Web Hosting Services

DATASTAR’s specialty is the small business. We understand how to develop a stunning web site without the high costs usually associated with such a site. To help get many small businesses on the Internet, we have introduced pricing around the needs of small companies. So, regardless of your size, our prices will offer you the capability to get your name and services out there without hurting your bottom line.

Commercial Web Site: Content must comply with our Terms and Conditions. Provides 5 megabytes of disk space quota. CGI access is available, and must be available to DATASTAR technical staff. Includes one custom URL (http://yourcompanyname.datastar.net) of your choice.

Rates: $15.00/month, $15.00 one-time activation fee
Excess disk usage may be billed at the rate of $2.00/megabyte/month.

Virtual Web Server: Same as the Commercial Web Option above, but allows your Web Site to be accessed via a custom URL (http://www.yourcompanyname.com). We will assist with domain registration. You are responsible for InterNIC’s domain registration and maintenance fees. Includes primary and secondary domain name service for your domain.

Rates: $20.00/month for first Virtual Web Server.
$25.00 one-time Activation Fee per Virtual Web Server.

Cookie-Cutter Web Site: Provides for a one-page Commercial Web Site with development and hosting provided by DATASTAR. Contains space for one scannable image such as a business logo and text. Physical size of image is not limited. However, very large images may result in excessively long download times. Text must be provided electronically. Content must comply with our Terms and Conditions. Provides 1 megabyte of disk space quota. Includes a link to your page from DATASTAR’s PicayuneOnline.com web site.

Rates: $10.00/month, $15.00 one-time activation fee

All Web Sites hosted by DATASTAR include a link to your page from DATASTAR’s Picayune directory web site and, at no additional charge, publishing in the most popular search engines. Disk usage beyond the five-megabyte average daily limit is billed at the rate of $2.00/megabyte/month.

Commercial Web Site Development

The following are a few key strategies that will make your Web site succeed:

Proper planning: Your Web site must be thoughtfully integrated with your overall marketing plans, using solid strategies to achieve specific objectives. Browsing the Web, you will find an abundance of sites with no clearly defined purpose. Your Web site should produce a return on investment equal to or greater than other marketing elements. Accomplishing this requires careful planning and implementation.

Content is everything: A Web site may be used to display your company’s catalog, describe your services, and offer consumers useful information that will either directly or indirectly promote your products or services. Your site must be richly designed using mostly small, fast-loading images that do not make navigating through your site unnecessarily slow. Make your site as interactive as possible to gather visitor feedback through e-mail and survey forms.

Visibility counts: Getting noticed on the Web depends on two primary factors: First, your site must be registered with all the major on-line search directories including Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Yahoo!, etc. Second, your Web pages must be carefully titled to include the key words likely to be used in Web searches by your prospects.

Professional help: The World Wide Web is a vast new frontier. Avoid costly mistakes and time-consuming trial-and-error by relying on a professional marketing firm that will assess how you will best benefit from the Web, write copy and design graphics that will effectively fit the medium, develop and maintain reliable HTML Web documents, and help generate traffic to your site.

For a proposal to plan, design, develop, and implement your World Wide Web site, contact DATASTAR:

e-mail: sales@datastar.net
telephone: 601.799.2439
visit: 1620 Highway 11 North, Suite D, Picayune, MS 39466