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It's important to understand that publishing a new website is simply the first and most visible step in owning a site. Once it's up and people can see it, there's still lots to be done, and that's where a great webmaster comes in. We offer expert webmaster services to our clients at a great discount from our regular billing rates. For the cost of one hour's work per month, we deliver everything you need to keep your website current and performing at its best. Content maintenance is the most visible thing that we do through our Webmaster Services. When you publish a new site filled with lots of new things, visitors get excited. As time passes, however, returning visitors start seeing the same things over and over, and they quit coming back because they feel that they have learned all that they can from your site. Adding new content on a regular basis keeps your site fresh, and visitors understand that they can see or learn something new with each visit, or at least at known intervals. SiteScriptors‹ Webmaster Services includes up to two hours of content publication. When you have new content, send it to us and we'll publish it to your site. XHTML formatting and content organization are included. Best of all, you don't get an hourly bill and you don't spend the time getting things to look just right on your website. Our Webmaster Services includes two hours of content maintenance per month. A typical, 500-word article just takes us a few minutes to format and publish, so we should be able to post a new article or two each week without billing you any extra. Taken by itself, you end up getting two hours of work for the cost of one. Something that your visitors don't see is how well your database is maintained. All of our Basic Business Site websites rely on a database to store your content. When your database slows down, your whole site slows down. While visitors will probably never praise you for how well you maintain your database, they will stop visiting your site if a poorly maintaned database slows their session to the point of frustration. Worse, they'll probably never complain about it — they‹ll just quit coming back. SiteScriptors‹ Webmaster Services includes regular database maintenance. How often you modify or add to your content determines how often we optimize your database. We‹ll check things out at least monthly so you'll be assured that your site runs as quickly as your web host allows. Reliable web hosts have solid measures in place that protect your website's content, but sometimes, disaster happens. When it does, your website is simply gone for good — unless you have a current backup. If you do, recovering is a snap. If you don't, recovering is incredibly expensive. Late payments for hosting services, mistakes by hosting service administrators, hosting equipment failures, and plain old hazzards, like fires, can all lead to loss of your site's content and design. If you simply decide to change web hosting services, a backup will let you set your site back up in a jiffy, with no pain or hassle. SiteScriptors‹ Webmaster Services includes regular backups of your data. As with database maintenance, the frequency of backups depends on how frequently you update your site. At the absolute minimum, we'll back things up every month. More commonly, we perform weekly backups of your site's content, graphic design, and database. If disaster does strike, you won't be a victim. Contact us for our current rates and to sign up. As we mentioned at the start of this page, the cost of one hour's work gets you database administration services, and regular site backups, and two hours of content maintenance per month.
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