uHostMe Internet Services offers a wide variety of services to assist you with getting the most out of the Internet for your Web site. Either individually or combined, these services can help you leverage the Internet to your advantage:
Web Design
Web Design is the art and process of creating for you a single Web page or an entire Web site and may involve both the aesthetics and the mechanics of your Web site's operation although primarily it focuses on the look and feel of your Web site. Some of the aspects that may be included in Web design production are graphics and animation creation, color selection, font selection, navigation design and content creation, and may include HTML/XML authoring, JavaScript programming, and ecommerce development. Check out the site samples to help you determine a design.
Web Development
Web Development incorporates all areas of publishing your Web site for use on the World Wide Web. This includes the execution of your Web design (graphic design, HTML, CSS, usability and semantics), server setup and administration, "back-end" programming, content management, testing and deployment. There may be more than one member that works on your Web development team, each specializing in his or her own field.
Web Site Maintenance
Web Site Maintenance is the on-going support necessary to change the content of your current Web site's files. An example of this is when data such as rates, photos or any current data changes. The site's files, in turn, will need to be modified to reflect such changes. Once your Web site is deployed, a maintenance program is available to continue to keep it up to date. We also offer Web site maintenance for existing Web site owners.
Web Hosting
The World Wide Web is a massive collection of Web sites, all running (hosted) on computers called Web servers all over the world. The Web server where your Web site's files, graphics, etc. reside is known as the Web host. Web hosting clients can simply upload their Web site to a shared or dedicated Web server, which the provider maintains to ensure a constant, fast connection to the Internet. We offer a broad variety of Web hosting options, from shared hosting to virtual hosting to dedicated servers.
E-commerce Applications
E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet. In practice, this term and a newer term, e-business, are often used interchangeably. An E-commerce Application is any program that enables the execution of e-commerce on the Internet and is typically thought of in terms of Web stores and shopping cart applications. We can administer and manage existing shopping cart products as well as provide and install shopping carts and Web store software onto your new or existing Web site.
Credit Card Merchant Accounts
A Merchant Account is a commercial bank account established by contractual agreement between a merchant/business and a bank and/or a payment gateway. The agreement contains the respective rights, warranties, and duties with respect to accepting bankcards like Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. You may apply for this account directly from your bank, or from an online Payment Processor. Such accounts may also include the ability to accept checks online instead of relying on customers to mail them in. We offer discounted merchant accounts from Cardservice International, the largest Internet credit card processor.
Domain Name Registration
Domain Name Registration is the process whereby a unique domain name (e.g. www.yoursite.com) is selected and registered by a user, giving the registrant the right to use that domain name for their Web site. Most Web hosts require you to register a domain before you sign up for Web hosting or you may register multiple domains and point them to one Web site. We can register domains for you or manage those that you have already registered.
SSL Certificates
Short for Secure Sockets Layer, SSL is a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data − a public key (the SSL Certificate) that is known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers for online sales. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with "https:" instead of "http:". We provide and install SSL Certificates from a variety of SSL marketers, including Verisign, Thawte, GEOtrust and Komodo.
Search Engine Optimization
Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of increasing the amount of visitors to your Web site by ranking it high in the search results of a search engine, such as Google. The higher your Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that your Web site will be visited by a user. It is not common practice for Internet users to click through pages and pages of search results, so where your Web site ranks in a search is essential for directing more traffic toward your Web site. SEO also helps to ensure that your Web site is accessible to a search engine and improves the chances that your Web site will be found by the search engine's ranking applications.
If you have any questions about these or other services that you are curious about, please contact us ( email:
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