Your Web Presence

Internet Commerce is expected to reach 5 trillion dollars and an expected 1 billion global users, by the year 2005.  More People are buying online and prefer buying online every day. Gasoline, crowds and traffic are making online shopping more attractive.  Your web presence must display your image and must make you appear reputable, credible, and your products must be appealing to your customers. 

To compete in today's internet marketplace, you need a web presence.  Ring'A'Ding Designs will design, set up, and maintain your site.  We will prepare promotional items for you to market your site by adding your website address to your business cards, stationary, brochures and flyers.  

Ring'A'Ding Designs will prepare a proposal for you. please email us at sales@ringadingdesigns.com and tell us about your company.  You will not be under any obligation to purchase until you are ready...and no one will call you unless you tell us to call.  And we WILL NOTsell your name to a mailing list!

Your website is critical to your on-line presence.  We will work closely with you throughout the process to make sure your presence projects your image properly.  We then work closely with you to keep your site current.

Web Presence = Domain Name + Website + Host + Email + ECommerce + Marketing

• Domain Name, This is how people find you on the internet.  Your domain name is your address on the internet. Until you register it, it's not yours.  Research and register your name here.  Your domain name can be your company name, if you register it before someone else does.  You can register your name and 'park' it here until you have your web site set up. 

• Web Site. This is the program that runs your online business. Choose from HTML sites or FLASH sites... OR do-it-yourself with 'Website Tonight Sites'7

• Web Host. Your web site needs a place to reside, a computer that connects to the internet 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.  A Host is a computer that runs your web site program.  We host web sites on a servers sized for your application!  We are a hosting company.  Our hosts have on-site backup power systems like generators, 24 hour a day maintenance, redundant connections and all the necessary elements.  You can set up your host service yourself, or we can do it for you.  We will handle all of this for you on turn-key sites.  But if you are a do-it-yourselfer, you can pick a plan which will suit your needs and will not break your bank account.    

• E-Mail. This allows you and you customers to communicate. Yes! we have Email accounts for you and your organization, large or small....

• E-Commerce - a shopping cart program and a Merchant Account allows you to sell your products and collect money from your customers for their purchases. You have several options to choose from...

• Marketing your business on the internet is about the same as marketing any real world business. As with any business your internet marketing must be a continual work-in-progress.  You must add your web address on all of your stationary, promotional materials, brochures, and business cards.  You must mention your web address in all of your media advertisements.  This phase of your web presence is probably the most important.  You must always be updating product lines, product descriptions, prices, shipping and other information.  Valuable information about web site design and marketing is available in the Gorilla Marketing book.  Click on the picture on the left menu for a free copy.

FLASH Sites .

FLASH supports animation, music, and/or expanded graphics. The FLASH sites that we offer are easy to maintain. A FLASH site requires the Macromedia Flash Player to view. Visitors who do not have the Macromedia Flash Player already are offered the player as a free download. 

Basic HTML Sites

Do all of these terms, like "HTML", "Domain Names", "FTP - File Transfer Protocol", and the like just elude you?  If you are comfortable with these terms and want to prepare your own web site, go ahead, and we'll help.  But, if you are not comfortable with all of  this, leave it to us.  We will register your domain name, design your web site,  and put the pieces together for you.  It's what we do.  Just email us and we'll get started.