Allows you to build websites without any programming or design skills whatsoever.

You can instantly add pages to your website without the hassle or need to know FTP.

You don't have to download or install any special software - ProntoPage is ready to use. Runs off MS Internet Explorer V5, Netscape V7, Opera and Version 1 of FireFox (Mozilla) and all later versions, and will view on all versions of Explorer, Netscape, Opera and FireFox.

With the Quick Site Editing Bar you will be able to quickly edit a page on your website, View what your page will look like, Add a page to your site, Manage all the pages on your site, change the design of your site and even get help if you need it.

You can manage your account anytime, day or night through the automated account manager. Update your contact information and even your billing information at your own convenience without having to talk to anyone.

You can start right away with your own free ProntoPage name you get to choose when setting up your website.

Once you get your website up and running you will be able to use your own www.yourname.com domain name to your site, just like big websites do.

If you use MS Outlook or MS Word you will be a master at adding text to your site since the Easy Text Editor looks and works just like MS Word.

You have the flexibility to use the most popular fonts on your site like Arial, Times and Courier - pick from dozens of options that have been proven easy-to-read off the Internet.

You are able to highlight text and make it stand out with built-in Bold, Italic and Underlining buttons - just like MS Word.

You get a variety of font sizes to use, from tiny 8-point fonts to large 36-point headlines.

You have the flexibility to change the color of your text to any one of the 48 different "web safe - choices.

You can format bulleted lists as easily as you would in MS Word.

Great if you are writing a how-to, or creating a "Top Ten - style list, numbered lists are as easy to set up in the Easy Text Editor as the are in MS Word.

You decide where it looks best - and the easy MS Word-style alignment buttons mean you can flip back and forth between choices to see which one you like. Great for headings, quotes, and titles.

Use your own pictures and images! You can use your own company logo, or pictures of you, pictures of your dog, pictures of your homemade products - whatever you want. Make your website totally unique!

You can describe a product that you sell on your home page, and make the product name a link to the page where you sell it! Great for affiliate programs too.

Keep things lined up without fussing with the tab button. You just specify how many columns and rows you want, and the builder will figure out the rest.

If you do have programming knowledge, you can use it to customize things the way you want it. It's the best of both worlds: You don't need HTML to get started, but if you have it you can use it.

You can work with an older computer and still get a great site. If you're using Windows 95 on your 486 from 1997, you can still use this builder to create a website. (Other builders require more modern equipment.)

The Contact Page feature makes it easy for you to format a page with the names and bios (if you choose) of people involved with your organization, as well as how to contact them by phone or email.

The Hours of Operation feature lets you show your customers when they can visit your business. They don't have to waste their time or yours calling you to find out, and they are less likely to be frustrated dropping by your store when you're closed.

You can use the Map feature to easily insert a road map showing your customers exactly where you're located. They'll appreciate the convenience of not having to drive around in circles trying to find your business.

Use the Coupon feature to set up coupons your customers can print off and use at your shop. It's a great way to drive your website visitors to your store, and also to encourage your shop customers to visit your website.

Use the Links feature to easily set up and format a page of links to other sites of interest to your customers. They'll bookmark your site so they can take advantage of the resources, and the more often they come back, the more likely they are to buy!

Let your customers talk to each other about what they like about your website and how they use your products.

Use the Message Board feature to allow your customers to sign in, ask questions, and leave comments for your other customers and guests. Ideally, your customers will start to use your message board as a place to communicate with friends, and will return again and again to read the latest comments. The more often they visit your site, they more likely they are to buy.

You can set up the Recommend Site feature to make it easy for visitors to your site to send a link to your website to people they think would be interested. It's a great way to generate more interest in your site and find new customers.

The Guest Book feature allows your customers to leave comments and quotes about what they like about your website.

The Polling Booth feature is a fun way to let your customers answer a specific question you set up. Their responses are tallied so people can see how they've responded. For example, 45% of visitors to your pet site have cats, and 55% have dogs.

You decide the order you want for the pages in your website. You can change pages or move them around at any time.

Hide pages so no one can see them without having to delete them.

You don't have to put up a "Site Under Construction" page when you're working on your site. Just "hide" the page while you're working on it (even if you leave it for a few days to think about it). Visitors can see the rest of your site, just not the hidden pages. That way, your site's never down just because you're updating it.

Give special customers or high-level members the added bonus of viewing "secret - pages on your website.

Any page can be named and renamed as many times as you like. You are never stuck with a mistake.

You can delete old pages and add new pages as often as you want to keep your website up-to-date and fresh-looking.

If you add a page to the wrong place, you can easily move it to the right place. You never have to delete a page and start again to move it to the right place.

Make a "Members Only" or "Employees Only" section on your website. Only the people you give the password to can see what's on password protected pages. Great for staff schedules or meeting minutes.

Make your site look professional by setting up a hierarchy of pages for your site - top level, second level, and so on. You don't have to have all the pages on your site visible on the home page.

You can display as many as 500 different products in your catalog, with photos, detailed descriptions, product options, and price information.

Let your customers choose different options - size, color - for each product on your site.

Let your customers select from the available options like color - red, blue, green; size - x-small, small, medium, large, x-large, xx-large, etc.

You can add special options with message boxes in case you are selling things that need to be customized or personalized (e.g. trophies, T-shirts, business cards, etc.).

You can take photos of the products you make, or if you resell, set up photos of your products being used in an attractive setting.

Never lose a customer who doesn't want to wait for your pages to load. Photos load quickly in a small format. When customers want to take a closer look, they just click the image and get a full-sized view.

You can insert 3 photos or other images for each of your products. Great for T-shirts where the back has a different message from the front, or detailed pieces like candlesticks or statues.

You don't have to worry about downloads or add-ons or installing new features. The shopping cart has been programmed seamlessly into your website. You don't have to use it, or display it, but when you want to turn it on it's just a mouse click away.

Display your products they way they look best and the way that makes the most sense.

You can add new items to your catalog without having to start from scratch every time. Your business website grows with you, always meeting your needs.

The easy edit feature lets you change the description to make things sell better, or if the description changes. You can change the price, the color options, or anything else in the catalog entry for the product.

Easily change product prices and indicate in large, red text in the description or title which of your products are on sale. Great for special occasions or when you need to dump extra inventory.

You have the option of setting the store to "Closed - if ever you go on vacation, or run out of stock, or for any reason don't want to take orders, but do want to keep your website running.

If you run out of something you usually sell, but you know you'll have it again soon, you can keep it listed in your catalog marked "Out of Stock." That way customers know you usually carry it - you just don't have it right now.

Easily upload ebooks, software, your own audio files, or any other downloadable item you want to sell. The advantage of selling downloads is that you can automate the entire system - set up the website to take orders, process payments, and deliver downloads on command. You just have to keep track of your earnings.

You can automate the entire system, depending on what you sell. You can set up the website to take orders, process payments, and deliver downloads on command.

You can assign a product code to make it easier to maintain your inventory or fill out order forms. Especially if you don't sell directly online and just set up printable order forms, product codes are a helpful tool - otherwise you can be left wondering exactly which "Red T Shirt" your customer wants to buy.

You can use the catalog on your website like a traditional catalog if you choose, with a printable order form that customers can print, fill out, and mail or fax back to you. Even if you do sell online, it's a great option if some of your customers still prefer to do things the old-fashioned way.

Tell people on your website exactly where you will to ship. You can restrict sales within your state, or around the country, or internationally. If you're ready to launch an export business, this is a way to start.

We've partnered with a merchant account, a credit card processing center, and even PayPal to make it easy for your customers to buy from you, and for you to receive their payment. It's all built in and easy to set up. Your initial merchant ID set-up fees are even included in the price of your website if you use our partner - that's a $250 value.

If for whatever reason you don't want to automate the purchase process, you can still set up your website to accept payment information online, but process it by hand.

Your website is protected with 128-bit Verisign security certificates. You never have to worry about your security certificates being out of date. We look after it all for you.

You can set up the credit card processing feature on your website to cross check the credit card number with the zip code or other key pieces of information to make sure your customer isn't using a fake credit card, or "phishing" you.

One of the main concerns people have with ordering online is "sending their information out onto the Internet somewhere. - You can use the Autoresponder feature to send out an email automatically when someone places an order to let them know that their order has been received. It will give your customers confidence in your site, and make them more likely to do repeat business with you.

Helpful support docs, marketing tips, and support will help you learn what makes a website successful with the search engines.

Customize your own title tags to each page so customers searching for solutions know what your page is about.

When your site comes up in the Google (and other search engine) listings, you can stay in control of the description what the searchers read - your marketing message is up to you!

An easy "fill-in-the-blank - page helps you tell the search engines like Google what your site's about and how to rank it in their listings. (You'll understand more about this when you read about search engine optimization.) "Meta tags" used to be too complicated for anyone but the most sophisticated programmer. With ProntoPage, anyone can use them!

While being easy enough for the most novice user, more advanced users can use their most sophisticated knowledge on these sites as well.

You can get your website listed on the first page of the search engine listing. We've negotiated a $50 credit for each of our members with Overture.com . You'll also get access to our list of tips and tricks to see why the pay-per-click system works, and how to make it work for best for you.

Learn the secrets of website marketing.

All ProntoPage members get access to detailed how-to guides that will teach you how to make money with your website - guaranteed . A $120 value.

The number 1 way people find new websites is through search engines. ProntoPage provides tips and docs to help you understand how search engines work, and to get your site better placed. We also provide 3 free months of search engine submission - a $45 value - when you become a member of the ProntoPage community.

Use the Press Release function to store your announcements and news releases. They'll stay in order, and be an easy way for media and anyone else interested to learn more about your company, your cause, or your website.

Our templates have been professionally designed by a number of different designers in a variety of themes and moods and to apply to a range of different industries. You are sure to find something that suits.

Customize the template you choose to make it look perfect.

If you find the perfect template, but you wish it were blue, not green, you can do that! All the templates are customizable to suit your particular wants and needs.

You can add your own company logo, pictures, slogan, name, and whatever else you want to the template itself to make it suit your business perfectly. You can even change the basic color scheme to match your corporate palette.

If none of the templates are what you want, and you have a bit of design training, you can build your own template from scratch.

If you want something really special that you can't find and can't seem to put together yourself, you can hire our ProntoPage Design Team to design a template and build a site to your specifications. They'll use ProntoPage technology so you still get all the great features you expect including being able to update it yourself.

Check the sections of this list about formatting text and adding pages for more details.

Our Web Coaches have been well trained. They know everything there is to know about using the builder, and they can help you make a great site to meet your needs and best suit your industry or field. They've helped 172,000+ others just like you build great websites, and they'd love to help you with yours.

Find the answers to your questions in the ProntoPage Knowledge Base.

172,000+ websites have been built on this builder, and easy as it is, many of the people building websites have had questions just like yours. The answers to all of these questions (250+ and counting) are available to you in the ProntoPage Knowledge Base.

You can get help by email, live online chat, and telephone when you sign up for ProntoPage. You'll never feel stranded when you join our community - someone will always be standing by to give you any help you might need.

The tutorials are available in both written and video form, as well as 121 pictorial help guides. We want you to have access to the help that works best for you.

Once you're a member of ProntoPage, you can learn what makes writing for the Web different from writing a letter or a book. The easy to understand how-to tips will help you improve your website copy and grow your business.

You can browse a summary of the guides before you sign up. The complete guides are available to ProntoPage members to help them set up their website the best way they can for their industry. COMING SOON

Whether you just need an entry level website, or your needs are more complicated, you can hire the ProntoPage Design Team to build you a great website using the easy ProntoPage technology that will enable you to add more pages or update your professionally-designed site yourself.

The Newsletter feature is a great way to keep your customers up-to-date. Give your best customers advance notice about upcoming sales, or just let everyone know when you get new stock, without any printing costs or postage (it's sent by email).

Start a regular newsletter to keep your members up-to-date about meeting minutes, important news, or scheduled activities.

The Newsletter is a great way to communicate with members. It's especially useful for non-profits or associations who need to communicate with a large number of people, but need to keep their costs down. Sending an electronic newsletter by email saves you the cost of printing and postage.

There are dozens of uses for an email newsletter that will help you find more customers, make more sales, and earn more money. ProntoPage members get access to tips, tricks, and strategies to help you take advantage of them all.

Set up a Frequently Asked Questions page where you can easily provide answers in an attractive pre-formatted layout. (Alternate layouts are always possible on another webpage.) Save your staff time answering the phone, and let your customers find answers to their questions out of store hours.

The Custom Feedback Form feature lets you decide what to ask and how you want it answered - drop down list, multiple choice, or write-in. You can follow up on the leads you collect, or use the information you get to better tailor your products and services to suit your customers.

Use the Calendar to promote upcoming events, sales, meetings, etc. Let your customers and members know they can go to your website to check out what's coming up.

You probably know a lot about your field. Prove it to your customers by writing tips or articles relevant to your trade. If you're a roofer, tell them what they need to know to weatherproof their house for winter. If you're a plumber, tell them what to do while they're waiting for you to come fix their leak. You get the idea. You'll inspire confidence, get more customers, and get people to return to your site for more valuable information.

Use the Article feature to easily catalog and format the articles you write, or the articles by other experts you promote. Just be sure to include a link to the author's website at the bottom of each article.

ProntoPage - through its parent company WebsiteDynamics - will host your website using enterprise class equipment and dedicated server facilities. It's a fact of life that equipment can fail at any time, but your website will be protected with backups, redundant equipment, and alternate power supplies (to name just a few safety measures) guaranteeing over 99% uptime.

Some web hosts are actually university kids who've set up your website on a computer in the basement. We use only "Enterprise Class - (top-of-the-line) servers to host your website to ensure more than 99% uptime.

Over a dozen systems protect your website from downtime and security breach.

Your customers will never see problems with your website if a server fails. Live backup computers take over when another computer fails.

To avoid problems with server failure (a server is a computer that hosts a website), we've set up multiple redundant application servers. That means several identical copies of the computer that hosts your website are set up to run together. When one fails, several others take over flawlessly. Multiple redundant load balancers are on standby in case of load balance failure as well.

Our 24/7 system checking performs status checks on the servers 60 times per hour on each service. If server failure is detected, an automatic repair routine runs to bring the server back online. If the program cannot restore the failed server, a technician is automatically notified. While the repairs are made, other servers seamlessly take over the duties of the failed server. Users will not notice a difference in service.

If a mail server fails, a secondary mail server will automatically take over the duties of the primary mail server. The failed mail server will automatically reboot and restore its systems function. Users will never see problems with a failed mail server.

The database server is the computer where most of the website information is stored. In the event that the primary database fails, the backup database automatically takes over the duties of the failed database server.

Backed up information is taken off-site five days per week to protect data and prevent loss of information in the event of a catastrophe.

In RAID systems, information is stored on at least two hard drives simultaneously. In the event of a drive failure, a backup drive automatically takes over the duties of the failed drive. Server operations continue seamlessly. Technicians promptly replace the failed drive, and the data is immediately restored. RAID helps ensure data integrity.

The main server hard drives are enterprise class, and all hard drives are in RAID format. An enterprise class hard drive costs 2 to 4 times as much as a typical home or office drive (desktop class), but has much higher MTBF. MTBF, or Mean Time Between Failures, is a manufacturing rating that estimates the average time between hard drive failures. Higher time between failures means that potential problems occur less often.

In the event that the primary firewall fails, a backup firewall will immediately take over the duties of the failed firewall. Your information is safe from hacker attack.

In the event that a file server fails, a backup file server is ready to take over the duties of the failed file server.

Only authorized staff with top level security clearance can gain access to our dedicated server room. It is locked, secured, and features multiple power and coolant systems to maintain the servers in an optimal environment.

The dedicated server room has a dedicated air conditioning system with a backup, as well as a backup chilled water system to take over in the event of a cooling failure.

All servers are equipped with Uninterruptible Power Supplies. A UPS is a device that sits between the wall outlet and the computer to prevent power irregularities (outages, surges, etc.) from causing problems with the equipment. It also acts as a backup power supply and surge protector.

All servers are protected with secondary and backup power units. Our initial power supply is from the grid, but further protected from outages and irregularities by multiple on-site emergency power generators.