Design Different: The Blog

He’s a “colleague” of ours, in the loosest sense. But he really knows how to charge

We offer America’s most complete, discount web site package — tailored for small businesses and professionals. For just $1,299 you’ll receive ALL the following:

• Your domain name registration.
• Your domain name registration
• We make recommendations, search availability and pay for the first year registration of one domain.
• (Only $15 for each additional year.)
• Professional site design
• Includes home page with up to four additional pages.
• One-year of paid web hosting
• You pay nothing for the first year of hosting.
• (Only $100 for each additional year.)
• E-mail accounts
• Receive up to three POP3 accounts for free.
• Search Engine Optimization and submission

Need extras? The following (optional features) may be added at our discount rates:

• Extra pages: $100 each
• Contact forms: $150 each
• Photo gallery: $150 (includes up to 10 photos with basic editing)
• Blog: $200
• Site updates: $60 per hour
• Flash animation: $60 per hour

There are no other fees.No hidden charges.

Wow! What Amazing Deals! After only $3,000 there are no more fees!

Here at Design Different, we’re glad there are other people out there looking to work with small businesses to lower the barriers of entry into the often hard-to-navigate online world. And you know what, we’re glad our radical campaign of no-hidden-fees is catching on. But you’re probably even more glad than us, that we charge literally 10x less than our competition.

Because no-hidden-fees is great, as long as the in-plain-sight fees aren’t going to break your bank. At Design Different we price things at what they’re worth it to you. Could you get a really really good website for $3,000? Or even $10,000?

Of course. But no small business, not-for-profit, or political campaign with a budget under $100,000 / year should be spending that kind of money on a website. That’s why we’re proud to that our most basic website design & web-hosting plans start at $50. You can learn more by click here www.hosting.designdifferent.net

What started out as a simple dream in early 2007 has grown into a complex and evolving reality today.

Design Different began with a simple mission:

• All businesses, no matter the size or budget, deserve quality Design
• The principles of winning political campaign are often the same as a good marketing campaign
• Website hosting, and basic website design, should be simple, and within the reach of any person or organization, without spending too much money.

We also began with one simple promise:

• We won’t work for anyone who isn’t everything they say they are, and we won’t work for anyone who is boring… for anyone who isn’t different in some way.

But that promise is more like a contract. You promise to always operate a cool progressive indie business, fight the good fight with your not-for-profit, or run a progressive, honest, political campaign… and we promise we’ll do our very best work, won’t charge more than we have to, and won’t ever include any hidden fees or costs.

Where Are We Now?

In 2008 all those things will stay the same. We will continue to seek out only clients who are truly Different, and who deserve the best, and best-value, service around. We will continue our radical path of no-hidden-fees, give-aways, freebies, exceptional service, and trailblazing experimentation.

But some big things are changing.

• Design Different Consulting is officially moving to the East Coast. Goodbye Prairie Sky!
• Our old website (www.designdifferentomaha.com) is being discontinued, and this new one will take its place. Throughout the year, check back and you’ll see this website grow & expand.
• Speeking of growing & expanding:  Design Different is branching out beyond our core clientèle of small businesses and political candidates. DD is now operating, at least somewhat, in 4 capacities:
  • As a basic website design & website hosting service.
  • As a full-service political consulting firm, specializing in new media, youth-turnout, and non traditional grassroots & earned media approaches.
  • As a full-service small-business consulting firm, specializing in new media, branding, and grassroots word-of-mouth advertising.
  • As a music, recording, & artist promotions group, including the launch of Respect Records & Difference Productions.

In some of these areas we’re just getting our feet wet, and in some of them we’re already going strong.  But in all of them we look forward to steady growth and new clients, and new friends, in our new city.

Thank you to everyone who believed in Design Different from the start, and who have helped make our first year a great foundation for everything to come.  

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This time I’m testing a new blogging software (new for me at least) called Ecto.

• It’s a desktop-based blogging software, which makes it a bit easier to get around to posting when busy.

1. it has many features.

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