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Web Design |
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| Overview |
| Designing your website is the most time consuming aspect of
establishing an online presence. You should start
by visiting websites within your industry. You can
find these sites by doing keyword searches in Google,
Yahoo, Excite, and others. |
| We suggest that you keep a list of
keywords that lead you to sites that are most similar to
yours, or which might list your competitors. (More
on that later.) |
| When you visit these sites, try to get a
feel for the designs you like. Look at things like
color combinations, large text versus small text, photos,
stylish scrollbars, links across the top, or buttons down
the left side. And of course, decide whether you
like lots of flashing and blinking stuff, or not. |
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Building It |
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Once we have all that we need from you, we'll build it.
This normally takes about three to four weeks.
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price ultimately depends on: the number of pages you need;
whether ‘artwork’ is provided, or created from scratch;
whether most of the content already exists in company
brochures; and, the degree of interaction between the site
and the user (e.g., filling out forms, searching a
database, etc.) |
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Build Fees:
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basic site of 8 to 10 pages, when a logo and brochures are
provided, is typically between $1000 and $1500.
Adding database capability (Active Server Pages) is an
additional $750 for the first page and $400 per page
thereafter. |
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Hosting |
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Once
built, your site must be ‘hosted’. That is, it must be
published to a machine that is connected to the internet.
Galileo Storms uses one of the largest hosting services in
the USA. Their 90,000 square foot building is
located on 24 acres in North Carolina, and houses over
1000 servers, hosting over 180,000 websites. |
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Hosting Fees: Fees
to host a site are anywhere from about $25 per month to
$150 per month depending upon size, traffic, and
functionality. A basic website as described above
including up to 15 email boxes is $35 per month.
Additional mailboxes are $4 each per month. |
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Search Service Submissions |
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Now
that your site is hosted and available to everyone, it must be submitted to
each of the search
engines (e.g., Yahoo, Excite, Google, etc.) Since
you kept a list of the best keywords (in the Overview
above) we'll add them to your site (using something called
meta-tags) and submit the
site, to roughly 200 services. And, since the
web is constantly changing, we'll resubmit your site every
three months. |
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Submissions Fees: $12 per month, which
includes quarterly resubmission |
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Goals |
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Before actually designing your site, we need you to spend
some time thinking about goals. Don't fall into the
"everyone has a website, so I want one too" trap. |
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Think about bringing in new customers,
servicing existing customers better, and getting customers to buy more, more often. |
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