Professional Web Site Design Services Any one who owns or plans start a business should consider having a web site designed. The main benefit to starting your own web site are that your web site will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your web site can server as a representative that answers questions about your business, offer customer service even when your business is closed at night and on weekends and holidays and to sell your products and services. A web site is a very powerful and inexpensive marketing and advertising tool and a great way to expand your business into other areas of the state or country. Hoover Web Design creates unique web sites which help you reach the goals that you have for creating an online presence - whether it is for a business web site or for personal use. Hoover Web Design specializes in unique, high quality professional web site design small businesses and individuals. Hoover Web Design is run by Gina Hoover. Gina has over 16 years of diverse business and computing experience and 7 years in Web Site Development. Hoover Web Design strives to create professional web site designs that will effectively promote your products or services to your target audience and generate sales for your bottom line. One of our goals is to make your web experience pleasant, easy, affordable, and enjoyable. Here are some of the professional web design services that we offer to our web site design customers: custom web site design Ecommerce websites website maintenance website redesigns domain registrations web hosting search engine submission banner and logo design graphic design meta tag insertion Professional Web Design At Hoover Web Design, we pride ourselves on designing web sites that effectively market your project to your target audience, have fast loading pages and are pleasing to the eye. We make it easy for you to have a professionally designed web site. We work with you to come up with a design that fits your style. During the design process you will be able to view your web site as it takes shape from any computer with Internet access. All of our websites include the following: Search Engine Submission to Top Search Engines. Appropriate search engine meta tags/keywords are added on each page of your web site. Browser checks in Microsoft Explorer, Netscape and AOL ensure cross browser and operating system platform compatibility. Uploading your site to your choice of web host. Up to 1 hour of training on your web site's control panel, using email, making minor updates to your web site, understanding search engine stats or anything you'd like to know about managing your web site. This list of search engines that we submit your home page to include: All The Sites, All The Web, Altavista, Google, Infoseek, MSN, and the Open Directory. These search engines consist of huge databases that are accessed by millions of Internet users each day and are the primary tools used to find products and services on the Internet. There has been much research on the Internet which suggests that primarily, people are looking for fresh content, ease of navigation, and fast loading pages. That's what we concentrate on here at Hoover Web Design. How We Work Text Pages A page of text is defined as no more than one 8-1/2 X 11 sheet of paper, 12 pt size font, single-spaced, with 1-1/2 inch margins at top, bottom and sides. Web Site Content Authoring Your Web Designer does not write or rewrite content. Your content must be supplied to us written the way that you would like it to appear on your web site. Web Site Content Our fees are based on you providing your content to us in electronic format. Written materials may be provided to us in the body of an email, Microsoft Word, WordPad or Notepad format only. If you provide your content in the form of existing manuscripts, brochures, literature, etc. and you wish to have us process the information, additional fees shall be incurred. Please note that we will not rewrite and/or edit your existing materials/information. Your editing, etc. must be done prior to your submission of your materials. Additional fees shall apply if we must convert printed materials into electronic format. Deposit A deposit of 1/2 of the quoted price (payable in US funds) is required to begin all website design projects.