your website for you.

Web hosting is a monthly fee that you pay to have your site accessible on the Internet. We can provide web hosting for our clients.

Site maintenance is a fee paid monthly to keep your site updated with new content that you provide. Most good web sites have new content updated regularly. Fresh content is what will keep your visitors coming back. This is an optional service that we provide for our customers. If you want to maintain your website yourself you can do so.

Yes, please review our maintenance fee schedule and referral plan.

Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may require several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory. How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders. We suggest you use Guaranteed Search Engine Submit.

Please review
The Central Coast Designs
Marketing Plans
(click here).

That would depend on the goals of your web site. If you run a business website you would include as much information about your products or services that your customers would need to purchase from you.

The Central Coast Designs
Storyboard Suggestions
can help you make a plan for the site
(click here).