Site Uptime Website Monitoring is an extremely important service if you are running a serious online business enterprise. As the name implies, SiteUptime Website Monitoring monitors whether your site is connectable, it does so at fixed intervals throughout the day and uses a range of different tests.

If your site is being hosted externally from your business, it is a great way to know whether you are getting value for money or not. Getting a clear idea of downtime is important and SiteUptime Website Monitoring lets you do that.

If you are hosting yourself, then SiteUptime Website Monitoring becomes doubly important. You would be surprised how often I have seen someone launch a site without ensuring that it was externally connectable. People have lost days of business, simply because their firewall was denying legitimate traffic. SiteUptime Website Monitoring lets you make sure that everything is working as it should be.

Web design projects can create time management issues. It takes a great deal of time to code a site if you are not doing it all the time. There once was a time that I would do all of my site designing myself in a bid to save a few extra bucks. It usually worked out well for me, but spending hundreds of hours in front of the computer screen designing websites is not my idea of fun. I prefer to be in the trenches making sales, promoting, producing content and that sort of thing. Time is money after all, and why not spend your time doing the things that you do best? Outsourcing website design can be a massive time saver and is not all that expensive with GetAFreelancer.com and Quote Catcher.

I use Quote Catcher for times that I want a site designed from the ground up. Quote Catcher will allow different designers to bid for your site. You will get up to five quotes, you choose the one that is the best offer from your point of view. The best offer does not have to be the cheapest one. It depends on your needs, if you want a slick looking website, then it is probably wise to go with whichever site designer has the most impressive portfolio. If it does not really matter, go with the cheapest.

When I have smaller or more technical jobs, I use GetAFreelancer.com. With GetAFreelancer.com you give a specific outline of the job that you require and freelance programmers will offer you bids. It is important to distinguish GetAFreelancer from Quote Catcher. The freelancers on GetAFreelancer.com are programmers, you use them for programming related jobs. If you need a shopping cart system, or would like to make some sort of site related improvement, this is the place to go.