Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. HATES HEARING ABOUT PEOPLE BEING RIPPED OFF!  Even if you decide to go elsewhere for your web design, please read the following.   It could save you a lot of time, money, and headache medication.

1.  You could buy a website building program like FrontPage, Hot Dog Pro, HomePage, GoLiveStudio, etc.  Then, before building your website, you'll need to learn how to use the program, which takes time away from your business and personal life.

2.  You could sign up on one of those freebie or cheapie web hosting/web building sites. You've heard their ads.  "YOU can create your OWN website in just 15 minutes."  To put it quite simply, no you can't!  Did you know:

• Some of the cheapie domain name companies do not sell domain names?  You may think you bought your domain name.  But, if you read the fine print, you will find the domain name belongs to the domain name company.  That means if they desire or if they are offered more money they can sell your domain name right out from under you.  Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. uses only a reputable domain name company with whom we have a long term relationship.  Our company isn't the cheapest but you can be assured that the domain name you purchase through us belongs only to YOU.
  
  
• That freebie and cheapie sites force THEIR advertising on YOUR site? Their advertising takes the form of blaring banner ads at the top and bottom of your pages, ads on the left and right sides of your page, your wording colored differently and turned into clickable links that connect to THEIR advertisers.  They even litter YOUR site with universally despised pop up ads.  Your site acts as little more than a link to the hosting company's paying or higher paying client's sites.  Meanwhile YOUR potential customers visiting YOUR site, if they can find it, will be distracted and turned off by a site littered with advertising.  They'll choose to go elsewhere.  Or worse, they might decide to do business with one of the other businesses advertised on YOUR site.
  
  
• That the size and quality of your site is severely limited on freebie/cheapie hosting sites?  Your images may be blurry, distorted, too small or too large.  Page content (how much you can put on a page and how many pages you can have) is limited too.  AND every ad on costs you more money.  Need more pages?  It'll cost you more money.   Need more images?  It'll cost you more money.  Need help with making the site work?  If you can find someone to help, it'll cost you more money.  Want to make changes to an existing site?  It'll cost you more money.  Need keywords, page optimization, need your site submitted to search engines?  It'll cost you more money.  Want reports on how well your site is performing? ...Yep, you got it, more money.  You can end up spending far more, and getting far less, for your freebie/cheapie site than it would have cost to have a great site built by a qualified designer.
  
  
• The chances of a freebie/cheapie constructed website showing up in a web search are almost non existent.  These sites are not free standing.  They're part of the host's website.  People who type in appropriate search terms to find seeking products or services like yours will never find the freebie/cheapie site.  They will find free standing sites instead.  The only way potential clients will find your site is if you give them the website address through some type of advertising.

And even if you figure out how to use one of those programs or succeed in creating a site within someone else's site how are you going to make your site look different from the sites created by everyone else using those programs or websites?  What are you going to do when you run into an issue that requires the ability to correct coding?  How are you going to create animations, a personalized counter, a guest book, an email feedback form, online order forms, create Java applets, digitally repair your images for publication, build personalized buttons, optimize your site so it appears the same in all browsers, submit your site to appropriate search engines, do the myriad of things that make your site truly unique and effective?

Would you try to repair your automobile's computer yourself?  Would you perform surgery on yourself?  Would you represent yourself in District Court?  Chances are your answer is "Of course I wouldn't.  I'd hire a professional."  Don't you want a professional creating one of the most important factors to the success of your business?

Creating a great website takes lots and lots and lots of time.  At Bobcat Open Systems, Inc. we spend all our time building web pages, writing code, optimizing graphics for fastest possible load times and highest quality.  making navigation tools attractive and simple, and all the other items that go into creating a top notch website.  Bobcat uses advanced web design software from Macromedia.  We have spent thousands of hours learning the software, we know design and layout, we know coding, we know how to write ad copy, we have the artistic ability to create sites that invite viewers to stay awhile and influence potential clients to choose YOUR company.  

You want your website to be the very best it can be.  Contact the web design company that can help you have just that.  Contact Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.