ABOUT US

The Web Site Guys, Inc was incorporated in February, 2002. Before that we were known as B. P. D. Consulting. B. P. D. Consulting was founded in 1974 when Bruce De Vries accepted his first contract programming assignment. Since then he has provided quality software engineering services to many happy clients. In November, 1995 Bruce was approached by a client that needed a web page and by December it was on-line. It included a Shockwave horse race game to help attract customers to the site and an order form for a thoroughbred horse racing betting system. This site impressed some other companies and B. P. D. Consulting got their business. These companies referred them to other clients who referred them to still more clients. The Web Site Guys is a rapidly expanding team of quality craftsmen including: web site designers, advertising copy writers, Microsoft certified network specialists, graphic artists, computer programmers, database designers and data entry specialists.

The Web Site Guys is a full-service company. We can help you locate an Internet Service Provider in your area with DSL, cable, wireless or local dial-up service. This will give you access to the Internet to read your e-mail and "surf" the Internet. We can install and configure your Internet access software, configure your network and set up a mail server and Internet gateway.

We sell web hosting services to most of our clients. We use a web hosting company that allows us to buy services from them in bulk and resell them to our clients. They provide 24/7 monitoring, tape backup and maintenance. The servers are running Red Hat Linux and Apache web server software. We provide our clients with customer support and we can ask them questions if there are any problems. They provide a lot of flexibility in allowing us to design a custom package to fulfill our customer's needs. We offer a basic web package at $7.95 a month (paid quarterly in advance). If paid a year in advance we will pay for domain name registration for most domain extensions The company is located in Houston, Texas. They have excellent response times with under 130 ms round trip response to us in Anaheim, California.

We will also work with your existing hosting company or if you prefer to be billed directly by the ISP we can also arrange for that (Account limits and rates may vary). Domain registrations and renewals are available for $14.95 a year for (.com, .net., .org, .us, .info, .biz). We use GoDaddy.com

We charge $50 an hour for most web site design services. Advanced CGI scripting, PHP, ASP and JAVA programming are billed at $75 an hour. A typical web page takes between one and three hours. Logo import from your artwork usually takes 1 to 3 hours. Photos can be scanned and included in your web page in about 20 minutes. Photo retouching typically takes 2 to 3 hours. Links to other sites will typically take 10 minutes to add the link and verify that it works correctly. Discounts apply for large numbers of photos and/or links.

A down payment is required to start work with most new clients. This is typically the lesser of 50% of the estimate or $1,000. Installment payments can be made on contracts over $2000. Invoices are due when submitted. Estimates will be provided by us and approved by you before work is started. Special payment terms are available.

Our Microsoft Certified network specialists are billed at $100 an hour with a 1/2 hour minimum. Most new customers will be COD. Credit must be requested and approved in advance.

We also offer web site promotion services. For $150 we will publicize your site by listing it with 50 to 70 of the most popular search engines, Internet directories and announcement sites (the number varies depending on the type of site). We can also list your site with Yahoo, Looksmart and other pay Internet directories. We can also help you select keywords to bid on for search engine placement through Overture, Google and other keyword bid for placement services. Overture keywords can be monitored by our software and we will adjust the bids to achieve the desired placement at the lowest possible cost. Services sold through third parties may be billed at higher rates. Discounts can be negotiated for contracts over $5,000 a month.

The Web Site Guys does high quality work and works fast. A preliminary site can be active complete with a custom domain name within three business days. One was active within 24 hours, but this is more a rarity than the norm. Our best resumé is our prior work. Excellent references can be provided on request, or feel free to send e-mail to any of our clients.