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Graphic Design

We can help you to develop a coorporate logo, or use your existing logo to personalize your website. We can also design graphical banners and custom graphics to make your site look professional.

You can provide us with photographs for your website or we can arrange to have photographs taken of your business and employees to complete your on-line presence.

Graphics editing and design is charged at a rate of $50 per hour.

Website Design

We provide custom website development using any of the following technologies.

MySQL
HTML
PHP
Flash
Java
Joomla
PHP Website

We also specialize in website designs using

We work with our customers to provide an individual website suited to your needs. Your website can have as much or as little information included as your like. We can create graphics and edit photos to suit your needs. We can provide Flash animations to spice up your site, and provide you with a content management system and training so you can manage your site on your own.

For customers who go with a content management system like Joomla we will work to setup the website and work with you to populate the website. In many cases our customers add some or all of the information to the website while we handle the design of the site, site setup and installing the components, modules and plugins you require.

Of course we also provide turn key services and maintenace for those who prefer to have us manage their site. We are always here to provide support and assistance as needed.

Website Design is done at a rate of $45 per hour.
Joomla templates are $75 for a basic template
Graphic design is $50 per hour.

For those who would prefer to do some or all of their own work we provide domain registration and hosting for those who would like to handle some or all of their website on their own this is very possible through our domain registration and hosting website.

Web Hosting

There are many options for web hosting. There are however trade offs. In general hosting that is free is usually limited in some way. Here are some options available:

Many ISPs offer hosting for free when you sign up with them. This hosting however is usually very limited. It's normally only straight html hosting. Not even scripts are allowed many times, and certainly not a database for PHP capability.

There are free web hosting sites on the Internet that allow you to create a web site and host your site there. The problem again is limited capability (html only) and third party ads are often associated with such sites. Some services give you more control and features, but then you can't associate your own domain name to the site without forwarding or some other such work around.
You can setup a server of your own, install Apache and then you'll be able to host your own site. This option can also quickly become sub optimal when the Internet connection goes down or the server crashes. Power failures and security can also be issues. Also many Internet service providers such as Rogers and Bell frown upon you hosting off their connections so you may be required to stop hosting off such a connection if they detect the presence your server.

We suggest going with a shared web hosting service. This service provide a reliable server for a very reasonable price. Shared hosting (where many websites are hosted on a single server) have come down significantly in price over the past few years to the point where they are very reasonable priced now at under $10 a month in many cases. These services host your website in a power backed up server with a high speed Internet connection. This means your customers will not have to wait for your web pages to update.

Most of these hosting companies have bandwidth caps that are so large they are basically a non issue. 500GB for a typical web site is a threshold that will normally not be reached. For example a web forum with 150 users typically only uses about 1-3 GB of bandwidth in a month. An e-commerce site receiving 50-70 hits a day will use about 3-5GB of bandwidth in a month.

We do recommend a few of hosting companies that we've used and dealt with on a regular basis. One is our own affiliate:

We can also recommend Host Papa which is a large Canadian Hosting company that also has excellent customer service and provides a simple but extremely full featured hosting option. Their hosting packages are very simple to understand since they offer only one single full featured hosting package. For as little at $5.95 per months you get a very powerful hosting package will all the feature you might ever want or require for almost all applications.

No matter which hosting option you choose the Web Design Guy will work with you to setup and customize your website on the server of your choice.

Domain Registration

The Web Design Guy can register your domain name and provide you with web hosting for your business or personal site. We can perform a search to determine which domain names are available and help you with suggestions on the best domain name to use for your business.

We also offer self registration through our domain name and hosting affiliate Web Domain Guy

What Domain Extension should I use?

There are many domain name extension that can be used such as .ca, .com, .org to name a few. If your a business running in Canada the best option is to use a .ca extension. The .ca extension is extremely common now and people do know to check that extension for businesses operating in Canada. Using a .com extension may cause some people to think your company operates in the United States, but it is also very commonly used in Canada. There are many other extensions that are available but we suggest using the .ca extension as your primary domain for Canadian websites. Another advantage of the .ca extension is that it is not used by non Canadian companies and as a result there is more choice for the name.

How do I decide on a domain name?

Definitely put some thought into selecting a domain name. Some names are already taken, but searching and trying different combinations eventually yields a name that is both easy to remember, memorable and very suitable for your business. Ideally a domain name should be easy to remember since your customers will not always have their bookmark files available to help with finding your website. Cryptic names are not recommended since they invite people to type them incorrectly. There are some type of names that cannot be used including trademarked names such as the names of other companies or corporations.

We provide domain registration through our domain registration website.

http://www.WebDomainGuy.com

Alternatively if you'd prefer that we handle the registration on your behalf we can handle the domain search and registration for you on a turnkey basis.