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Over my more than ten years of involvement with setting up web sites and liaising with developers, it is with pleasure that I write this testimonial. My new site was developed and up and running within two weeks of my acceptance of the quote. I am entirely pleased with the site and its potential, and especially with the service I received from Cooloolabusiness. I have not previously worked with a developer who is as helpful, efficient and timely as Alan Caulfield, and look forward to working with Cooloolabusiness on future sites.

Narelle Hall
Coast to Coast Australia
www.coast2coastaustralia.com

Over the last 10 years it has been a pleasure to deal with Mr. Allan Caulfield at cooloolabusiness.com.  Over the last decade we have worked with Allan to establish at least 15 websites for the organisations I have managed or referrals we have sent to him.  Two of the websites he has created for us have been recognised by target groups to be best!  95% of the time he answers the phone, the other 5% of the time he returns our call immediately. As CEO of NQSBDC and in previous similar roles, I have never come across a person as reliable as Mr. Caulfield. I trust him implicitly with any project we engage him to do.

Most recently Mr. Caulfield re-developed our website www.nqsmallbusiness.com  He also provides on-going website updating and management services. We are extremely happy with the service provided. There are a number of other projects that will require websites over the next year and we look forward to using Mr. Caulfield for all of them.

The NQSBDC is a Business Enterprise Centre (BEC) and Business Incubator that see over 1000 clients per annum many of them need a web presence. For the those clients that require high level development and support Mr. Caulfield is the only recommendation we make.

Mr. Allan Caulfield is the best in is field. If you have any questions or need more information please ring me on 47238491.

Brian Arnold
CEO
North Queensland Small Business Development Centre
http://nqsmallbusiness.com

The Charbray Society of Australia has had the good fortune of engaging the professional skills of Mr Allan Caulfield at cooloolabusiness.com over a period of many years. Allan provides the Society with ongoing management services as our webmaster and more recently has completely re-designed our website.

Allan’s approach to our new website development was innovative, he was able to create a ‘good fit’ that complimented our ongoing marketing efforts.

From a personal point of view as the Office and Marketing Manager of the Society I could not fault the level of service Allan supplies. Allan on many occasions has gone that extra step to help meet our deadlines which is a quality very hard to find.

I have no hesitation in recommending the professional skills of Mr Allan Caulfield , cooloolabusiness.com.

Gaye O’Dea
Executive Secretary & Marketing Manager
Charbray Society Of Australia
www.charbray.org

The Valley Rattler website www.thevalleyrattler.com has been hosted and managed by Cooloola Business since 2002. Our current website was developed by Allan Caulfield from Cooloola Business in 2006. Allan conducts his business in a very professional and personable manner. We have formed a friendly business relationship with Allan, who regularly continues to provide excellent service by updating our website and providing ideas on how to improve our site. We highly recommend anyone to use his services.

Camilla King
MVHR
www.thevalleyrattler.com

Our website develoment process:

 The process involves 7 stages as follows:

Stage 1 – Consultation
We consult with you to determine your goals for your website and discuss the options available for your new site.

Stage 2 – Information Collection
Obtaining your logo, images and businesses information and plan out the website project and provision of a fixed quote.

Stage 3 – Wireframe
Creation of a basic wireframe to establish the location of the website elements.

Stage 4 – Layout Design
Creation of draft wbsite layout for review.

Stage 5 – Worpdress Implementation
Slice and dice the draft layout into a selected WordPress theme (we are StudioPress Pro-Developers and will usually recomend and provide one of the Genesis child themes for your site).  We upload the draft website to our development servers.

Stage 6 – Client Review
Review of the draft site on our development server and implementation of  any last minute changes.  Set up a client hosting account and publictaion of the site live on the Intenret.  Final review and updates as necessary and provide access to training required for site management.

Stage 7 – Search Engine Optimisation
Review of on-site Search Engine Optimisation implementation and initial search engine submissions to free search engines.  Creation of backlinks to your new site from our network sites (limited to clients that we provide hosting for).

After the launch of the website, we continue to take an interest as we like to see results from our work.  We continue to create baclinks for our hosted clients thought our business directory syndication program and are always for advice and future updates.  We even undertake some of these updates free of charge (see our Client Care page for more information).

If you would like more information or our development process, please contact us by sending an email to admin@gympiewebsites.com.au

Allan Caulfield

Email: admin@gympiewebsites.com.au
Phone: (07) 5482 3478
Mobile: 0409 823 478

How to Choose a Good Domain Name

The first thing you need to start setting up your website is a domain name – your address on the web. This domain name is what people will type in their browsers and see listed in Search Engines.  It will look something like this: www.gympiewebsites.com.au. Since your domain name is listed all over the Internet, you need a memorable name that directly relates to the products or services you are offering the public.

Some people don’t realize that the .com at the end of a domain name is not the only choice. You could have a .org (organizations), .net (originally intended for Internet service providers), .gov (government departments), .edu (educational institutions or .biz (for companies). There are also some other lesser-known suffix endings we don’t need to mention. In addition, each country has its own code. Australia gets .au and The United Kingdom gets .uk etc.

The number of .com names that have not been registered is rapidly diminishing. Because of the scarcity of good .com names, it may be tempting to choose a domain name other than .com. We recommend not registering a domain other than .com or .com.au. The .com names have the most prestige, are significantly better recognised and therefore preferable for for your business image.

We recommend that you firstly consider registering an Australian Domain name as this indicates that your business operation is based in Australia (there are strict rules about COM.AU domains only being available for Australian businesses). You are more likely to find your preferred name as an Australian domain (the international .com is more likely to be taken).

If you are doing business internationally the .com is still the best choice. We suggest that you follow a plan of action. It will be a challenge to come up with a good .com name. There are people who monitor domain names constantly. They instantly buy up any single word domain name if one becomes available, so forget about single word names. Your best course of action is to come up with a two or three word description of your business or product for your website. You’ll probably have more success with a three word name than a two so concentrate on that. If you want to get ranked high in search engines, consider what your potential customers would type into a search engine. This will require some thought. The obvious search terms may be taken. You might have to add a prefix like the word “the” or “an” in front on your domain name or perhaps more strategically important use a geographic location as part of the business name.

After you’ve come up with several three word descriptive phrases, go to a domain registration service. A search on the Internet will give you multiple choices. Type in your phrase to see if it’s still available. If you’re lucky, you may be able to find an unclaimed domain your first several tries. Pay your registration fee and secure the domain name and you’re now the proud owner of a piece of virtual real estate.

We are seeing higher ranking in Google for domain names that include your preferred keywords and your geographic location especially for local business websites. Therefore, we recommend that keyword and search term usage be considered as part of your domain name e.g.

• www.gympiesawmill.com – a domain registration and website for a Gympie timber planing mill producing flooring and decking products.

We recommend that you discuss the registration of your domain name with us as we are experienced in registering domains and are happy to help in advising you on how to select a suitable name for your website address.

We have been registering domain names since 2000 and have many happy clients who have some great names that they can use to leverage and promote their business on the web. As an example, we have recently registered the following domain:

• www.gympieairconditioning.com.au – for Jeff Stolzenberg who is expanding his Gympie based air conditioning and refrigeration business.  This domain capitalises on the location of the business and the type of business by using the keywords “Gympie” and Air Conditioning” – using these keywords in the domain name is very beneficial as Google gives some prominence to the use of keywords and people looking for air conditioning in gympie will use those terms in their searches bring more customers to Jeff.

Our domain registration service includes full management of your domain name, delegation to our hosting servers and managing renewals to ensure that you don’t lose your domain through expiry.

If you would like more information on our domain registration services, please contact:

Allan Caulfield

Email: admin@gympiewebsites.com.au
Phone: (07) 5482 3478
Mobile: 0409 823 478

In conjunction with our Gympie Business Directory, we undertake custom website development for a range of clients.

We incorporate the latest design and development techniques and tools as well search engine optimisation priciples in the development process to ensure that you are presented with a great looking website that is functional and user friendly as well as having better potential of ranking well in the search engines.

We specialise in Worpdress development using the premium StudioPress Genesis framework to provide outstanding websites for our clients (seee our portfolio for some examples).  The Genesis Framework is supported by Brian Gardner originator of the Revolution and StudioPress Premium themes and we have been Pro-Developer Members since 2008.  The Genesis framework offers many advantages for site owners including superior SEO optimisation and one click updates.

If you would like more information on our custom development services, please contact:

Allan Caulfield

Email: admin@gympiewebsites.com.au
Phone: (07) 5482 3478
Mobile: 0409 823 478

Website Starter Pack

At Gympie Web Sites, we know from experience that setting up your first website can be a minefield of problems in trying to put together all of the necessary items required while you continue to run your business at the same time. To make life easier, we have developed an affordable package that includes everything for your new website.

Our all-inclusive package includes:

• Domain Name Registration and management for 2 years
• Australian Domain Name or International Domain (we help you choose)
• Website Hosting for 12 months
• Domain Email support (eg sales@yourdomain.com.au)
• 5 page website design (standard design incorporating your logo, colours, photos and SEO)
• Membership of the www.cooloolabusiness.com network
• Intial search engine submissions

The retail value of these components is more than $1,000 ex GST.  This package is now

ONLY $800 ex GST

Note – package websites use standard page layouts to provide good quality websites that comply with CSS and Internet Standards.  Layouts can be customised with your logo, colours and photos to suit your business.  Starter packages can also be customised to include custom graphics and layouts, photo galleries etc at an additional cost.

CMS Starter Pack

Your First Website with Content Management.

Content Management Systems or CMS for short provide an easy way for site owners to make their own changes and updates for the pages in the website.

Using a CMS, you can have your website professionally designed and then take over the process of updating the content whenever you need to update pricing, specials pages or other text and pictures.

At Gympie Web Sites, we customise the very popular WordPress system to provide our content management system.  Using WordPress means we are using a very modern and widely supported CMS platform that offers clients the latest in technology for their website management.  Worpdress is widely adopted and can easily be moved to other hosts and developers if necessary without the drama of finding specialised developers and hosting companies required for some other CMS systems.

Site Owners can login to WordPress and select the page to be updated and use an online editor with functions similar to Microsoft Word to make required changes. These changes are stored in the site database and these database elements are displayed dynamically when the web page is viewed. A very simple process that we can support with video training for new users.

In the CMS package, we are offering the same features as our 5 page starter package as follows:

• Domain Name Registration and management for 2 years
• Australian Domain Name or International Domain
• Website Hosting for 12 months
• Domain Email support (eg sales@yourdomain.com.au)
• installation of the latest version of Worpdress and plugins
• Customisation of a standard WordPress theme to incorporate your logo, colours and photos
• Creation of an photo gallery if required
• Membership of the www.cooloolabusiness.com network
• Intial search engine submissions

The retail value of these components is more than $1600 ex GST.  This package is now

ONLY $1,200 ex GST

Note: As Worpdress is highly customisable and many developers offer premium theme designs and plugins, this package can be upgraded to include additional functionality and Premium WordPress Themes if required.  Refer to our Custom Development page for more information.

If you would like more information about our website packages, please contact us by sending an email to admin@gympiewebsites.com.au

Allan Caulfield

Email: admin@gympiewebsites.com.au
Phone: (07) 5482 3478
Mobile: 0409 823 478

We enjoy a good working relationship with our clients (see our Testimonials), many of which are long term.  Our working relationships are due to our the quality of our services and our availability in responding to help requests.  We believe we provide a superior level of service for our clients – many of these services are provided free of charge (see below).

Our clients enjoy many complimentary benefits and services that are provided with our website development and hosting – basically “we do it all for you“.  These include:

• Incorporation of the latest SEO principles in HTML Site development
• Inclusion of SEO Principles and Plugins is WordPress Development
• Use of Premium StudioPress Genesis Framework and themes for Worpdress Development 
• Fully managed hosting services including setting up email accounts etc
• Free management of your WordPress installation with core and plugin updates
• Minor website updates free of charge
• Domain registration and management

Our philosophy is the help small business with their web presence.  We know that most small business operators are very busy people and that the time required to manage a website is usually taken up with other necessary tasks in the business. In most cases, we can undertake updates in less time than it takes for us to prepare an invoice so we happily provide these minor services for free (although we do reserve the right to charge if individual service requests become “regular” or are time consuming i.e. not a minor update).  We also provide full site management and updating services for an annual fee.

Due to our commitments to our existing clients, we sometimes have to limit service available to new clients depending on the availability of our resources and the type of work required.  Although we are specialising in WordPress development, we will continue to offer development of simple HTML websites for small businesses.

If you would like a quote on a new website or if you would like to find about transferring your current site to us, please contact us by sending an email to admin@gympiewebsites.com.au