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		<title>Why do You Need a Website for Your Small Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 04:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Level Web Design</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The impact of the Internet on small businesses is huge. If you have a business, small or large, even if you don&#8217;t think your service or products can be sold online, you should have a website. Period. More than 100 million shoppers are now online, purchasing everything from books to computers to cars to real [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-151" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px;" title="website" src="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/image/website.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="100" />The impact of the Internet on small businesses is huge. If you have a business, small or large, even if you don&#8217;t think your service or products can be sold online, you should have a website. Period.</p>
<p>More than 100 million shoppers are now online, purchasing everything from books to computers to cars to real estate to anything else, you name it. You should, at the very least, have a presence on the web so customers, potential employees, business partners and perhaps even investors can quickly and easily learn more about your business and the products or services you have to offer.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Provide more information to your clients in a better way<br />
</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Having a website is definitely helpful in marketing your services. If  you have visual examples of what you do, a website will act as a  portfolio and introduce your work to prospective clients. Your website is just like an online brochure to your potential clients. You can direct your clients to your website for more detailed information, which is more effective and efficient than delivering a paper booklet. In addition, you save money on printing marketing materials.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Reach more potential target customers</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Your business website is online and everybody can visit it at anytime from anywhere in the world. Anybody visiting your website can be your potential client. You need to make your website more visible and attractive to your visitors. How can you do that? With proper search engine optimization, your website will have a higher Google page rank. Your site will be displayed on top of your competitors when potential clients search your products through search engines such as Google or Yahoo! With a professional and user-friendly web design, your visitors will stay at your website for longer time. Research has shown that the more time visitors spend on your site, the higher the possibility they will buy your services or products.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Learn more about your target customers</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>You can use web analytic software to keep track of your visitors. For example, you will be able to find out where are they from, how they found your website, what information they are looking for, how long did they stay on your site, how often do they come back, &#8230; etc. Based on the intelligence analysis, you can fine tune your website and improve your services to better meet your clients&#8217; needs.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Interact with your existing and potential clients virtually<br />
</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>What&#8217;s the best way to retain your clients? &#8211; By interacting with them, by building personal relationships with them. That&#8217;s why those social networking websites (FaceBook, Twitter) are becoming more popular in the mainstream. Small business owners can combine a blog or forum into their website to get feedback for services from clients directly. You don&#8217;t need to meet them in person in order to build a relationship with them. Build a community for your clients and they will become loyal customers.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Keep your competitive advantage </strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Simply put, if you don&#8217;t have a website, you are losing business to your competitors that do.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>A website is not enough, you need a professional website for your small business</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Your website speaks volumes about your business. You must have a professional-looking website if you want to be taken seriously by potential clients. With a well-designed professional website, your little operation can project the image and professionalism of a much larger company. Since many consumers now search for information online prior to making a purchase decision in stores, your website may be the first and last chance you have at making a good impression on a potential buyer.</p>
<p>Research indicates that 78% of people look online for local service providers. Having a website nowadays is imperative for all businesses. Many small business owners understand this. However sometimes it is overwhelming to deal with all the technical terms and the processes of designing a website.  As a small business ourselves, Top Level Web Design understands your needs and challenges. That is why we have come up with a $499 all-in-one website design solution.</p>
<p>Our <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/services/" target="_self">website design packages</a> include everything you need to build your online business presence. From <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/whats-search-engine-optimization/" target="_self">Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</a>, setting up emails, to <a href="../hosting/" target="_self">hosting</a>, purchasing domain names and maintaining your website, our packages include it all.</p>
<p>If your business is not online or you have an outdated website, but you don’t have the time and budget for a long and expensive web design project, then Top Level Web Design is the perfect solution for you. We design and create affordable yet professional websites especially for small businesses and individuals.</p>
<p>You can take control over your own website. No more waiting for your IT guy, or web design company to make small changes or updates to your site.</p>
<p>With our custom designed website, you will be able to add news, change all the content on your web pages, upload photos, and even maintain your own blog!</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s get started! <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/contact/web-design-request-form/" target="_self">Submit your web design request form now!</a></p>
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		<title>How to Choose a Good Domain Name for Your Small Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Level Web Design</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[domain name]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[domain name registration]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having a good domain name is one of the most important parts of starting your web presence. A domain name is your own unique identity, so think of one that is easy to remember and relates to your small business. Below are some tips on how to choose a good domain name for your small [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-155" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 8px;" title="web-design" src="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/image/web-design1-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" />Having a good domain name is one of the most important parts of starting your web presence. A domain name is your own unique identity, so think of one that is easy to remember and relates to your small business.</p>
<p>Below are some tips on how to choose a good domain name for your small business.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Register a domain name that is the same as your business name</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Ideally, you should use your business name as your domain name. For example, if you have a business named <a href="http://www.smallbizconsulting.ca/" target="_blank">SmallBiz Consulting</a>, you first choice should be SmallBizConsulting.com, since people will easily remember it. If this name is not available, choose something similar to your business name.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Stick with the .com domain name, only consider .net or .org as a second choice</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>The .com top-level domain name is the most popular extension in the world. If you chose a .net or .org for your business, your customers might forget that your domain name ends with .net; they might just assume that your business has a .com extension. When your clients search your business online, they might just type your domain name with .com &#8211; most likely they will be directed to your competitor&#8217;s website.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Consider a country-specific domain if you are running a local business</strong> (such as .us, .ca, .uk, .au, etc.)</li>
</ul>
<p>If your website or business is only targeting the local community, such as a local restaurant or tutoring center, it makes sense to get a country-specific domain. You actually benefit from having such a local domain because your clients know that they&#8217;re dealing with a local business, which will make them more comfortable.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Shorter is better</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Obviously, it is easy to remember and easy to type. The rule of thumb is no more than 20 letters.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Include the frequently-searched keyword in your domain<br />
</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>For example, our domain name <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/" target="_self">TopLevelWebDesign.com</a>, we use the key word, web design, as the most important part of our domain name. We know that when people are looking for a web design company online, they will type phases like &#8220;web design company in New York&#8221;, etc. There is <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/whats-search-engine-optimization/" target="_self">Search Engine Optimization</a> (SEO) advantage for using key words in your domain name.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Make it easy to spell and pronounce</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>You want people to talk about your business? You want to promote your business through word of mouth? Keep your domain name easy to spell and pronounce.  For branding purposes, keep it descriptive as well.<strong><br />
</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Consider registering multiple domains</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>To avoid confusion and keep the similar domains away from your competitors, it&#8217;s highly recommended to purchase both the singular and plural version of your domain name if applicable. For example, you can register both <a href="http://www.happytutors.com/" target="_blank">HappyTutors.com</a> and HappyTutor.com. Set up your business website on HappyTutors.com and then redirect HappyTutor.com to HappyTutors.com. Therefore, if people happen to search HappyTutor.com, they will still be directed to your website.</p>
<p>The main reasons for registering multiple domain names are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Protect your brand and online identity</li>
<li>Drive more traffic to your website</li>
<li>Increase search engine optimization</li>
</ol>
<p>Last but not least, <strong>Act fast!</strong> Once you find a good domain name available, register it immediately before someone else grabs it.</p>
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		<title>Integrate a Blog into Your Small Business Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Level Web Design</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of community building and marketing capabilities, business blogging is becoming more popular than ever. A blog can be an effective tool for sharing information and expertise. A blog offers your small business a chance to build a sense of community. Blogs make it easy and quick for people to post, comment and update posts, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-154" style="margin-right: 8px;" title="website_design" src="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/image/website_design-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" />Because of community building and marketing capabilities, business blogging is becoming more popular than ever. A blog can be an effective tool for sharing information and expertise. A blog offers your small business a chance to build a sense of community. Blogs make it easy and quick for people to post, comment and update posts, making it easy for everyone to participate.</p>
<p>A blog can be a powerful marketing tool. A well-maintained blog does three important things for a small business website.</p>
<ul>
<li>Attracts more traffic to your website since there is always fresh content on the site (if you update the content frequently)</li>
<li> Establish a relationship with visitors and build a climate of trust. Potential customers get to know more about you and your small business through your blog</li>
<li>Blogs are search engine friendly &#8211; Search engines like the chronicle structure and dynamic nature of blogs</li>
</ul>
<p>It is a smart choice for small businesses to integrate a blogs into their website to develop an interactive community around their products and services and find new customers via the search engines. Top Level Web Design utilizes this blog to provide more value-added information to help small business owners develop their online strategies.</p>
<p>Some of our <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/services/" target="_self">custom web design and hosting packages</a> include a Blog component. Based on the nature of your business, you can also easily transfer a blog into an archive page or a knowledge base for your small business website.</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Content Management System?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 12:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Level Web Design</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[CMS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Content Management System (CMS) system is a web system designed to simplify the publication of web content to web sites and mobile devices, in particular, allowing content creators (website owners) to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files. Simply put, a Content Management System (CMS) is a software [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-153" style="margin-right: 8px;" title="web design" src="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/image/web-design-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" />A Content Management System (CMS) system is a web system designed to simplify the publication of web content  to web sites and mobile devices, in particular, allowing content creators (website owners) to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files.</p>
<p>Simply put, a Content Management System (CMS) is a software system which provides website authoring and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web programming languages or markup languages to create and manage the site&#8217;s content with relative ease.</p>
<p>A Content Management System allows non-technical users to make changes to a website with little training. It is primarily a Web-site maintenance tool for non-technical administrators.</p>
<p>Most web design companies charge a lot of money for a fully functional Content Management System. Most cheap web design packages do not include any Content Management System. Sometimes you might need to pay a monthly fee in order to use a Content Management System. However, here at Top Level Web Design, all of our web design packages include a user-friendly CMS for our clients without extra charges.</p>
<p>Today&#8217;s small businesses need the ability to control their content just as much as larger companies. You don&#8217;t need an advanced design, but you do need a website that allows you to change the text on all the pages, the ability to add photographs to your pages and embed code from outside sources such as Facebook or Twitter and other social networking sites.</p>
<p>We will design and develop your website on a powerful CMS. You can update your website content at your convenience from anywhere with an Internet access. You will have full control over your site and no programming skills are needed! We will also provide you with a step-by-step User Guide explaining how to update your website with CMS. We even provide tutorial videos to help you manage your web content.</p>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Search Engine Optimization?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 06:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Level Web Design</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines (Google, Yahoo! or Bing) via the &#8220;natural&#8221; or unpaid (&#8220;organic&#8221; or &#8220;algorithmic&#8221;) search results. Other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the higher the positioning of your website displaying [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-152" style="margin-right: 8px;" title="web design" src="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/image/website-design-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="120" height="120" />Search engine optimization</strong> (SEO) is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines (Google, Yahoo! or Bing) via the &#8220;natural&#8221; or unpaid (&#8220;organic&#8221; or &#8220;algorithmic&#8221;) search results. Other forms of search engine marketing  (SEM) target paid listings. In general, the higher the positioning of your website displaying on the search result page, and the more frequently a website appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from search engines.</p>
<p>Search engine optimization affects only organic search results, not paid or &#8220;sponsored&#8221; results, such as Google AdWords.</p>
<p>As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what information people search for online. Optimizing a website may involve editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines. Promoting a site to increase the number of outbound links or inbound links, is another SEO tactic. Therefore it is an important strategy to exchange links with other similar websites.</p>
<p><strong>SEO is not a rocky science. The good practices outlined below will make it easier for search engines to both crawl and index your website content.</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Include the target key words in your domain name</li>
<li>Include the target key words in the page title</li>
<li>Use the target key words in your content</li>
<li>Update your website content frequently</li>
<li>Exchange links with other quality websites</li>
<li>Post your website in related business directories</li>
<li>Register your website on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter</li>
</ul>
<p>Search engine optimization is often about making small modifications to parts of your website. When viewed individually, these changes might seem like incremental improvements, but when combined with other optimizations, they could have a noticeable impact on your site&#8217;s user experience and performance in organic search results.</p>
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		<title>Special Offer &#8212; Free Web Design for Community Gardens</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Level Web Design</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Promotion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As more people are aware of global warming and pollution issues, community gardens are becoming more popular in many cities.  Community gardens provide fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to the environment. To support green initiatives, Top Level Web Design is currently offering a special [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As more people are aware of global warming and pollution issues, <a href="http://www.thecommunitygardens.com/" target="_blank">community gardens</a> are becoming more popular in many cities.   Community gardens provide fresh produce and plants as well as satisfying  labor, neighborhood improvement, sense of community and connection to  the environment.</p>
<p>To support green initiatives, Top Level Web Design is currently offering a special promotion especially to community gardens:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>We will provide</strong><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;"> </span><span style="color: #3366ff;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">free</span> web design for community gardens</span>, no matter where the community garden is located. </strong><strong><br />
</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>We&#8217;ve noticed that most community gardens currently do not have a website due to lack of funding. However, websites are the best, most cost-effective and efficient marketing tool to promote green life-style to the world and get more people involved in community gardens.</p>
<p>We, the Top Level Web Design Team,  love gardening and would like to play a role in the environmental improvement.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>What will be a better way to support community gardens than building  a professional website for them for free?</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>As of today, Top Level Web Design has built a professional  website for free for <a href="http://www.thecommunitygardens.com/" target="_blank">the Community Gardens</a>, to provide free web-based resources  for community gardeners.</p>
<p>So, if you are a member of local community gardens, please forward our offer to the garden committee and ask them to <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/contact/" target="_self">contact us directly</a> if they are interested.</p>
<p>A professionally designed website like <a href="http://www.thecommunitygardens.com/" target="_blank">the Community Gardens</a> will be ready and runny within 2 weeks. All websites can be easily updated with a user-friendly <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/what-is-content-management-system/" target="_self">Content Management System</a>. No special programming skills are needed.</p>
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		<title>Privacy Policy</title>
		<link>http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/privacy-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Top Level Web Design</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Level Web Design takes your privacy seriously. We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with anyone for their promotional use without your advance permission or unless ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Top Level Web Design takes your privacy seriously.</p>
<ul>
<li>We will never share, sell, or rent individual personal information with  anyone for their promotional use without your advance permission or unless  ordered by a court of law. Information submitted to us is only available to  employees managing this information for purposes of contacting you or sending  you emails based on your request for information, and to contracted service  providers for purposes of providing services relating to our communications with  you.</li>
<li>We take all reasonable precautions to ensure the protection of all such  personal information.</li>
<li>We use appropriate security measures to protect against the loss, misuse and  alteration of data used by our system.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you have any questions about our privacy policy,  please <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign/contact/">contact us directly</a>.</p>
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		<title>Terms of Services Agreement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Top Level Web Design. By using our site, you agree that you are bound by the following Terms of Services Agreement (the “Agreement”), whether or not you are a client of Top Level Web Design. Please review the following Agreement carefully, if you do not agree with each provision of the Agreement, or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Welcome to Top Level Web Design. By using our site, you agree that you are bound by the following Terms of Services Agreement (the “Agreement”), whether or not you are a client of Top Level Web Design. Please review the following Agreement carefully, if you do not agree with each provision of the Agreement, or you are not authorized to enter the Agreement, or you do not have the legal capacity to enter into the Agreement, you should not use this site. The term “Top Level”, “the Site”, “the Service” “we”, “us” or “our” refers to Top Level Web Design, the registered domain name of the web site. The term “you” refers to the user of our web site, including the client, visitor or viewer of our web site.</p>
<p><strong>1. Acceptance of Agreement</strong><br />
You agree to the terms and conditions outlined in this Terms of Services Agreement with respect to our site. This Agreement constitutes the entire and only agreement between us and you, and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous agreements, representations, warranties and understandings with respect to the Site, the Content, products or services provided by or through the Site, and the subject matter of this Agreement. The Terms of Services are subject to change by Top Level Web Design at any time, effective upon posting on the Top Level Web Design, and your use of any portion of the Site after such posting will constitute acceptance by you of such changes.</p>
<p>This Agreement is an electronic contract that sets out the legally binding terms of your use of the Site and your client status in the Service. This Agreement also includes a Privacy Policy and any notices regarding the Site. By accessing the Site or becoming a client, you accept this Agreement and agree to the terms, conditions and notices contained or referenced herein. You consent to have this Agreement provided to you in electronic form.</p>
<p><strong>2. Conditions of Eligibility</strong><br />
You agree that in order to use the Site as the visitor, viewer or client, you must be at least eighteen (18) years of age or older. By using the Website, you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority and capacity to enter into this Agreement and to abide by all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement.</p>
<p>You acknowledge that there are personal and financial risks involved in using internet to interact with strangers. You are solely responsible for any risks involved in using the Site. Therefore, you hereby agree to waive all claims against Top Level Web Design, for any and all damages, direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, general, special, compensatory, foreseeable or unforeseeable arising from subscription, registration or use of the Site.</p>
<p><strong>3. Your Rights to Use the Services and Restrictions<br />
</strong></p>
<p>3.1 The Services are protected by copyright, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws. You are only granted the right to use the Services, and Top Level Web Design reserves all rights of ownership in the Services not granted to you in writing here. As long as you meet any applicable payment obligations and comply with this Agreement, Top Level Web Design grants to you a personal, limited, nonexclusive, nontransferable right to use the Services that is valid only for the period of use provided in the ordering and activation terms, and only for the purposes described by Top Level Web Design on the website for the Services.</p>
<p>3.2 You agree not to use the Services or content on this website in a manner that violates any applicable law, regulation or this Agreement. For example, unless authorized by Top Level Web Design in writing, you agree you will not:</p>
<ul>
<li>Provide access to or give any part of the Services to any third party.</li>
<li>Reproduce, duplicate, copy, deconstruct, sell, trade or resell the Services.</li>
<li>Attempt to access any other Top Level Web Design systems that are not part of these Services.</li>
<li>Excessively overload the Top Level Web Design systems used to provide the Services.</li>
</ul>
<p>If you violate any of these terms, this Agreement and your right to use the Services may be terminated by Top Level Web Design in its sole discretion.</p>
<p><strong>4. Fees and Payments</strong><strong><br />
</strong>Fees for using the Service (&#8220;Fees&#8221;) are payable in the amounts and in the manner described on the Site. Fees are subject to change without notice.</p>
<ul>
<li>All Fees are not transferable.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>All Fees are not refundable.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Payment for the website hosting plan is required in one yearly (minimum 12 month) payment, on commencement of project and due before project starts.</li>
<li>The website hosting plan will be auto-renewed every 12 months via PayPal on the due date</li>
</ul>
<p>All Fees are exclusive of all taxes, levies, or duties imposed by taxing authorities, and you shall be responsible for payment of all such taxes, levies, or duties.</p>
<p>All currency references are in U.S. dollars. You shall be responsible for payment of all taxes, levies, or duties imposed by taxing authorities for any payment or fees you may collect through the System.</p>
<p><strong>5. Links to other Web Sites </strong><strong><br />
</strong>The Site might contain links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the content or opinions expressed in such web sites, and such web sites are not investigated, monitored or checked for accuracy or completeness by us. Inclusion of any linked web sites on our Site does not imply approval or endorsement of the linked web site by us. If you decide to leave our Site and access these third-party sites, you do so at your own risk.</p>
<p><strong>6. Advertisers and Sponsors</strong><br />
The Site may contain advertising and sponsorships. Advertisers and sponsors are responsible for ensuring that material submitted for inclusion on the Site is accurate and complies with applicable laws. We are not responsible for the illegality or any error, inaccuracy or problem in the advertiser&#8217;s or sponsor&#8217;s materials.</p>
<p><strong>7. Content on the Site</strong><br />
We do not represent or warrant that the Site will be error-free, free of viruses or other harmful components, or that defects will be corrected. We do not represent or warrant that the information (Content) available on or through the Site will be correct, accurate, timely or otherwise reliable. We may make changes to the features, functionality or content of the Site at any time. We reserve the right in our sole discretion to edit or delete any documents, information or other content appearing on the Site. We do not warrant or guarantee the accurateness, completeness, adequacy or currency of the information contained in or linked to the Site. Your use of information on the Site or materials linked to the Site is entirely at your own risk.</p>
<p>We do not pre-screen Content and it is in our sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is available via the Site. We may, but have no obligation to, remove Content and accounts containing Content that we determine in our sole discretion are unlawful, offensive, threatening, libelous, defamatory, pornographic, obscene or otherwise objectionable or violates any party&#8217;s intellectual property or these Terms of Use.</p>
<p>Opinions, advice, statements, offers, or other information or content made available through the Site, but not directly by Top Level Web Design, are those of their respective authors, and should not necessarily be relied upon. Such authors are solely responsible for such content. Top Level Web Design does not: (a) guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information on the Site, or (b) adopt, endorse or accept responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice, or statement made by any party that appears on the Site. Under no circumstances will Top Level Web Design or its partners be responsible for any loss or damage resulting from your reliance on information or other content posted on the Site or transmitted to or by any users or Members.</p>
<p>You understand that by using the Site, you may be exposed to Content that is offensive, indecent or objectionable. Under no circumstances will we or our service providers be liable in any way for any Content, including, but not limited to, for any errors or omissions in any Content, or for any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of the use of any Content posted, transmitted or otherwise made available via the Site. You agree that you must evaluate, and bear all risks associated with, the use of any Content, including any reliance on the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of such Content. In this regard, you acknowledge that you may not rely on any Content created by or submitted to us or our service providers.</p>
<p><strong>8. Content Posted by You on the Site</strong><strong><br />
</strong>Users may post comments or photos and submit suggestions, ideas, questions, or other information, as long as the content is not illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights, or otherwise injurious to third parties or objectionable and does not consist of or contain software viruses, political campaigning, commercial solicitation, chain letters, mass mailings, or any form of &#8220;spam.&#8221;</p>
<p>You may not use a false e-mail address, impersonate any person or entity, or otherwise mislead as to the origin of other content. Top Level Web Design reserves the right, but not the obligation, to remove or edit such content. You represent and warrant that you are the owner or validly authorized licensee of all Content provided by you through the Site, and you hereby grant to us and our service providers a worldwide, non-exclusive license to copy, store, transmit, digitally display and otherwise distribute such Content as part of the Service.</p>
<p>Top Level Web Design has the right but not the obligation to monitor and edit or remove any content in the Site. Top Level Web Design does not regularly review posted content and takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for any content posted by you or any third party. Any reliance you place on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.</p>
<p><strong>9. Web Design Copyright<br />
</strong>The website hosting plan covers 12 months website hosting. You will receive an email notification one month before the expiry date. You have the option to renew or not renew for another 12 months.</p>
<p>If you do not wish to renew the hosting plan after 12 months, you will have to give us a 2-week notice and you may take your domain name and the content originally provided by you. However, <strong>you will not be able to take the website design since your website is build on proprietary software</strong>. You will have to ask another company to redesign a new website for you.</p>
<p><strong>10. Maintenance Periods<br />
</strong>You acknowledge and agree to the weekly scheduled periods of maintenance, which we may perform at least every week. You understand and agree that during a scheduled maintenance period, any or all Services provided by us may be unavailable. You further understand and agree that we have the right to conduct emergency maintenance at any time, during which any or all of our Services may be unavailable.</p>
<p><strong>11. Management &amp; Backup of Data</strong><br />
Except where we has expressly agreed in writing to the contrary, you are solely and entirely responsible, and we are in no way responsible, for the management and backup of all of the Customer’s data, and all updates, upgrades, and patches to any software that the Customer uses in connection with Services offered by us.</p>
<p><strong>12. Copyright and Service Marks</strong><strong><br />
</strong>The content, organization, graphics, design, compilation, magnetic translation, digital conversion and other matters related to the Site are protected under applicable copyrights, trademarks and other proprietary (including but not limited to intellectual property) rights. The copying, redistribution, use or publication by you of any such matters or any part of the Site, except allowed by us, is strictly prohibited.</p>
<p>“Top Level Web Design” and others are our service marks or registered service marks or trademarks. Other product and company names mentioned on the Site may be trademarks of their respective owners.</p>
<p><strong>13. Content, images, logos, trade marks and other proprietary on your webstie<br />
</strong>You are soly responsible for legality of the content, images, logos, trade marks and other proprietary on your website. We are only resposible for inserting the content, images, logos, trade marks and other proprietary provided by you into your website. You are soly responsible for making sure the content, images, logos, trade marks and other information on your website is NOT illegal, obscene, threatening, defamatory, invasive of privacy, infringing of intellectual property rights.</p>
<p><strong>14. Limited License; Permitted Uses</strong><strong><br />
</strong>You are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license (a) to access and use the Site strictly in accordance with this Agreement; (b) to use the Site solely for internal, personal, educational, non-commercial purposes; and (c) to print out discrete information from the Site solely for internal, personal, educational, non-commercial purposes and provided that you maintain all copyright and other policies contained therein. No print out or electronic version of any part of the Site or its contents may be used by you in any litigation or arbitration matter whatsoever under any circumstances.</p>
<p><strong>15. Restrictions and Prohibitions on Use</strong><br />
Your license for access and use of the Site and any information, including but not limited to registered members’ or users’ contact information, therein are subject to the following restrictions and prohibitions on use: You may not (a) use the Site for the purpose of gathering information for or transmitting (1) non-educational purpose (2) unsolicited commercial email; (3) email that makes use of headers, invalid or nonexistent domain names, or other means of deceptive addressing; and (4) unsolicited telephone calls or facsimile transmissions;  (b) use the Site in a manner that violates any state, provincial or federal law regulating email, facsimile transmissions or telephone solicitations.</p>
<p>You agree not to use the Site to do any of the following: (a) violate any local, state, provincial, national or international law; (b) stalk, harass or harm another individual or communicate with such individual after being advised to cease any such communications; (c) collect, harvest or store personal data about other users including email addresses or contact members for any purpose other than responding to the content posted by such members; (d)impersonate any person or entity; (e)express or imply that any statements you make are endorsed by Top Level Web Design without our specific prior written consent; (f) use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other manual or automatic device or process to retrieve, index, &#8220;data mine&#8221;, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Service or its contents. (g) interfere with or disrupt the Services or the site or the servers or networks connected to the Services or the site. (h) post, email or otherwise transmit any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment (i) modify, adapt, sublicense, translate, sell, reverse engineer, decipher, decompile or otherwise disassemble any portion of the Service or the Website or any software used on or for the Service or cause others to do so.<br />
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<strong>16. Non-transferable</strong><br />
</strong>Your right to use the Site or registered membership is not transferable, re-sellable or assignable. Any password or right given to you to obtain information or documents is not transferable, re-sellable or assignable.</p>
<p><strong>17. Unlawful Activity </strong><strong><br />
</strong>We reserve the right to investigate complaints or reported violations of this Agreement and to take any action we deem appropriate, including but not limited to reporting any suspected unlawful activity to law enforcement officials, regulators, or other third parties and disclosing any information necessary or appropriate to such persons or entities relating to your profile, email addresses, usage history, posted materials, IP addresses and traffic information.</p>
<p><strong>18. Indemnification</strong><br />
You agree to indemnify and hold Top Level Web Design, its subsidiaries, affiliates, officers, agents, and other partners and employees, harmless from any loss, liability, claim, or demand, including reasonable attorney&#8217;s fees, made by any third party due to or arising out of your use of the Service in violation of this Agreement and/or arising from a breach of this Agreement and/or any breach of your representations and warranties set forth above.</p>
<p><strong>19. Disclaimers</strong><br />
You expressly understand and agree that your use of the Site is at your sole risk. The information, content and service from or through the site are provided “as-is,” “as available,” with “all faults,” and all warranties, express or implied, are disclaimed (including but not limited to the disclaimer of any implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose).</p>
<p>Without prejudice to the generality of the above, we and our service providers do not warrant that (a) the information on the Site will be true, accurate, complete, current and adequacy, (b) the information provided by the user or registered member is valid, reliable and legitimate, (c) the services you receive from the user or registered member of the Site will meet your expectations or specific requirements, (e) the Site will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, (f) the results that may be obtained from the use of the Site will be accurate or reliable.</p>
<p>Top Level Web Design will not be involved in any user or member interactions in any events. Top Level Web Design is not responsible for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, general, special, compensatory, foreseeable or unforeseeable disputes, claims, loss, injury or damage that might arise from subscription, registration, use of this Site, user interaction or registered member interaction.</p>
<p>No advice or information, whether oral or written, obtained through or from the Site shall create any warranty, representation or guarantee not expressly stated in the Agreement.</p>
<p>We will make commercially reasonable efforts to maintain the Site, however, we and our service providers are not responsible for any damage, loss of data, member information or data, revenue, or other harm to business arising out of delays, non-availability, mis-delivery or non-delivery of information, restriction or loss of access, bugs or other errors, unauthorized use due to your sharing of access to the Site, or the interaction with the user or registered members.</p>
<p>All responsibility or liability for any damages caused by viruses contained within the electronic file containing a form or document is disclaimed.</p>
<p><strong>20. Limitation on Liability</strong><br />
In no event will Top Level Web Design be liable to you or any third person for any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, special or punitive damages, including also lost profits arising from your use of the Web site or the Service, even if Top Level Web Design has been advised of the possibility of such damages. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, Top Level Web Design&#8217;s liability to you for any cause whatsoever, and regardless of the form of the action, will at all times be limited to the amount paid, if any, by you to Top Level Web Design for the Service during the term of membership.</p>
<p><strong>21. Privacy Policy</strong><br />
Our <a href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/privacy-policy/" target="_self">Privacy Policy</a>, as it may change from time to time, is a part of this Agreement.</p>
<p><strong>22. Legal Compliance</strong><br />
Recognizing the global nature of the Internet, you agree to comply with all applicable domestic and international laws, statutes, ordinances and regulations regarding your use of the Site, online conduct and acceptable content.</p>
<p><strong>23. Jurisdiction</strong><br />
The Agreement and the relationship between you and Top Level Web Design shall be governed by the laws of the Province of British Columbia, Canada as applied to agreements made, entered into and performed entirely in the Province of British Columbia, notwithstanding your actual place of residence. All disputes arising out of the Agreement or out of your use of the Site shall be brought in provincial courts having jurisdiction over the Province of British Columbia and you hereby irrevocably submit to the exclusive personal jurisdiction of such courts for such purpose.</p>
<p><strong>24. Effective Date</strong><strong><br />
</strong>This Agreement was last updated on July 27, 2010.</p>
<p>Please <a title="Contact Us" href="http://www.toplevelwebdesign.com/contact/" target="_self">contact us </a>with any questions regarding this Agreement.</p>
<p><em><strong>I HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY AND AGREE TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS CONTAINED ABOVE.</strong></em></p>
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		<title>Welcome to Top Level Web Design!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top Level Web Design understands the needs of small businesses and professionals. We design and create affordable and professional websites especially for small businesses. Custom Website Design + Free Content Writing ~ for small businesses and professionals ~ ~ by the pros that know how to make your site sell ~ Top Level Web Design’s solutions will help [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Top Level Web Design understands the needs of small businesses and professionals. We design and create affordable and professional websites especially for small businesses.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">Custom Website Design + Free Content Writing</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ for small businesses and professionals </strong>~<strong><br />
</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>~ by the pros that know how to make your site sell</strong> <strong>~<br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong>Top Level Web Design’s solutions will help small businesses in the following areas:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Online Branding</strong>: Customize your website to match your brand identity and appear to your target customers</li>
<li><strong>Web Functionality</strong>: Easy to use and navigate; Easy to manage your content</li>
<li><strong>Search Engine Optimization</strong>: Attract potential clients through search engines such as Google and Yahoo!</li>
<li><strong>Blog Integration</strong>: Blogging can showcase your expertise and help you interact with your clients</li>
<li><strong>Online Stats</strong>: Tracking your audience and their interests helps your Return on Investment (ROI) and conversion rates!</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>Why Top Level Web Design ?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Affordable (only $499/web project and short turn-over (1-2weeks)<br />
</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>If your business is not online or you have an outdated website, but you don&#8217;t want to spend a fortune for a long and expensive web design project, then Top Level Web Design is the perfect solution for you.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>We know your needs and challenges as a small business<br />
</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>As a small business ourselves, we know exactly your needs. We will create a unique and professional custom website especially for your small business.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>You can take control over your own website</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>No more waiting for your IT guy, or web design company to make small changes or updates to your site.</p>
<p>With our custom designed website, you will be able to add news, change all the content on your web pages, upload photos, and even maintain your own blog!</p>
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