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Does my business need a website?
Ask yourself, "Does my business need 24-hour exposure 7 days a week, 365 days a year?" The answer is obvious. What other medium allows you to expose all the benefits of your small business to your target market at their convenience and provide a source of direct correspondence from them to you? The benefits of a website are innumerable.

How many pages do I need?
This all depends on how much content you have. Every business website should have an 'About Us' page (or something similarly titled) to tell your visitors about your business. After that, it depends on what type of business you have. A good rule of thumb is to not overwhelm your audience with too much information on each page. Disperse the information and break it up into digestible pages and paragraphs. Long pages of text tend to overwhelm the reader. Break content up to truly get your audience's attention.

What is a host and does my small business website need one?
A host is a company that connects your small business website to the World Wide Web 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. RNC Web Designs can provide this service for as little as $19.95 per month.

Should I pay for Search Engine Optimization?
Every website RNC Web Designs submitts to the top 5 search engines. However, simply submitting doesn't mean that your site will rank at the top of a search engine when a user searches for content related to your site. A lot of work and research goes into getting your website ranked high.

What is a 'host'?

This is the term given to the company that actually puts your Website into cyberspace. Think of the Website as a newspaper advertisement a copywriter has produced for you. You then need to place that advertisement into a newspaper for it to be effective—that's the same as your Website host.

Like newspapers, there are some good hosts and some that could be a little better. The important aspects to know about your host are

a) can they cope with the 'type' of site you have,

b) will their system be able to cope with the number of visitors your site attracts,

c) do they provide back up service in case of problems?

Can you host our web site?

We provide web hosting through Godaddy.com

What's ecommerce?

Ecommerce is simply the term given to purchasing products or services over the Internet.

What's a link?

A (hyper) link is a bit of text on a Web Page that, when clicked on, takes you to another Web Page or Website.

What's a search engine?

A search engine is a computer that reviews (and ranks in an order) the content of Websites. If a person enters 'golf' into a search engine, that person will be shown a list of sites to visit that contain the word golf. As an example, Yahoo! (the most popular search engine on the Internet) has 2,066,797 Web pages to choose from when 'golf' is searched for.

What's Web surfing?

Web surfing is the term given to reviewing Web pages by going from one link to another.

Will the Internet continue to grow?

All indications are that the Internet will continue to grow. Most day to day activities can now be completed on the Internet. An example of this is grocery shopping from the major supermarkets. Think of when the first fax machines appeared. When only a few had them not everyone needed them—but when the majority had them then others had to have them to keep in step.

Increasing ease of use, reducing costs and technological advances will aid the continued growth.

How do people find out about Websites?

90% from links from other sites

85% from search engines

65% Word of mouth

64% from magazines and newspapers