Does your business now have a website, and if you do then how long ago was it updated? Does it inspire? Will it invite?

These are not the "Cookie Cutter" websites that so manyother web services offer, and we do not charge a fortune for well designed websites, either.

We offer the best value, because of our resonable fees, and the fact that you can make changes to your own site very easily.

A few days ago on a busy school night, my wife called and asked me to pick up some dinner on the way home. She mentioned a restaurant we like, even though we don't get to it often, and asked me to look up their menu online so we could figure out what to get.

Yet try as I might, I couldn't fine their website. It finally dawned on me that they did not have one. But since we had not been there in quite a while and could not remember everything on their menu, we decided to get dinner from another place.

Multiply that multi-fold and that's why every small business has to have a website.

Can you do e-commerce if you are not online? Nope. Can customers who hear about you check you out later on the Net if you don't have a site? No again. Can current customers (like I was) find out what your new offerings are if you lack a site? Not easily.

And is it hard to get one? Happily, the answer again is no, in fact it's easier than ever. (More on that in a moment.)

Here are some amazing statistics:

• According to Jupiter Research, half of all small businesses with less than 10 employees do not have a website.

• 7 out of 10 solo businesses do not have a website.

What is up with that? We both know that Americans are spending ever more time than online. 80% of us now spend as much time online as we do watching television.

So you must get your business online; there's no question about it. Having a website is as essential today as having business cards or a telephone number.

So the question really is, how do you do it easily and affordably?

There are three ways, but for most small businesses, the third is almost always the best:

1. Hire a web developer
2. Use a software-creation program
3. Use an online service

Online services are great because, not only do they point and click you through an easy process, but the best ones will also help you grow your business.

When thinking of building a website for your church, you have a major decision to make. You must decide whether you want a static or dynamic site. This may also mean that you need to realize that there are different types of websites. When you are cruising around on the internet, you will run into two different types of websites, static and dynamic. Static websites consist of a whole bunch of HTML files that are linked together by a series of hyperlinks.
Each page is just a file, and what you request from the server is exactly what the server gives you. The server finds the file and gives it back to you without adding anything to it. Think of the way you request a file, say a Microsoft Word file, from the hard drive on your computer. You click on the file, and the computer opens the file just as you saved it. This is the way static sites work.If a webpage ends in the extension .html, it is probably static. These are the easiest types of sites to build, and with a little thought, you can have a really nice one up in a matter of hours. You can make an HTML site look good and it will be functional. HTML sites are usually smaller sites that do not go through a whole lot of changes

 The second type of site is dynamic. Dynamic sites often change their content frequently. A dynamic site consists of a whole bunch of files that exist on a database of some sort on the server. When you request a page in this scenario, the server assembles the page onthe fly from several files in the database. You might have one file that has your main text, one file that has your side bar, one file that has your header, and another file that has your footer.

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