Web Site Design - hosting

 Designed with your  interaction with respect  to such things as wallpapers, colours,  backgrounds, banners and textual content. Eye catching animated or Flash graphics complete with sound effects  are additional options however please read our article below entitled Basic Web Site Design Principles

Simple concise single page or multi-pages                                                    

Each page with it's own unique message and content

Personal or company logos and banners

Product or services photos or relevant animated artwork

Photo Gallery

Option after completion for you to add, amend, or modify and publish changed or additional pages

Easy to use client contact forms

Site Maps

Word or phrase search

Direct Publishing  to Website host of complete developed site

 Website Hosting

To enable someone to advertise their services or extend their existing marketing literature through a website it is necessary to invest in " buying" a domain..

The "domain" can be called any thing you like as long as it is not already owned by someone else. e.g. www.mydomain.com or www.thisismine.fr

 Once your domain is established it is practical to enhance the service through "personalised email" with email addresses that embrace the domain.

 e.g joepublic@mydomain.com.

 Note: There is no reference to an internet provider within the email address.

 Many organisations provide "hosting" services and can, through powerful servers,  present your domain, website and related email to the internet "24/7/52"

Gers IT Services can help you choose an appropriate domain name for your web site and related email and then register it for you. Very quickly afterwards we can organise a hosting service that relates to budget and the services you require from your domain.

 Basic Web Site Design Principles

 The main considerations when designing a quality website.

  It should be aesthetically pleasing and not too cluttered

  In remote locations where broadband is not yet implemented slow loading websites are rarely studied. Your site  must respond very quickly to the users web browser, including internet browsers connected by slower dial up systems. Animated graphics look impressive but can sometimes blur the focus of what you want to present , further patiently waiting for a dazzling flash page is not very satisfying

Navigation should be simple and intuitive. Nothing is worse than searching through a mass of information to discover how to jump to the next page

Pages should compliment any other literature you use or intend to develop including business cards, brochures and advertising flyers. It should include easy to use, "click and submit" client contact forms.

Your site  needs to sit high in the rankings of the most prominent search engines

Gers IT provide the complete website service, from simple one page web to multi page sites backed up by flexible maintenance and updating plans

  Website Design (The plan)

  Stage 1

Tell us about your business, what it does and how you would like potential clients to see it. Have you any ideas on the appearance, layout, colours

Do you already have a logo ?

Together we can produce preliminary "on paper" templates identifying such things as background colours, banners, photographs, and text content.

  Stage 2

 Your domain name agreed and the register of domain names checked for

 uniqueness

 Your domain name is registered

  Stage 3

The first draft is built and offered for your comments, amendments and approval

  Stage 4

Any fine tuning is implemented

Appropriate host is discussed and agreed

  Stage 5

Your site is completed and published with the hosting provider

  What is a domain ?

A domain name is an identification label to define a realm of administrative autonomy, authority,   or  control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).

Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. A prominent example are the top-level Internet domains (TLDs) com, net and org. Below these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-level and third-level domain names that are open for reservation and registration by end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, run web sites, or create other publicly accessible Internet resources. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars who sell their services to the public.

An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and

memorisable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP address of a resource and the corresponding translation of this IP address to and from its domain name.