faqs

How much will it cost to design a site?
We discuss this first because in most cases it may likely determine whether or not you will choose to read beyond this point, and we know that your time is valuable. The key point to remember is that we have yet to find a budget that we could not work within. In that every web design project is unique, we have a very limited number of Prepackaged website design options. We will meet with you or your representative to discuss your needs, your timeline, and your ability to participate in the project development. Once we have gathered all necessary information, we will provide you with a project development estimate.

Are there any other costs associated with deploying our site to the web?
Usually, yes. You will need to register your unique domain name (URL). That's the www.whatever.com. This averages about $20.00 per name per year. You will also have to acquire a Website Hosting Service to host your web site (unless you plan on doing this yourself, which we strongly discourage). Hosting may have a one time setup cost that can run from $25.00 - $100.00, and a monthly fee. These monthly fees run anywhere from $3.95 to over $100.00 per month depending on your needs. The $3.95 plans are usually sufficient unless you plan on adding e-commerce capability. So you can see, there are some incidental cost involved in setting up your site, but with a little planning and shopping, you should be able to get a domain name and hosting service for less than $100. We can help you with this, or for an additional fee, we would be happy to do it for you. See Domain Names.

How long will it take before I can see our site on the web?
Typically, once we begin actual site design and construction, it takes from 10 to 15 working days to build the average site. If your domain name and hosting is in place when we complete construction, your site will be uploaded to your host server and ready for viewing immediately. Factors that may affect this projected timeline include: 1) your placement in our pending site -build list,€� 2) ready availability of content (this comes from you), 3) availability of domain name and hosting service.

Do I have to know any HTML or anything to see my site?
NO. All you need to be able to do is type in your URL (www.whatever.com).

Where does my web site reside?
Ninety-nine percent of the time, sites reside on a hosting service server. This is a remote computer, owned, operated, and maintained by a third party vendor who will charge you a fee for hosting your site. The actual physical location of the server is irrelevant. It can be anywhere. All site information is uploaded electronically from our system directly to your host service. Web Safaris can advise you on very affordable web hosting service.

Can I do some of my own updates to my web page?
Unfortunately, this is highly unlikely*, unless you were to purchase and learn to use the same design software that we use. We have found that most prefer to have us do that work for them. Each site design includes 6-months of free reasonable maintenance. The term reasonable means a maximum of 1 limited update per month. After 6-months, we will be happy to make arrangements to continue this update maintenance under one of our service contracts. This does not mean that you cannot have us update your site content as many times, or as often as you feel necessary. It just means that those additional updates will be accomplished at a nominal rate. Think of us as your own personal web content management team.