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Outdated information on your web site isn't good for your image. . .

Most people expect a web site to be current. If they find information that appears dated, they may quickly go somewhere else. What are your options for maintaining your web site?

OPTION 1: We maintain your site

We provide very quick turnaround. You will be able to send us additions and changes and we will get them posted on the site – usually on the same day sent. We also archive any items that need to be archived.

There are two methods of paying for us to maintain your site:

Pay Per Incident
You pay for web site maintenance as needed, at a rate of $65/hour. (This rate is subject to change if our rates go up.)

One Year Plan
You pay up front for 12 months of web site maintenance at a guaranteed rate of $50/hour. Any additional hours needed are also billed at $50/hour.

OPTION 2: You maintain your site

Today's web sites are more than just graphic images and text. They comprise a host of complex technologies like JavaScript, ASP, CSS, DHTML SHTML, SSL, etc. To maintain an entire web site, you need to know, or be willing to learn, these technologies.

There is an alternative. We can design your web site — or parts of the site, the parts that will change often — with a simpler design that contains distinct updatable "content areas."

The "content areas" are then updated in one of two ways:

1. You or a staff member, with some simple training, uses an HTML editor to make the changes. Using an HTML editor is similar to working in Microsoft Word. For this approach, we would need to add an administrative interface to your web site, and to program the pages to display the changed content.
2. We design the content pages so they are assembled "on the fly" from data that is stored in a database. You use an administrative interface to maintain the items in the database. You never have to edit the actual pages —  you work in forms that then put the data in the database — so a virtually untrained user can maintain the site. This approach is most appropriate when there is a lot of content to present and when the information should be presented in a logical order; for example, listing events that occur within a specified time period or at a specified location.

The two methods above can be combined where the database is maintained using the HTML editor and HTML content is stored in the database.

Self-maintenance is, as you might have guessed, more costly up front. You will pay more for us to build your web site with updatable content areas, and a database adds additional costs. These costs need to be weighed against the costs involved if we maintain the site. If you anticipate frequent updates to easily definable content areas, self-maintenance could be the way to go.