Professional Website Design
For companies that want a customized professional website design, Tampa Bay Hosting specializes in taking the hassle out of getting your business onto the Internet. Tampa Bay Hosting can be relied on to work closely with you to provide on-going from web design to servicing and updating of your web site. Your customers will continually be informed with the most current information on your company and its products. LTC Hosting has been providing web development to the business community since 1998.
Most business customers want help getting started with their web site and then start to maintain it themselves. We highly suggest using a content management system (CMS) like Joomla. Joomla 1.5 allows you to build and expand your site with little or no web experience. Many templates exist that you can use to give your site a rich look and feel. Because Joomla is an Open Source project there is no cost for the system. You pay only to get it installed for you, setup, configured and customized to meet your requirements. This allows you to have a site that would have would have cost tens of thousands of dollars just a few years ago for a small fraction of that cost.
Most initial implementations of a CMS system installed, customized with a template, configured and input of initial content cost from $500 to $1000. More complex implementations that include Virtuemart shopping cart usually cost between $1000 and $2000.
It really depends on your timetable and how much of the initial content and configuration you want to do. With our DIY hosting plans you can do all the work for just the cost of the hosting plan, as we offer "Click to install" right from the hosting Hshpere control panel.
We will work with you to give your site a professional web design and once you feel comfortable, you can maintain the site yourself. If you want us to do all the work we can arrange that through one of our managed hosting packages, You provide us the changes and we will update it for you. When you need additional ideas or add an E-Commerce shopping cart, we are available to assist you in developing what ever you need.
Tampa Bay Hosting demands of itself, to keep your costs to a minimum. That is why we post our prices right here on our website. You don't see our competitors doing it. They want you to call for a vague quote. We want your business and your trust, as that is how we have built our business.
We therefore offer web site designs and small business consulting that will best suit your companies requirements. Prices are based on you providing the written and graphic material (logos, images ET.) to be used in the web site. You retain all ownership and copyrights to your materials and those we develop for you. For larger sites that require displaying a large quanty of data we can work with you to develop an on-line data base to provide an easy to maintain and updated web site. Want an online store? We will design your store around our OS Commerce shopping cart that has all the features of the big guys but has your store own unique look and feel.
To Get Started or Your Questions Answered Call 727-490-4267 Toll Free 800-493-5276
Web Site Portfolio
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Out Of The Blue Seaglass Jewelry
Out of the Blue Seaglass Jewelry wanted a full featured e-commerce shoping cart that has all the features found on big box e-commerce sites. Magento e-commerce has all the latest features, like drill down, product compare, product reviews, site maps making Magento the most search engine friendly package available today in the open source community.
Because it is Open Source, Magento is a very low cost choice that provides all the capability you need to get your store online quickly and the lowest possible cost. See our Magento Page for a complete list of features and how to get started. |
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raygear™ Safety Face Shields
raygear™ Face Shields manufactures safety face shields for use in industrial, medical and UV face protection. This site incorporates a very custom design using Joomla and Virtuemart e-commerce for selling directly to the distributor and end customer. To showcase their product line each category of products page incorporates a slideshow to emphasize how many ways the face shields can be used. |
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Spencer's Western World
Spencer's Western World is the premiere western wear, cowboy boot and western wear accessories store in Pinellas County FL. This Joomla based site uses a very flexible template design that works very well with the e-commerce Joomla extension VirtueMart. This combination makes for a very powerful, yet easy to manage online store. |
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Cantalupi Yacht Lighting Products
http://www.cantalupiusa.com
The US Distributor of high quality yacht and boat lighting products. Cantalupi Lighting wanted a high quality site using a content management system (CMS) that included the ability to incorporate their catalog online. For this project we used Joomla for the CMS and the VirtueMart extension that adds the catalog function. VirtueMart can later be easily converted from a catalog to full online shopping cart. |
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Speak Up Tampa Bay Community Network
http://www.speakuptampabay.org
This community public access TV network wanted a highly flexible content management system that allows expandability to allow rich media and streaming content. Here we used Joomla which is the best open source content management available. With this product the client can add interactive blogs, allow the submission of articles, take polls and surveys, provide advertising, and provide the community with the latest news as to what is happening at TBCN.
To keep initial costs to a minimum we customized a template with their logo and color scheme. This project was ready within a couple of weeks.
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Keegan's Seafood Grille
http://Keegansseafood.com
Keegan's owners wanted a fun look and feel design for their seafood restaurant website. They also were tired of having to call their old designer each time the menu changed and having to wait days for the changes to be done.
We installed and setup a Joomla based site for them with a template they chose from the many available. We made minor color and template changes like adding their logo and motto.
With just 2 hours of training they are now able to make content changes to any page, including Meta tags and keywords. They also have the ability to perform site administration tasks like viewing traffic statistics and creating e-mail accounts.
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FLO-TEC - Largo, FL
They chose Joomla with the VirtueMart E-commerce component add on. While they do not need to currently sell online they need the ability to display their product line. So we installed VirtueMart, but left the checkout functions turned off giving them the perfect solution.
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This Week's NEWS in Florida
http://www.twnifl.com
Site that displays consolidated news, weather and sports in Florida. This site's content is mostly dynamic, in that it obtains its content in real time from various news and related services. This makes it mainly self-maintaining and great way to place your advertising and or products on a site that gives the visitor the feeling of a very up-to-the-minute site.
This site was also implemented using Joomla 1.5 the latest version of Joomla content management system (CMS). The real time news is gathered using the built in news-feed capabilities and has been expanded to allow Google AdWords for an additional income stream from the site.
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Shape Wear and More
http://shapewearandmore.com
Tired of just selling on EBay, Yahoo or one or the other mall sites? Well here is a great example of what can be done quickly and inexpensively. The site uses OC Commerce (OSC) the open source E-commerce shopping cart software. This cart software is included with most of our hosting packages free.
You can start setting up you store immediately or you can do what shape wear and more did to get a more professional look was to purchase a OSC template and have us customize it with their color schemes and logos. We also added extensions to the basic product to allow handling of their checkout and gateway system for their merchant account.
Cart administration is done via your browser so you can add, change and delete products, track orders, and email customer newsletters. If you can fill out an on-line form you can administer this shopping cart.
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Tampa Bay Vacations
http://tbvacations.com
Here is an example of a Joomla Site that incorporates a custom database we developed to display Tampa Bay Vacations business listing of hotels, motels, restaurants and other hospitality businesses for visitors to the Tampa Bay area.
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Fillingham Yacht Sales
http://www.fillinghamyachts.com
Fillingham Yacht Sales wanted a website where they could list there yachts for sale and provide prospective customers photos and details.
We developed a specialized site control panel which allows them complete control over their yacht listings.
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Powerboat Safety and Operating School
http://www.powerboatsos.com
This is a companion site to Fillingham Yacht Sales. A boating school that provides both powerboat and salting lessons in safe boating and operation. This site uses the latest in interactive mapping to show its locations.
With our DIY Hosting plan they were able to add this site to their esisting account for just $5.00/mo.
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Tampa Bay WIFI
http://www.tbwifi.com
Provides the tampa bay area with wireless Internet equipment to businesses and organizations so that they can provide WIFI hot-spots to their customers.
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Caprice Vacation Condos
http://www.capriceresort.com
This Florida vacation destination site describes all the amenities, rates, virtual tours and vacation activities for the guests of the resort. We are in the process of updating the virtual tours to ones based on Flash which provide much better quality without the distortion and inability to see the view the units provide. We also will be providing the condo association with the ability to have online availability calendars that will not only appear on this site but on individual unit owners sites that they maintain.
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ATM Central - Clearwater, Florida
http://www.atmcentral.com
This Portfolio site is a great example as to how a small company can create image of a very large company image online." ECS ATM Sales and Service " utilizes the Internet to promote their selling and leasing of ATM's nation wide. Over 75% of their business comes from the Internet.
ATM Central has promoted their site in the search engines and portal sites that has resulted in high web site traffic and resulting business.
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Bates Electric - Tama, Florida
http://bateselectric.com
One of Tampa Bays premiere commercial, industrial and residential electrical contractors. They needed a site that they could maintain and expand with their business. They chose a Joomla site because it can be easily expanded.
Here is what they had to say about Tampa Bay Hosting.
" I feel that the project went well & I am a satisfied customer. You did everything you said that you would do & did so in a timely manner. Additionally you were available to communicate with when needed.
I look forward to continuing our relationship with additional communications as our Bates website evolves."
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Long Key Beach Resort - St. Pete Beach, Florida
http://www.longkeybeachresort.com
A new-look logo designed to resemble a flashing neon sign was the starting point for this site makeover. 3D menu rollovers, seashell wallpaper and a whole gallery of excellent virtual tours and panorama combine to give the visitor a very real sense of being there.
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Waterfront Home For Sale . - Madeira Beach, Florida
http://ourwaterfronthome.com
This is an excellent example of a basic start-up site that portfolios a waterfront home for sale by owner. It incorporates a clean look and feel while providing adequate details, photos and interactive location map. Tampa Bay Hosting also provided the real estate web photography for the site
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CED Interiors - Palm Harbor, FL
http://www.cedinteriors.com
An excellent example of how a business can display their portfolio of work on the Internet. This very graphical site shows the style and creativeness of this interior designer.
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I Can be a Millionaire - Tampa Bay, FL
http://www.icanbeamillionaire.com
An informative site on how to improve your net worth and accumulate wealth. Includes good information from the site and through contact allow visitors to contribute information to help others.
This site is a great example of how sites are becoming more interactive to keep visitors coming back
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Pricing
Web Design costs can vary greatly depending on your specific requirements. To get you started,
we have provided some get started pricing below. With this pricing you should have a good idea as what to expect to pay, whether you select us or one of our competitors.
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BASIC JOOMLA CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS) SITE - So you can add, change or delete site content. This is best deal for those sites over 4 pages or sites where the content changes regularly and you want to update it your self, but don't want to learn HTML and all it complexities. You also have the flexibility to add the VirtueMart Shopping Cart any time in the future.
Includes the following:
We will install the Joomla CMS system on our servers and make all the initial configurations of categories, sections and static items to allow you to begin adding your content.We will customize the look and feel to include existing company logo and graphics you provide. We also will turn off unused features.
Includes a $50 Joomla Template allowance and 1 hour of training - Extra Training $75 per hour.
Note: Website Hosting must be provided by Tampa Bay Hosting
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$550 |
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BASIC ECOMMERCE SITE – The best way to get started selling your products on-line.
Includes the following:
We Install the Magento E-Commerce or Joomla with VirtueMart Shopping Cart on our servers and make all the initial configuration for it to work with the Pay Pal Gateway.
We will make initial configuration of the categories and products. (3 Categories and 12 products included). We will customize the look and feel to include existing company logo and graphics you provide. We also will turn off unused features.
Includes 2 hour of on-site training - Extra Training $75 per hour.
Note: Hosting must be provided by Tampa Bay Hosting for this price. We also provide this service if hosting is elsewhere. However, the cost of working on other hosting servers will be higher.
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$750 |
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BASIC FOUR PAGE CUSTOM STATIC SITE – Ideal for Small Businesses, Lodgings, organizations or Restaurants. (CREATED IN STANDARD HTML)
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$750
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Includes the following:
Home Page: Includes basic navigation design, color scheme and layout using existing graphics and logos. |
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| Page Two: About us, Rooms, additional info etc. – may include floor plans and pictures. |
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| Page Three: Products/Rates/Menu etc. – typically includes a table with multiple cells that describes the products and/or services you provide. |
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| Page Four: Map link to Mapquest – two views of location |
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Hourly rate for consultations, customization, graphics and administrative tasks is $60/hr.
* Tampa Bay Hosting reserves the right to change pricing without notice.
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