Website Services & Costs
What services can I expect to receive for my money? Our services
are detailed below.
Costs? Since your website needs are unique
and fees change, please contact us for
a free e-mail, phone or in-person consultaion so we can provide
you with a quote.
Domain Name
www.yourdomainname.com
If you do not already own your domain name, you
can purchase it yourself or we can work with you and purchase
that for you in your name, so you own it, not us. We will need
your credit card information for this. Your investment is about
$10 or less per year and you can save a little by purchasing
your domain name for 5 to 10 years, which is recommended. We
charge a small fee for providing this service. It is advised
that a domain name be purchased for a minimum of three years to
increase the odds and shorten the time in which your website
will be picked up by the various search engines and web crawlers.
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Website Design
We charge a low per hour price to develop and maintain a website. Or, after
a free consultation, we can provide you with a basic quote.
The cost depends entirely on the complexity of each page and
the time it takes to develop that page.* As needs are individual
and fees change, please contact us for a quote.
Photos (beyond the six allowed in our
definition below) and special additions to each page like videos,
slideshows, photo galleries (10 per page), forms, etc., may
require extra time to implement and special handling to make
each page efficient to open and again are dealt with individually
and may cost a little more. Signing a simple contract or agreeing
to have us design a website in an email for a specified price
per hour or quote and a non-refundable deposit of 25% is necessary
to begin the work on your website.
*We define a page for the per page pricing or as agreed to in writing
to be approximately 800 x 600 pixels and includes the overall
design, the implementation, the link bars for easy navigation,
the header which would include your logo (logo graphic design
or header graphic art is an extra charge), a reasonable amount
of content, the footer which includes your copyright information,
including your text in the body of the page, and up to seven
photos (this includes your logo as one image/photo).
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Website Hosting
Hosting your website can be as minimal as $4.95 per month and depends
entirely upon the amount of space you need on the web server
for your website and e-mails. You can think of this as rent
for server space. This is payable each year for the whole year. Even
if you do not need our design services, we can host your site
on our web server. Unlimited emails and forwarding is part
of this service.
Note: When we design and host your website, you are agreeing
to our including a small, unobtrusive link to our website at
the bottom of your copyright information. And we will include
a link to your website from our website. Including links to
each other's website is actually very beneficial to both parties
as web crawlers and search engines look for links when deciding
to list a website.
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Email Spam Protection
As part of our website design service, each email listed on your
website will be scrambled in the code to help protect you from
spammers who search for email addresses in websites. Thus,
your actual email will not appear on the website, just a link
so that interested persons may click on the "Email Us" link
and email you their questions or comments.
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Website Optimization
Also, as part of our website design service, each page will have its own
title, description and keywords to further enhance your website
postings on the Internet.
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Website URL Submissions to
50 Search Engines
As part of our website design, when your website is complete and approved
by you and posted to your domain, we will submit your website
URL to about 50 of the top search engines so your new website
will be easily found. No extra charge for this service.
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E Commerce
Simple E-commerce can be set up on your website including a photo of each
item. The purchase buttons and choices are on your website with the
actual purchase being made on the PayPal site (Note: an account at
PayPal will have to be setup if you do not already have that.) After
the purchase, your customer is returned to your website. With PayPal,
the purchase is secure and your customer may use almost any method
to purchase your items. You receive an e-mail from PayPal detailing
the sale. Also you are charged fees by PayPal only when a purchase
is made and these are comparable to normal merchant credit card fees.
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Data Base Driven Website
A Database driven website for e-commerce or other purposes can be designed,
a person in your company trained to put the information on
your database as needed and implemented. A database driven
website is needed for more complicated e-commerce where there are lots
of items that need to be searched by the customer on the website
in different ways. (An example would be an auto supply dealorship
or a store selling lots of different clothing items.)
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Maintenance
Once we complete work on your website and it is posted to your domain, we
invoice you for the remainder of the amount due, and then we will make
adjustments to your site free for 30 days. Corrections of mistakes
(spelling and such) can be made anytime when found for free. Then,
we will be happy to do maintenance (make changes) and add updates to
your website at the current per hour price. Most updates can easily
be made by e-mailing us your information or photos for placement on
your website and we endeavor to complete your requested changes
within two business days.
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Custom Favicon Design
Custom favicon design and posting is part of our service to you when we
design your website. What is a favicon you ask? From Wikipedia,
"A favicon (short for 'favorites icon'), also known as a website
icon, page icon or urlicon, is an icon associated with a particular
website or webpage. A web designer can create such icons in
several ways and many recent web browsers can then make use
of them. Browsers that support them may display them in the
browser's URL bar, next to the site's name in lists of bookmarks,
and next to the page's title in a tabbed document interface.
Some operating systems, like Windows, will also often use the favicon
for Internet shortcuts to sites placed on the desktop or in
other directories."
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Custom Logo Design
Custom logo design is available and the price depends on the complexity
of the project. If you do not have a logo, we recommend our
logo work which can include design of your letterhead, business cards
and labels to maintain consistency across your advertising media.
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Flash Animation
Flash animation is available and again depends on the complexity
of the project. A separate quote would be made for a flash
project.
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Contact Us
Please phone us at 765-642-2200 or 765-754-8278 or
e-mail
us with questions or to set up a free, no obligation
appointment to discuss your website design, re-design and/or hosting
needs. Most design decisions, photos and written material can
be transferred through e-mails. Many design decisions can be made
through email or a phone conference. So even if you live far from
us (we are located in Central Indiana), we look forward to hearing
from you and designing a website just for you.