Updating a Website
You have sent all your content to your designer and your new site is up and running. The problem is that you have just received a new product and would like to mention it to your new site. How will that work? 
Well, there are many different ways of doing it. Here are some options:
+ The designer takes care of all the updates. In other words, your designer will also become your webmaster: you send the changes you want to have made, and he or she will implement them. This is by far the most convenient way of doing things, but in the long run also the costliest since such follow up work does not come for free. In my case, for example, clients receive free updates for the first 30 days, and then I will start charging a rate of $40/hour. Similar arrangements can be made with other webmasters, though the price may vary.
+ Your website is set-up so that you can update it over the internet whenever you want it. Although initially the cost for an updateable website is often higher than a non-updateable one, you will recoup the cost over the lifetime of your website. If you are comfortable with cutting and pasting text and inserting pictures into documents, you have sufficient skill to update your own web pages.
+ Your web designer sets you up with software that lets you work on your site on your computer, then load it up to the net once you are finished. Popular software, such as Microsoft’s FrontPage and Adobe Contribute, do exactly this. Again, your initial layout will be more, but you will save yourself some money in the long run.
Here is my own personal recommendation: if you only update your site a couple of times a year and are not terribly comfortable in front of a computer, let your web designer update your site. If, on the other hand, you plan on updating your website on a weekly or monthly basis, it would be best to set it up so that you can update it yourself.
Next, I will briefly discuss how people can find your website.
