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Martin Media Solutions offers a simple pricing structure so you know how much your web site will cost. Custom designed web sites are billed at $100 per page. If you need a simple one-page site for posting family photos or for sharing announcements, you pay $100. If you need a three-page site to present your small business to the Internet community, you pay $300 (does not include shopping cart). A ten-page school site will cost $1000. There are no minimum number of pages and no set up fees, as you will find with some designers. There are additional costs for sites that require extensive scripting and for e-commerce capability.

You might be asking, then, what can be included on each $100 page. Of course, one could include all the text and photos from a three-page site on the first page, but requiring your visitors to scroll down more than a couple of screens violates the tenets of good web design. If your visitors have to scroll through several screens to see your site, most of them will simply move on. For that reason, MMS reserves the right to limit each page to a length of approximately two full screens. There are exceptions, as you will see within the MMS web site, where "anchors" are used to direct the visitor to a certain portion of a long page, but this technique should not be used to merely reduce the number of pages required for a given web site.

The design price includes loading the pages on a host provider of your choice and testing of the posted site (additional long distance fees will apply, if your host does not offer FTP access for web site administration). Most Internet service providers (ISP's) charge a reasonable monthly fee for hosting web sites. Of course, MMS also offers low-cost hosting services and will host your site for a flat $12.95 monthly fee. MMS does not upload pages to America Online.

MMS can design a graphic logo, if you don't already have one, for use on your site. You will also be provided the image file to use on your business cards and stationery.

MMS will register your web site domain name (for example, mycompany.com) for $34.95, which covers the first year. The registration authority agency requires you to renew your domain name registration every year to every two years, depending on the payment options you select. See Web FAQ's or Web Services pages for more information on domain name registration. This fee only applies to sites hosted by Martin Media Solutions. Domains with .info or .biz require two-year registration up front.

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