Danor Design creates web sites for clients who are local as well as out of state. By using the Internet, email and the telephone, it is possible to communicate effectively with clients in any location.

The time frame is determined by the size of your web site, the complexity of your site design, and our current client design schedule.

It stands for "universal resource locator". This is the address typed in to view your web page on the Internet. For example, you would type in http://www.danordesign.com to access our home page.

Yes, you can use any web host you like. Once your website has been completed you will have to provide us with your web hosting ftp login username as password so that we can upload your website for you.

Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may require several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory. How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders. We suggest you use Guaranteed Search Engine Submit
Your site can be listed on AOL, MSN, Overture in a couple of days.

If you have decided you want a web site or have any questions, simply fill out our web design quote request form to start the process.

This depends on how you are going to use it. If you are going to be telling people over the phone, choose one that is easy to say and spell out loud. Above all, you should choose one that is memorable and not confusing.

A static site is one that is written in HTML only. Each page is a separate document and there is no database that it draws on. What this means functionally is that the only way to edit the site is to go into each page and edit the HTML - so you'd either have to do it yourself using a webpage editor like FrontPage or pay us to go in and edit the site each time you wanted something changed.

A dynamic site is written using more complex code and can do a lot more. For instance, we can make an area where you can log in and change various parts of the site, such as adding information or products. This is because each page is constructed based on the information in a database, and the information in that database can be changed via another interface.

Dynamic sites can reduce ongoing maintenance costs if you don't want to change things yourself with a webpage editor or with the HTML. They usually cost more to develop, as they require more complex coding and a content management utility needs to be developed to help you manage your website information.

Another benefit of dynamic sites is that they allow you to change only the content of the site and not the design, so you will not be able to accidentally break the visual style of the site. They have other benefits when sites start to get very large, as they make data management much more efficient and your site more expandable.

Many clients do a combination, having some dynamic areas such as a product catalog where they have to change information or pictures regularly, and leave other pages such as contact information as static pages.

The Robots Exclusion Protocol allows Web site administrators to specify parts of their sites that robots should not visit by providing a /robots.txt document.

The Robots META tag allows HTML authors to specify whether robots should index a document, and whether robots should harvest additional URLs from a document. The Robots META tag requires no server administration.

The most reliable way is to configure the server to send out a redirection instruction when the old URL is requested. Then the browser will automatically get the new URL. This is the fastest and most efficient way, and is the only way described here that can convince indexing robots to phase out the old URL. For configuration details consult your server admin or documentation (with NCSA or Apache servers, use a Redirect statement in .htaccess).

If you can't set up a redirect, there are other possibilities. These are inferior because they tell the search engines that there's still a page at the old location, not that the page has moved to a new location. But if it's impossible for you to configure redirection at your server, here are two alternatives:

* Put up a small page with text like "This page has moved to http://new.url/ -- please adjust your bookmarks."

* A META Refresh tag won't work for all browsers and can break the "back" button. For example:



which will load [newURL] after [x] seconds. This should go in the HEAD of the document. But if you do this, also include a short text saying "Document moved to [newURL]" for other browsers.