Tips for Launching and Maintaining Web Sites
Culled from hundreds of articles by the experts that we have published during last 4 years in the Weekly Managers eDigest and Weekly Fraternity Briefs.
Generally ISPs and the companies hosting the web sites do not offer such web maintenance services by specialists and a web site becomes out of date due to changes and ravages of time.We can offer web maintenance services even if some other ISP is hosting your site.

By entrusting the maintenance of your site, you can concentrate on your core business operation with the confidence of knowing your site will be professionally maintained and updated as required for the lowest possible cost to you.

1. Objectives for your Web Site
You must decide in advance whether your site is going to be a general PR window or it would be a multi-purpose site. What kind of information about your services and products is to be provided and how and what type of service you can provide online to the visitors. 

It is always beneficial to keep these points under review from time to time.


Web Site Review
Maintenance
Selecting ISP
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Web Designing 
You can have separate sections in your web site for information or re-orientation of your sales force, distributors, employees, affiliates, general announcements etc.

2. Strategy for launching and maintaining web site
Before you launch or refurbish your web site entrust this task to some one well experienced and knowledgeable in your business as well as the use of Internet. Developing strategy is a different field of expertise than web designing, programming or software development or routine ISP jobs.  Retaining an experienced web reviewer or marketer for developing the web development  strategy in coordination with your staff is always a profitable proposition.

3. Considerations in Designing:
Basic raw material of text and data is provided by you that may require breaking up or some rewriting for different screen shots for the sake of convenience in linking different items in different directories and files on the web. We also need to take into consideration the likes and tastes of your clients and prospects who generally look for fast access and easy retrieval of information. Animation makes the site dynamic but too many graphics and long animation take long time to load and try the patience of the surfers and you lose traffic and prospects. 

Of course there are many other considerations depending upon what type of service, information, freebies and inter-activity as well as level of security and encryptions you prefer on your web site. Our consulting service would help you determine how you can integrate different soft wares and the work of different kinds of developers into your web site.

4.  Selection of ISP and evaluation of its performance.
Generally the web host company provides you with server space for your web site. This includes all of the files associated with your web site. When your web address is typed into a browser, the web host displays your pages. But the task of maintaining, amending and new pages has to be performed by your Webmaster and you can outsource this job to us.

5. Importance of Web Reviews and Feedback.
Don't let the process of launching web site end with uploading of files and test runs in initial stage. Be willing to amend or add new items based on analysis of feedback from customers.  Many web site owners hire independent professional web  reviewers and pay several hundred to thousands of dollar in their fees. 

Generally ISPs and the companies hosting the web sites do not offer such web maintenance services by specialists and a web site becomes out of date due to changes and ravages of time and hackers. We can offer web maintenance services even if some other ISP is hosting your site.

By entrusting the maintenance of your site, you can concentrate on your core business operation with the confidence of knowing your site will be professionally maintained and updated as required for the lowest possible cost to you. 

6. Our consulting service would also show what steps you can take for Promotion of your web site, attracting and handling web site traffic, how to analyze web site traffic and how to ensure Protection from hackers and viruses and in handling the Updating and Changes, Adding new pages to your web site.
Generally ISPs and the companies hosting the web sites do not offer such web maintenance services by specialists and a web site becomes out of date due to changes and ravages of time and hackers. We can offer web maintenance services even if some other ISP is hosting your site.

By entrusting the web maintenance of your site, you can concentrate on your core business operation with the confidence of knowing your site will be professionally maintained and updated as required for the lowest possible cost to you. 

 We offer retainer based plans and assign one of our several associates world wide to look after your site. Please contact shah1936@yahoo.com

Retainer (Minimum Contract period is three months)
US $ 10 per hour for minimum 60 hours per month 
The service includes analysis of web site traffic and submission to search engines but if some search engines requires payment for registration, or if use of some software is entailed that cost would be borne by you. Minor changes in the page would be free but if the page requires redesigning the charges would be quoted.
See our designing rates.
Charges for Flash work and Data Base Maintenance would be quoted separately.

In order to enable you to save the cost of fulltime employee we offer retainer based plan and assign one of our several associates world wide to look after your site.

See also: Frequently Asked Web Hosting Questions By Shelley Lowery