Secure websites are necessary to protect users when their private informaiton and/or money is involved.  Secure websites provide users with 3 primary benefits:

The subject of this article is not spam in general, but rather how to prevent your website from becoming a source of spam email.  It is quite common to place email links on websites.  And because they are publicly displayed, it is only a matter of time until they get collected by Internet "robots" and added to various spam lists.  At the very least, this requires that the email address displayed on a website is not your personal email address - rather, we use one specifically for the website, change it often, and forward messages from it to your personal website.

A Content Management System allows authorized users to create, modify, and manage the content of a website.  It is software application used to upload, edit, and manage content.

A content management system can perform a variety of different tasks for a website including regulating when content is displayed, how many times the content is shown to a specific user, and managing how the content connects or interacts with other elements of the website. This software also enables less technical individuals to manage content on a website easily, without having an extensive coding background. 

Websites and an Internet presence are an inexpensive way to advertise and tell the world about your business. There are 5 potential costs associated with developing and maintaning your website.  We will try to clearly explain each in this message:

Domain Name Registration - The domain name is the name by which you are found on the Internet, such as d2-webdesign.com.  You must register your domain name annually (or for several years at a time) in order to own and use that domain name.  There is a small fee associated with domain registration, typically in the order of $10/year. 

Online stores can be very simple and inexpensive, or very complicated and very expensive both to set up and maintain.  It all depends on what you are selling, how many different products you are selling, and exactly what you want your online store to look like.  For some additional information on this subject, please take a look at our article: Online Stores

Blog is an abbreviation of “web log”.  A blog is a special kind of website that allows it’s owner to easily post updates to the website, such as daily news, diary entries, announcements, schedules, or any other communications.  Posts to the website can include images. So the owner of the website can add content on a regular basis without the help of a web designer/webmaster.