Answers To Your Questions

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Questions about your website

What will my website cost?

The base prices are listed for each of our packages on our Website Design Packages page. There you will also learn what is included with your package. The optional extras and their cost are there as well. Here's a direct link to Optional Additional Services.

The cost of hosting is covered on our page about Hosting.
For additional services such as logo design or business cards see our Services page and click on the service you are interested in.

What tasks will I be expected to do myself?

Send us your text.
If applicable, send us code snippets for Google Analytics and PayPal button, and API code for Google Map.
Send us a digital photo of you (unless you don't want one on your website)
Order your own domain registration and hosting account (This is easy, and it is extremely important that you have complete control over your website.)

What is the process for getting my website built?

The steps are listed on our Website Creation Process page.

Is customer service free like it is at TherapySites.com?

Take a look at what is included with the base price of your website design package and what optional extras you can purchase. We find that it is extremely rare that a therapist requires any additional support. However, should you need it, consultation is available at our standard hourly rate.

The reason TherapySites can "give" you "free" customer service is because you will be paying them thousands of extra dollars over the years of their $59/month fees. With Successful-Therapist your hosting need not cost more than $4.95 a month! So if you really need extra help, invest once in an hour or so of professional consultation and then sit back and enjoy the savings.

Why do I have to pay for 10 pages if I only want 5?

Well, actually you're paying for 5 pages and getting 10.

Will we be meeting in person?

Not unless it's for lunch. For working, the easiest way is to use email. If you want consultation we may use the phone. It doesn't matter where you are located. I'm in California. I have clients as far away as New York and even London and Switzerland.

If after we are done I decide I want to add a whole new page, what will I need to do? Will I need to pay you to add it or will I be able to do so alone?

If you have a set of pages set up with the Articles module (ideal for either articles or for therapy specialty pages) you can easily add one yourself.

If you need a page added that will require a new "button" in your main navigation, then that would require a change to every page on your website. In that case, I would need to do that for you. It would probably typically cost about $100. I've never actually had anyone ask me to do this. They always seem to get it right the first time as to their main pages, and if they anticipate wanting to add pages they use the Articles module and/or a blog.

See also:

The Website Creation Process

Owning vs. Renting

Services

Don't miss our excellent educational section: Effective Website 101