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Maintenance is often over looked and is essential to the long term success of your web site!
When considering the life of a web site, the development is only a small portion. Just like with people, creating a child takes a lot less time than parenting them throughout their life. There are tools out there that will help you (or a developer) create a beautiful web site quick and cheap. Unfortunately, sometimes that means adding an extra page will cost a lot of money because it requires the site to be redesigned. For example, Lori does catering and wants to add a page on business lunches for her catering business. The site is great, with lots of graphics (not necessarily a good thing if you want your site getting customers to call you). Her web developer created the original site quickly by using a tool that basically painted the site. Adding another page means that each existing page needs to be re-painted. Pretty much paying for the site to be developed again. A high maintenance cost discourages changes, which make web sites go stale and links go bad. It also means changes you are willing to pay for will require much more time than you are willing to wait. Industry Web Host uses tools that dynamically create your site so you (or we) can easily make changes. Some may say you do not need that power, but if you want your site responding to your needs, we say you do. Therefore, when selecting the solution to your web site needs, the time and cost of maintenance must be considered up front. Otherwise a wonderful web site could stall out after a few months, sending customers to your competition. |
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