No matter what size your company is, a professionally designed website can both bolster, and in many cases, help define a company’s corporate image to the public. 

You can count on three things that a website will do for you:

• Improve Your Image - a website is the first impression for many people
• Improve Customer Confidence - you're not seen as a "fly-by-night" outfit.
• Increase Sales - it pays to advertise, a time tested and proven fact of life.

Why charge by the page instead of by the hour?

Customized layouts involve a large amount of time and energy in creating a functional website.  These are not 'cookie cutter' sites done here.  Another influence to the amount of time needed greatly depending available resources - meaning it depends on how much content and vision you can supply in order for it to be interpreted to the site.

Most Web Designers charge anywhere from $75 - $125 per hour for Web design services. We at Tomax7 charge by the page because it helps everyone on budget and avoid being "nickel and dime to death" due to complications.

What is a Web page exactly?

A "Web Page" is defined as one 1024x768 screen worth of display.  Meaning viewing your screen at 1024x768 resolution, the width and length would be a "page". An actual 8.5"x11" sheet of paper is about one screen's worth or at 800x600 it would be about two screens. 

What is meant by the term Bandwidth?

A very simple analogy to use to understand bandwidth and traffic is to think of highways and cars. Bandwidth is the number of lanes on the highway and traffic is the number of cars on the highway. If you are the only car on a highway, you can travel very quickly. If you are stuck in the middle of rush hour, you may travel very slowly since all of the lanes are being used up.  Most personal or small business sites will not need more than 2GB of bandwidth per month.

Traffic is simply the number of bits that are transferred on network connections. It is easiest to understand traffic using examples. One Gigabyte is 2 to the 30th power (1,073,741,824) bytes. One gigabyte is equal to 1,024 megabytes. To put this in perspective, it takes one byte to store one character. Imagine 100 file cabinets in a building, each of these cabinets holds 1000 folders. Each folder has 100 papers. Each paper contains 100 characters - A GB is all the characters in the building. An MP3 song is about 4MB, the same song in wav format is about 40MB, a full length movie can be 800MB to 1000MB (1000MB = 1GB).  For example, viewers watching a ten minute video at a data rate of 40 Kbs will transfer 400 Kilobits total. Viewers watching the same ten minute video at a data rate of 200 Kbs will transfer 2000 Kilobits total.

My thanks goes to www.findmyhosting.com/bandwidth.htm for this bandwidth explanation!

What is included?

You get an 800 Meg website (up to 375 pages or 200 pictures) and 40GIG of bandwidth.  All packages include domain name, emails, and three Google search engine submissions.  Annual renewal fee of $150/year.

Are there any hidden costs?

None, the site is yours to do as you please. But we can agree upon a Monthly maintenance cost at $50 per month for unlimited updates or a per update price of $10 and bi-monthly Google and 10 other top search engine submissions.

What about annual renewal rates?

Annual website renewal fee is $150, plus $15 for *.com domain name, or  $25 for a *.ca domain name.

Are you barter the price in exchange for something?

Not really, unless you have a definite means to measure your offer, as in free advertising, oil changes, facial manicures, or advertising space...but no tax receipt please and GST has to be paid.

Why should I pay for something that my son in high school can make?

Because your site will look like your son in high school made it... 

Ok, I like it!  Where do I sign up?

Click right here, or call Tom at 403.809.1176