For the "XYZ Marine Surveys" company, the web address could be: http://www.marinesurveyor.com/xyz/

There is no extra charge for the use of this domain name; it is included in the yearly cost of your web site.  The domain marinesurveyor.com is currently receiving about 3500 highly targeted visitors each month in winter and over 4500 in the summer, all of whom are interested in some aspect of marine surveying. There is no content other than marine surveying at marinesurveyor.com.

For those people who want to use their own domain name, we can host the site on fast and reliable servers (the same ones that host marinesurveyor.com and SAMS) for an additional $190.00 CAD per year (less than $16.00 per month).

It takes a while for new web sites to produce results, simply because the URL has to be picked up by the various search engines and robots.   Being hosted on or linked from marinesurveyor.com gives your new site a jump-start.  The site will be hosted on very reliable servers with a rock solid history and will load quickly and reliably 99.9% of the time.

I am also offering an Email redirection service from this domain name.  For $30.00 CAD per year, the XYZ company above can have an Email address such as xyz@marinesurveyor.com.  We do not actually provide you with a mailbox, but simply redirect your mail to your current local Email address (If you decide to have your own domain name hosted there is no charge for Email redirects).

There are two advantages to this service.   First, having a similar and relevant looking web and Email address helps promote a professional image.  Second, you don't have to change all your business cards, stationery and advertising every time you change Internet providers.  Instead you just give us the new address and we change the redirection.

There can be any number of letters in an Email name (shorter is better), but of course the names must be unique (there can only be one miami@marinesurveyor.com for example), and generic names like surveyor@marinesurveyor.com or theboss@marinesurveyor.com are not permitted.  In any case all names have to be approved by myself (It's great being King!).  In case of duplication, first come is first served.

If you would like us to develop such a web site for you it will be featured within marinesurveyor.com and can also be linked from your listings on the NAMS web site. All you have to do is send us the text and photographs/images and we will do the rest. (There is no charge to NAMS members for image scanning or setup on basic pages)

There is some good information published here about what should be in your web sitehttp://www.marinesurveyor.com/insite.html.

Have a look at some of the pages other marine surveyors have on the site to get some ideas for content.  I especially like the way the pages for Peter McGuire (Ontario), John Martin (Spain), Tom Benton (Oklahoma) and Jim Wood (California) turned out.   Remember, the better the content you send me, the better the end result will be. There is a list of marine surveyor clients here: http://www.marinesurveyor.com/websites.html

If you already have a web page set up somewhere else that you are happy with, you can still have a link to it from http://www.marinesurveyor.com for $100.00 CAD per year and you can still use the Email redirection service if you wish.

Thanks and I hope we can be of service in the near future.