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Thank you for taking a look at BCS Instant Page Builderr, we thought it would be nice to give you some valuable tips and tricks for starting your own online business. Questions like the following come up all the time What’s the best way to start building my web site? How do I make my customers feel secure? How do I make my customers aware of the type of security my web site provides? How do I convince my customers that I am sincere in my efforts to provide them with the quality and service they expect? With so much focus on security, privacy, and the overall delivery of content over the World Wide Web these days, it’s hard to know what to say to your Web customers to make them feel at ease. That’s why we came up with this list of topics to help you out. We hope that the information presented here will shed some light on important facts to consider when designing your web site and the issues you need to consider when presenting your business to the “Virtual Community.”

Before you start building your web site, the best thing you can do is map it out. What does that mean? It means you should sit down and decide what your content will be (the pages you will need to deliver) and physically draw them out on a piece of paper. Decide what the various pieces are that you will need to add to make your web site successful.

When you sit down, picture for example, walking into a store. What do you see? That is the introduction to your web site or, in Web-speak, your Home page. You want to present an initial reaction that will draw your customers to your site.

Next, consider the following:

Are you planning to build an Online Shopping experience or are you simply advertising information?
If you’re going to setup an Online Store, are there various departments and what are they?
What items are in each department?
Would a sales person walk over and offer to help a customer?
Would the customer have questions?
Are you going to offer some services?
What’s involved in offering these services?

Let's say, you are going to build a web site that offers insurance services, what services are you offering? Automobile, Life, Medical? What’s involved in offering someone auto insurance? Do you need to know the driver’s age and driving history? You would need create web pages to accommodate these kinds of questions.

It’s a good idea to look at web sites similar to what you want, so you can see how they present information and to acquire a competitive edge. Of course, you can’t copy someone else’s work, but you certainly can get some ideas to create a stimulating site that you can call your own.

Make sure you read the BCS Instant Page Builderr Terms and Conditions page, Features and Prices page, and Privacy Statement. Each of these pages provides information about the way we maintain our web site. They introduce our parent company; offer information about the way we protect data; offer information about our data center, and so on.

This information is useful to your customer as well. You might consider putting pages like these on your own web site.

Make yourself familiar with Web terminology. Terms like “encryption” and “cookies” and “SSL” are important words to know. Web sites like www.webopedia.com provide excellent, concise explanations for Web terms.

The BCS Instant Page Builderr Page Wizard TM allows you to dynamically generate your own web site in a short amount of time. All you have to do is provide some straightforward information and make a few simple selections. That quickly you will have a graphically rich web site with three or four distinctly different system generated pages. These pages will be the foundation for your web site.

It’s as easy as that. As stated previously, if you’ve mapped out the site, you will know the type of pages you want to add and this can include graphics as well.

BCS Instant Page Builderr provides several types of pages that are pre-formatted for you. You can add your own text and change graphics and multiple attributes to make these pages uniquely yours, but it’s nice to have the back-end functionality in place.

If you want to add your own graphics, you’ll can either create them or find them on a web site or image CD product THAT ALLOWS YOU to use their graphics (Remember, images are copyrighted material. You must have permission to copy someone else's images). All you have to do is upload them to your BCS Instant Page Builderr server. This is a very simple process from within the product. The Frequently Asked Questions page provides information about suggested sizes for graphics for titles, buttons, and images within paragraphs.

Making your customers feel secure will probably be your greatest challenge and accomplishment. Not only do we provide several types of security measures, like SSL, encryption, partnerships with companies for reliable networking services, we have in place disaster recovery solutions, solutions to guard against viruses, hackers, vandalism, fire, power failures. We implement Intrusion Detection System equipment, and keep backup tapes offsite. We use RAID5 to prevent loss of data and are working on a totally mirrored co-location of web, application, and database servers.

Digital certificates are attachments that encrypt and decrypt data being shared between clients and web servers. Digital certificates usually verify that a customer is who s/he says s/he is, and allows the web server to program a secure reply. You apply for digital certificates through a Certificate Authority, other wise known as a CA. CAs issue these certificates, and in our case, we use a VeriSign CA to process our credit card information.

See http://www.verisign.com/ for more information.

Privacy statements are important because they provide information to the user about the sharing of information between the web guest and the web site owner.

Our web site has a Privacy Statement, as do most web sites. Our Privacy Policy makes you aware of some useful information like our use of “cookies”, an Internet term that refers to a file that stores information about you, the user.
It also provides information like how a web site posts messages to its clients.

You can upload a Privacy Statement to your BCS Instant Page Builderr web site through BCS Instant Page Builderr!

BCS Instant Page Builderr also provides a service where you can upload your own privacy policy.

Remember, it is highly recommended that you consult legal advice when it comes to putting this type of documentation out on your web site. You do not want to be liable in any way for misrepresenting your business to your clientele. You want to protect your guests as well as yourself.

These types of documents can also be important to your web site, depending on the type of business you are in. Again, consult legal counsel when it comes to these documents. Terms and Conditions can provide the client with information about fees, contract review, access and services, proprietary rights, liability, warranty disclaimers and that sort of thing. For more information, you can take a look at the Terms and Conditions for BCS Instant Page Builderr or any other site out on the Web. Many, many sites provide a link for Terms and Conditions.

Tip: It's your responsibility to ship an order before you settle the bill and acquire the funds associated with the order.

Our technical support is available to answer any questions you may have. We can be contacted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, through e-mail at the following address: support@bcssites.com.