Web Site Design and Management
Web Site Basics
Every Web site requires the following:
- Somewhere to put it - this is called Hosting (see photo on right)
- A Domain Name (e.g. cobourginternet.com)
- A Design - someone has to do the work!
- Help with getting lots of traffic on the site
We can help with all these at competitive prices. You can have your own web site from about $200 for year one and about $100 per subsequent year.
A typical Web computer installation
The turn around time for a new web site is generally less than a month. For examples of what has been done for others, look at our portfolio here.
Note: Cobourg Internet does not offer free tips for Web Site Design but does offer Professional Services (below) for this purpose.
Hosting requires a good computer, a good connection to the Internet and most of all Reliability.
We can supply hosting for you with four plans available.
| Standard | Prime | Elite | Pro | |
| Storage | 1 GB | 5 GB | 10 GB | 10 GB |
| Bandwidth (per month) | 1 GB | 7 GB | 30 GB | 100 GB |
| CPU & Memory Usage | Low | Medium | Moderate | High |
| Good for Interactive sites | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Emails | 10 | 100 | 2500 | 2500 |
| Add-on domains | 0 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Parked Domains | 5 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| MySQL Data bases | 1 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Full Statistics | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| CPanel access | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| FTP access accounts | 5 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Price per year | $96 | $126 | $252 | $600 |
Most Businesses will want the Prime plan but lower traffic sites may be able to use the Standard plan. The Elite and Pro plans will suit high traffic sites.
All sites have access to redundant Internet connections, a controlled highly secure environment, daily backups of all files, firewall protection and other security measures.
You can set up your own domain or if you like we can get it for you.
- Domain with suffix .com - $12 per year
- Domain with suffix .ca - $25 per year
If we arrange your domain, we will make sure it gets renewed on time and all time to manage the domain is included in cost. All prices in Canadian dollars. We supply domains only to customers who also buy hosting.
If you are knowledgeable about web site design, you will know how long it takes to do various things. For example, original graphics and "Flash movies" take a long time so are relatively expensive. However, when you consider that introductory movies and extensive graphics are not used in the biggest and most used sites (except perhaps by advertisers), then you wonder why you need to spend money on these items. Sites like the major banks, Google and Yahoo - all keep it simple. I design useful, low cost sites - and end up with happy customers. Have a look at my sites for examples, I think you'll find them attractive.
If you have your own graphics or photos, these can be incorporated at a low cost.
The hourly rate for Cobourg Internet is $30 per hour. Invoices include a detailed listing of work done and time taken.
However, if you want an idea of costs, the following should give you some idea.
Typical Site Costs- A single page - your own domain name, set up, layout of your
text, links, adding a couple of your photos:
Host (Standard plan) $96, Domain (.com) $12, Design (3 hours) $90. Total $198 for first year, $108 for subsequent years with no changes.
- Four or five pages - your own domain name, 1 to 10 e-mail addresses,
set up, layout of your text, all navigation, links, full statistics.
Host (Prime plan) $126, Domain (.com) $12, Design (8 hours) $240. Total $378 for first year, $138 for subsequent years with no changes.
Search Engine submission and Optimization (SEO) is included.
Getting lots of traffic is important, and we can help - one very important item is to make sure Google finds your site easily. As well as having information that people want, you need to keep the "Page Rank" high. Experience is what helps here. Note the page ranks on sites managed by Cobourg Internet.
As well as this site (page rank 4), have a look at some of the other Web Sites designed and maintained by Cobourg Internet here.
Most of our sites use JavaScript and some use Flash and PHP to improve the visitor experience. Great care is taken to minimize spam and other security problems.
Many web designers will tell you that there needs to be a lot of work done to make the site visible and/or popular with Search Engines. For Google their "Page Rank" plus relevance determines whether a site gets near the top of the search results. To find out the page rank for a particular site, go to this site and enter the URL's you are interested in. Page Ranks for the sites managed by Cobourg Internet are listed here.
Note that it is quite possible, that a site will not be found by Google - or will not be in the first several pages of search result. This is usually because the Page rank is low or simply that Google has not yet found it!
Cobourg Internet will design a web site for you then we make sure that the Page Rank is as high as possible. Note that techniques that worked some years ago such as adding meta descriptions and keywords no longer have much effect.
Keeping up to date
To keep Cobourg Internet Customers up to date, a monthly newsletter is now being sent to them. Subjects include viewing traffic statistics, new features available, search engine optimization, spam management and more.
Note: All Prices in Canadian Dollars See also: Terms and Conditions