It's true almost anyone can make a web page today. Thanks to HTML Editing software, you can spend as little as $50 to buy a program that will help you create a web page and put it online immediately. Why hire a professional designer when you can save time and money by doing it yourself?
Here's why: If you're serious about succeeding on the Internet, just creating a web page and putting it online isn't enough. HTML Editors can help you write a web page, but they can't teach you the ins and outs of professional design. When you open an online storefront, you are creating a global image. You're asking people to take you seriously, to trust that you can deliver the products and services they came to get. It only makes sense to put this in the hands of a professional designer, not a $50 program you can buy at the discount software store.
If you are comfortable and confident with your knowledge of the most current versions of the HTML web-authoring language, you might consider designing your site yourself. At minimum, you will need to understand the following:
We believe a better choice is to rely on OWT to create a professional site for you at affordable rates. Our team of professional web designers has developed hundreds of successful web sites for businesses across the country. We encourage you to look at the sites we've created for existing clients -- we're confident you'll like what you see. (See the "OWT Web Portfolio" information sheet.) We are also very cost effective and fast. We believe we can do much more in an hour than many firms can do in a morning!
We pride ourselves on creating sites that work for our clients and their customers. We offer professional graphic design to help separate your site from the competition, and our designers can easily integrate any of our "web tools" to make your site more powerful and effective!
Below is a summary of just some of our capabilities and offerings:
Many of the tools below as well as some new ones and more specific examples are detailed on our Web Tools page.
We have a number of ready-made CGI packages available for use on commercial sites including forms processing, email forms, etc. These packages are all available at no additional cost! We can drop these programs into new pages we design or if you are a designer use of these programs is included with your hosting! We also offer customized CGI programming - our experienced programmers can create almost anything you can imagine at very affordable prices - typically $45 per hour.
Our powerful database engine will allow your site to display, search and sort database data quickly and easily. Easily include URLs, email links and pictures. Custom list and detail displays make this a flexible tool for any web site. Data can be updated live on the web or simply upload your exising database (we use the common dbf format for your convenience). Our database systems compare to systems costing 10 times as much! Pricing starts at $25 per month! Call for pricing and details.
For a listing of sites using a database currently Click Here
We have built a powerful engine just for real estate agents! Simply fill out web-based forms and upload pictures and you have a full-featured, searchable, online database of properties. Complete with pictures, links to agents and much more, this engine will help you sell more property! Pricing starts at $25 per month! Call for pricing and details.
Our catalog engine lets you display, search and sort your catalog data quickly and easily. Flexible display options make this a very sensible solution for any catalog-like data. Call for pricing and details.
OWT offers color scanning and file conversion services to get your graphics in the proper format for the Internet. Simply provide camera-ready artwork, ad slicks or any other kind of promotional material and we will do the rest. We also have a digital camera and can take pictures for you so that they may be published on the Internet.
We also offer full multi-media production including audio and full-motion video. Flash, QuickTime and Director animations for use on and off the Internet are available. We also can convert your documents into a portable document format (PDF) that anyone can view on or off the Internet with your fonts and graphics embedded just as you see them on your computer.
We can create computer generated artwork or even custom free-hand artwork to make your web site look unique. Our staff artists are experienced in creating web artwork and are very affordable. Logos, animations or just simple buttons - OWT can do it for less!
OWT will gladly host your Internet server as well - whether purchased from us or not! We can host Unix, Windows NT or Macintosh servers at our facility, connect them to the Net and maintain the hardware for you for a very attractive price. You can maintain the software remotely without the hassles of dealing with the hardware.
We can also host your domain on our hardware - this is called a virtual domain. Even though your site is on our system it can still be referenced by http://www.yourcompany.com. You can even have email addresses at this domain! See Virtual Email.
We also offer virtual email - email for your registered domain can be received on our system and either routed to your remote Internet account or to an OWT mail address. This way you can advertise an email address of
yourname@yourcompany.com
We provide this service very inexpensively - no matter where you get your Internet access!
OWT can register your domain so that you may use the address format "yourcompany.com". The registrar we use requires that you pay $30.00 per year (2 years in advance) for new domains. Once registered we can host the domain (the domain must always be active) until you are ready to activate a web site or convert an existing web site to the new domain. (See Hosting Services)
We offer a variety of Internet servers - preconfigured for web operations. We can create generic Unix (Linux) systems based upon 486 or Pentium processors or provide powerful PowerPC based Macintosh Internet Servers that can host your web site admirably.
Let OWT create a custom firewall solution for you! We use generic Unix (Linux) systems built around standard 486 computer systems that provide all of the protection and flexibility you will need. This also allows an entire business to run off a pair of IP addresses (included). A mail server is included if you like as well as a dial-up system for access or as a backup to a frame relay or ISDN solution. Administration is simple using either character mode menus or the X display GUI.
An easy and effective method for distributing information involves the use of mailing lists. OWT can configure your list and users can subscribe or unsubscribe at will. A virtually unlimited number of users can subscribe to the list so that you and your subscribers can exchange information via email. We also offer easy web-based subscription forms to facilitate the subscription process. Pricing varies depending upon the volume of the list. Please call us for more information.
Our concept is to minimize your financial risk and tie web costs directly to results. For that reason we offer very low monthly rates with charges that are attached to transactions that bring your business sales, qualified leads or reduced customer support costs. Web hosting starts at $35.00 per month. Programming, design and many graphics services are available at $35.00 to $55.00 per hour. Additional services are very competitively priced as well. We offer various "engines" that provide excellent functionality at very affordable prices.
Our pricing is not based upon "hits" or "megs" - it is based simply on the impact the site will have on our server and bandwidth. It is for this reason that we do not quote all of our prices on this page. Our representatives will be happy to discuss our pricing with you in person or over the phone. Call our web marketing specialists now at (509) 735-0408 for more information about getting your business on the World Wide Web. This is the future of electronic commerce.
Most would agree that the best way to understand our capabilities is to see what we have done. We have a brief "resume" of sites that we feel demonstrate our capabilities well. If you see something you like mention this site to our representatives and we can tell you how this feature can be available on your site!
For a complete listing of our Commercial Web Customers Click Here
OWT is please to offer free, limited hosting services for non-profit organizations in the Tri-Cities area. Please see our special nonprofit hosting page for more details.
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