Or pay $10/month.
Or pay $12.50/month
You don't have to settle for a can't-do-diddley-squat-dot-com site when you have a team working with you, to make your site really shine!
Today's websites are interactive. At a minimum, users expect to be able to talk back to you. Typical sites built with expensive programs like Front Page or Dreamweaver aren't just difficult to build, and even harder to maintain, but users quickly decide to surf elsewhere.
We suggest an alternative. It's called a CMS or "content management system". You don't build the website on your computer, then figure out how to upload it; you build it right on the website in the first place. There's no expensive software to buy, and you can work on your site from any computer that's convenient. If you add a page to the menu, you don't have to rebuild every page, then upload the entire site once again, you simply edit the menu - once - and the changes spread to every page on your site, instantly!
It's all possible because your website is not a collection of static pages, but information stored in a database. Since pages are generated "on the fly", you can even make it possible for different surfers to choose different page designs, experiencing your website the way THEY want to experience it!
You'd think that would be expensive. It certainly should be; it's worth a lot more. It's not, though. Instead of paying $199 for Front Page, or $1300 for ColdFusion, you can have your choice of many free CMS packages. All you pay for is your hosting and your domain name.
Consider TikiWiki, for instance. It's designed to allow users to edit your pages. Yes, once in a while, there's some vandalism to repair, but in general, users help much more than they hurt. WikiPedia.org works that way, and they've grown to become the #12 site on the entire internet. But TikiWiki is much more than just a wiki - it has so many features available that it takes days to explore the potential.
Drupal is a great CMS for bloggers. A blog is a "web log", a site that you regularly add content to, much like a diary with a "welcome" sign, instead of a lock and key. Most bloggers allow site visitors to add comments.
Joomla is great for portals. One of the busier portal sites is slashdot.org, where users post news items, and surfers add their comments. Slashdot is so popular that it's become a verb: more than one site has crashed from being "slashdotted". The heavy traffic they experience when their site is mentioned on slashdot.org is more than they are prepared for, and their site cannot handle the traffic.
Those are just three of the more popular packages you can use at AmishHosting. There are dozens you can install yourself, with just a few clicks in your browser, and many more we are happy to install for you, if yuou give us a simple toll-free phone call.
Do the sites build themselves? No. Does it take a while to learn how to do things? Of course. But it's not brain surgery, either.
Recently, a small businessman signed up with us. He called a few times, asking for help to get started, and the third time he called, he asked if we could recommend someone to build his site for him. We asked him to spend just a little more time on creating a site. He sent us a couple of emails after that, asking for minor details - and then an excited email saying that suddenly it was all coming together for him, quickly. If you're a home builder, you want to build homes; if you're a dentist, you want to work on teeth. You don't want to spend all your time building a website. On the other hand, he now has control over the image presented online - and when someone else is building your website for you, you don't always have that.
In other cases, a small businessman has had his son, or his wife, or his sister-in-law build the site for him. He gets the personal attention that a professional web designer can't afford to give him, and he provides a good job for a family member.
It's not just building a site that's simple. Our hosting is designed around a "no worries" plan. You get far more webspace than 99% of all people require, far more bandwidth than 99% of all users need, standards-compliant LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/Python/PHP) hosting on a fast server, and competent, friendly tech support, 24x365, on a toll-free telephone line. You don't even have to worry about the billing - most customers pay us $99, once a year.
A great website isn't something you need to dream of. It can be yours, for relatively little effort, relatively little expense, in relatively little time. Do you have questions? Call us at 1-717-431-7327. It's the same number, whether you're a potential customer, or an existing customer that wants some help - because we don't stop valuing you once you've paid us.
