For starters, you need a domain name and hosting space. Then you can use a template base website or custom built website to display your information. We can take care of everything, just give us a call.

Domain names are website addresses. www.yourcompanyname.com
If you are creating a brand new website, you will be asked to choose a domain name. When choosing a domain name, .com normally yields a higher ranking, but not so significant that you couldn't use other suffix's.

Example:

.net - NETwork ( .net Framework, Microsoft based)
.gov - Government agencies
.edu - Educational institutions
.org - Organizations (nonprofit)
.biz - .com alternative
.info - Informational
.mobi - Mobile
.mil - Military
.com - commercial business
.net - Network organizations
.ca - Canada
.uk - United Kingdom

The domain registrar company requires a yearly registration renewal and we include this in our website hosting package.

Website hosting is a set fee that you must pay in order to have your website listed on the World Wide Web. The price for hosting can vary but is usually shown as a monthly fee and can be paid yearly.

Every website design package includes SEO and url submissions to search engines. We also include Google Analytics on each website which tracks how much traffic you are receiving.

SEO is short for "search engine optimization". We take steps to get search engines such as Google, Bing and Yahoo! to “approve” your website resulting in a better position of your websites in the search results.

Keywords are at the heart of all SEO. They are the words that a user might type into a search engine when searching for you or someone who does what you do. With your help, we can come up with the best keywords that fit your company.

Website verbiage is also important. For a keyword to be relevant, your verbiage should include the chosen keywords.

Results will also vary depending on the following:

1. When you are in a very competitive industry with lots of competing businesses in the same area having websites. ( This results in a website ranking race. )

2. Your website link on other high ranking, high traffic websites. ( e.g. Facebook and Yellow Pages. )

5. When Google crawls your website. ( May take up to 4 weeks. )

SEO scams are everywhere. Please be wary of emails and calls from those who promise first page ranking. Because Google's algorithm is kept secret for fear of abuse, it is impossible to guarantee first page ranking. The traffic you might receive probably isn't targeted for your product or services. If it sounds to good to be true, it usually is.

We offer website hosting for $200 a year which includes the yearly domain name renewal and up to 5GB of hosting space. Our hosting resides on private in-house servers located in the Chattanooga, TN area. We run on some of the worlds fastest internet connections through fiber optics (50MB speeds ) using solid state drives. Our servers are located in multiple locations and are backed up weekly.

If you prefer a dedicated server for your website and email on location, we can do that.
Please call Mark at 423.504.7969

BFL Designs offers managed website hosting on private servers. This means full website support on private secure servers. Simply put, you don't have to worry about server downtime and other technical issues, we monitor the servers ( where your website and email is located ) and have multiple locations and backups. Managed hosting is especially good for small to medium sized business firms since it is very costly to hire a full-time in-house webmaster to maintain their websites. Since maintaining a business website for maximum up-time is very important nowadays, managed hosting would be the perfect solution for business to outsource the technical demand to the professionals.

As an added bonus, we offer free minor picture and text changes throughout the year. Yes, I said free.

Our servers reside on the fastest internet speeds available... in the world. This means your website loads at super speeds. We also do not overload our servers with hundreds of websites. We only allot so many per server which provides you with a faster website using experience.

Our websites and emails run on solid state hard drives. You can relate this to a memory card for your phone or camera. There are no moving parts, it's just a solid disk you insert that stores data. Same thing with the solid state hard drives. Traditional hard drives use a spinning disk and other moving parts to transfer your data. Removing these elements helps to eliminate the risk of data loss from parts breaking or scratching.

Reliable customer support. You can call use directly if you have a website or email issue.

Monday - Friday 9-5:30 EST. (423) 702-5033

Closed on major holidays.

Yes you can. We normally host clients for whom we have designed a website. This insures any third party software is completely up to date and we can provide one on one services. If you already have a website, we require a few minor things to insure the security of all our clients, but are happy to have you.

1. If you are looking for a company to host an informational website that does not use third party software, yes we can host your website. We will check the files for viruses before placing on our servers. You will then be provided minor picture and text changes throughout the year at no additional charge. Any work provided beyond this such as new website pages, software updates or a new design is billable. No surprises, we will always provide a quote.

2. If you own a website that exists in open source software or a CMS (content management system) such as Joomla, Wordpress, Mambo, or any other website that has user login capabilities, we require a review to insure all plug-ins and software are up to date. Any outdated software must be resolved before we will move the website to our servers. We can update the software billable per hour, or you may do so yourself.

Each hosted website will receive 5 enterprise exchange email addresses ending in your domain name. (e.g. info @ yourcompanyname.com ) Additional emails are purchased in blocks of 10.

We use Smarter Mail licensing for our emails. All emails include file sharing capabilities, shared calendars, shared tasks and shared documents via the online interface between other email addresses ending in the same domain. You may also set up forwarding services or import other emails into your inbox. The built in email importing interface simplifies the migrating process. It allows you to import existing emails, contacts and calendar information.

We offer POP3 ( downloadable emails ) or IMAP ( email syncing ) capabilities. We do offer Microsoft Exchange Services which includes instant push notifications for calendar and contact syncing with smart phones. Licenses can be purchased individually for $25 year ($2.08 monthly), or $175 for 10.

Our website packages start at $700 plus hosting, ( Our larger packages offer discounted or free hosting for the first year. )

Please call the office at 423.702.5033 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. EST or email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We will start by scheduling a meeting or phone conference to go over all the details and answer any questions you might have. We believe in getting to know our clients on a first name basis.

Keeping your website up to date will help keep your visitors coming back time after time. This can be on a weekly, monthly or yearly basis depending your business.