HOW IT WORKS - web development guide a detailed description of how the web development marketplace works The web development business is currently divided into three categories. These areas are what we at integricore use to decide pricing and service levels that our clients wish for. Below is an explanation of how these three areas work separately and together. DOMAIN NAME PURCHASE 1. The first category is the domain name purchase. This occurs if you wish for your site to have easy access and appear professional. Instead of www.tripod.com/members/729portal/subcity/integricore/ you get www.integricore.com This way you send a message that you mean business and most importantly, people can revisit your site easily because they can at least remember it without looking later. This also allows easier usage on business cards, and emails can be dedicated to that web address, such as: contact@integricore.com. WEB DESIGN 2. The second category is the web design element of a website. This is what gives the "physical" appearance to the site. For instance, this typing, the logo above, the buttons to the left are all part of the "web design". It takes the work of someone to physically place text on each button, design each button, make a background, etc. to develop a working "design" for the site. WEB HOSTING 3. The last category, and in many ways a very significant portion, is the web hosting element of a website. This is the part that allows the website to exist somewhere on a computer physically. Essentially, when you type www.integricore.com you are viewing what is stored on a computer in Virginia; the design of the site is sent to another computer and you are viewing those contents. This must happen because at any point in time one of your potential customers might visit your site, and so it must be up all the time. Regular computers at our homes or offices cannot be counted on to do that, and at the rates of people that visit a site either. That is why professional sites are "hosted" on a server dedicated to the viewing of a site. At integriCORE we are proud to provide any and all of these services. In some cases clients may already own domain names and wish to have us design and host their site. Sometimes they already have a design they wish to use and want a domain name and the site to be hosted by us. If you have a need, we will help fill it...and at a very reasonable price!

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