THESE DAYS IT'S CHEAP AND EASY ENOUGH to produce a professional looking website from templates and tools provided by services such as Weebly or Jimdo. If you want something a bit more individual though, Crescent Moon can custom build your site to look just the way you want it to and for surprisingly reasonable prices. Want a Startrek Voyager theme? See the sample on the right that echoes the screen layouts in that programme.

The design cost obviously depends on the complexity and how much you want to say but as a rough guide a site on the scale and pattern of that on the left could set you back only a few hundred pounds. Domain names and web space start from around £50 per annum and beyond that we can either show you how to update the site yourself or do it for you.

Supplementary pages (enlargements of pictures etc.) can be useful for keeping your design compact. Once a format is established they add little to the overall cost of your site. Picture enlargements can pop up in new frames like those on the right, or have a page to themselves like the one below.

SO IF YOU'RE THINKING of investing in a website how great, you may be wondering, will be the return? Well, it's usually impossible to say in advance but if you think of your website mainly as an economic way of displaying what you do, anything beyond that will be a bonus.

View it mainly as a portfolio, booklet (or even book) that will show the world what you have to offer. It's useful being able to send people straight to your website for details instead of having to repeat them endlessly to potential clients.

As part of the service your site will have keywords that people can pick up on, and the main search engines will learn of your existence. People will be able to find you easily enough on the net if they ask the right questions, and we can advise on how to boost traffic to your site.

IF AS WELL AS ADVERTISING your business from your website you want to sell products directly from it, we can offer full e-commerce facilities in partnership with our Payment Service Provider, SecureHosting.com. Click on the logo below to see the range of secure services they offer. Alternatively we can help you set up a Paypal account.

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