To give an accurate quote we need to know what your requirements are. As a guide though a small business website of 4-6 pages is around $450 to design and build which can include an on-line contact form.

Email us your business or personal website requirements. You can be guaranteed a very competitive quote which will give you a turnkey package: domain name (if required), hosting, design, building, publishing. Our pricing also includes some animation of graphics and java scripts that bring your webpages alive.

If you require something more sophisticated (such as the inclusion of Flash or video movies) or you need a database driven website for an on-line store which you can manage yourself - we can accommodate all of this and will supply a quotation accordingly. Our shopping cart software starts at $400. Naturally all quotes are obligation free.

Getting started is not as difficult as you think. We make it easy. Most businesses already have a "corporate" image ... an established look that we will carry through into the webpage design so that when a customer visits your website they can easily recognise your business.

If you don't have an established look we can create one for your webpage from your ideas.

We will discuss in detail your website requirements and content and then design and build the pages which you can view on your computer. It's as easy as that.

Before the computer is started we sketch out on paper a website plan showing each page, the content it will contain and how it will be laid out. Page links are also determined and marked on the plan.

Graphic images have to be created and photos scanned, cropped and edited. The nice things you see in website pages have normally been designed and created in a desktop publishing application programme such as Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator or Corel. There are others but those are the most common. Other webpage content can be movies and videos. Click here for an example.

Text for the site content can be typeset using any word publishing programme or supplied as hard copy. On some sites we have written the text content following interviews with relevant parties involved. When all the text and graphics have been created and stored in a site folder the process of "building the site" begins.

You can check the latest pricing and availability of your preferred domain name at http://www.melbourneit.com.au

The current price of a .com.au domain name is $140 for two years. A .com domain name is listed at $69.30 for 1 year.

You should be aware though that we can offer "bundling" packages (domain name and hosting) that make the cost of the domain name and hosting much cheaper. Contact us for details.

Site hosting costs vary greatly from one ISP to another. Be aware that the plan you are considering will allow your site to publish correctly. And just as important you should not be paying for hosting features your site is never going to utilise.

We can offer a hosting plan on a commercial server that starts at $12.50 per month packaged with a domain name of your choice (example: www.mybusiness.com.au) $80 for 2 years. Or you can leave your domain name with your preferred registrar.

However if you are not concerned at having a registered domain name you may want to consider utilising the free server space that comes with your internet account. This is an alternative way of publishing a personal website or your own documents on the internet.

Internet search engines have become a huge business in their own right. There are many companies code calling website owners offering all types of deals to get you to the top of the Google search engine lists. The method commonly used to do this is to make your site more important by hyper-linking you to thousands of other sites (you don't know which ones which is a worry as there are sites out there you would not want to be linked to) and thus ranking your site in Google's eyes which places you higher up on their lists.

Google themselves state that they cannot guarantee that your site will be at the top of their search results but given that your website is built correctly to accommodate this your chances are maximised. We include meta tags into your website code which assist the search engine "robots" to seek out the keyword content that we embed into your pages that will be used to catalogue your website in the many categories and directories. Using the right wording with in your site content and keywords will achieve good results.

There are some free search engines that have good amounts of activity and we will add your site to these as well.

But if you want to be guananteed a top ranking on the Google directories a good option is to utilise Google Adwords and set up several key ads that run on the right hand side of the Google search results pages. You can set a monthly budget for these with a minimum $ amount and you only pay when some one clicks to your site. Yes it's not free but you control it and it is a lot cheaper option than what you would pay if you sign with someone promising to get you to the top of the Google list.