About Our Web Design Services Why would you get a website, anyway? Well, for at least one of the following 20 reasons. Click descriptions for details.   1. To establish a presence.   2. To network.   3. To make business information available.   4. To serve your customers.   5. To heighten public interest.   6. To release time sensitive materials.   7. To sell things.   8. To make pictures, sound and film files available.   9. To reach a highly desirable demographic market. 10. To answer frequently asked questions. 11. To stay in contact with salespeople. 12. To open international markets. 13. To create a 24 hour service. 14. To make changing information available quickly. 15. To allow feedback from customers. 16. To test market new services and products. 17. To reach the media. 18. To reach the education and youth market. 19. To reach the specialized market. 20. To serve your local market. Excerpts from "The Original 20 Reasons To Put Your Business on the WWW" by Net 101. Republished on www.PacificWebcard.com with permission to reprint granted by the author. Why would you NOT get a Web site?   1. To get rich quick...   2. Because your brother-in-law has one...   3. It's cheap to do online business; so, you might as well quit your job...   4. Someone told you that you can sell anything online; fast too!...   5. You heard that e-stocks are money-makers, so now you need a web site... Make your Business an eBusiness! Web Site Development: a strategic approach Just because you spend the money to design and put it online, a website does not feel a personal sense of obligation to make you money. Building an Internet presence is a complex process. The scope, functionality and performance of a web site go well beyond good looks or high fees. Each business is unique and being able to reflect that in an web presence, not only makes a site stand out from the crowd, but it also represents the first step towards a successful online experience. So, how do we go about getting it all started? The first thing we would like you to do before you contact us for details on our design, consulting and service packages, please consult our ratecard. With this info at hand, and, before we proceed with building your new web site, we now need to know from you what it is that you expect to accomplish with your online presence, as well as general information regarding the content that you intend to provide. Using this information we can correctly assess the cost of designing your site. If you do not get an estimate at the same time that you first call us, it is because you may have very specific needs. In that case it may take a couple of days before you get it. We do not need to meet for this preliminary process and there is no cost to you when you ask for such estimate. If you accept the proposal we will then meet to discuss specifics. As we meet, we consider that the development process has begun. As a commitment to the project, at this time we will ask you to pay the non-refundable deposit suggested in the proposal. If you plan to do a certain amount of business over the internet, now we will also discuss recommendations regarding the not-so-visible mechanisms that connect your site's architecture with its strategy. It is here where the future performance of your site is seeded. Pacific Webcard is a Proud Winner of the 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004 Golden Web Award for excellence in web design, originality and content development! We are listed in the Who's Who on the Web Directory. Wanna know what busted the dot-com-mania? Then read this article »