At Jolly Moon as web developer/designers,
we frequently get questions from people that may not know where
to begin, or want to tackle the job themselves. We will post
the most frequently asked questions to this page. If you do
not find your question, please feel free to e-mail
us , and we would be happy to help you navigate your
web endeavors!
Where
do I start? First, you should decide what
you want from your site. For example, do you just want general
business information? Do you want to interact with clients?
Do you want to sell something? Next, you should decide if you want your own domain name.
For your own domain name it costs about
$3-$35/year. With this established, you are now
ready to decide if you want to build your site yourself or if you
want assistance. If you choose to tackle the task yourself,
you will need to either find a place that offers templates so you
don't have to learn HTML or start learning HTML and invest in a
web page designing software. If you want assistance, you will
need to decide who you would like to assist you. We would love it at
Jolly Moon , if
you were our next client!
This is where to
START...there is much more than this, of course.
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What
are the components of a web site? The MAIN components
of a web site, in our opinion are 1) the URL
(Uniform Resource Locator) or web address, 2) HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language) formatting tags which are stored in
a text file, which is stored on a web server that can be accessed
by other computers connected to the server via the Internet, and
3) site host, which is the company that has
the server where your HTML will be stored so it can be accessed.
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What
is the most economical way to incorporate e-commerce in to my site?
Secured form to e-mail order forms where the customer inputs the
information manually.
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What
is a domain name? Your domain name is the address that
immediately follows the www in a web site address. For example,
our web address is www.jollymoon.com;
jollymoon is our domain name.
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How
do I get a domain name of my own? Go to PowWeb.com and register a domain yourself,
They have a great tool
for you to check to see if the domain name you want has already
been registered. They offer free domain names with their great hosting packages.
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How
do I market my site? Aside from the obvious of making
sure your domain is printed on all of your company literature (brochures,
letterhead, business cards, etc.), you must submit your site to
search engines.
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How
do search engines find you? There are LOTS of ways to
work with search engines, and each engine is a bit different than
the other. One way is to try to put your "key" words
into your page title, which is in the code the computer reads to
upload your page (HTML). You can also put what are called
META tags in your HTML for the search engines, although some engines
do not use META tags to index sites. Additionally, just making
sure your "key" words are in the text of your index page
helps too. There are literally TONS of ways to work with search
engines, these are just a few pointers.
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I
have done a search for my company, and it didn't come up, but similar
companies did. Why? Again, there are LOTS of ways
to work with search engines, and each engine is a bit different
than the other. One thing that does seem to be common, however
is the WAY your search is performed. For example, if you were
to go to > Google <
and simply put:
[ Jolly Moon Web Design Creation ] in your search
box and click GO, your results would include ALL sites indexed with
ALL the words Jolly Moon, Web, Site, Design and Creation. If, however you
put quotes around " Jolly Moon Web Design Creation ",
you are more likely to receive results with only that complete phrase.
You can also perform an advanced search to narrow things down.
As a web designers,
we ask you to keep in mind that MOST people will not be searching
for your company by name, but rather by what you are offering.
For example, to really test this site among search engines, one would
search key words like "web development", "web design",
etc.
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How
do you make a secure site to accept credit cards? This
gets a bit confusing, but here is a good shot. The first
thing you need, which you may already have, is a merchant agreement
to accept credit cards. From there, you need to find a cart
server, which is basically a server that is "open" 24-7
to take orders for you on a secure server. Jolly Moon offers
several different shopping cart solutions. Which one is
right for your company depends on your needs. Basically,
cart servers take the order and forward the information to you.
You run the credit card information for your payment and process
the order. There is also the "real time" cart server
that processes the credit card information for you and electronically
transfers the money to your company account.
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What
does the site statistics information mean? Different site
statistics programs provide different information. What is
confusing is that some "stats lingo" in one program can
be the same as the lingo in another program, yet the information
is totally different. The great thing about the stats
and counters Jolly Moon provide's is that they use easy to
access HELP menus that will define the terms for you!
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