A complete basic site costs $550

A complete basic site costs $550.00. This package includes: Templates 1) The cost for maintenance is $35.00 per month. (The fee includes monthly hosting costs plus revisions, additions and deletions to your site on a monthly bases for up to an 2 hours of labor per quarter. The alternative is a $60.00 monthly maintenance fee with 10 hours of changes per year. (The $60.00 fee includes monthly server costs.) 2) This package includes registration with the primary search engines at no additional cost, ¹(this can take weeks sometimes months for your website to be populated though out the internet). We construct your site to be "found" by those search engines and make revisions in your site's coding to be continually found by those search engines as part of the maintenance program. 3) This basic package comes with an introductory page plus twenty graphics divided into a maximum of four categories. If we can get your copy or text electronically, there is no charge for text. Additional graphic costs are $7.50 for each image over 20 in the basic package, $20.00 for each thumb nail blow-up over 7 for the basic package. 4) You will be billed when your site is up and running to your satisfaction for the initial design/programming cost and the first three month's maintenance. We ask for the server connection fee of $50.00 up front at the point that you hire us to design your site. We hook you up to the primary search engines upon receiving payment for design and programming. For those that want more complicated sites over $2000.00, payment is 50% at the beginning, and 50% upon completion. 5) We estimate your site will be ready 4-6 weeks after we receive graphics and text
Now you have decided to have a website built, these are the main things we need from you
1) Your Domain Name - Your first decision is whether you use the name of your company as your domain name (the domain name is what follows the www) or if you use a word or words that summarize your service or product. If you will rely on advertising or promotion to bring in visitors then using your company name makes the most sense. If you plan to bring in most new customers via search engines, then your primary service or product should be embedded in the domain. The domain name is one of the six criteria search engines check when they decide how high to rank you in a search. For some search engines it makes the difference between a high ranking and a low one. Please let us register your domain name. Transferring domain names is one of the most common challenges in our industry (and may occur an extra fee)
2) How you want your website to look - People have the shortest attention spans when they are on the Internet. Making your message quick and easy to read is essential. This means your site has to load quickly. To make an immediate clear impression means you have to categorize your service or product into an easy to understand categories that will load quickly. We will guide you to not overwhelm any one category with too many graphics or words. We create your navigation system to directly reflect the categories you use to communicate your message.
3) Your Graphic Choices - For some clients, like retailers, this is another challenging step. We work from photographs, disks, e-mailed jpegs, or brochure material. Many of our web site are created from vendor catalog sheets. Processing graphics is the most time consuming step when creating most web sites. Our staff work with the most up to date design applications. Tightening up contrast, cleaning up the color, and dropping out backgrounds (to decrease loading time) . For most sites, the number of graphics will determine the cost of your site.
4) Choosing Your Text - We do not charge for text if you transmit it to us electronically. We just lift it from a disk or e-mail and drop it into your site. If there are sizable amounts of italics, bolds, or unusual indentations, we charge our normal hourly rate for the additional coding. Most sites, aside from academic sites (lots of italics), do not incur any charges. Copy for the web should be short, clear, concise and easy to read.
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