A website that’s more than a business card
Many small businesses in Costa Rica have a website nobody updates, that looks bad on mobile or that has no clear way to contact the company. Others don’t even know who controls their domain, or serve customers from a free email address that does little for the business’s image. The result is the same: a potential customer arrives, doesn’t find what they’re looking for and leaves.
Our web design and hosting service in Costa Rica starts from a simple question: what do you want the person visiting your site to do? For most companies, the answer is to write, request a quote or call. That is why we design sites that load quickly, read well on mobile and keep the WhatsApp button and contact form in plain sight.
Domain, hosting and email with one accountable provider
Behind a website there are several pieces that need to work together. The domain is your company’s address on the Internet and must be in your name. Hosting is the server where the site lives: at SYSCOM we host sites on our own servers that we manage ourselves, the same ones that host syscomca.com and the domains of several of our clients. The SSL certificate makes the site load with https so the browser doesn’t flag it as insecure.
Then there is business email, with addresses like name@yourcompany.com. Although hosting can include email, for businesses we recommend Microsoft 365: as a Microsoft CSP partner, we sell and configure the licenses and leave email working with your domain. If you already use Microsoft 365, it’s worth reading our article on Microsoft 365 security.
Having everything with one provider avoids the classic problem for small businesses in San José and the rest of the country: the domain was registered by someone who’s no longer around, the hosting is paid by someone else and nobody knows where to change the email password.
Your own business photography
Generic stock photos are recognized immediately and say nothing about your business. That is why we include business photography in the service: executive portraits and photos of your staff, products and facilities, taken at your company. It can also be hired without the website, and the usage rights for the photos are negotiated with each client. The same images work for your website, catalogs and social media, and give your company a consistent image across all its channels.
What changes for your business
With a well-built site and managed hosting, you no longer have to worry about lapsed renewals, expired certificates or a site nobody knows how to change. Change requests and questions about email are logged in the Soporte Digital portal, and we serve businesses in the Greater Metropolitan Area (GAM) and remotely throughout the country. Since 2001 we have supported companies with their technology, and the website is one more part of that relationship.
