Effective budget Web design involves more than just page design. Your 15 year-old-nephew or local computer expert can probably create a web site for you.

But does either one have the time and the interest to spend months learning all the tricks of optimizing the code and text so that your site will be ranked well by search engines?

Your site needs to be maintained, checked ,and submitted periodically.Will he be interested in the middle of basketball season?

For that matter, perhaps you've proudly created a Web site yourself. But now you're wondering why you don't have the traffic and sales you expected.

You could spend hours on the Internet every day gathering the latest design tricks and search engine tips. But can your business afford that?

Let us do what we do best and free you to do what you do best.

You can't afford to depend solely on search engines for people to find your site. Millions of new pages submitted every week. Each search engine's requirements are different, and are changing all the time. You need to maximize the exposure of your Web site by using traditional advertising means as well.

• Put your Web address (URL) on your business cards and office stationary.
• Put an automatic signature on every e-mail you send
• Add games or contests
• Offer free information or products
• Keep customers up-dated by creating a mailing list
• Keep content current
• Offer coupons or discounts
• Put your URL in your answering machine message
• Send out press releases
• Offer a guarantee and stand behind it!