Contact us:

Sheville.org
P.O. Box 2835
Asheville, NC 28802
828.215.2915 General info/Ads
828.713-0535 Technical
info@sheville.org

Our Advertising and Web Services

Enhancing Your Web Presence

Our Place or Yours?

Do you have a site you need modifed, or do you need one created? We can help you in the following ways:

Creating a new site, from getting the name through designing and publishing it on the web
Creating a site for you within sheville.org® if you're not ready to fly solor yet, or need to keep your costs to a minimum
Modifying your existing site
Enhancing the web visibility of your site

Limited Time Special!

Try out the web! Let us host your one-page site as an internal web page - only $140 for one year with a Business Directory ad!

Create a Professional Web Page:

A simple webpage can give you a full page or more of pictures and information about your business. You send us the text and pictures as you would like them included.

We can host an internal site for you within Sheville. This saves you from having to pay for a domain plus web hosting - plus it's a great opportunity to "try out" the web, without committing much money to the process.

So what's an internal page? When you go out on the web, you'll see addresses like www.sheville.org. That web page has an address on-line that tells everyone's browsers how to find it. To do this, you have to "buy" your name (called a domain) on an annual basis, and then also pay for "hosting" it. Some hosting companies combine these two thing into a single charge, but the bottom line is that you will pay $30, $40, $50 or more per year just to get the address. Once you have it, then you have to load something onto it. And some of even the biggest web hosting sites don't tell you that they have disabled certain features that would make your site more accessible to search engines - a "feature" they only provide with their more expensive hosting.

By purchasing an internal site on Sheville, we handle designing and loading your site for you, and then there's a flat fee for maintenance. What's the downside? Your name has sheville.org as part of its address - that's actually what we mean by internal, because your site is technically part of Sheville's larger site.

We have two price options for hosting your internal page:

For $25 per year, we will simply host your site, without making changes to it. Each change you ask for will be billed at $25 per change.
For $50 per year, we will host your site, and you can have up to three changes to the text or graphics per year (more if you ask nicely!)

We can design a web site for you, whether for posting to Sheville.org®, or to another host. The charges are:

Single page, containing supplied text (up to 1,000 words), links (up to 6) and graphics (up to 6) only, $100
Each additional page, containing supplied text, links, and graphics only as per above; linked to home or other page without navigation bar, $75
Each additional page, containing supplied text, links, and graphics only as per above; linked to home or other page with navigation bar, $100
We can help you to set up your own domain and web hosting. Contact us about rates.
We can help you with web optimizing, or to enhance the look of your current website. Contact us about rates.

There are four sample webpages shown here that all are based on our advertiser, 27 Blake Street. You can have your website in any of these formats for no additional set-up fee. Feel free to click on any of the graphics to see a blow-up of the page.

We do not charge a maintenance fee for our web design. So if we are creating or modifying your site, you only pay for the actual time we spend doing something for you.

Note: should you ask us to design a site for you internally on Sheville.org®, and then you decide that you would like to have your own domain, we will be able to move the designed site to your new domain for a very minimal cost.

Note: should you sign up for Paypal payments below, you should know that web design charges go to a different Paypal account (lee@leelehman.com) than do all the other charges on this page (info@sheville.org).

Ready to order? Click here!

If You already have a web site:

Great! Now how does a potential customer find it?

The process of helping people to find you is called either search engine optimizing, or simply, web optimizing. How does it work? Here are some of the things that search engines use to evaluate a site:

How long has a site been up? Search engines don't tend to reward new sites, which could be transitory. Sheville.org has been up since 2000.
How does the site describe itself? Within the web language of html, there are several ways to alert the search engines to the topics that are on the site. However, the search engines may not entirely believe these lists, because so many people have tried to add words that are actually irrelevant to the site. Sheville.org® has a broad variety of articles about Western North Carolina, and that means that there are a lot of words that really do describe what we have on board.
Words! Words! Words! A search engine doesn't care what graphics you have. A search engine can only evaluate text. With over 400 articles and many more listings and links, Sheville.org® has the words! There are a lot of ways people can find Sheville, and if they can find us, they can find you - if you advertise with us!
Links into your site. Search engines don't care how many sites you link to: they care about how many sites link to you! And they care about what those links say to describe you. We ask our advertisers to link to us, just as we link to them - both parties benefit!

So the bottom line: if you don't want to spend all your time figuring out how to get traffic to your site, let us help you! Our work on optimizing Sheville.org® helps you - if you join us!

Ready to order? Click here!

Got more questions? Click here for Lee's website FAQs on the web, web marketing, and web design.

Adding Paypal to Your Website

Are you a little intimidated at the prospect of adding Paypal to your website? Don't be! We can help get you set up in Paypal (if you aren't already), and then we can help you set up the Paypal links, like the ones on this page. We charge $50/hour for this service. Enjoy the benefits of E-commerce without the hassle!

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How to Submit Your Ad Artwork

We will design your ad using your existing digital pictures, logo or art work:

Banner Ad - 468 wide x 90 pixels high at 72 dpi resolution sent in .gif, .jpg or .png format.
Directory listings and Mall page listings: typically, we prefer a .jpg or .png that is approximately 100 pixels high at 72 dpi.
We are happy to take the digital pictures for your advertising. Please add $50.00 to $150.00 for this service depending on time and business location.
We can capture your logo or art work from your existing website, but we will charge a set-up fee for the work.

For a design fee of $50 per hour, we are happy to help you to design a logo.

Payment Information

For Sidebar Ads and website development, half of the total amount is due prior to publication. For renewals, payment is within 30 days of invoicing. If you wish to arrange payment terms, we will require a credit card for automatic billing. You can also use the Paypal links here for your convenience.

For Banner Ads , payment for the first three months is due prior to publication. A $75.00 set-up fee will be charged for ads purchased for less than a half year.

For all services of $100 or less, and for all set-up fees: full payment is due in advance.

We accept Paypal, MasterCard, Visa, Amex, Discover, or checks.

Ad posting occurs 7 – 10 days after payment is received.

THE FINE PRINT: Sheville.org reserves the right to reject any advertisement, in whole or in part, and reserves the right to print the word “advertisement” on any ad that resembles editorial copy. Advertisements are published with the understanding that the advertiser and/or agency is authorized to publish the submitted material. The advertiser and/or agency agrees to indemnify and hold Sheville.org from and against any loss or expenses resulting from any disputes of legal claims based upon the contents or subject matter of such advertisements, including claims or suits for defamation, libel, violation of privacy, plagiarism, and copyright infringement. Advertisers are responsible for checking the accuracy of their ads, including links. Sheville will not knowingly accept advertising from firms who discriminate on the basis of gender, gender orientation, race, national origin, religion or age.