Copyright © 1998 by
Frederick D. Oldfield
Created:
June 08, 1998
Last revision:
July 10, 1998
Fred Oldfield is
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Welcome to FoDOweb.
If you are an individual or small to medium business looking to establish a prescence on the world wide web, we may be able to help you. If you've already created a web site, but don't have the time to keep it up to date, we may be able to help you.
We provide basic to medium level web creation and maintenance services. That means we'll take your logo and copy (a design you use to identify yourself or your business and the information you want to make available to your visitors and customers) and create a web page (or pages) for you. When you want to make changes or update information (or add new pages and features), just let us know what you want, and we'll do it. Web creation work can cost $25 - $75 dollars an hour. Even a simple web page can often take four hours or more to create. If you really want to get on the web as cheaply as possible, take advantage of our limited-time introductory special:
We'll create, perform minimal maintenance and host your 1-page web for just $100 for one year! That's probably less than you can pay to obtain hosting priviledges
alone. So what's the catch? Yes, there are some catches - how's that for a refreshing
change? First, you are limited to one page (about two - four screen-fuls of information).
Second, we will perform only minor revisions to the page for this price. Third, and
probably most significant, you do not get your own domain address (URL - what you had to
type in to get here!). In fact, your page will be hosted within the same area as the rest
of our sites. The address you give to people to access your site could be quite long: |
Of course, if you want a more extensive site with your own domain name (and who wouldn't if they can afford it), we can set that up for you too. We'll be happy to quote you a price once we know exactly what you want - or what your budget will allow. We think you'll find our prices very reasonable and our service top rate.
Domain name registration currently costs $50 - $100 US to cover the actual cost of registering your name and setting up your domain site.
The service that registers and maintains your site (INTERNIC) charges $35 US per year, but requires the first two years in advance.
Our introductory price for web design and maintenance is $25 Cdn per hour. Expect your first page to take up to 4 hours to create (if you supply the graphics - logo - and the copy ready to be inserted). Additional time will be required if you need us to design graphics or prepare the copy (based on details you provide). Additional pages will usually have the same general look and design as the first and should require much less time. (But allow at least 1 hour per page.)
Hosting charges have not yet been established. However, we expect these charges will not exceed $19.95 US per month.
[We quote US$ in several cases because the most reasonable sites for web hosting we have discovered so far are located in the United States. We are still hoping to find a reasonable source in Canada. Unless you specifically require or desire your site to be hosted in Canada, we will host it where we can get the best choice of fast access, reliability and price. (It really makes no difference where your site is physically located; your vistors will not know if they are accessing a computer in Canada, the U.S. or Timbuctoo!)]
As you can tell, we are a new service. Our main emphasis is on web design and maintenance. We (will) purchase space for hosting your web with another company. This is not so unusual a practice, it's just unusual to admit it!
If you are an individual, we can even obtain free hosting for you from Tripod or Xoom. All you pay for is our design and maintenance.
You may not believe we're admitting this, but, as I write this, we're still looking for our first paying customer (outside of the family). If you've read this far, our newness, as a company, should not deter you. We've been designing and maintaining our website for two years. We invite you to explore all of our pages for an idea of what we can do for you. Just remember that just because you may not see a feature on our pages does not necessarily mean we can't provide it. Want scrolling text, we can do it! Want a web counter of visitors to your site, no problem! Even if you want something we don't know how to do, we'll learn how. You'll have to wait while we learn, but we're not going to charge you for the time it takes us to learn what you want. (Of course, it probably will take more time to implement something new than something we've been doing for years.)
I have a full-time job that does not involve web creation, so I'm not out "pounding the pavement" looking for customers. On the other hand, I'm planning on retiring in a few years, and I'm hoping to supplement my pension with income from web creation and maintenance. Your business will help me do that. And the more business I get, the sooner I can retire and devote even more time to your site!
If you're interested in setting up a web site, or if you have any further questions, please drop us a note via e-mail. We'll get right back to you. Thanks.
