What are the benefits of a website?
Simple. You're in business to make money — and to make it, you can't waste it. A website is the world's most effective use of money to purchase media in order to market to the masses. The Internet functions 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no labor costs to you and has the most inexpensive and widespread marketing capabilities ever seen! Through this highly affordable media, your website offers your services to the world. Statistics show that the Internet is an excellent way to market your business and sell your products and services. More and more customers are logging on, making purchases, buying services and researching choices and information through the Internet. Why should you limit your business to your immediate locale when the whole world is a keystroke away? You also gain major credibility by having an Internet presence; effectively you can look like one of the big companies — all without wasting your money.

What do you need for a website?
     • A Computer: Although highly recommended, it is not necessary for you to have a computer but it is essential for those wishing to view your site.
     • ISP: an Internet Service Provider is how you connect to the Internet. The ISP will provide you with an email address to communicate by electronic mail (email).
     • Domain Name: This is www.yourname.com; your address or home page on the Internet.
    • Hosting: An Internet presence provider. This is where your website is stored for the world to view.
    • Website Design: You'll need all the codes, computer language, scripts and graphics which, when put together, formulate your website into a viewable form for the world to see.
     • Maintenance: Updates, additions, changes, and most importantly, search engine analysis and submission of the pages that make up your website.

What is "E-commerce"?
E-commerce simply means Electronic Commerce. It is the buzzword for the new millennium, and for very good reason. The Internet is changing the way business is done with literally billions of dollars being made over the Internet. E-commerce gives you the ability to accept payment over the Internet by either credit card or electronic checks. Through E-commerce, you can sell products or services instantly to anyone in the world without having to constantly monitor your website.

How does MWD design my site?

Step 1:  Web specialist will go over the package purchased and explain the information we will need to complete the package.  The web specialist will request that the client sign the Design Agreement.  *We cannot begin the design package until we received the signed agreement.                   

Step 2:  Client then fill out the pre-demo questionaire.                   
                   
Step 3:  Conceptual Design Phase - An email is sent to the client alerting them there is a conceptual design to approve.  The conceptual design will be in the form of a static .jpg image.                   
             
Step 4:  The client either approves or declines conceptual design.  Our designers are unable to make revisions until the design is either approved or declined.                   
                   
* If the client approves of the conceptual design, the client must send the approval in writing or via e-mail to move on to the Design Integration phase.                   
                   
* If the client declines the design, the process goes back to Step 3.  Two revisions are permitted in this part of the process.                     
                   
Step 5:  Design Integration Phase - Conceptual design is integrated into Website and submitted to client (via email notice) for approval.  Our designers are unable to make revisions until the design is either approved or declined.                   
                   
* If the client approves the integrated website, the client must send the approval in writing or via e-mail.                   
                   
* If the client declines the design, the process goes back to beginning of Step 5.  *Two revisions are permitted in this part of the process.                   
                    
Finally, when we are sure the test site is in perfect order and the client is satisfied, the website is submitted to search engines and/or directories and the client is instructed to implement any additional marketing strategies. Your website is ready for the world to see!

What costs will be involved with establishing a website?
     1. Website development, design and start-up costs: This refers to paying a website design firm to create the site and place the site in search engine registrations worldwide. Included in this fee, at no cost, is advice or help in marketing your website. Your website's final costs vary and are proportional to site size and capabilities. We recommend having a fixed cost quote in hand before building your website. Contact MWD for a free price quote.  All website are pre-paid.  You can pay with a major credit card or debit card.
     2. Domain Hosting: $50.00 monthly fee with unlimited free customer support.

What are a website's advantages?
    * Development and distribution costs are extremely low. When you compare the cost of establishing a website to what it costs to promote your business in print or on the air, you'll see that a website is the cheapest form of marketing ever created. A radio campaign featuring several 30-second spots per week for three months could run you $5,000 - $10,000. That gets you five minutes per week of exposure for three months in the local area only. Newspaper and magazine ads are similarly highly priced, and only last for the life span of that particular publication. A website has virtually limitless space. You could put up a website with dozens of photographs and several thousand words for under $3,000, and keep it up and running for a few hundred dollars per year after that. What would it cost to run a newspaper ad of this size for a year? Imagine how much it would cost to produce a catalog for 200 different products and keep it in consumers' hands for an entire year. You can accomplish this with a website very easily with low development cost and almost no distribution cost. Websites are in full color - a palette of 16.7 million colors for your photographs alone.
    * A website is globally accessible; that means your website can be viewed by anyone, anywhere, as long as they have Internet access. There are no physical limitations to broadcast areas, as in radio nor circulation region restrictions, as in newspapers or magazines.
    * You can keep your website more current more affordably than any other media. You can update a website immediately and as often as you like. Imagine you sell products whose prices fluctuate. With a website, you can change these prices every time they go up or down, so your marketing materials are always accurate.
    * The little guys can compete with the big guys since a website is economical and not limited by size. This means a small business can present as large or creative an image on the Internet as a bigger company — with the right design team.
    * A website also allows easy, safe communication between you and the consumer so that anyone who visits your site can contact you at any time by sending an email. Unlike communications that originate from other forms of advertising, consumers who send emails don't have to deal with many problems of everyday business: pushy salesmen, remembering to call during business hours, having to battle crowds to get to your stores, spending time waiting on voice mail or getting the wrong information. It's convenient, easy, and safe for the consumer. Email is also convenient for you. You can respond to all your customer inquiries at the same time, and do it when you have a free moment — not in the middle of rush hour when someone calls up to ask for product information or directions to your location.
    * You can save money on tech support and answering questions. If your employees spend a lot of time answering the same questions and sending out the same material, you can reduce that labor cost significantly by providing the information on the website. For instance, a client can avoid having to mail or fax information for over 1,000 phone call solicitations in a one-year period simply by providing the information on their site. That improves on labor costs and provides a real cost savings in reduced long distance phone bills (for faxes) and postage. Your website can also take orders while you sleep as people can place orders on a website at any time, day or night.
    * But most importantly, no salesmen manning the store, no utilities, no insurance, no payroll ... computers don't need a benefit package or overtime. For every second of every day, your website is working for you!