InterTEK Communications

The World Wide Web has now been in existence for fifteen years and mainstream consumers perceive a business by its website. Having a more professional website is a powerful edge over your competition, while a lesser one will shake customer confidence. A high quality, well maintained, web presence is a statement of business stability and competence. A professional website speaks volumes, and so does an amateurish one.

Are your customers not interested in online shopping? Customers who prefer to do so are going to a competitor's website. Today's consumer expects, indeed demands, the convenience of shopping online. In the absence of such, would be sales default to the e-commerce website of a large national store chain. If they buy from you online, they also visit your actual, street, location when making larger purchases. Win them over with your website and walking into your brick and mortar store is automatic, natural.

Offering an online storefront shows you truly believe the customer is most important. Online shopping is a starting point, usually occurs during off hours, and serves to expedite any subsequent telephone or face-to-face contact. Your company will eventually have an e-commerce website. However, in the meantime, your competition will get stronger.

The ranking or result your website enjoys in any online search via services such as Google, Yahoo, and all others is not guaranteed, promised, or implied in any way by InterTEK. You should doubt the professionalism of any person promising to "make your website #1" in search rankings. The offering of proprietary techniques, advanced programming, or any other supposed "in-the-know" method to improve your website ranking is misleading and disingenuous.

Further, the hype of search engine directory submission, blogging, unique and compelling content, RSS feeds, and press releases or article submissions is marginally effective and generally impractical. For example, no directory submission is required by Google, where the large majority of all web searches are done. When you have a website created for your domain name, Google automatically finds it and indexes its pages into their database. Further, Google constantly updates itself in regular intervals. You need to do nothing; the process is automatic.

basic website for business, organizational, or individual presence with browser-bookmark icon. This design level requires a four hundred seventy dollar minimum spend and includes up to 5 pages of content.

detailed website with banner, navigation graphics, and browser-bookmark icon. This design level requires a one thousand one hundred dollar minimum spend and includes up to 12 pages of content.

customized website with email reply page, custom-unique logo/banner, navigation graphics, and browser-bookmark icon. This design level requires a two thousand four hundred dollar minimum spend and includes up to 30 pages of content.

interactive animation website with Adobe shockwave-flash animation presentation graphics modules, email reply page, custom-unique logo/banner, navigation graphics, and browser-bookmark icon. This design level requires a six thousand three hundred dollar minimum spend and includes up to 60 pages of content.

technology enhanced (web 2.0) website with custom Adobe shockwave-flash animation presentation graphics modules, email form page, custom-unique logo/banner, custom navigation graphics, browser-bookmark icon, and customized back-end technology such as e-commerce, database-contact management, content management systems, customer support systems (trouble ticket managed problem resolution), online learning, training, education, and custom web-based software programs. This design level requires an eleven thousand seven hundred dollar minimum spend and includes up to 180 pages of content.

An InterTEK domain/website hosting account is $15 per month, per domain, and billed in six month intervals ($90) except when a 90 day maintenance plan is also being billed. Email addresses, disk space, data traffic, and databases are NOT metered or specifically limited. Our hosting services require the use of our domain name registrar; registration and renewal services. Each domain/website hosting account includes powerful, real-time, server-side spam filtering technology; SSL, SSI, PHP, CGI, Perl, and ASP server-side technologies; WEBMAIL email access for when you are on the road; MS FrontPage Server Extensions, Apache custom error documents, and in-depth website visitor statistics recording and reporting service. Via InterTEK, annual domain name license renewals are $19 per year.

Normal website maintenance services are performed at $75 per hour, and require a hosting account on each particular domain name, website. Depending on the amount of work needed, most maintenance projects are completed within five business days. Priority two day maintenance is available at $60 per hour.

90 DAY MAINTENANCE PLANS ARE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING LEVELS...
$180 ÷ 3 hours = $60 per hour | $450 ÷ 9 hours = $50 per hour | $810 ÷ 18 hours = $45 per hour
EACH PLAN EXTENDS A MAXIMUM OF 90 DAYS. UNUSED HOURS DO NOT CARRY OVER. ALL PLANS ARE BILLED IN ADVANCE.

Website redesign, new pages, new shockwave flash presentation modules, new custom programming, stock graphics, and custom graphics creation is not included as "maintenance". Maintenance pertains to existing pages and content, text, non-graphics formatting, existing graphics edits, and the scan, prep, placement of photos you provide. New or developmental, non-maintenance, work may be subject to a higher hourly rate or fee.

Do you know how many individual visitors go to your website each day? Our visitor statistics service is included in the web hosting fee. Your stats are kept available for 12 months back, or longer if you want. We provide detailed hourly, daily, and monthly information in both text and graphical form. With our web stats service your company can keep track of how many visitors, which hours and days are the most busy, where are they coming from, which country, which search service did they use, which Internet provider do they use, how long did they stay on your website, which pages are most popular, onto which page did they enter your website, on which page did they leave, and more. This statistics service is provided at no extra charge; it is included in the web hosting fee.

InterTEK currently maintains over 200 domains on multiple state-of-the-art web servers connected to a 100-gigabit network. Our equipment and data server facility is supported by complete redundancy in power backup, climate control, fire suppression, connectivity, and security. Our network is second to none. Multiple "Tier 1" telecom providers and direct Internet connections bypass transit networks and shorten the path between our IT infrastructure and your customers. That means the lowest possible latency, maximum speed, and unsurpassed reliability.