Lionheart Enterprises Inc. - Web Business Solutions

Your Quick Start Guide for beginners:

So, you would like to own a cool, simple, one page website or even a multiple page site, or maybe a little more sophisticated ecommerce website on the internet. Have no clue where to begin or how to get from point A to point B? Is that about where you're at right now? Don't worry, we're here to help you every step of the way.

This Quick Start Guide is provided as a step by step roadmap to navigating our website. We'll show you just how simple it is to design a website and get it published on the internet. Plus, you will have all the web development tools you will ever need to host your website and make it successful. The best part is ... you can get it all in one location!

Here are a few things you can learn in this simple to follow guide:

1. Getting Started - Outline a simple plan.
2. Choosing the right domain name.
3. Designing a web site.
4. Finding the right hosting plan.
5. Adding security to your web site.
6. Promoting your website to the world.

Getting Started:

Ok! This is not rocket science and you're not writing a business plan. Just grab a piece of paper and a pen or pencil and lets get started.

The first thing you need to ask yourself is: What type of website do I want? Is it a personal or family website? Is it going to be a business website? Do I want to sell products or services? Do I want to provide information about some topic for free or do I want to charge a fee? This simple but all important question will be your guide with every following step and decision you make for your website.

Choosing the right domain name:

Here is where you will begin to see how the decision you made in the first step affects all of the following steps.

Maybe you have decided that you are creating a very simple website like a family website. You might be planning to keep the family album online with photos of your kids growing up, milestones in their lives or special family events. This one is pretty easy as you might just want to choose a domain with your family name in it. Let's say your name is Robinson and your family originated from Switzerland, you could have some fun and pick a name like www.swissfamilyrobinson.com. Just kidding, but you get the idea. The important thing in selecting a personal domain name is to have fun.

On the other side of the coin, there's one important thing to remember when picking your domain name. It's ok to pick a fun name that's lengthy for a personal website, if it's not particularly important for the rest of the world to remember it.

If your website is a business website, and you need your website visitors to remember the name and return to it again and again, there are two good rules you should follow. The first rule is what some call 'the KISS Principle'. Some say it's an acronym that means 'keep it simple - stupid,' but for the sake of choosing your domain name, we like to say 'keep it short - simple.' The second rule is, if you can't keep it short and simple at least make it memorable or reflective of your business name or business purpose.

Here are a few simple examples: Google, Yahoo, Ebay. Who in the world has not heard the name Ebay? Does it mean anything to anyone apart from the company executives and management? Nope, not really. But, do people remember it? Ah, yeah!

Another example is this website - LionheartDesigns.com. In this case the domain name came after the formation of our company Lionheart Enterprises Inc. To us the name 'Lionheart' symbolized integrity and honor, hence the reason we used it for our business. Secondly, since we began our business primarily in the area of design i.e. graphic design, photography, commercial print design, logo design, and web design, the domain name was an obvious choice. So, in this case, the domain name is reflective of the business and it's purpose.

Having said that, here is a really good way to choose your 'business domain name'. Encapsulated, in a few short sentences write down what your business means to you and it's purpose (what it does), and what the website will be about. Short points, not too much detail. Then, think of two or three words (preferably two) that represent the ideas you've just written down. Voila! There's your domain name! Maybe? Ok, so it's not always that simple and you might want to select a name for search engine and keyword search purposes etc. but at least the exercise is useful. If you get stuck and you need some advice on picking a name, you can try our cool 'Advanced Search' tool which will provide you with intelligent search options and suggestions for your domain name. Alternatively, you can contact us at Customer Support, and we will be happy to help you to come up with your own unique domain name.

Finally, one last word of advice. When you've decided on a domain name, if YOU think it's an awesome name, check it's availability and register it before someone else does.

Designing a Website:

The next step is designing your new website. There are different ways you can approach this. There are a gazillion types of web design and website building programs all over the internet. Some are easy to use and some are extremely complicated. Again, use the KISS principle. If you are not versed in website design and development don't attempt using complicated web design tools and programs. Either have someone knowledgable build it for you or find a website design tool that's simple to use without you having to take a course in web design.

Here at LionheartDesigns.com we have made designing your website insanely easy. You can choose from several options to create a website. The first option allows you to use our fast, fun and extremely easy to use, website builder tools. With this option there are no complicated or time-consuming steps to struggle through — just point, click and enjoy! Create your own personalized Web site in minutes, complete with your choice of custom color sets and over 1,700 premium images. There are no manuals to read and no technical language to learn. It's that easy!

Option two: if you are more of a visual person and you need to see what your completed website can look like, you can choose a specific website style and layout from hundreds of our ready-to-go site designs in our website gallery. Once selected you can purchase a layout that appeals to you and either modify the design yourself using your own photos and text, or have our professional designers modify a design to your specifications. Now, how easy is that?

Finding the right hosting plan:

The right hosting plan depends on what you intend to so with your website. If your site only consists of a few pages and you don't expect to have lots of traffic, then you don't need to have a huge hosting plan. Even if you expect your site to grow over time, start with a smaller hosting plan and later you can choose a plan that supports the growth of your business. As your online business grows and becomes more successful you can gradually scale up to bigger hosting plans if required.

We have extremely affordable hosting plans to suit both your present and future needs with prices starting from as low as US$ 9.99 per month. And unlike the competition, there is NO set up fees and NO annual commitment is required.

All of our hosting plans offer huge disk space and massive monthly data transfer. Email Accounts Include spam, fraud, & virus protection; Webmail; Catch-all; and more! We also provide you with Free Software/Scripts, Chat, Content Management, Image Galleries and More.

And just in case you are concerned about our hosting facilities and the safety of your website, here's some information on our State of the art Data Centers: Hosting plans are developed and supported in secure facilities that are staffed 24/7. Our World-class network includes multiple OC-48, OC-12 and OC-3 connections and a fast gigabit Ethernet backbone. We have fully redundant power and air conditioning supply, with state of the art fire protection providing the maximum possible protection against potential disasters that could affect your site. 24X7 monitoring of building and environmental alarms by a local staff as well as a centralized Network Operations Center. Enterprise-class backup and restore technology protecting your data. Closed-circuit cameras, 24-hour guards and physical location monitoring, Biometric scanners and secure card-key access, 'Man-trap' restricted access to the data centers and Locked cages enclosing all equipment.

Feell safe yet? You're welcome to take a look at our hosting plans.

Adding security to your website:

If you have built a simple, more personal website and have no intensions of selling goods or services, you will likely not need an SSL security certificate. However, if you've built an ecommerce, business website for the purpose of selling online or processing private and sensitive information from your website visitors, you need to install a security certificate on your website.

There are literally hundreds of fraudulant websites on the internet that aren't what they seem. Your visitors, and sales prospects who are interested in purchasing your goods and services are worried that their personal and financial information might fall into the wrong hands. Turn your customers' concerns into a competitive advantage and let them shop in confidence knowing that you value their business and their privacy.

Here's something else you might want to consider. People surfing the internet are looking at your products and also at your competitors. If your website is not secure and your competitor's website is, who do you think they will purchase from. Even if your price were a third of theirs, you could still lose the sale. Secure your website, build confidence in your shoppers and stay ahead of your competition.

Promoting your website to the world:

So, you've just built your business or public service website. It looks awesome, you have your hosting plan in place and you have secured it with an SSL security certificate. The next question you should be asking is 'how do I get people to visit my new website?'

Have you ever heard the saying 'build it and they will come!' Well, that may work for baseball and Kevin Costner in 'Field of Dreams' but it sure doesn't work for the internet.

If you want to have tons of traffic to your website you need to promote it so the search engines to find it. We have the best selection of basic to advanced internet marketing and web traffic tools available for generating targeted traffic to your website.

We even have analytical web tools that provide you with detailed reports to help you measure, identify and analyse the activity of your website visitors. You can see in 'real-time' how they navigate through your site from page to page. You can also see which pages they visit, where they exit your site and whether your sales pages and special promotions are resulting in effective sales conversions or need some improvement.

Our philosophy is to always over deliver, both in our products and our services so you won't want to go elsewhere. You always get value for your money!

We hope that this Quick Start Guide has been helpful to you. We've only scratched the surface. Begin using our services and you can take advantage of lots more success building information, advanced internet marketing strategies, web development tools, huge promotional offers and special discounts!

If you have any further questions please feel free to contact our Customer Support. We welcome your business and look forward to serving you soon.