F.A.Q.s

What are your advantages?
What do you mean by 'site in native Japanese'?
What specifications do I get with my site?
How many email accounts do I get?
What is my monthly hosting fee?
What materials do I need to prepare?
What developing tools do you use?
Do you later update multimedia contents?
Will I get my site traffic statistics reported?
How long does it usually take for development?
What currency do you accept?
What is Payment Method?



What is Hosting Server?
What is Domain Name?
What is Serch Engine?
What is eCommerce?
What is Pay-Per-Download?
What is Secure Encrypted Site?
What is 'Blog'?
What is Streaming?
What is an advantage of linking to PayPal ?
What do you mean by Advanced Interactive Site?
What is Flash content?


Answers

What are your advantages?

We are one of a few developers who ensure a universal and consistent appearance of your site across different OS platforms because; Since our own first website being launched in 1989 way before the html editor came along, we have developed more than 4,000 pages. Due to an extended period of our business, our designers and programmers are proficient in the use of various OS platforms and developing tools since their first versions including MacOS, Windows, Unix, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Quark XPress, Director, Flash, Strata 3D, GoLive, Dreamweaver, After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut, Digital Performer, Pro Tools, CodeWarrior and Xcode.

What do you mean by 'A site in native Japanese'?

We are proficient with developing a site in Japanese that requires not only translation but also various technologies in dealing with "multi-byte" character across a number of different computer languages necessary for website development. In addition, our Japanese staff verifies the final site appearance.

What specifications do I get with my site?

Some of specs of your site are shown below:
email accounts Unlimited
storage 350,000 Mb
traffic 3,500,000 Mb
Dedicated IP YES
Apache(php) YES
mySQL YES
monthly fee $6.95 w/ 2 yr contract

How many email accounts do I get?

Unlimited.

What is my monthly hosting fee?

$6.95 with 2 year contract while $9.95 with 3 month contract.

What materials do I need to prepare?

For a basic website, you are required to submit text data and photo clips to us. Multimedia materials such as CG, video, animation and music clips are either being created from scrach or edited by us depending on your needs.

What developing tools do you use?

Some of our tools are shown below:
still CG Photoshop
Illustorator
printed material Qark Xpress
html/xml/css/php GoLive
Dreamweaver
c++/objective-c CodeWarrior
Xcode
animation
motion graphics
Strata 3D
Flash Pro
After Effects
video Final Cut Pro
music Pro Tools
Digital Performer

Do you later update multimedia contents?

We gradly update multimedia contents in our client site at special discount rates.

Will I get my site traffic statistics reported?

Comprehensive Traffic Records and Analysis are available online at any time using 5 graphs and 12 charts per website page; per hour, day and month.

How long does it usually take for production?

For a basic site, we most likely complete it within three weeks after your submission of all materials to us.

In what currency do you accept payment?

In US Dollars.

What is Payment Method?

We accept payment by check, major Credit Card and PayPal, a half of the balance at the beginning and the remaing half at completion.


What is Hosting Server?

A computer called 'Server' being connected to the world wide Internet network 24/7 which maintains your website contents for anyone to download.

What is Domain Name?

A name that identifies a computer or computers on the internet, that is, usually a memorable name identifying an actual numeric IP address and multiple addresses. It is required to be registered and periodically renewed.

What is Search Engine?

A search engine is typically an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on computer systems on the World Wide Web and Internet.

What is eCommerce?

eCommerece stands for Electronic Commerce that is exactly analogous to a marketplace on the Internet. eCommerce consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

What is Pay-Per-Download?

A variation of eCommerce distributing digital goods or services such as eBook, software program, CG, animation, video and music clips. Because of the nature of products, it allows to let customers download products off website, eliminating the need of shipping. A set of a URL and a password is typically provided in exchange of payment transaction.

What is Secure Encrypted Site?

A site using cryptographic protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS) and its predecessor, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), which provide secure communications on the Internet. These protocols allow applications to communicate across a network in a way designed to prevent eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.

What is 'Blog'?

A blog, stands for web log, is a website where entries are made and displayed in a reverse chronological order, providing commentary or news on a particular subject.

What is Streaming?

Streaming refers to a delivery method of relatively large medium such as video and music, which allows media to be continuously received by, and normally displayed to, the end-user while it is being delivered by the provider. Streaming, therefore, eliminates download overhead especially when used via narrow bandwidth connection.

What is an advantage of linking to PayPal ?

Using cryptographic communication, buyers from 190 countries are allowed to make an instant purchase off website for no service fee without sharing financial information with the seller. Sellers ship orders upon electronical receipt of payment verification notice from PayPal.

What do you mean by Advanced Interactive Site?

An advanced site developed using technologies including Java, php, html, mySQL, C++, Flash and xml that, as a whole, provides your visitors with an advanced interactive experience that had been available only in standalone software program up until recent years. Because of being based on database, website contents can be dynamically and instantly updated in response to visitor's input without making any change to site itself. Ideal for the press media and retailers.

What is Flash content?

A multimedia web content developed using Adobe Flash authoring software tool, typically consiting of video, animation and music clips, organized by its internal programming language - ActionScript. It would significantly enhance interactivity and visual/audio presentation of a website. Flash content requires a small program called "Flash Player" plug-in to be installed in your browser, which has been most likely already done when your browser was installed on your hrad drive. It is distributed for free to more than 98% of desktop computers across the world.





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