How long will it take to design my site?
The length of time will really depend upon many factors including the scale and size of the website, availability and preparedness of the materials you supply to us, amount of custom graphics design, and programming and multi-media work involved.
What is required to build it?
We provide a free consultation to discuss the three parts to designing your website: The questionnaire, the worksheet and the website design agreement. You can supply us with images and text on which we will base the content of your site. Alternately, we can arrange to capture images ourselves and have your personalized content written by a professional technical writer for an additional fee. Design & layout ideas are discussed and approved in the preliminary meetings where you specify any preferred color schemes and sample web sites that appeal to you. If you have a logo or signature colors, we will use that as a starting point.
What if I already have a website but want to get it redesigned?
Not a problem. We can help! Choose one of our Website Design Packages, or give us a call at (520)829-0080, Monday-Friday, 7:00am-4:00pm, Pacific Standard Time.
  5. We publish your website using a hosting company you have chosen. When your website is ready to launch, it is important to secure a web hosting service (if you haven't already) so it can be seen on the Internet. Web hosting costs range from a few dollars a month to several hundred dollars a month, depending on what you need. If you need help hosting your site, please give us a call at (520) 829-0080.
How do I choose my design?
Start by completing our questionnaire and worksheet. After we understand your website needs, we provide you with proposals with 3 designs to match your preferences. Pick the proposal you like most, and the respective design will be used in your project. It is that easy!
How much does it cost? How long does it take?
We offer website design packages that range from $500. to $3000. Here are some examples of our pricing and time frames:
Web Page Design $500- 2 to 4 weeks
Small Website Design $695 - 2 to 4 weeks
Medium Website Design $995 - 3 to 6 weeks
Large Website Design $3000 - 4 to 8 weeks
 		  What does website usability mean?
It means the ease with which users can perform the tasks associated with your web site. Think of it as the quality of a user's experience when interacting with a product or system. When we're developing or creating a website, we try to keep things simple for your clients/prospects, if we keep it simple for them, then it will become a good website and it will invite people to contact you. Simple doesn't mean low quality, it means doing all that is possible to make it better and understandable.
What about payment gateway and shipping integration on ecommerce websites?
We can integrate the most common methods on our e-commerce websites, however you might have a specific request and it might take some time to study that specific case. We're open to talk with you and help you during the integration process but we work must together during the process. It may impact the amount of time we initially defined at the start of the project. So keep that in mind and try to keep shipping instructions simple and use common payment getaways providers.
How do people find my website?
In addition to search engines there are a variety of ways to help visitors find your site which include: placing your email and web site address on all of your pamphlets and promotional material, business cards and "tag lines" at the bottom of all your email messages communications. You can also aid people finding your site by looking for other related sites that are willing to trade links with you. Each site ultimately benefits from the partnership. Simply putting links on your page to other sites does little to your ranking if they do not do the same. Advertising in industry-related e-zines, traditional media (magazines, newspapers, etc.) will also help your marketing strategy. The internet is a very far reaching and cost-effective means of site awareness but it can't be done to the exclusion of everything else. A good marketing campaign always includes traditional media. For help with traditional marketing & advertising, please contact www.melissamullin.com.
Can you guarantee my site will appear on the first page in a search engine?
No. Website Designer and SEO Specialist (Search Engine Optimization) are two different occupations. A website designer is like the engineer & builder of a great restaurant. An SEO specialist is like the publicist you hire to tell someone about it. Website designers create a beautiful website that is inviting and contains basic elements to make it appealing or helpful to the SEO specialist, but they do not provide SEO services directly. The overall strategy we employ is to make sure your keywords are present where they need to be. Other factors such site popularity (determined by how many other popular sites are linking to you), keyword placement in your page titles, page text, alternate text for images and meta tags (special tags read by some search engines which contain keywords specific to your industry and the site content) will determine your site's relevance vs. the keywords the potential visitor has typed in. To find an SEO specialist, please search for SEO at www.google.com.
What are the steps of building a website?
1. We determine your look and feel. Once you have yourcontent ready, including any text and images you want inserted on each page, your designer can begin work on the template design for your website.
2. We determine your content. What is the goal of your website, and what is the goal of each page? If you have existing marketing material, provide it to you to help get to know your company better. Examples of different pages you can have include a home page, about us page, products or services page, etc.
3. We create your web pages. After your website template is complete, your designer will insert any text and images you want to include on each page and build the actual web pages that will be seen on your website.
4. We (or you) register your domain name. Your domain name is your parking spot, the place where people find you (ex. www.yourcompany.com). We recommend choosing a domain name that reflects your company name or what you do. Names with approx (7) letters are ideal, just as telephone numbers have (7) digits. This is the easiest for the human brain to remember.

  Who are your customers?
We've designed websites for businesses in virtually every industry. Other Small Companies, Large Corporations, Restaurants, Professional consultants, Independent startups, Small and medium businesses, Retailers and online stores. And we can do the same for you!
Why are Privacy Policies and Terms of Use important for a website?
Terms of Use are the rules people should know to navigate your website. It usually contains information about price and/or content changes on your website; it must advise people that information on your website might change without having to inform all your visitors about those changes. People who visit your website deserve to know what you're doing or what you will do with the information you ask from them online. Respect that privilege and tell them why you're asking for some personal or business information on your website.
Do I need to edit my website myself?
You can, and you will be given access to your site at all times. However, we also have a wonderful annual maintenance package for those interested in having their site updated by us throughout the year.
How frequently do I need to update my website?
It depends on what you're doing with your website, but we definitely recommend you a plan for this. Content is critical for optimization and "fresh" or new content is an important factor for ranking. If you have a small business brochure website you might probably want to update twice a year some pages on your website, you might also have a page to display the latest news on your website and you can add a couple of notes once a month or every two months if you want. For e-commerce or database websites you might update or add content more frequently, those kinds of websites are built to have those changes as need it. In any case if you're doing optimization, you might want to talk with our optimization people about the importance of getting new information on your website and what will be the best way to do it without having problems with the code and content to optimize your website.
What does it means CSS?
That's an acronym that means Cascading Style Sheets. CSS allows web designers to attach styles (fonts, colors, size, margins, etc.) to HTML documents. It works like a template allowing web developers to define a style for an HTML element and then apply it to as many web pages as they want/need. We can also use styles to display different elements for different media (screen, printers). It simplifies web site maintenance and also helps the way a page displays content for Search Engine robots on the Internet (and that's a good thing!).
  What is a URL?
It stands for "universal resource locator". This is the address typed in to view your web page on the Internet. For example, you would type in http://www.igurucomputing.com to access our home page.
What is a domain name?
IA domain name is a specific web site address that you choose and register with Network Solutions (the official registrar of domain names ending in .com, .edu, and .gov). Our domain name is "igurucomputing.com".
Can I choose you to design my site and use my own web hosting?
Yes. We are happy to design just the site for you.
What is web hosting?
Web hosting is a monthly fee that you pay to have your site accessible on the Internet. We can provide web hosting suggestions for our clients.
What is site maintenance?
Maintenance is a fee paid monthly to keep your site updated with new content that you provide. Most good web sites have new content updated regularly. Fresh content is what will keep your visitors coming back.
Do you offer any type of discounts?
Yes, we offer referral discounts. If you know of someone else who needs our services, refer them to us. if they use us, we give you a discount!
Why can't I find my web site in the search engines?
Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may require several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory. How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders. We suggest you use Guaranteed Search Engine Submit. Your site can be listed on AOL, MSN, and Overture in a couple of days. Click here to read more.
I want you to design my web site. What is my next step?
Contact us by email or phone for a free consultation today! (520) 829-0080