Frequently Asked Questions

With most of our packages you will be supplied a username and password. That allows you to login and update your website at anytime and as often as you wish.

Net Maintain administered sites can also be updated at any time subject to current workload and booking schedules. If your update is urgent please advise us when booking-in your work and we will try and accommodate.

There is no easy way to do this because good sustainable search engine rankings take careful planning followed by a lot of work and follow-up.

Reading this blog entry on Search Engine Ranking basics is a good starting point. Check through our knowledge base for more articles on the topic. An enormous amount of material is also available on the web (try Googling “how to make my website appear on a google search”, paying particular attention to pages belonging to Google themselves).

Contact us if you would like us to put an SEO/SEM package together that will provide a strategy for improving your search engine ranking.

Be sceptical of parties making claims of instant number 1 and page 1 rankings on Google. The dubious tricks and tactics used by some operators can result in your site being excluded from search results entirely. That is not something easily fixed.

This will depend on whether we are building the entire website for you or you are doing all or part of it yourself. There are also a lot of factors that will determine how long construction of your website will take including:

• The type of website required. An ecommerce website or one with special features will take slightly longer than a conventional website.
• The amount and type of material that needs to be collated for inclusion in your website.
• The actual size of the website with respect to the amount of material included.
• The tweaking or revisions required before settling on the finished site.
• The workload we already have booked-in.

Having said all that, we have had new websites up and running in as little as 1 week and splash or holding pages in a day or so. However, you normally need to allow 4 – 6 weeks to have a full website constructed and up and running.

In a hurry? Contact us to see if we have unallocated design time available.

Yes. The price quoted for your particular account package is an annual charge. This may exclude domain name licence fees that vary depending on the length of licence period applicable to your domain name. Australian domain names, i.e. those ending in .au have a 2 year licence period, others may be from 1-10 years.

Please Note: annual fees are discounted for payment in advance. Therefore the total of all monthly fees for a year will be higher than the ‘annual rate’.

Websites Built on a Content Management System

Generally speaking someone with basic computing skills familiar with programs like Word should be fine. Basic image manipulation software that comes with todays digital cameras can be used with the tools built-in to a CMS. The majority of websites these days are built on a CMS even some with seemingly complex features.

Custom Developed Websites

Custom designed websites are usually built using a server side program language to provide the advanced features and functionality. Unless you own and are proficient with professional web development software you may find it difficult to administer these websites.

Ultimately you only need one domain name to use with your website and to allow people to find you. However, there are a number of reasons why it may be beneficial to register more than 1 name:

• You trade internationally – where you have markets in other countries it can be beneficial to register a domain name in those countries.
• Where you want to protect the value of your brand by preventing competing businesses using the same or a similar name with a different extension.
• To prevent confusion – if you register yourcompany.com.au and yourcompany.com you can point both names to the same website.
• To help with search engine positioning.
• By registering additional names you can help include other names that customers may use when searching for you.

If you need help or advice on registering a domain name please contact us.

1. You have the option to have spam filtering turned on or turned off. We recommend everyone have spam filtering turned on.
2. With spam filtering turned on you have the option to have email suspected of being spam deleted straight away or to have a spam label inserted in the subject line of the email so that you know the filter has identified that particular email as spam.

There are numerous other options for tuning the spam filtering to a level you are comfortable with including creating whitelists for friendly email addresses and blacklists for email addresses you want to block.

More details are available by contacting us or using the options available within the webmail interface for your mailbox.

For a successful website that is a long term asset to your business preparing and planning before any construction begins is crucial. Therefore, preparation work done at the beginning will always save time later.

We have a list of the steps necessary and the process involved here.

Configuring email can vary depending on the mailbox type and email program you use for email collection.

Because of the security, features and options available we recommend a premium email system such as the nMail system.

Visit our email support page for more information and a wizard for users of the nMail mail system that simplifies the process for you.