Beyond Free Hosting, HostPrepaid Provides Free Website Design

Ever-falling prices and fierce competition have gotten web hosting companies scrambling to develop innovations and provide value-added services just to stay in business. We're undergoing a paradigm shift in the industry where low-cost and no-frills service is giving way to "high-level" service at "no-frills" prices.

The trend in web hosting is moving toward "deeper" services. That means handholding and the inclusion of services that most web hosts traditionally wouldn't touch because of the high cost and additional work involved.

HostPrepaid is riding this wave with one of the most compelling propositions: free professional-grade website design to clients who prepay for hosting.

Web hosting is a business that has predetermined, measurable levels of service. Users do not need to get involved with what happens in the back-end, how the servers work, how they are administered, monitoring its upstream providers, and so on. What matters to users is that the system is up and working, so it can deliver the data to users. They know if the system is up, just as they will easily know if the system is down. This type of operation is very conducive to automation.

But web design on the other hand, while very related, operates differently. It works more like a production and service agency than a distribution platform (the latter of which is how web hosts operate); more like an ad agency or movie production studio than a TV station.

More importantly, web design is a service, and high-quality design has many nuances. It involves different implications, and may require a good amount of face-time with clients; something automated methods simply cannot do.

These two concepts have long been complementary, but operated on wholly opposing planes. Until now.

HostPrepaid.com bridges that gap to fuse together web hosting and web design into one easy and affordable package, to become the world's first web hosting company to provide professional-grade web customization and design for free in its prepaid web hosting packages.

There are two key propositions made by the HostPrepaid offering, and apart from its primary proposition of providing website design to clients who pre-pay for 12 months, the company offers professional-quality designs, and puts emphasis on quality.

"Anyone can make a brochure," says Nicholas Mercader, HostPrepaid's Chairman, "but to make a professional-grade brochure-- of the kind of quality that credible corporations have-- requires expert help from professional designers. They don't come cheap, and with good reason. Web design is like that. Good quality comes at a high price. But HostPrepaid has structured its operation in a way that enables the company to not only package web design with its prepaid web hosting operations, but provide true high-quality professional-grade designs. The fascinating difference with HostPrepaid is that this is provided totally free."

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