Internet and Web Design

Get your web site wired!  Having a web presence is critical today.   Our web consultants are creative rocket scientists who speak your language.   When you develop your virtual office, you want to keep people from wandering around aimlessly on the internet without hitting your site frequently.  You want to give visitors some good ideas about where to "pull over".

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The horror stories you hear about months, even years working with consultants to get your site online and the expense - it can get outrageous!   Merritt-Gentry can get you up and running fast -- with inexpensive solutions!   Once you get it online - who knows anything about marketing with the internet?   Merritt-Gentry will provide you with inexpensive, innovative solutions.

We will:

• Arrange for site hosting 
  • Disk Storage - 50 megabytes (more available on request)
  • POP3 Accounts - 5 full email accounts to send and receive email.
  • Email Autoresponders - 5 auto-responders respond immediately (and automatically) with a preset auto-reply email message to requests for information from web travelers at your site.
  • Unlimited Email Forwarding - redirect mail sent to any email alias name you can think up to your real POP email account.
  • Unlimited Data Transfer - no "bandwidth" limits (whatever that is) on your account.  In other words, there are no additional charges because you have a successful site and traffic is high. If you have questions, inquire about any exceptions to this.
  • Total Control - you can define directories, usernames, passwords and allow people access to specific directories if required.  Our consultants will help guide you here.
  • Domain Registration - We will arrange for and navigate through the registration of your very own dot com domain name (www.yourcompanyname.com) with InterNIC domain registration services.  InterNIC will bill you $70.00 direct for the first 2 years and then $35.00 each year after that.   We will also provide a no charge domain name (yourcompanyname.ourhost.com) if you're not fussy.

  
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  • Tech Stuff - Our host runs multiple T3 connections for fast page loading, supports Microsoft FrontPage extensions, allows your own cgi-bin script directory, maintains battery backup for power outages and runs daily tape backups.

  

  • Secure Server Access - If you will be doing e-commerce, secure access is important to your customers.  Access to our host secure server is available to every web site to encrypt sensitive data being sent.  Ask about plans providing a private secure server.
  • Access Logs - If you are going to spend money getting on the internet, you need you'll want to know who stops by.  We provide access to full access analysis logs.
  • Other Support - our host will also support RealVideo, RealAudio and high speed database management with mySQL database support.

• Provide Web Design
  • Up and Online Fast - we guarantee you will be up and online fast.
  • Innovative Designs - over 100 template variations and themes allow us to get you up and running quickly.  Here are some examples of pages we have built.

  Business Pages			Personal Pages
  Merritt-Gentry Group	Shop-This!	Circle of Neighbors	The Ultimate Final Fantasy Site	Disco Cyber Weasel World	Sammy's PuppyLand
  		College Consultants		Mitchell High School Alumni

  • Same Day Setup and Changes - in most cases, setup and minor changes can be accomplished on the same day.  No more waiting for weeks to see your changes.   The Internet has a very brief window of opportunity.
  • Hardware Selection (if needed) - we will assist in making a recommendation if you need to upgrade your hardware and software support to communicate with your customers through our affiliation with Outpost.com.

Pricing

• Basic Business Web Presence
  The Virtual Business Card
  
  Virtual Business Cards are defined as the "front-end" or on-line brochures. These modules textually and graphically represent your firm in an attractive and organized manner. Merritt-Gentry Group offers a wide range of Virtual Business Cards from the economical "On-Line Brochure" to our flagship design module.  Our basic web presence site uses standard templates and basic graphic designs.