For domains registered in the Australian registry (.com.au), the cost is $70/year, but you are required to pay 2 years in advance and then reregister for 2 more years every second year. (In our Cost Calculator, we’ll show it as $70/year).

Registering in the International registry (.com) is preferable, but often, your favoured name will be taken but available as a .com.au.

Your website sits on a very secure and powerful computer called a host server. Our host can serve your website to millions of people at the same time with zero downtime.

We only act for clients who host with us as it’s in your best interest for us to have constant access to your site.

When someone sends you an email, it comes to our host server and sits there waiting until you next turn on your computer and ask to receive your email.

You can have as many email addresses as you like at $10/email address/year.

You can add/delete email addresses any time.

If you’d like us to create a logo for you, the fee includes providing the artwork in the most common digital format so it can be used in other media such as print.

Whether your website has 5 or 500 pages, the Template is the critical “look and feel” design of the site.

This expensive item includes the critical “search engine friendly” source code and the all important Home page.

Also included is the crucial “user friendly” navigation design.

Pages can be added/deleted (for a fee) anytime.

The maximum characteristics of a page are:

• 2 scrolled screens on a resolution setting of 800 x 600 pixels. (Resisting pages that scroll down indefinitely is in your best interest from the important point-of-view of page load speed)
  
  
• 6 images
  

To help you think about the number of pages you may need, imagine you sell a very small range of exclusive gentlemen’s clothing. Here’s how you might set up a website…

Don’t include your Home page in your page count as you’ve already bought it as part of your template package. (The Home page is mainly used for search engine friendliness and navigation as well as briefly telling the visitor what this site is all about).

About Us (The internet is impersonal. It really helps to clearly spell out who the visitor is dealing with).

Shoes (There would be a maximum of 6 products pictured and described)

Pants

Shirts

Jackets

Accessories

Red Hot Specials

Contact Us

Site Map (This is a highly recommended strategy which is often overlooked by amateurs. A Site Map assists with search engine indexing and is appreciated by visitors as an extra navigational guide. A Site Map makes your website look professional).

As you can see, our imaginary client selling his small range of gentlemen’s clothing will go with 9 pages.

Image galleries are a technique used to speed page load, avoid visual clutter and present information in a logical, controlled sequence.

Our friend with the gentlemen’s clothing might put a few image galleries on his Shoes page. One could show a small range of Casual Shoes and another Dress Shoes.

Image galleries can be added/deleted (for a fee) anytime.

The maximum characteristics of image galleries are:

• 150 words or
  
  
• 6 images or
  
  
• If there are words and images, an image is regarded as 25 words. So, a maximum combination might be 4 images and 50 words

People use PDF files on websites where they might have a price list they’d like visitors to print out, or an order form they’d like completed and faxed back.

There is no charge for PDF files you supply complete.

If you’d like us to create PDFs, the fee is $75/page

This is the sophisticated, secure software that allows you to accept payments by credit card over the internet.

It is protected by 128 bit (bank level) security encryption.

The gentlemen’s clothing site would need programming so that when a shoe is selected, the purchaser is prompted to give size, colour, style etc.

One-off cost of $5/product.

This allows you to add/delete/change images and text on one page whenever you like. Your changes are live immediately.

You can have as many of these systems on your site as you want, but we recommend only one.

The system is excellent for pages which may have names like Latest News, Specials etc.

The purpose of this page is simply to give you an idea of the cost of the project you’re contemplating.