Blog Setup and Hosting

Blogging is the future!

If you want a site that doesn’t cost much in monthly maintenance (really just the price of hosting), yet will perform well in search engines, a Blog is the choice for you!

A Blog is a Web Log. It’s basically a journal. If you pick a theme and write about it at least once a week, you should see your site move up in the search engine rankings. A Blog combined with out marketing capabilities is a force to be reckoned with.

It’s All About You

Like any web site, this is an aspect of your business. We custom fit a well-established Blogging solution to fit your business needs. To help us keep our prices low, it is greatly appreciated if you are able to provide us with samples – either of web sites you like/dislike or a basic look and feel of how you want your site to be layed out. This sample can be in any format, including scribbles on a bar napkin, we can figure it out.

Package & Pricing

A Blog, setup, customized and hosted for you can be setup typically within 1-2 weeks. Setup does not include domain name (www.yoursitename.com) registration, but does include host setup, software installation, customization (with 1 major redesign allowed if you hate the original look/feel) and training. Hosting includes serving your files to the world and custom email addresses (if desired) powered by GMail along with maintaining current versions of all necessary back-end system software.

What’s Installed

We customize the widely-popular Wordpress Blogging platform to suit your needs. We include the following popular plugins:

• After The Deadline (advanced spelling/grammar check)
• Amazon S3 for Wordpress (serve your files from the ultra-fast Amazon S3 servers)
• Akismet (for blocking spam)
• Gravity Forms (a web based form for your customers to reach you)
• Google Analytics (see how many people are visiting your site, plus other statistical information)
• Related posts (enables cross promotion of posts)
• Google Sitemap generator (increase Google search engine ranking possibilities)
• WP-DBManager (we do periodic updates, but this allows you to receive via email automatic backups of your database)
• WP-Table Reloaded (add beautiful, usable tables to your site)
• WP-Super Cache (speed up the load time of your site)
• Plus Many New Plugins As Discovered!

Choose from 1, 2 or 3 columns (right, left or right & left), customized color scheme, fonts and header image

A Word About Hosting

We offer three hosting packages.

1. Our first package (Basic Hosting) is for those of you who are self-sufficient. We provide all of the necessary plugin and Wordpress updates and make sure your site is error free across the latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome. Support is provided via email only and is guaranteed within 72 hours.
2. Our second package (Hosting+Email) is for those of you who need a little help. We provide the same update/maintenance service as listed in our first package, but also includes 24 hour response time email support. This support doesn’t include site changes, but can be used for reminders on how to use the system and helping with minor fixes to items you may have input into your site.
3. Our third package (Hosting+Email+Phone) is for those of you who aren’t fully comfortable conveying your needs via email. We guarantee a 24 hour response time on emails and phone calls This covers the same items as our second package above, but with phone as a communications option.

Your first payment will be the total of the setup fee
and the hosting package you choose