Web Services - Alexander's Auction & AOPUS Web Teams

Choices - Packages offer great choice and flexibility for your web hosting needs.

Why do we recommend the great web hosting packages of Yahoo Web Hosting?

Answer: We do get the above question asked us quite often and we must say it's
because of the care
and services offered by Yahoo. The company has been doing what it takes to make sure
you get all it takes to make an exciting and wonderful web site if you so choose. The
many things you can do with Yahoo on your side is amazing.

Number One Products

The fact is that there are many ways to build a web site these days. You can use almost
anything to get a good looking web site or portal up and running. There are many
challenges you and others need to think about when planning, that's why we help
design sites 1st. We place much in design and more on the tools in the tool chest. Yahoo
provides you with many good options. The one we like to see people use is *Yahoo
SiteBuilder(YSB - the latest versions are great).

Yahoo SiteBuilder - 'What's so great about it?'

We hear that question a lot too. And to that we answer with a list of the reasons why
we think a site can and will work well when you choose this and other combinations to
build and manage an interactive and advanced web site.

The list of reasons starts like this...

Features we like about YSB are:

		Flexibility in uses
		Professional Look and Feel
		Yahoo revisions
		Yahoo upgrades & upkeep
		Fast to learn
		Numerous Templates
		Easy to teach and learn
		Tips & Tricks Groups
		User Support is heard
		Yahoo Customer Service Cares
		The product is working
		Many ways to use
		Being creative is OK
		Yahoo Store Support
		PayPal Buttons OK
		Works 99.9% of the time
		Hang ups are workable
		evolutions is a fact of life
		Change is alway possible
		100s of ways to make things work
		Good looking sites are easy
		Professionals can use it too.
		SPELL CHECKER
		AUTO SAVE THAT IS SETTABLE
		VIEW Functions that are great
		Image crunching
		navigation bars
		Sub-Domain Compatibility
		Team Enabled (if you plan).

AOPUS CHOOSES TO STAY WITH YSB NO
MATTER WHAT THE LOSS OR COST - LIKE
GETTING BACK ON THE HORSE THAT BUCKS
YOU OFF & DID...

These features (listed to the left) are observations
from 4 years of using Yahoo SiteBuilder (YSB) and
we like it very much. We do have a tale to tell and
it's important to us to share it.

Without going into great detail, we can say that
we do know this product really (too) well. We
had difficulties using it in a team manner in the
beginning. We did not know it had to be
supported and loaded with XP when we
started, and we only had WIN98 back then. We
had very complex web sites where we started
using it and we tried FTP and other things we
(assumed) though would work. We found out
the hard way on many things and we suffered
great losses after much frustration.

Later as the Version 1 evolved, we did dedicate
a staff of design and creative web masters to
develop means by which our investments and
our time would not go to the wind. We decided
that if Yahoo was going to keep working with
this product so would we.

Our Disaster

On September 19, 2003, we wiped out our
number 1 feed site after 5 weeks of
experiments. In the weeks before we wiped it
out, we decided that the product was stable
and able to do the job we needed it to do. We
were wrong and lost over 5 years of hard work
and more income than we had to loose at the
time. This mistake almost killed the company
and after the disasters (in ads biz) our nation
suffered in fall 2001, we were at our wits end.
We did study it more and by the Thanksgiving
holiday, made a decision to stick to it, no matter
what the cost. We dedicated team members to
shoot for the moon and laid others off. Without
the big feed site, we would stand to loose it all
anyway, and we took the losses hard. We are
now embellishing an all new plan and all new
web business.