Web Site Services and Rates

Web Site Design and Development Services

All our Web Sites include these valuable services to maximize your web site investment.

• Market Research
• Design and Development
• Compliance with Web Standards and Accessibility
• Search Engine Optimization to maximize your Search Engine exposure
• Search Engine Registration and Promotion
• Web Site Statistics to track the effectiveness of your web site sales efforts
• Complete documentation, files and images for your records

Creating Your New Web Site - Step by Step

Developing a new web site can seem like an overwhelming prospect but like many other paths to success, by taking it a step at a time it all comes together in the end!

Planning

• We meet with you (in person or via phone) to learn about your business and discuss your immediate goals and objectives as well as long-range plans for your web site.
• After analyzing your unique business requirements and conducting market research we offer suggestions and ideas on how to achieve your goals and reach your web site objectives.
• This is the point where you decide what features and information will be included in your new web site and what future enhancements, if any, might be anticipated.
• You will also decide whether you will want or need to update your site yourself. You may want to be able to change a section on the home page to announce weekly sales or monthly specials or just company news. Perhaps you want to be able to add images to a photo gallery. We can set up your site to enable you to make your own changes yourself, saving you time and money. And by the way, all changes are made through a web browser control panel - no need to purchase or learn new software!

Gathering Assets

• During this period we enlist your help in gathering information you want included on your site, such as photographs, content text (perhaps from existing brochures or ad campaigns), information about you, your business, your processes, contact information and so on.
• We will conduct market research and make suggestions for your site design and content.

Development

• You will select from up to three design layouts
• Hosting and eMail addresses will be set up (by you or by us)
• During the development period you will be able to view our progress at a private URL (web address) and request minor revisions.
• Your site will be constructed with a consistent look, intuitive navigation, and will be optimized during the development for search engine results. This means coding will be written to web standards and selected search keywords will be included in the layout and text copy.
• Prior to "going live" your site will be tested, analysed and validated to ensure that it meets web standards.

Implementation

• Your web site goes "live" and is now viewable by the public, internet surfers, potential customers, and search engines.
• You get a press release to publicize your new web site.
• You get a notebook binder with your site information such as usernames and passwords, links to site statistics, instructions on setting up Outlook or Outlook express email, and a cd with all of your site files and images.

Promotion

• Your site is submitted to the major Search Engines, like Google and Yahoo, that do not charge a listing fee.
• We also offer suggestions on how you can promote your site yourself.

Maintenance and Future Enhancements

Because the Coldfusion platform we use for our web site construction is highly scalable and easily maintained, enhancements can be easily added in the future as your business model or needs change.

Custom Rates

Our rate for a custom web site is $300.00 per page with a four page minimum. This includes the items in the planning, development, and implementation stages described above for a standard site in which you provide the content and photos. We will conduct minor editing of copy and optimizing your photos for the Web.

Because we build dynamically generated pages for eCommerce type sites, that means there will be one page created to display the details of a product - not a separate page for each item you're offering for sale...so if you have 300 items for sale, we create only ONE page, not 300! The information displayed on the ONE detail page is pulled from a database and changes dynamically with each item. Another advantage of database driven, dynamically generated sites is that you can easily make changes to pricing, descriptions and photographs of your product when your inventory changes...eliminating additional expense for updating your product line!

We charge $75.00 per hour plus expenses for additional services such as shooting digital photos, rewriting large amounts of content, and providing marketing assistance.

These rates are to be used as a guide. Because each web site is unique we will present a detailed proposal with timelines and rates.

At Streamlined Office Solutions we recognize the value of referral business and your satisfaction is our top priority.

Extra Features included in all custom websites FREE

• Site Map to help Search Engines index all the pages in your site faster and sooner.
• Privacy Page to instill web site visitors' confidence in your web site credibility
• Custom error page which will display instead of the standard error page if someone tries to access a non-existent page on your website.
• Favicon - this is a unique icon for your web site which will display when your visitor bookmarks your site as a "favorite".
• Google Local - if you have a brick and mortar business, we will register your site with Google local which displays a description of your business, special features and a map.

Website on Budget Rates

If you are on a tight budget, willing to invest some time and need to get a web site up and running for a minimal cost - consider our pre-designed template package. You choose a pre-designed layout template, provide the content, and we do the work!