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Everything you need to build, maintain and manage a successful website including QuickSite designs, easy-to-use software, personalized domains and matching email accounts, reliable hosting, effective traffic building tools - even ecommerce for those selling online.
Features
QuickSite Design Gallery
Included with every package is a QuickSite Design. These are professionally designed web sites with complete pages, including suggested navigation, content and images. Select from over 2000 pre-built sites that have been designed for specific purposes – restaurants, weddings, professional services and more. Once you’ve chosen your QuickSite Design you can immediately customize it using our SiteBuilder tools.
SiteBuilder Tools
Use our award-winning SiteBuilder software to build your website. No programming or HTML skills are needed, just download the software and simply drag and drop content onto your pages. Among the useful features are password protection, web polls, feedback forms and multimedia support. You can also make changes to your website with our easy-to-use SiteBuilder Lite tool that requires no download. Manage your content, change images and do basic site maintenance with the SiteBuilder Lite. To install and use SiteBuilder, your computer must meet the following system requirements:
- Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Netscape 6.0 or later, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 or later.
- Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, Windows NT, or Windows XP, Windows Vista
- Sixty-four (64) MB RAM.
- Twenty (20) MB of available disk space.
- Pentium II (or comparable) or faster processor.
- Internet connection of 28Kbps or greater.
Note: SiteBuilder does not currently support the Macintosh platform. SiteBuilder Lite, our easy-to-use, online editing tool, is available to Mac users running OSX and Firefox 1.0. Pages built with the SiteBuilder can be viewed with Mac, however.
Personalized Domains
A personalized domain name is a unique address on the Internet for your website such as:
www.my-sitename.com. Visitors type your domain name into their web browsers to find you online. Your domain name registration and renewal are included
Matching Email Accounts
Email accounts to match your domain name (me@my-sitename.com) will help you create a professional online presence. Email features include vacation responders, email forwarding, and POP and SMTP email access.
Number of Web Pages
A website consists of individual pages; for example, an index page, a photos page, an "About Us" page.
Number of Websites
A website consists of individual web pages. Most packages include an unlimited number of websites such as www.mysitename.homestead.com. You can build as many different sites as you need.
Disk Space (File Storage)
A website consists of text, graphics, sound and image files. Disk space is a measure of how much space these files take up on a web server.
Data Transfer (Bandwidth)
Every time someone visits your site, data (text, images) flows from our web servers to your visitor's computer. Your bandwidth is the total of all data requested by all your visitors. The larger the files on your website and the more visitors you have, the more bandwidth you need. Bandwidth is the key to ensuring that your website is visible to all your visitors.
Toll-free Phone Support
High-quality, toll-free phone is available to help you.
PayPal
From SiteBuilder, you can easily add PayPal buttons to accept online payments on your website. PayPal allows you to accept credit card payments without having a merchant account. Visitors of your website can simply click on your PayPal button to purchase products and services, or make a donation. PayPal is a great option for those who want to sell just a few items (or services, or accept donations.) If you intend to have a dedicated web store with multiple products, please see our Ecommerce package.
Online Advertising Credit
Once you've built your website, there are many resources to help you grow and drive traffic to your site.
Most of our website packages include $50 credit on Yahoo! Search Marketing for Canadian and U.S. customers. Some of our packages also include $50 Google and $50 Kanoodle credits. These online search advertisements credits are also known as Pay Per Click (PPC) keyword listings.
PPC listings allow you to bid on the terms of your choice at the price you are willing to pay for a visit to your website. For example, if you bid $0.25 on the term 'Silver Jewelry' on Google and that is the 4th highest bid, you will be listed 4th highest amongst the advertisers. You only get charged $0.25 if a visitor clicks on the link to your site. This means you get guaranteed, qualified traffic!
Also offered is a TrafficBuilder upgrade which has advanced Internet-based website promotion and marketing tools, including search engine submissions, banner advertising and more. There are also in-depth site statistics included with all packages to help you optimize your website. You can also earn money with our Affiliate program. This program pays you a commission when a visitor signs up for Homestead through your website.
Site Statistics
Included with all packages are informative and useful site statistics. There’s real-time data, user-defined date ranges, referring site information, and exportable reports. You can learn which pages are most popular, where your visitors are coming from, and much more. Create a successful website with this information by refining your site design and fine-tuning your promotional efforts.
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