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Step 1: All websites start with a search and registration of a “Domain”. This is your website’s name (www.yourname.com).

Step 2: After the domain is registered, it has to be hosted so the public can see it on the internet. Without it being hosted only you will see it.

Step 3: Next comes building your website. The value of a website is it’s your voice to the world. Your website lets the whole world learn about you.

Step 4: In life, people want to know what's new with you. Your website allows you to do this on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis.

KEY POINTS: No Credit/Debit Card or bank account? No problem! We will cover you. Simply contact one of the numbers above in your area and we will walk you through our process.

Lack of timely content is the number one pitfalls in completing a build. If received on time, a build should take about a week. Common content include text, pictures, videos, and links.

No templates! If you choose HD.com to build your website, we will build you a customized website. We believe in your vision. This can only be achieved by you telling us what you want. Besides it’s nice to see something different. In short, we are here for you.

Step 5: Initially, a website should be marketed through different paths. In time, with good marketing strategies, the site takes on a life of its own.

As of June 30, 2009 an estimated 1.67 billion people world wide used the internet. While utilizing the newspaper, TV, and radio, to reach potential customers, family members, or friends, the contact range of these media is limited. Today, with the advent of the internet, the world is open to your global reach.

Informational websites are the most common type of websites. They have a simple but effective purpose. Informational sites are used to introduce to public to you and your vision. They usually have five to six pages. “About US” “Services” “Products” “Galleries ” “Contact Us” are the common pages used.

Ready to communicate directly and receive immediate feedback from your audience? Blogs, forums and podcasts are the tools used in a website? These tools will allow you to get immediate interaction with those visiting your website. An interactive website is designed to do more than just get your information out on the web. Its use is for you to communicate.

Think big. Thing size. Data websites, not only are collectors in user’s information, they have many pages to fulfill the mission of your website. Our data websites have upwards of 1000 pages, covering many subjects.

As with the informational, and interactive websites, we build data websites to be expanded as your goals expand.

At HostDetour.com, we categorize websites into three types. They are “Informational, Interactive, and Data”. Each serve a distinct purpose to the user. The typical, website only need five to six pages to get the message across to the public.

Along with our hosting price, which is priced at $5.00 USD a month, each website is built for any budget. The three categories are designed to be upgraded and expand to meet your growing business, event, or personal goals.

All websites come with a Control Panel. A Control panel is where you can personally change the content of your website. Although the structure of a can not be changed unless using a website builder, many times the text, pictures, links, etc can be updated through the control panel. Like anything in life, knowledge about the use of control panels will be needed.

Informational Website

Your Personal URL Name Registration
Up to 5 Customized Website Pages

About US (Home Page)
News (you can update)
Gallery (Photo/Audio/or Video)
Products or Services
Locations
Contact Us
Unlimited Links

Website Hosted With HostDetour.com
Individual Control Panel
Low Monthly Fee For Updates

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Serious Flaws with “Free” Website Builders

FREE is never really FREE! If you ever want to do anything cool or upgraded for your website – you’ve got to pay.

Most of the time your website will have an Advertisement for FREE WEBSITES in the footer area… that just makes your whole company look cheap

If you ever leave their services – you lose everything!

Some “free” tools limit your ability to increase your traffic using SEO methods that are highly important.

You’ll pay for more pages, bells and whistles. While this is a common practice in the web design world – there’s no reason why you should pay for more pages when you’re the one developing them and adding all of the content yourself. You’re Paying them so that YOU can do all of the work? That’s not right!

Some of these sites also SPAM your customers. So let’s say they come to you to buy one of your products. Well, for the next few days or weeks all of the ads on any other website they visit will present your competitors to them… This is spamming your customers. You can lose revenue very quickly.

You’re more than likely going to still need some sort of photoshop editor to get your logo designed the correct size and to re-size (web optimize) all of your images

None of these “free” website builder hide the fact that you can upgrade to premium accounts and pay for all sorts of features… but they forget to tell you that you can invest hundreds of thousands of dollars over the year and if anything happens where you want to leave them – you’ll lose it all. Not one bit of your investment belongs to you! That’s HUGE!

All of this said – is there ever a time when a FREE website is a good thing? Yes. I’m sure that sounds weird coming from a web design company – but it’s true. If you’re a non-profit struggling to raise funds – If you’re an artist just trying to be known – If you’re a total grass roots effort trying to save every penny possible to make your dreams come true – a free website might serve its purpose, but remember that if you’re needing search engines to find you and you’re going to rely heavily on SEO then you’ll need to invest in either being trained how to handle your SEO or Social Media Marketing when using one of these “free” sites. They are quite limiting and you might just learn at that point how valuable a custom-made website can be for your organization or business.

Our best suggestion is to find a web company like ours that will help Non-Profits with a discount, or raise the money in one of your first fundraiser events to build a dynamic website that brings legitimacy and even more avenues to your group to help with revenue or sales. You get what you pay for – nothing is truly free… That couldn’t be more true with websites. But do they have to cost tens of thousands of dollars? How much should a website cost?

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