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services
We can take your existing brand and integrate it into a website that is your company.
While website design is our specialty, we also offer other related services, including:
- Convert your site to use a CMS
- Website Hosting
- Domain Registration
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Email marketing
CMS - Content Management System
The M2 CMS™ enables you to edit your website through a web-based system, using an online point & click WYSIWYG Editor that emulates the contyrols and buttons from Microsoft Word.
Just open the page you want to change, edit the page as you would in Word, save it — and you have updated that page!
Other features include:
- Add new pages, sub-pages,
- change the link order in your site navigation menu,
- remove pages,
- hide pages,
- change the contact form email address,
- change the footer info,
- manage the search engine meta tags,
- manage the page titles (important for google ranking),
Also, at a click of a button, to any page you can: - add a gallery,
- guest book,
- search system,
- polls,
- password protect any page,
- enable a full featured Blog,
- turn JavaScript features on and off ,
- custom form,
- managed lists (news, testimonials etc)
- and specify whether or not you want a 'print this page' link to show on your pages.
Of course custom CMS systems are available to suit any type of site, from one page brochure style sites to database driven sites. We can advise the best solution for you.
website hosting
When looking for a website hosting provider be sure to find out just what is included in the price.
For example, a lower-priced package might sound great, but will you have to pay extra for additional email addresses, or website forms? How reliable is the service? Is it hosted in the USA with slow access speeds in Australia, and little or no support?
Basic hosting packages are outlined below. Contact us to discuss rates and options, including dedicated servers.
Our terms and conditions of service can be found here.
| Level 1 | Level 2 | Level 3 | Level 4 | Level 5 | Level 6 | |
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| Type of site | Basic Brochure | Advanced Brochure | CMS / Simple Database | E-commerce / Complex | E-commerce / Complex | E-commerce / Complex |
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| MySQL Database | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| Space | 1GB | 1GB | 5GB | 5GB | 10GB | 20GB |
| Data Transfer / month | 3GB | 3GB | 5GB | 10GB | 20GB | unlimited |
| Email Boxes | 1 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 20 | 50 |
| Subdomains* | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Parked domains* | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 10 |
| $19.00 | $22.00 | $28 + CMS Usage# | $39.00 | $49.00 | $69.00 |
* Subdomain is an area of your hosting that can be used for a completely different site. For example, if your site is www.mysite.com.au you could have a subdomain called shop.mysite.com.au — the 'shop' part is the subdomain.
A parked domain is a domain that you also own that is aliased to your main domain that is being hosted and when that domain is visited, it will show the same site.
# IF your site uses m2cms then the access and usage fee for that per month is added on. Currently, the cost is $30 per month for CMS Rental including all Free addon modules and Blog system.
Domain Registration
Don't get ripped off when you register your domain name! Why pay more than you need to for something?
For example, Melbourne IT charge the most of all domain registrars. Compare prices below for 2 years registration or renewal.
| Melbourne IT Price | Our price | You save | |
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| .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us | $150 / 2 years | $60 / 2 years | $90 |
| .com.au, .net.au | $140 / 2 years | $60 / 2 years | $80 |
| .org.au | $80 / 2 years | $22 / 2 years | $58 |
| .id.au | $99 / 2 years | $44 / 2 years | $55 |
| .co.nz | $220 / 2 years | $88 / 2 years | $132 |
| .co.uk | $195 / 2 years | $66 / 2 years | $129 |
| .mobi | $205 / 2 years | $99 / 2 years | $106 |
Search Engine Optimising (SEO)
"Research shows that the sites listed on the very first page of search results are the ones which get the most traffic".
You spend thousands having your website built, tuned and it's all perfect. It's a big investment. But what if no one finds it? it may as well not exist! If your site is an online store or any other form of revenue, you've completely wasted your money!
Search engines are the primary method of navigation for nearly all internet users, meaning the majority of web traffic is driven by the major search engines, being Yahoo!, MSN and the most popular - Google.
If your site can't be found by search engines, you miss out on people visiting your site.
And this means you lose visitors who want what you have!
If you have a website, you'll most likely land somewhere in the first thousand search results. But being listed on the tenth page in search results is equal to being invisible. Most people never click past the first 3 pages of search results, if they even get that far. Research shows that the sites listed on the very first page of search results are the ones which get the most traffic.
There can be thousands of web sites which provide roughly the same service or products as you do, so to get search engines to notice your site, it needs to stand out from the crowd.
To get a search engines to take note of your site, it must satisfy a set of criteria which not only gets the site indexed, but also ranked higher than most other sites within the same category.
Without SEO, you are leaving the ranking of your site to chance.
We have a full time SEO specialist on our team, and if anyone can get your site to the first page of results, she can!
For more in fo - visit www.m2seo.com.au
email marketing
Our e-newsletter system is a comprehensive email marketing and direct marketing tool that compliments your web site and allows you to easily market your company and new products to your existing clients.
Our full featured version allows full tracking of opens, forwards, link clicks, unsubscribes and bounces - suitable for the most demanding direct marketing needs. Visit www.m2news.com.au to try the free trial
Main Features:
- Exclusive to M2 News - Our system tracks normal forwards which everyone does with their email program, instead of being limited to some 'send to friend' form tacked on to the end that people just don't use!
- Choose from a variety of templates for your newsletter. Create professional looking emails in just minutes, use your images, insert polls, and store all your newsletters in folders.
- Full Word style interface to edit your articles and compose your newsletter.
- Save your newsletter and and work on it in stages.
- Upload list of subscribers and manage subscribers and groups of subscribers which can be searched, viewed, cleaned and updated easily.
- Manage bounced emails by having the system move those subscribers into a 'non deliverable' area, where you can change their email address and re-instate them or remove them from your database.
- Track who opens and who forwards your newsletter and when.
- Newsletter emails can be scheduled to be sent at any time in the future. Simply select the date you want it sent.
- And more features being added all the time as they are suggested by our clients.