Windy City Web Design

What do I need to know about hosting?

Windy City Web Design can arrange for hosting or we can use your own.
If we are using your preferred hosting company, they will need to have the FrontPage Extensions installed (don't worry, they'll know what that means).

I already have a website, but am unhappy with it.

Great! What this means is that, in most cases, you'll get a great savings on having us build you a newer, better website. Our design time is based upon an hourly cost, so if we can simply copy & paste a lot of the text and verbiage straight from your old site, that'll save us time, and you money!

How much does it cost?

I knew you were going to ask this one....but unfortunately given the dynamic, changing nature of the web, there is no easy answer to this one....every page is unique and different....some customers provide us with a great amount of content on disk, saving themselves a good deal of money....for some customers, we are starting from scratch.....some customers want 5 pages of content, others need 50 pages.....please visit our design page for some basic guidelines.

How do I get in the Search Engines?

Ahh, this is the tough question...and while Windy City Web Design is not
a Web Marketing company, we can make some recommendations:

Microsoft BCentral Search Engine Submission
where you supply them with your website and they will submit it to the major search engines on a monthly basis. As this is a reasonably new service from Microsoft, we can not, as yet, offer any feedback (positive or negative), but are cautiously optimistic that, being that it is a Microsoft product, it will work well.
The cost for this service is $49 per year...we can help you set this service up at (no additional charge), but it does need to be set up under your name so that all of the reports will go to you

Submission Wizard
At this website, you can purchase and download a product called the Submission Wizard which allows you to submit your website to 1100+ search engines in one sitting. The only drawback to this method is that the following day, after submitting your site, you will receive a flurry of about 75-100 e-mails from various search engine companies either thanking you, or asking you to "upgrade" your listing (for a fee of course) which you simply need to ignore. We do subscribe to this service and will, at your request, submit your site through this software once upon completion.

What are your payment terms?

Windy City Web Design requires 50% down with
balance due upon completion of the website.