Questions & Answers

About Job Shop PowerSites

Our main office is located in Ojai, California, approximately 60 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Our mailing address is PO Box 465, Ojai, CA 93024.

The truth is, it really doesn’t matter where our physical offices are located; most of our staff work online in a “virtual office“ on the Internet. And, no matter where your business is located, the Job Shop PowerSites team can build you a great website; we have clients across the USA. Please contact us for more information.

Job Shop PowerSites was started in 2001 by two job shop owners - Gary and Dave. Gary has deep roots in the machining industry; both his father and grandfather were machinists and he ran a precision machine shop for nearly two decades. Dave ran his own successful shop for many years and was a brilliant machinist and CNC programmer. Sadly, Dave passed away in 2017 and is deeply missed. Today, Gary runs Job Shop PowerSites along with a crack team of creative designers and technicians.

Our philosophy is that successful manufacturing is a highly-organized and precise business. Your website should convey your commitment to quality and excellence through the look and feel of the content and how it is presented. Professionally-written text and high-quality images in a well-designed web space make a big difference. Your website is often a prospective customer’s first impression of your business, and first impressions count. If you impress them online, they’re much more likely to contact you about doing business.

So, of course, you can build your own website; however, you’re much more likely to get an excellent result with a professional website designer. It really depends on the impression you want to make on your web visitors. In the end, a professionally-designed website is one of the best and most cost-effective investments you can make in your business. Just ask some of our clients.

To learn why website-builders like Wix and Squarespace can hurt your search engine rankings, check out Why Website Builders Can Be Terrible for Your SEO from searchenginejournal.com.

Our Pricing

Website Construction

We do, and it’s where our hands-on industry knowledge really comes in handy. We sit down with you and your top people for in-depth interviews to gain insight into exactly what you do. We want to know your strengths, your specialties, your business roots. From there we create incisive and informative text designed to get a positive response from your website visitors. Or course, you have the final review and approval of all the content on your new site, including the text.

As part of our website-building process, we like to sit down with the owners and key personnel of your company to gain insight into exactly what you do. We find that, even though our clients are in the same industry, each has an individual story to tell. To create effective text for your website, we need to understand what makes your business unique. The interviews usually take about an hour or so and are conducted at your place of business, or by telephone or telephone conference.

Absolutely. The whole idea of our Webmaster Service is to keep your website in sync with your business. Our service features unlimited updates to your website content at no additional cost. We also take care of the security updates, SEO, and other maintenance issues to keep your website safe and running perfectly.

If you don’t choose to let us host your website, you can make changes anytime you like using the CMS dashboard (but you need to know what you’re doing or have somebody who does).

Website Configuration

Yes. The CMS platform used to build our websites is accessible via a user interface/control panel. You can have access to this “back end” but you need to know what you’re doing, and it can get complicated. We don’t recommend maintaining your own website unless you’re very familiar with modern content management systems, the ins and outs of web hosting, SEO, website security features, tech updates, and more.

A web host is essentially a computer connected to the Internet where the files that make up your website are stored and shared with the world. Most websites are hosted by web hosting companies that maintain state-of-the-art servers, hardware, security, and high-speed internet connections in secure data installations with off-site redundancy and power backups.

Job Shop PowerSites uses several highly reputable web hosting providers. Please contact us for more information.

You do. Your website is essentially a collection of content and you own the content when your website is finished. Exceptions could be some of the stock photographs on your website that are “royalty-free” or “licensed-for-reuse”, which means that we’ve paid a one-time fee for the right to use them, or that nobody owns or controls the image(s); or other copyrighted content for which you or we have usage rights, but not ownership.

The CMS that runs your website is open-source (WordPress) so nobody owns it. We also use a “theme” for which we pay a one-time license fee for unlimited use, and you own this license once your website is online. Finally, we may use “plugins” or custom CSS on your website for which we’ve paid a one-time license fee; these also belong to you. Please contact us for more information.

Webmaster Service

Our Webmaster Service takes care of everything once your new website is online including web hosting, tech updates, security updates, search engine optimization (SEO), and unlimited content revisions that keep your website safe, fresh, and in sync with your business. We also include up to 30 email boxes with our Webmaster hosting service.

You don’t have to use our service, but hosting a website is complicated and involves system updates, content updates, hosting issues, online threat mitigation, search engine optimization, etc. The whole idea of our Webmaster Service is to let us take care of your website, so you can focus on your business.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is what gets you listed well on search engines, and it’s built into each new Job Shop PowerSites website so your website can be found online. Once your site is online, our Webmaster Service provides active SEO monitoring so your website remains optimized; and you can see the results directly with Google Analytics (which is included with each new website).

To learn why website-builders like Wix and Squarespace can hurt your search engine rankings, check out Why Website Builders Can Be Terrible for Your SEO from searchenginejournal.com.

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