| Frequently Asked Questions |
| What is a Web Design? |
A web site is a way of communicating your message to the world. It can be a simple one page site with just the basic information about your business and services or it can be as elaborate as you wish. A web site acts like an interactive full color talking brochure available to your customers 24 hours a day 7 days a week from anywhere in the world. Once it is put on the internet, the costs to maintain it are nominal. The key factor in web design is to provide information about your products and services in a fast, easily navigated manner.You may have the best designed and most efficient site on the worldwide web, but if people can't find you it is meaningless. Think of your web as a luxury resort in the middle of the South Pacific. It may be beautiful but if no one knows it is there or knows how to find it, it will slowly deteriorate and die from inactivity. Therefore, critical to any web design is marketing and promoting it. This can be done through proper design and a few simple steps such as registering with search engines, adding the proper meta-tags and promoting the site through your regular advertising media.
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| What does a web design do for you? |
There are so many website's on the internet nowadays, so if you want a great website that stands out from the crowd, you are going to have to have brilliant web design incorporated into it.
A website that is badly designed will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. If you want a website that is remembered for the right reasons, you are going to have to have a design that makes your website unique.
Your web design is the first thing that people notice when they arrive at your website. If you have an untidy website with bad graphics and terrible navigation, you are going to lose your readers and viewers right from the start. That is why web design is important in the process of creating a successful website. Whether it is a personal website or one that you intend to use for business purposes, it needs to be well designed and well maintained.
If you can grab the reader's attention by graphics that are relevant and useful, text that is of a very high quality, colors and layouts that are easy on the eye, then you are half way there! Research has shown that more people buy from websites that are designed professionally and look trustworthy, rather than quickly made and with badly thought out designs.
So, you can see how important your web design really is now. There are many ways to improve your web design, both for free and by hiring someone else to do it for you. Which you choose will depend on your budget and your time frame. A busy web designer may not be able to fit you in for months.
How you layout your website is also very important. You may have lots of great content on your website that people would love to read, but what if they can't find it? If you haven't clearly and easily laid out your website in the web design process, your readers won't be able to find any other pages. This could be disastrous if you are selling some kind of service or product.
All in all the web design aspect is only a small part of getting your website up and running, however, it is very important. When you are designing your website, remember to make it easy to navigate, concise and clear.
If you are not familiar with web design and all the aspects that go into creating a website, it may be worth your while looking for a professional web designer or a pre made template. Web designers come with different price tags all depending on where you get them from and what you need doing.
If you want a relatively simple design you will be looking at a fairly cheap price. If you are looking for a complex website with many features you can expect to pay a fair amount of money for it. A good designer will include you all throughout the process. You will be able to approve the website as many times as required.
Ready-made templates are great if you don't have the budget for a professional designer and don't have the time to learn how to create one from scratch. There are many free ones that you find on the Internet or ones that you can buy for a small amount of money. |
| Why bother to advertise on the Internet? |
| This is a common question asked by business owners who generally are not connected to the web or for whatever reason don't use it. However many of your customers are wired and are surfing the net more than ever. Without a web presence, you leave yourself vulnerable to losing your hard earned customers to your competition. A good web design can drive traffic to your door or phone.Once a customer mentions finding you on the web and questions why they couldn't contact you directly from your website, you'll become a believer and modify your site to make it easier for them to do business with you.The web is the fastest growing advertising medium in history. It can not be ignored. It's viable method of communications with new and established customers. |
| Billing/Payments? |
1. I have a billing question... who do I contact ?
You should contact the billing dept. by e-mail or call 303-353-9727:
billing@dmcomputerservice.com
Be sure to explain your entire situation to them so that they can assist you quickly.
2. Can I pay by Check ?
Of course you can
That is always one of our payment options along with credit cards
3.I am within my 30 day satisfaction guarantee... how do I request a refund ?
Easy, just email billing@dmcomputerservice.com
and kindly ask them for a refund.
Please remember to provide them with as much info as possible so that they can process your refund as quickly as possible.
Here is some info that they will DEFINITELY NEED:
Your name.
Full Name on payment
Date of payment
Transaction Id of payment
Domain name
4.. What name or description shows up on my credit card statement when I pay via credit card ?
A charge by "RJL International, Inc. " will appear on your billing statement
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| What is the BASIC CONFIG for my MySQL DB? |
$hostname = "localhost"; /* MUST ALWAYS be localhost */
$username = "username"; /* This will be the username you used to login to your control panel when you installed MySQL */
$password = "password"; /* This will be the PassWord you used to login to your control panel when you installed MySQL */
$userstable = "table"; /* You will have had to CREATE a table and you will have named it something*/
$dbName = "something_com"; /* You will be given this when you login to your control panel and click on the MySQL button* |
| Is MySql database compatible with Front Page? |
| No, it is not |
| Can I have more than ONE database with my account ? |
| Yes, you need to check your plan for details.. |
| Where is the location of the MySQL Manual ? |
For detailed information regarding MySQL, you can go to the MySQL Online Manual:
http://www.mysql.com/Manual/manual_toc.html |
| Help ! None of this makes any sense to me... What should I do? |
FIRST, if NONE of the following makes any sense to you... you should NOT be using MySQL. It is a VERY ADVANCED feature, and if you are not an experienced programmer, then we suggest that you get one first.
Again, we STRONGLY suggest that you find an experienced MySQL programmer when attempting to work with MySQL. |
| What is the MySQL Debug command ? |
print("MYSQL DEBUG: %s %s:
n", mysql_errno(), mysql_error()); |
| Since you don't offer direct technical support for MySQL, where can I go to get the info I need? |
For detailed information regarding MySQL, you can go to the MySQL
Online Manual:
http://www.mysql.com/Manual/manual_toc.html
Again, we STRONGLY suggest that you find an experienced MySQL programmer when attempting to work with MySQL.
We suggest Drew Star.
www.SuperScripts.com |
| Do you support MySql ? |
| Yes, we do "support" it. Meaning that we offer MySQL as a standard feature on our servers. BUT, we do NOT provide ANY technical support on it. |
