FAQ

Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about websites and the Internet. Simply click on a question to jump straight to it's answer.

If you have a particular question that you can't find an answer to, please contact us and we'd be delighted to help.

Web pages and websites
Q. How much does a website cost?
Q. Who owns the copyright for my website once it's complete?

Domain names
Q. What is a domain name and do I need one?
Q. How do I register a domain name and what does it cost?

Search engines
Q. Why does my website only appear in some search engines?

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Web pages and websites
A. How much does a website cost?
That's rather like asking "How long is a piece of string?", since every single website has to fulfil a slightly different brief.

That was the main reason for creating our BrochureWeb and BusinessWeb packages; to give the client an up-front price so that they could budget more effectively.

As far as a totally unique custom designed website is concerned (please see our CustomWeb package), an average price for ten pages would be £800. This would include domain registration, hosting, and search engine submission.

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A. Who owns the copyright for my website once it's complete?
You do.

Unlike some other more unscrupulous design agencies, Slugnutty don't claim to own the copyright on any websites we create once the project is paid for in full.
We'll even give you the completed site on CD, including all working files and artwork.

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Domain names
A. What is a domain name and do I need one?
A domain name is the unique name that identifies a website on the World Wide Web (www.Slugnutty.co.uk for example).
It is technically possible to own a website without registering a suitable domain name, but the address would be far less memorable (e.g. www.someotherwebsite.com/yoursite) and would present a far less professional image to the outside world. Search engine ranking would undoubtedly suffer too.

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A. How do I register a domain name and what does it cost?
Because the registering of a domain name is a technical issue, only those with access to 'name servers' can register a domain name.
Slugnutty can register a domain name on your behalf for a minor fee.
$25.00 for 1 year
Please note however that any website built and hosted by Slugnutty includes the price of domain registration (and any subsequent re-registration fees) within it.

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Search engines
A. Why does my website only appear in some search engines?
The term search engine is commonly applied to all websites that facilitate Internet users in finding websites of interest to them, of which there are many.

In fact the term search engine should really only apply to those websites that use programs (commonly known as spiders or crawlers) to automatically search for and index every web page (and in many cases every word on every web page) on the World Wide Web. Google is an example of a very good search engine.

Directories on the other hand are completely different from search engines. Instead of listing web pages they only list websites, and instead of being created by the spidering program, they are created manually by human beings employing pretty stringent quality control regimes. Yahoo! is easily the world's most visited directory.

So the reason that a website can appear on some search engines/directories and not others is simply down to whether that site has been 'spidered' or listed.
Slugnutty offer both integrated and standalone optimisation services. Click here for more details.

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