Web Design
Master Websmith designs are distinctively professional and clean looking, using 100% valid XHTML and CSS. Usability is paramount, yet never at the expense of attractiveness. Whether you need an online brochure or a world-class online retail store, you'll get winning results with Master Websmith designs.
Web Hosting
Master Websmith has done the research for you and partnered with a preferred web hosting service that combines the best features and lowest prices in the industry. All hosting packages come with Master Websmith's local web site administration for an unbeatable combination. Prices start at just $3.95/mo. with an existing domain name. Whether you need a security certificate, ASP.NET 2.0, or SQL Server 2005 integration, Master Websmith will help you choose the web hosting package that best fits your business's needs.
Domain Names
Get your .COM domain name for only $8.95/yr. with Master Websmith's preferred registrar. You get the best combination of price, value, reliability, and local administration and support. A good domain name with the right registrar is important for your business's online presence. Let Master Websmith help you do it right the first time.
Secure Web Sites An SSL security certificate is what makes an e-commerce web site secure. It's what makes the little gold padlock icon appear at the bottom right corner of your web browser window when you're checking out at a world-class online retail web site to indicate that the web site is secure. It's what allows your web site to encrypt all communication between the server and the browser so that web site visitors can transact business with confidence. Without an SSL security certificate, it's impossible to expect visitors to trust your web site for transacting business online. Master Websmith offers Instant SSL Certificates from COMODO installed on your web server for just $100/yr. Compare that to $129 for a 1-year certificate from Network Solutions! And you'll love Master Websmith's support. Instant SSL Certificates provide the following:
- Full business validated certificate
- 1024 bit Industry Standard SSL Certificate
- Trusted by all popular Browsers
- 99% Browser Ubiquity
- 128/256 bit encryption
Web Database Applications
A web database application combines a web site with a database server to create a web application with power that is limited only by your imagination. Web database applications can be as basic as an online time clock for your employees to a full featured customer relationship management (CRM) system or a world-class online shopping web site. Master Websmith recommends ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 for all new web database applications, and if you have an existing application that was built with PHP and MySQL, we can help you update it or migrate it to Microsoft technologies. Choose Master Websmith for a polished web database application built with the industry's best tools.
Retail Shopping Web Sites
Whether you're selling computer systems or cheese, sell your wares online with Master Websmith to maximize sales and ROI. Solutions range from proven e-commerce software packages to custom shopping engines built using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. There is a lot to consider when developing a retail web site, including things like automatic calculation of shipping charges, sales tax, and credit card validation, just to name a few. But Master Websmith makes it all easy! Your business's retail web site will be optimized for search engine indexing, usability, and, most important, sales! Go with Master Websmith for winning results that won't break the bank.
Portal Technologies Web sites aren't just for shopping and online brochures. Portal technologies provide a wide array of web applications for community websites, intranets, extranets, and more. Intranets and extranets help companies save time, eliminate paper shuffling, and reduces costs by hosting web applications for employees or business partners. And community websites provide a one-stop online destination for communities that share a common interest, complete with all the web application bells and whistles.
Contact Master Websmith today to learn more about how portal technologies can help you and your organization.
Web Server Administration
Have an existing web server and no one to apply security patches or upgrades? Need someone to update your existing web site content? Tired of monitoring your web server for availability problems? Master Websmith will provide web server administration for your business, large or small. With years of experience configuring and maintaining Windows and Linux web servers, you're in good hands with Master Websmith. (Web server administration is included with Master Websmith web hosting services.)
Web Analytics & Reporting
A web site is not very useful if you cannot measure how effective it is and how much it is being used—especially if yours is a retail shopping web site! You may have heard about metrics like click-through rates, conversion rates, and ROI. That's where web analytics comes in. Master Websmith will develop a reporting solution tailored to meet your needs. Solutions range from the free (but powerful) Google Analytics, to subscription-based services like ClickTracks, to custom analytics applications developed by Master Websmith. You have to measure, and you have to know what the numbers mean. Let Master Websmith help you.
Search Engine Optimization
What good is a web site if no one can find it? Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a collection of best practices that make sure your web site designed for optimal indexing by search engines. SEO techniques are best applied while your web site is being built and maintained, but you can also redesign an existing web site to improve SEO, sometimes with only minor modifications. The result? It is not uncommon for a web site that previously did not even appear in Google's index to suddenly rise to the top 10 search results for certain optimized keyword phrases and increase web site traffic many times over—all because of well applied SEO techniques. But don't trust your SEO to a nameless, faceless hack working out of a sweat shop in New Delhi; your web site could end up being banned from search engines or worse. Trust Master Websmith for SEO solutions that make the most of your budget.
Paid Search Marketing
Your business can achieve a large increase in sales or exposure by paying for sponsored links that appear next to search results at popular web sites like Google, Yahoo! and MSN. Why pay for your links to appear in search results? Because, while this form of advertising is not free, it can often generate sales leads and customer acquisition for less than the cost of traditional advertising. Master Websmith can design and implement an advertising program based on your business's needs and help you measure ROI to make sure it's paying off. Or Master Websmith can help you use your web site's content to make money from paid search marketing.
E-mail Solutions
Make a great impression with e-mail addresses using your business's custom domain name, like YourName@YourBusiness.com. Besides a more professional image, you will never have to worry about changing your e-mail addresses when your local ISP closes its doors. Plus you'll get industry leading e-mail features like anti-virus protection and spam filtering—all at the network level before your e-mail arrives in your inbox. And you can access your e-mail anywhere in the world with easy-to-use web mail. Choose a reliable e-mail solution that provides true e-mail accounts with password protection and security, and not a funky forwarding scheme. Prices start at $19.95/yr. for 5 e-mail accounts, and 100 e-mail accounts are just $29.95/yr.
E-mail Newsletters & Marketing
E-mail is easy, right? So shouldn't it be easy to fire off 1,000 or more e-mail messages to your best customers to tell them about your new product line? Not so fast! E-mail marketing is a minefield full of potentially embarrassing hazards. Without careful planning and compliance with legislation like the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, you could end up putting your company's domain name on every major e-mail provider's black list or worse. But that doesn't mean e-mail marketing has to be difficult or expensive. Whether you're announcing your company's newest product, or sending your not-for-profit organization's monthly newsletter, Master Websmith has the tools and expertise to make sure your e-mail campaigns are successful.
Online Photo Galleries
Online photo galleries are not just for sharing photos of Junior with your in-laws. A well executed photo gallery can be a great way to show off your latest real estate offerings, new car deals, recent construction projects, or whatever your business needs. Master Websmith uses the latest Flash technology and web database applications to deliver the right photo gallery application for your needs.
Digital Photography
Put that 1-megapixel antique down before you hurt someone! Seriously, not many things can damage a business's image as quickly as poorly focused, low-resolution photography taken with bad lighting. Let Master Websmith capture and edit the digital photography for your web site, or recommend the right professional photographer for your specific needs. Whether you need images of all your company's products without a background, or if you just need advice on choosing the right camera gear for your business, Master Websmith can help.
Flash for Animation & Presentations
Are you proud of that PowerPoint presentation? Then add it to your company's web site! But use the latest Flash technology to make sure all your web site visitors can see it. Or use Flash to add life to your web site's banner ads. Master Websmith can help you with all your Flash applications.
Video & Audio for the Web
Spice up your web site with embedded video and audio. In the past, adding video and audio to your business's web site was tricky. But with the latest Flash technology, you can add high quality video and audio without making your web site's page loads grind to a halt. The applications are endless—product demonstrations, training videos, full-motion ads, and more. Let Master Websmith show you how!
Training
Okay, Master Websmith built a web site for your business, but now you need to update photos and copy on a daily basis. Have you ever heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime?" Instead of paying a web developer every time you need to update your web site, sometimes the most economical solution is for a qualified professional to train your staff so that you can maintain your web site in-house. Master Websmith will provide training at a competitive rate for everything from content management for your web site to photo editing.
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