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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.
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