FAQ

All invoices viewed online, your personal details and any transactions are covered by an SSL certificate issued by GeoTrust and are perfectly safe.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol for enabling data encryption on the Internet and for helping web site users confirm the owner of the web site. SSL is most commonly used to protect communications between web browsers and servers. However, it is increasingly used for server to server communications and for web-based applications. RapidSSL® Certificates help you keep your customers’ transactions secure with strong encryption, and you’ll speed through enrollment with automated domain control validation. We keep our costs down and pass the savings on to you.

Once your account has reached the 100% limit your account will display a page advising you that you have reached your monthly bandwidth limit – you can then choose to upgrade your account by sending an email request OR wait until the new month (1st of every month) in which the bandwidth limits are reset.

To check your bandwidth usage, you should log into your account cPanel.

1. Login to your control panel (eg. www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/)
2. Locate the "Software & Statistics" tab.
3. An icon called "Bandwidth" will be listed, click this.

Note: Your usage details will be located at the bottom of your plan summary.

These details are updated nightly and are accurate at their time of update.

If you are unsure of your account access details, send an email request.

Bricks and mortar cost money. Not having an office means we are able to pass on the considerable savings to our customers in the form of cheaper websites, domain names, hosting and support.

For consultations, we are more than happy to visit you at your convenience.

Bendigo Web Design is proud of the support it offers its customers. It is what sets us apart from the average provider in regional Victoria.

We offer several means of support which are listed below:

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

Quite simply, it is important to support the local economy. If you employ a Melbourne or Sydney-based designer, they would be unlikely to spend your money in Bendigo. Where practical, our money goes back to the local economy. We live here, we work here and we spend here.

Apart from the obvious economic argument for securing the service of a local website designer, there are practical considerations also. Occasionally, it is necessary to meet face-to-face, particularly for the initial consultation and so living in the same community makes this a practical operation.

Trust and confidence comes from transparency. We are happy to meet our clients wherever and whenever it is practical to do so.

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

Once you have paid any outstanding invoices, it is exclusively yours.

We still see the very distasteful practice of charging a monthly fee for a website. Should you fall ill or accidentally overlook a payment, your site will disappear quicker than you can say "unscrupulous web designer". Apart from the obvious initial effect this would have on your business, you should also consider that your site would invariably fall out of the search engine rankings, and once your site has been restored, could take many months to reappear.

Additionally, you should be very wary of web designers who register domain names on your behalf. This practice is frowned upon but still occurs locally. The problem becomes apparent should you decide to take your domain name elsewhere, maybe to a competitor, or should you and your web designer fall out for some other reason. If it is registered in his name, there is very little you can do.

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation or Housing as it is commonly called in Latin America or France..

The scope of web hosting services varies greatly. The most basic is web page and small-scale file hosting, where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface. The files are usually delivered to the Web "as is" or with little processing. Many Internet service providers (ISPs) offer this service free to their subscribers. People can also obtain Web page hosting from other, alternative service providers. Personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement-sponsored, or inexpensive. Business web site hosting often has a higher expense.

Single page hosting is generally sufficient only for personal web pages. A complex site calls for a more comprehensive package that provides database support and application development platforms (e.g. PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, and ASP.NET). These facilities allow the customers to write or install scripts for applications like forums and content management. For e-commerce, SSL is also highly recommended.

The host may also provide an interface or control panel for managing the Web server and installing scripts as well as other modules and service applications like e-mail. Some hosts specialize in certain software or services (e.g. e-commerce). They are commonly used by larger companies to outsource network infrastructure to a hosting company.

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Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

Once your account has reached the 100% limit your account will display a page advising you that you have reached your monthly bandwidth limit – you can then choose to upgrade your account by sending an email request OR wait until the new month (1st of every month) in which the bandwidth limits are reset.

To check your bandwidth usage, you should log into your account cPanel.

1. Login to your control panel (eg. www.yourdomain.com/cpanel/)
2. Locate the "Software & Statistics" tab.
3. An icon called "Bandwidth" will be listed, click this.

Note: Your usage details will be located at the bottom of your plan summary.

These details are updated nightly and are accurate at their time of update.

If you are unsure of your account access details, send an email request.

The number one preferred online marketing strategy for a website is what the industry refers to as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO is an effort to get your website to the top of the results pages on Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea is to optimise your pages so that your site appears in the top ten or twenty search results of search engines for your targeted search terms.

Bendigo Web Design offers technical support on all projects carried out by us. This technical support is completely without charge.

As a courtesy service to our valued clients, Bendigo Web Design also offers a limited maintenance service at no cost. This includes major software updates and security fixes, uploading the odd new image, replacing out of date price lists, adding new staff details and maybe the odd special offer announcement.

This free service is offered on a 'within reason' basis and each request is assessed individually based on the estimated time it will take, complexity and current work schedule.

Once you have paid any outstanding invoices, it is exclusively yours.

We still see the very distasteful practice of charging a monthly fee for a website. Should you fall ill or accidentally overlook a payment, your site will disappear quicker than you can say "unscrupulous web designer". Apart from the obvious initial effect this would have on your business, you should also consider that your site would invariably fall out of the search engine rankings, and once your site has been restored, could take many months to reappear.

Additionally, you should be very wary of web designers who register domain names on your behalf. This practice is frowned upon but still occurs locally. The problem becomes apparent should you decide to take your domain name elsewhere, maybe to a competitor, or should you and your web designer fall out for some other reason. If it is registered in his name, there is very little you can do.

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

Newly launched websites do not appear in search engines, such as Google, instantly.

Two things need to happen before a website appears in their records:

1. They need to crawl your website to record the new content. Bendigo Web Design will introduce your website to the major search engines and some lesser known ones the moment your site is complete and ready to 'go live' on the Internet.
2. Then they need to update their index with the new content. Again, this happens periodically but we have no control over when they do this.

These can take up to 12 weeks to complete.

We may be able to speed this process up a little by submitting a sitemap.xml file to Google and is something we include free of charge.

Google is always trying to figure out new ways to keep people from manipulating the search results. That’s why much of the logic behind their search algorithm is kept secret. For this reason, Search Engine Optimisation is a little 'hit and miss'.

Your web site can be one of the most effective and cost-effective marketing tools available for promoting your business. However, it’s a common misconception that the moment your web site goes live, thousands of people will immediately find it and purchase the products or services being offered. The reality is not quite so simple. To find your web site, people have to know where to look — your web site has to be promoted before it can promote your business.

The number one preferred online marketing strategy for a website is what the industry refers to as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO is an effort to get your website to the top of the results pages on Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea is to optimise your pages so that your site appears in the top ten or twenty search results of search engines for your targeted search terms.

Email Spam is by far the most common form of unsolicited communication and accounts for approximately 80% of all email. Here at Bendigo Web Design, we employ a number of methods to safeguard against Spam. Our websites do a competent job of detecting it and preventing it by using several dedicated anti-spam plugins.

All invoices viewed online, your personal details and any transactions are covered by an SSL certificate issued by GeoTrust and are perfectly safe.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a protocol for enabling data encryption on the Internet and for helping web site users confirm the owner of the web site. SSL is most commonly used to protect communications between web browsers and servers. However, it is increasingly used for server to server communications and for web-based applications. RapidSSL® Certificates help you keep your customers’ transactions secure with strong encryption, and you’ll speed through enrollment with automated domain control validation. We keep our costs down and pass the savings on to you.

Bendigo Web Design is proud of the support it offers its customers. It is what sets us apart from the average provider in regional Victoria.

We offer several means of support which are listed below:

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A website, also written Web site,[1] web site, or simply site,[2] is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet address known as a Uniform Resource Locator. All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web.

A web page is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A web page may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors.

Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the web page content. The user's application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.

The pages of a website can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the homepage. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although hyperlinking between them conveys the reader's perceived site structure and guides the reader's navigation of the site.

Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription websites include many business sites, parts of news websites, academic journal websites, gaming websites, file-sharing websites, message boards, web-based email, social networking websites, websites providing real-time stock market data, and websites providing various other services (e.g. websites offering storing and/or sharing of images, files and so forth).

Here are a few reasons why you should choose Bendigo Web Design for your website needs:

The short answer is, it really depends?

The turnaround of a website project is often dictated by the client. The most common delay in the creation and completion of a new website is waiting for content (text/images) to be sent to us by the client. Another common delay is waiting for client responses to our emails such as approving design mockups or web design changes to be acknowledged.

Other factors which may impact the turnaround include the size of your site, it's complexity and of course, our current client schedule.

If you have a deadline in mind we will endeavour to meet it for you.

We can certainly offer you a more accurate idea of turnaround, once we have discussed your specific requirements.

Quite simply, it is important to support the local economy. If you employ a Melbourne or Sydney-based designer, they would be unlikely to spend your money in Bendigo. Where practical, our money goes back to the local economy. We live here, we work here and we spend here.

Apart from the obvious economic argument for securing the service of a local website designer, there are practical considerations also. Occasionally, it is necessary to meet face-to-face, particularly for the initial consultation and so living in the same community makes this a practical operation.

Trust and confidence comes from transparency. We are happy to meet our clients wherever and whenever it is practical to do so.

Once you have paid any outstanding invoices, it is exclusively yours.

We still see the very distasteful practice of charging a monthly fee for a website. Should you fall ill or accidentally overlook a payment, your site will disappear quicker than you can say "unscrupulous web designer". Apart from the obvious initial effect this would have on your business, you should also consider that your site would invariably fall out of the search engine rankings, and once your site has been restored, could take many months to reappear.

Additionally, you should be very wary of web designers who register domain names on your behalf. This practice is frowned upon but still occurs locally. The problem becomes apparent should you decide to take your domain name elsewhere, maybe to a competitor, or should you and your web designer fall out for some other reason. If it is registered in his name, there is very little you can do.

The number one preferred online marketing strategy for a website is what the industry refers to as SEO (Search Engine Optimization). SEO is an effort to get your website to the top of the results pages on Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN. The idea is to optimise your pages so that your site appears in the top ten or twenty search results of search engines for your targeted search terms.