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Common Questions about
RENTthesite.com
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What are the advantages of
using RENTthesite.com?
The RENTthesite.com website
creator is designed for the people who want to create and
manage a web site quickly and at a great price. You don’t need
to find and pay a web designer, HTML coder, hosting provider,
etc. Now you can do it all using the RENTthesite.com
sitebuilder for a monthly payment.
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Do I need any new
equipment?
No.
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Can I get an email account
through RENTthesite.com?
Yes. Secure, fast, and
easy to use, RENTthesite.com’s fully integrated Web Mail
feature lets you choose email addresses that match your
business web address, such as info@yourbusiness.com,
feedback@yourbusiness.com,
and sales@yourbusiness.com,
giving you a more professional way to communicate with your
customers and business associates. You'll have access to Web
Mail and get POP mail support, which allows you to check your
Web Mail account with regular email software instead of
through a browser if you prefer.
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Should I be .com or .net or
.org? Which is better? Why?
It depends on the use
of the website. .com is the most common suffix but if you are
a non-profit organization, a club, association or group you
may want to use .org. .net is the most common alternative to
.com
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Can I switch my old website
to one of yours?
Yes, we take care of everything
for you. We handle the transfer of your domain and set up your
site and deliver it to you so you can fill it up with
everything from your old site.
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Can I use my own web
address (or domain name) with my RENTthesite.com site, or do I
have to use a web address that includes
RENTthesite.com?
You can use your own web address
with your web site. If you don't already own a
personalized web address, you can also register one through
us.
Keep in mind that if you'd like to register your
own web address, RENTthesite will register one for
you.
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Do I need to know HTML to
use RENTthesite.com?
No. With RENTthesite.com you
can build pages, send email newsletters, and more — all
without knowing a lick about computer programming. We also
offer personalized customer support to help you along the
way.
If you do know HTML, you can use your knowledge to
do more advanced things with your site using our HTML
publishing and FTP features, but our service is designed to
let you create a unique business without becoming a technology
wizard.
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Can I upload PDFs,
spreadsheets, and word-processing documents to my
RENTthesite.com web site?
With RENTthesite.com you
may upload pictures in .gif or .jpg format to your site, PDFs,
spreadsheets, and word-processing documents. The File Manager
that comes with RENTthesite.com allows you to store and manage
all kinds of downloadable multimedia files on your site,
including, PDFs (great for displaying printable forms),
Microsoft Excel files or other spreadsheets and Microsoft Word
files or other word-processing documents. Your customers will
be able to access each file simply by clicking on a link on
your web site.
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Can I connect my RENTthesite.com site with another
site?
Yes. To do this, you'll simply need to add
links from your RENTthesite.com site to your other site and
vice versa. When both sites link to each other, visitors can
click back and forth between your two web sites, almost as if
they were one.
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How will RENTthesite.com
help me if I have a problem?
To email our
technical support team, click on Support in our homepage and
open a trouble ticket for our Customer Support team.
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How
reliable is your
service? Will my web site always be available to my
customers?
Our site and our customers' sites are
consistently available 99.7 percent of the time. Why not 100
percent? We're constantly improving our service, which
requires us to periodically make our service temporarily
unavailable while we add the latest upgrade or perform routine
maintenance. We always plan maintenance during off-peak hours,
and whenever we can, we leave our members' sites up and
running when we need to perform maintenance to our
own.
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Will I be listed with
Search Engines?
Yes, we have an extensive program
for Search Engine Optimization.
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Can you help me design my
logo?
Yes, but our 48-hour delivery window begins
upon receipt of all of your required materials including your
logo, domain name and password, and the completion of our site
selection process.
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Can you help me with my
copy on my site? How?
Yes, we have wonderful
copywriters we are affiliated with. Just ask your customer
support person.
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How do I extend my rental
term?
It’s easy. Just sign on before the end of
your current rental, click on the new term you want and we
will bill you at that monthly rate for that entire
term.
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Does it cost extra to
extend my rental term, any one-time
charges?
No.
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Do you
do custom sites? How does that work? How long does that
take?
Yes, we do custom sites. Ask your customer
support person for more details about custom work.
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