Why Winterhome?

ou know that a website for your business can bring in new customers and bring back existing customers. You need a way to announce sales, new services, special events, and the like, without expensive newspaper ads or radio. Your customers want to be able to find what they need when they need it. But you've spent all these years learning how to run a successful business, not design a successful website. That's where Winterhome comes in!

It's the little things that count. A successful website takes a lot more than just writing up a couple of pages and posting them somewhere. Winterhome has what you need.

• Handcrafted Excellence -- You understand the difference between a flimsy product stamped out by a machine and the same item meticulously handcrafted by a skilled artisan. That distinction is at least as great for web page design as it is for any physical object. The difference between the machine-written glop turned out by the "easy" page design programs that some web services use and the tight, clean, hand-coded HTML that Winterhome creates for you is the difference between a Yugo and a Rolls-Royce.
  
  
• Fast-Loading Graphics -- We don't just scan your photos, drawings, or other art and slap them up there. All graphics are fully processed and optimized for fast loading. This not only makes sure that visitors don't get tired (and leave!) waiting for the images to load but it saves you server space and bandwidth. Doing it right takes some fancy software and a lot of expertise, but that's why we're in this business.
  
  
• Natural Intelligence Proofreading -- Every word of every page on your site is checked for spelling and grammar by a real human being. We proofread and edit your text to help you avoid embarrassing mistakes of spelling, punctuation, and usage. The skill and experience of a published author, technical writer, and newspaper columnist gives you quality far beyond what any computer program can achieve.
  
  
• Full Browser Compatibility -- You wouldn't exclude half your customers from your physical place of business, so of course you want to make sure that all of your customers can visit your website, too. So we design and test for compatibility with all major browsers, including text-only browsers. You won't be losing customers because they can't get through the door.
  
  
• It's All Yours -- We literally hand you your new website on a CD-ROM. Thanks to the meticulously hand-coded pages and strategically placed comment lines, your site is set up so that you can update and maintain it yourself if you choose. (We even tell you how!)
  
  

ou've seen a lot of website hosting services out there. Some of them are cheaper. Some of them are free. Some of them offer you enormous amounts of disk space. What's the difference, and why is Winterhome better for you and your business? Obviously you don't want to host with someone who prohibits commercial uses (such as most ISP personal accounts), who forces you to accept annoying pop-ups and banner ads for other businesses (like free hosting services), or who puts you in a sub-domain such as www.cheapspace.com/yourname123 instead of www.yourname.com.

You know what you don't want, but why is Winterhome Webhosting what you do want?

• Fast Connections -- Who wants to wait for a site to load from some overloaded server via an equally slow and overloaded connection? We buy our connectivity from one of the best providers in the business. Your website isn't sharing a connection with hundreds or thousands of dial-up users as it would be on your local ISP; instead, it's on a network with multiple OC12 and OC3 fiber optic lines to the Internet backbone.
  
  
• Total Support -- If you ever have any questions, we're there to answer them -- and you will be talking to the owners of the company, not someone in a call center who just reads the FAQ to you. We know you as a person, not an account number. Our business is supporting your business.
  
  
• Options, Options, Options -- Need to use your own CGI scripts? We'll be happy to accomodate you. Need database services? We have a MySQL expert ready to help you. Need a cronfile for automatic changes? Just tell us what and when. You name it and it's almost a certainty that we have it.
  
  
• Email Management -- Do you need multiple email addresses? Most hosts will do that, but how about multiple addresses going to the same box? Email forwarding? Auto-responders? List servers? If you can legitimately do it with email, you can do it on Winterhome.
  
  
• Reliability -- Your website lives on a server in a highly secure data center with 24/7 security, backup power generation capability, and more. Multiple backbone connections further guarantee reliability.