It seems like just a few years ago that was a very viable question. It would depend on the types of services or products you offered and what your geographic limitations were. However, the question today can be answered affirmatively, YES! If you have a phone number or advertised in any other medium including having a listed phone number in the phone book then a web site is also a must.

The reason for this is that there has been a drastic shift in the past few years in the way people seek out new products and services. The phone book is quickly becoming a relic, replace by simple Internet searches through Google and other popular search engines. Many of your potential and even previous customers may not be able to find you if you do not have a web site.

The cost of having a web site is actually about the same or less than a small black and white add in the phone book. When you really compare the differences you will be amazed at what you get. Instead of a small black and white static ad that can only be updated once a year and accessible by a few thousand people, you get a multiple page, full color, interactive, anytime updateable marketing presentation that is accessible to the entire world. All of that will cost about $24.95/mo and $25.00/year (for your own domain registration).

Designing web sites is what we do. Packages start at $300.00 and can be over $10,000.00 depending on what you want and need. Generally with design fees, setup, domain registration and training for the CMS system or customers spend around $450 to get up and going.

One of the features of our designs is that we build most of our sites on the award winning Joomla Content Management System or CMS. This allows our customers to log into an administration area and update their own content whenever they want. With just a little bit of training (included in our quotes), must customers can be updating their web site on their own.

This system drastically reduces the amount of initial cost and long term costs involved with having an up to date, search engine friendly web site. It is a key feature of our design and hosting services.

Having the best web site in the world doesn’t matter if no one is finding your site because the search engines don’t have you placed high enough for your potential keywords and phrases that would attract new customers. When they type something in the search engines relative to your business, you need to be as close to the top of the list as possible in the results.

As an add-on service to our design services, we will take your initial content for your site and optimize it for the search engines to get you optimal results in the search engines. Generally this means that we will manipulate the wording of your site content so that it includes lots of those keywords and phrases. This also includes making sure that the keywords and description meta tags are relevant to each page’s content.

In addition, we take several free steps to ensure that you get the best results possible by utilizing free tools available from Google such as registering your business on Google places, setting up Google Analytics for your site and more.

Below are some of the customers that we have worked with in the past. Some of these sites we provided content for and some of them we just did the design on (the customer provides the content). Click on the images below to visit the customers site.

Accu-tax	Clem's Plumbing	Craig's Auto	John G. Roche
Just 4 Children	Mole Holes	More Jesus	My Real Audio
Rio Grande Fence	Sorrell Home Medical	Spectrum Photography	Unit Center