Web Design Getting Started

Website Design Getting Started is simple with the exclusive, Link Web Services Website Design Tutorial. Get on the web, watch our web design tutorial, choose a website design, create your site today. Website Design Getting Started is your opportunity to get into action now. Simply choose a direction for your website design, develop your marketing and manage your advertising.

Website Design Getting Started gets you active and in business on the internet. Link Web Services is always available to provide the very best in quality service.

Your Website will be designed by our talented, creative web designers; they have the expertise and the tools to produce visually stimulating web pages from both a logical and aesthetic perspective, empowering you to compete in today's technological economy.

1.	Domain Registration	7.	Web Hosting
2.	Competitor Research	8.	E-Commerce Shopping Cart
3.	Web Design	9.	Web Add-On Modules
4.	Graphic Design	10.	Web Marketing
5.	Animation Design	11.	Website CD
6.	Database Design	12.	Monthly Administration

Web Design Getting Started Tutorials Design Packages Starting At $79.95 per month for 12 months.
	Wordpress	Mobile	HTML	HTML + Flash	Full Flash	eCommerce

Starting At:	$245.00	$495.00	$495.00	$745.00	$995.00	$1,245.00
Website Style	DIY Content	Mobile Access	Info + SEO	Info + Animation	Fully Animated	Online Store
Hosting Setup	Free	Free	Free	Free	Free	Free
Number Of Pages	Unlimited*	5*	5*	5*	5*	25 Products*
Revisions (Up To)		5*	5*	5*	5*	5*
Hosting Plan	Personal	Business	Business	Professional	Professional	eCommerce
Email Accounts	Unlimited*	Unlimited*	Unlimited*	Unlimited*	Unlimited*	Unlimited*
SSL Certificates

Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Web Services (in 12 easy steps)

1.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Domain Registration
Research Domain Name availability Our team of designers will research your company domain name availability on the web. Finding your company's name available with a ".com" extension is no longer an easy task; we will check availability and return to you with a variety of choices. Register your company “Domain Name” After researching your company domain name availability (i.e. www.yourcompany.com ) we will register your domain name for one, two or five years. Register Domain Names to be redirected to main Domain Name We will register multiple domain names (i.e. www.mycompany.com, www.futurecompany.com) and redirect all of them to your main domain name (i.e. www.yourcompany.com)


2.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Competitor Research
Research competitor websites Link Web Services will conduct an exhaustive research on your competitor's websites; we will study them to see what they are offering, how they are offering it and we will custom design your website to outperform your competition in every way.


3.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Website Design
Selecting the appropriate web design package for you At Link Web Services we do not subscribe to the 'one size fits all' web design school of thought; we offer custom web design packages to fit YOUR company requirements and make all optional functionality available as Add-On modules. Selecting your design layout Link Web Services has partnered with Template Monster, a company dedicated to offering the best web design styles on the web from the top designers in the world. We offer over 3,000 different design styles to choose from! Creating your website structure Our designers will gather all information necessary about your company and neatly organize it into a hierarchical structure that is easy to understand and navigate. Color matching your company marketing literature Your company's marketing literature colors will be matched by extracting the hexadecimal color numbers to insure consistency between your printed marketing literature (brochures, flyers, business cards) and your online marketing literature. Gathering your text content We will help you gather text content for all of your html pages, guiding you at every step of the way on the best way to offer your information. Gathering your graphics/images content We will help you gather all graphics, photographs and images for content of your html pages and show you the most aestheticaly pleasing way to show them off. We can take your current printed photographs and scan / optimize them for the web, If you do not have photographs available we have professional photographers standing by to help you take beautiful pictures of your products, retail store or any other photography you would like to include on your website. As an additional option, we also offer stock photography, beautiful images that will give your company, products and services the extra edge. Designing your html pages Our designers will gather all information necessary about your company and neatly organize it into easy to read html pages (web pages); these pages will be linked to each other via navigational hyperlinks which can automatically transport you from page to page. Configuring your Meta tags One of the most important and most often overlooked requirements of a professional website. Meta tags are the 'hidden' words on your web pages that are used by search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Alta Vista to make your information available. Without Meta Tags, most search engines will not be able to find your company website and all potential clients will quickly move on to your competitor's websites. Our design team will make sure your web pages have all of the appropriate Meta tags included (page title, description, keywords, alt tags, etc.) Designing your feedback forms Registration Forms to gather visitor contact information are an unbelievable source of qualified leads; this type of qualified lead is very hot, they have visited your website so they already know where to go to get contact information, company information, special discounts and any online services your company offers. You will instantly receive their information via e-mail, a simple follow up call can yield incredible results. Desiging your website Navigation An intuitive Navigation Menu will be designed to connect all of your pages together and allow visitors to browse from page to page. Designing your Marketing Multimedia Commercials (Flash Animation) Multimedia commercials are a fantastic way to advertise your products and services! Once we have gathered all of your text, images, graphics and photographs we will combine them into eye catching multimedia commercials that will draw the visitors attention directly to your services, products, sales or promotions. Making your company marketing literature available for downloads Our team will convert your company sales and marketing literature to Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files and make them available for downloading, viewing or printing at the click of a button. Designing a web photo gallery (online show room) A web photo gallery is an incredible way to offer your customers a virutal 'online show room' of your products. Research shows a much greater percentage of people will commit to a purchase or order a service once they have been visually stimulated. Our web photo galleries come complete with their own custom navigation and thumbnail page(s). Viewing your website during production While your company's Website is in production, all of your html pages will be available for your viewing 24/7. You will be able to see updates as they are happening, empowering you to take a more involved role in the design of your company website and enabling you to offer more feedback which at the end will guarantee the final product is exactly the way you want it.


4.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Graphic Design
Designing and optimizing your company logo The human brain is extremely visual and it relies on the ability to associate words to images to remember efficiently. If pictures truly speak a thousand words, your company logo is the most important image everyone is going to see and recognize you by; A logo should be attractive, very easy to remember and as descriptive as possible. Link Web Services graphic design team will design a professional logo for your company or optimize your existing one. Designing a custom icon collection for your website As you browse through the web you have noticed how certain websites (Microsoft, MSN, etc.) have graphics that make them stand out from the competition because of their aesthetics and originality; most websites use the same icons over and over again, copying them from each other and creating an almost uniform look through the entire world wide web. Link Web Services will create a custom icon collection for your company to specifically match your company products, services and design colors.


5.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Animation Design
Animating your company logo Your company logo will brought to life with exciting animation and sound. Designing your welcome animation commercial You only get one chance to make a first impression, make it a long lasting one with an eye-catching TV-Like welcome animation commercial that will greet your customers and attract attention to your advertised products and services. Design your Top Banner animation Enhance your website aesthetics with an animated top banner! A top banner is the most important 'real estate' area on your web pages, placing information at the very beginning of every page and drawing your attention to your most important information. Enhancing this area with Flash animation will insure you have peoples attention exactly where you want it. Designing your In-Page animation An in-page animation is exactly like a little TV-Commercial. You may have as many of them as you like on each page and they are extremely effective when placed next to products or services you would like to attract attention to. Designing your animated page titles Let your customers know they are on the right web page with a customized animated page title! select from over 100 different animations to bring your text to life!


6.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Web Database Design
	Designing your company SQL Database Perfect for business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software applications. When you need to organize a lot of data SQL is the perfect solution. Strong, robust, reliable and friendly are the main characteristics that make this database the number one choice! MySQL Database configuration Mid-size companies find MySQL irresistible! The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. With more than five million active installations, MySQL has quickly become the core of many high-volume, business-critical applications. Customers such as Yahoo!, Google, Cisco, Sabre Holdings, HP and NASA are realizing significant cost savings by using MySQL's high performance, reliable database management software to power large Web sites, business-critical enterprise applications and packaged software applications. Microsoft Access Database configuration An exceptionally featured packed solution at a very affordable price. Microsoft Access is a readily available, easy to use database application that is easily supported, edited and can be updated by anyone who uses Microsoft Access (included with Microsoft Office Professional).


7.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Web Hosting
Setting up your web hosting services Ready to order web hosting? Link Web Services will configure your web hosting, setup your domain name services and make sure your website files are available to the world! Configuring your domain name redirect services Does your company have more than one domain name? our web hosting team will redirect all of your additional domain names to your 'main' domain name! Configuring your company e-mail services and user accounts Once your web hosting services are operational, we will configure your domain e-mail accounts. Link Web Services offers web hosting with 20 e-mail accounts (@yourdomain.com) with 20MB of storage to start with and allows an unlimited number of 'aliases' to be created. Configuring your e-mail antivirus and antispam With Link Web Services your e-mail is always protected! After we have created your company e-mail accounts we will configure the mail server to filter all viruses and spam e-mail, insuring your computer is always protected from unwanted hacker attacks. Uploading all of your website files to our hosting server Your company's website html files, downloadable files and other information will be uploaded to our powerful, feature-packed servers for Hosting services. Configuring your folder and file access rights Once your folders and files have been uploaded, they will be configured for secured access rights; By configuring your secured access rights, our team will insure all files and folders have the proper 'execute', 'read' and 'write' rights accordingly. Adding additional hosting productivity modules The Link Web Services Hosting Team will install and configure additional productivity modules on your website. Select from a "Live Chat", a "Discussion Group", a "Help Desk" or any of our other empowering add-on modules.


8.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: E-Commerce
Gathering your product information The Link Web Services E-Commerce team will guide you on how to gather all of the necessary information required to create a successful shopping cart. Setting up your E-Commerce Shopping Cart Services Our team will install and configure an E-Commerce shopping cart to match your requirements. Miva Merchant E-Commerce Shopping Cart For large online stores, Miva Merchant is unbeatable! with an easy to manage interface, quick product updates and the ability to connect to your existing credit card provider, Miva is the best e-commerce solution on the market today! PayPal E-Commerce Shopping Cart For smaller online stores, Paypal is FREE, easy and reliable! Our team will setup, install and configure your PayPal online store fast! PayPal offers a variety of 'ways to purchase', from "buy now" buttons to "Add to Cart", "Subscription Services" and much much more!


9.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Add-On Modules
Mapquest: map & directions Give your customers perfect maps and driving directions every time! MapQuest is the leading website for maps and directions on the Internet. Not only will we supply your address, telephone numbers and e-mails but we will also include a hyperlink for exact directions to your office no matter where they are coming from. Clickability Buttons A fantastic referral technique. Add "E-mail This", "Save This", "Print This" and "Add To Favorites" buttons to your website and let your visitors pass your product and services information on to other interested parties. Copyright script Worried about competitors stealing your text and graphics content? no problem! our copyright script will disable their ability to right click on your pages and save your information for the wrong reasons. Custom color scroll bars Not only do we color match your website to your company literature, we take it one step further and change the dull gray standard scroll bars to match your color scheme! vBulletin - Discussion Group vBulletin is a powerful, scalable and fully customizable discussion group package for your web site. It has been written using the Web's quickest-growing scripting language; PHP, and is complimented with a highly efficient and ultra fast back-end database engine built using MySQL. PerlDesk - Web Help Desk PerlDesk is a feature packed web based help desk and email management application designed to streamline the operation of managing emails or support requests, with built in tracking and response logging it is an ideal help desk solution for companies with one or more members of staff or for those who want to organize client support. FormMail - Feedback Forms FormMail is a generic HTML form to e-mail gateway that parses the results of any form and sends them to the specified users. This script has many formatting and operational options, most of which can be specified within each form, meaning you don't need multiple scripts for multiple forms. Live chat Allow your visitors to chat with a Live Operator! Introducing LiveChat!, a Professional, LIVE, online, business-to-customer Chat program written entirely in PHP and JavaScript! Self-updating Time & Date Include a self-updating time and date CGI Script on your web pages. Web Calendar View your calendar online! WebCalendar is packed with features; daily, weekly and monthly views make it easy to see your schedule. Synchronize Web Calendar with Microsoft Outlook or your favorite calendar application. Print Calendar pages, set event reminders and more! WebEdit - Online Web Editing Update your own website! This is the end of paying technical staff to perform expensive and time-consuming updates. You have complete control of your web content and can add/edit/delete product information, build a new site section, alter your branding or launch a new marketing initiative in minutes - and you can do this from anywhere in the world and from any web browser! Language Translator Site Translator, designed for Website owners who need a simple solution to Website language translation. Site Translator will translate virtually any Website designed in HTML, ASP, PHP, and ASP.net. It translates only the language content and leaves the source code unchanged. Unlike the word-substitution software that requires manual substitution of words or phrases, Site Translator intelligently identifies and translates phrases. Enhanced Performance Reports How many people visited my website this month? Which pages did they visit most? What were my most viewed 'entry' and 'exit' pages? What keywords and phrases did people use to find me? What days of the week and what hours are my busiest times? Which links to my domain bring the most visitors Link Web Services will put this information at your fingertips!


10.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Web Marketing
Website Submission Your selected company's html web pages will be uploaded to over 100,000 of the most popular Search Engines around the world! Enhanced Marketing The Link Web Services Marketing Team will setup and configure your website to be advertised through the best online providers such as: Overture, Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves, Alta Vista, Inktomi, LookSmart, WhatUseek, and many, many more!


11.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Website CD
Your complete website on CD-ROM Imagine being able to carry your website with you! No matter where you go, even if your client does not have an Internet connection at his office, you will have all of your documentation with you... just pop the CD into your customers computer and go!


12.	Web Design Getting Started Tutorials: Monthly Administration
Monthly Website Performance Reports To have a successful website, you must know how it is performing from month to month... Our web hosting team will keep you updated on how many people visited you, where they came from, which pages they visited and much much more! Text updates Like any other sales literature, your web pages will need their text content updated from time to time; our web design team is standing by to take care of everything for you! Graphics/Image updates Need to change a photograph on a page but don't know how? no problem! our web design team will scan, optimize and upload your new images for you! Animation updates Let our multimedia team update your animations with your latest advertisements and promotions! Navigation updates Adding or removing web pages? no problem! we will add additional navigation buttons to your website. Meta tag updates Did you change your web page content? we will update your Meta tags so the search engines can find you faster! Form Field Updates Need to ask for additional information on your feedback forms? we'll be happy to add additional text entry fields, radio or check buttons for you! E-Commerce Shopping Cart updates Adding or removing products? changing prices? expanding a description? with Link Web Services it's easy! E-mail accounts administration Need to add additional e-mail accounts? would you like to change the size of your mailboxes? how about additional aliases for each user? Our Web Hosting Team will take care of it, fast!