We have created many animated gifs, and flash elements to web sites. We are capable of building a complete web site with Flash.

No. Your external links can point to any other website you choose. These external links are separate from the links on your navigation bar, which point to other areas of your website (e.g. from your Home Page to your About Us page).

Search engine optimization is the process of getting a website ranked in the top search engine results under certain keywords. For example, if you own a business that sells shower heads in Houston, you would probably want to rank well when a searcher typed in "shower heads Houston" in the keyword box. If you run a charity that provides international aid to hungry children, you may want to be in the top ten results when a searcher typed in "children's charities" or "international charity."

• We believe the facts speak for themselves. Consider the following results of current Internet studies:
Search engines are the top way consumers find new web sites online, used by 73.4% of those surveyed.

• Search engines are the top information resource Americans use when seeking answers. When searching answers to questions, search engines are used more than any other option including: consulting friends, using books, encyclopedias or dictionaries, going to the library, reading newspapers or magazines or looking something up in the yellow pages.

• When users are looking for products online, they are far more likely to type the product name into a search engine rather than go into a "shopping" channel or click on ads.

• Nine out of ten web users visit a search engine or a website with search options on a "religious-like basis." These sites also command the most amount of time, with surfers spending an average of an hour and a half in and around the site. This means that nearly 95 million people spend a large portion of their day at sites like Google, AOL, Yahoo or Microsoft's MSN properties.

• Between 40 and 70 percent of Americans reported that they searched the internet when making a variety of major decisions including: buying a car, choosing a school, searching for career training, researching a new hobby, helping friends through a serious illness, changing jobs, buying a house, meeting love interests and investing money.

• From December 2001 to May 2002, search engine traffic has grown 11 percent to 92.3 million visitors. The leaders in the search space saw even more dramatic growth: Yahoo! Search grew 20 percent to 38.4 million; Microsoft's MSN Search saw a traffic increase of 16 percent, to 42.4 million and Google--which syndicates its results to other sites -- including Yahoo! -- increased its traffic figures 54 percent, to 34.2 million.

Yes and No. Unfortunately, having a good website is not enough. Why? Search engines look for very specific information such as: the content (text) and the underlying code and of the website. If the search engine doesn't find what it's looking for, the search engine will most often not recognize your site as being relevant. Search engines must attempt to sort over 30 million domains and, of course, each of these domains can have dozens of pages. The fact is, search engines are doing the best they can to return relevant results, but the fact that they must have criteria by which to sort these results creates a need for search engine optimization.

Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may require several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory.

How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders. We suggest you use submit your websites to these engines manually. Your site can be listed on AOL, MSN, Overture in a couple of days. Visit our SEO section in our Services to learn more.

When you create a website for your business, you are helping your business to gain a competitive advantage that could help your company succeed. A website allows you to reach new customers by broadening your marketing message in a rapidly growing medium. A website can help you reach new consumers, keep you in closer contact with your current customers, and may enable you to respond quickly and efficiently to their changing needs. Furthermore, with the tremendous growth of E-Commerce on the Internet, a website may significantly increase your revenue, especially if your site includes online ordering.

No. When you sign up for a full-service site from Cactimedia, you're getting a complete solution to all your website needs. We'll listen to you to find out what you want, and then we'll work directly with you to create a custom site. We'll also take care of the registration, and programming of your site, leaving you to concentrate on what you know best: your core business.

Our work is all customers specific. It is not practical to list estimated pricing for our services. We can prepare you a quote or proposal as long as you can provide us a brief on what your requirements are.

We initially charge for a project on a bid basis. Hourly fees are charged for services beyond the scope of the proposed project unless additional work is done on a revised proposal.