CHOOSING A WEBMASTER FOR YOUR HUNTING WEB DESIGN

Since 2003, many hunting outfitters, guides, and ranch owners have trusted JZ Internet to provide quality hunting web design services. Many of our outfitters, whether seasoned and experienced or just getting started in the hunting business have used our web design and hosting services and continue to use them.  Owner, Jason Zisler states: "I am an avid outdoorsman. I love to hunt and fish myself." I enjoy building new hunting websites for my clients.  Being an experienced outdoorsman myself, I know what hunters are looking for in a outfitter and a hunting guide."  If your an outfitter, guide or ranch owner and your looking for a new hunting web design you may want to consider a few things about your webmaster.

Knowledge of the Hunting Industry.: When looking for a new hunting web design one of the most useful qualities of your webmaster is that they "know the outdoors". Anyone can build a website--it's true. An effective hunting web design for your business is another story. It's important to have a web designer that can look at the website from the user's point of view. In other words it pays to have web designer that can not only develop a site but look at it the way your hunting clients will. I have have heard of story from outfitters and guides that had websites built by designers that don't know the first thing about hunting. In a sense they couldn't tell the difference between an Osceola turkey and a Sara Lee Turkey. Let us develop a hunting web design that will not only attract users to the site, it will keep them there. To avoid the risk of give away all our secrets and getting to detailed, there are some basic things that an effective hunting web design needs to attract potential clients. We discuss some of these things with our outfitters when they contact us for their free website quote and consultation.

The Basics: You can rest assured your hunting web design will be fast loading, easy to navigate, uniform and compatible with all major browsers. A hunting web design can look great to one person and be difficult for the next guy to use. This is because many hunting web designs are not built to function with all the major screen resolutions and browsers. We have rebuilt websites that would horrify the outfitter is they could see the way their site looked to many of the users. It's important to have a hunting design that is not only beautiful, but it also needs to be be visible and uniform for all your visitors. 

Look Out for Intimidation and Technical Mumbo Jumbo: Another thing to consider when looking for a webmaster to build your hunting web design is someone who can explain things in a way anyone can understand. We understand many of our outfitters many not always be among the most technically savvy. Whether your experienced in the internet, or you have troubles figuring out how to send an email we will be able to explain the hunting web design process so that you understand how things work, what your going to get, and what you can expect. When talking to some of my hunting outfitters and guides they expressed issues with previous web designer that they spoke with that used words and terms. This resulted in the outfitter either paying more than they should have for their website or not getting what they expected, which resulted in an an unhappy client.

Updateable Hunting Websites: An  important issue when choosing a webmaster for your hunting web design project is whether or not your site is updateable or not. Many webmasters either don't offer updateable pages or they don't emphasize them. The reason: they want to continue to charge you for updates.. I have talked to quite a few clients who had a webmaster that updated everything on their site. The web developer never gave them the option to update their own site. Instead they charged them substantial update fees to add photos to their photo gallery, or to simply update some prices. Some of them would charge $50 or more for any small change no matter how insignificant. JZ Internet prides itself and even encourages it's clients on they hunting web design projects to have updateable page at least for specific pages on the site that change frequently such as photo galleries, video galleries, references, testimonials, etc.. Although our updates are very affordable we can develop pages that anyone can update. We build pages with simple administration panels folks who know little or nothing about the internet can use with ease. We guide you though and show you how to add to or edit your updateable pages. We will abandon you with a bunch of updateable pages that you don't know how to use. Sure our updates are affordable, but with these updateable pages (if you wish to use them) updating your site will be free. It's also useful because some of these updateable pages will give you the ability to add content to your website which will help aid in search rankings which means more visitors to your hunting website.

Honesty: Many web developers will say anything to lock you in. they may promise your top ranks in the search engines or a really low price that turns into a much more costly project in the future.  When your ready to have a hunting website designed you want to make sure that your hunting web design is actually yours. We have heard some real horror stories about web designers who created a hunting web design for an outfitters. Some cases where the web design companies would register the outfitter's domain name or give a "free" domain name. They then kept the name so that when the outfitter decided to leave the webmaster they would either hold on to their domain or change them a heft price to buy it back. It happens more than you think and can end up in a legal battle. So web design companies will end up charging excessive update costs or jack up prices after locking their outfitters in. Some of them will require unreasonable contracts and other ways to keep you business. If you choose JZ Internet, We will provide a hunting web design for you with no strings attached. Once the website is paid for it is completely yours. If you choose to have someone else update the site or host the site down the road we will gladly give you all the login information. We feel that your hunting website is just that. You bought it so why should anyone else tell you what you should do with it?  JZ Internet will never give unrealistic promises regarding website traffic or search optimization. Many hunting web design companies will attempt to get your business by saying or promising anything to get a paycheck. These promises can be as unrealistic as a hunting outfitter promising a hunter that they will have a 100% chance at a Boone and Crockett Whitetail during their hunt. Contact us today and let us give you the low down on website traffic and search optimization. We can and will help you rank the best with the budget that you have. We don't ever charge for search optimization. We will be honest with you about the subject. Many of these "SEO specialist" and web developers are making a fortune search optimization. Unfortunately many times they take your money and you see little or no results for your money. We want to give you advice on how you can improve your website traffic for free, or how we can build your website in a way that is a well ranking website right off the bat. Bottom line.. Hunters don't like to hear empty promises about their hunt.  We understand that your don't want empty promises either. If a hunting web design proposal sounds to good to be true, many times it is.

Fast Construction times: Hunting web design projects can sometime be a long process depending on who your web design company is. We have one advantage since we have designed and developed well over one hundred hunting websites. We have even designed hunting website and had these clients so long, they looked to use for their next hunting web design or revamp. We have build so many different updateable pages for hunting related sites. Basically if you name an updateable page, chances are we have already developed a program  that fits that mold. Although we do offer custom updateable pages (dynamic pages), we have so many built already. This give us an advantage since we don't have to build these programs from scratch. Some of these updateable pages that we have already established you may want to include in your hunting web design include: photo galleries, video galleries, references, testimonials, news/specials, blogs, hunting journals, booking calendars, guestbooks, forums, hunting lease page, staff pages, sponsors, links pages and much more! There is no need for us to build these programs from scratch since they are already build. This means not only a more affordable website but also a website that gets completed much faster. Though not always the case, many of out clients have a had their website completed in less then a week or two.

A company you can depend on: JZ Internet has been a full-time business since 2003 and has build over 200 web design projects to date. The majority of these projects are hunting web designs or at least hunting related website designs.  We host approximately 99% of our clients websites. We continue to build our business and expand our services. Not only do we multiple  have backups, we provide you with a control panel that allows you to backup your website anytime you wish for free.