According to a CNN article only 27 percent of small businesses have a web site. More and more people use the Internet daily to send email, research, and entertain themselves. People are becoming orientated towards the Internet. Usually it is the first tool they reach for when they want to know something. When's the last time you saw a set of Encyclopedias in someone's home? How about a computer? People use the Internet for information. And that includes finding goods and services.

OK, but how does this Internet thing really work?

The Internet is a linking up of computers world wide. You are probably reading this from your home or business on a connection to your Internet Service Provider such as Cox Cable. You are reading our page which, incidentally, is not on our computer. It is on a web hosting site. If that were not true then you would only be able to see our site when our computers were actually turned on. The web hosting site is up 24/7 so you can access it any day or time.

Your web site will reside on a similar hosting site so your customers can read it at any time.

How will people find my web site?

We will secure a domain name for you. In essence a domain name is a tag that the internet uses to find your web page. After we build your web page well will put it on a hosting site and hook up the domain name. If people know your domain name they can type it in the address bar of their browser and look at your page. It they don't know your domain name they will have to use a search engine, such as Google, to find it.

How does a Search Engine work?

This is the main reason you will want to use our services. A Search Engine sends out programs on the web called Spiders or Bots. These programs examine web pages as they find them and collect information about the pages. When they return home periodically, the Search Engine indexes the pages for display. The bot make decisions out on the Internet on which pages are better than others and that determines it's place on the search engine. If the page is "well formed" using technology as CSS and XHTML like our pages are then the bot ranks the page higher. This is a simplified explanation but the gist of it is, our pages are Search Engine Optimized. (See 'What is SEO?' on the main page.)

How long does it take for these bot things to find my site?

2-6 weeks usually. We submit your site to the engines that will accept submissions, but they don't look for it until the next search cycle. This whole Search Engine business is based upon proprietary algorithms and is secret. There is a whole industry that tries to guess how the engines work and they are good at it. But things change from time to time. We keep our eye on the trends and keep our SEO values as high as we can.