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Step 1. Domain Name Registration
Step 2. Website Design & Production
Step 3. Web Hosting & Maintenance
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Building up a website can be roughly divided into 3 steps,
including domain name registration, website design and production,
and, web hosting and maintenance. With AvantBiz's professional
services, you can set up your website from nothing with
ease.
Step 1. Domain
Name Registration
Domain names are unique identifiers on Internet. You need
to get a domain name if you are serious about making your
business successful. Having your own domain instead of an
extension of someone else's, gives your website better credibility,
recognition, and visibility with the search engines and directories.
A good domain name should be simple and easy to remember.
It can make it easier for customers to search your website
and increase the page view of the website. AvantBiz provides
domain name registration in Hong Kong, China and USA. The
pricings are as follow:
| Domain Name |
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Annual Fee |
In Hong Kong,
e.g. www.yourcompany.com.hk |
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HK$200 |
In China,
e.g. www.yourcompany.com.cn |
|
HK$350 |
In USA,
e.g. www.yourcompany.com |
|
HK$150 |
Step
2. Website Design & Production
Having registered a good domain name, it's time to work
on the content of the website. Contents should be provided
by the customers, and a good website design company will do
the rest.
Your website needs to be clean, simple, and well-structured.
People use the Internet to find information. The best website
design includes informative content, simple layout, easy navigation
and fast loading graphics. It allows users to search for and
locate the information they desire in the quickest and most
convenient manner possible.
How to build a website that doesn't look like it was designed
by a novice? You have to hire designer or seek help from web
design firms. Although most people believe "design"
is a subjective topic, design is in fact a professional that
requires very strong sense of beauty, sense of design, and
even sense of business. A well defined corporate image assists
you in business.
AvantBiz produces high quality websites. To view the jobs
completed by AvantBiz, please visit Portfolio.
We provide our clients with the following web development
services:
| Web Design/Graphic |
| Web design (HTML,
Flash) |
| Flash movie (Introduction,
banner, advertisement, ecard, etc) |
| Product / environment
photo shooting |
| Photo retouching |
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| Website
Functions |
| Multiple languages
support |
| Web counter |
| Web statistics |
| Enquiry Form (Form-to-email) |
| Advertisement banner
rotation system |
| Newsletter subscription |
| Website search
engine |
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| [ Ask
for details... ] |
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| Web Systems |
| Database design
and setup |
| Content Management
System (CMS) |
| Enterprise Resource
Planning (ERP) |
| Customer Relationship
Management (CRM) |
| Web portal |
| Online shopping
/ shopping cart / e-commerce |
| Product catalogue |
| Membership system |
| Billing, Invoice
and quotation system |
| Stock management |
| |
| Website
Optimizations |
| Search Engine Optimization
(SEO) |
| |
| [ Ask
for details... ] |
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Step
3. Web Hosting & Maintenance
If contents of the website are saved in your own computer,
others will never see them. There are many web hosting services
that will allow you to put your website on one of their servers
for a monthly or annual fee. These servers are always connected
to the Internet, so your website is always available.
Here are two packages with reference price:
| Standard Hosting Package for Company Website |
| Unlimited internet volume traffic |
| 30MB hard disk storage |
| 5 POP3 account with 20MB storage each |
| Private cgi-bin directory |
| Support SSI, PHP |
| Monthly fee: HK$100 |
| [ Ask for
details... ] |
| Database Hosting Package for Company Website |
| Unlimited internet volume traffic |
| 30MB hard disk storage |
| 10MB database storage |
| 10 POP3 account with 20MB storage each |
| Private cgi-bin directory |
| Support SSI, PHP, MySQL database |
| Monthly fee: HK$150 |
| [ Ask
for details... ] |
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