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ITDesigners
create websites that reflect our clients' individuality because your site
should uniquely reflect who you are and what you you do. |
| Individuality is very important, but we don't get carried away with
gimmicks that don't take into account the nature of your target audience or who
and what you are. After all, there's no point in having a witch on a broomstick flying across your Web page ... |
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... when you're in the widget business! |
| We will make getting an Internet presence painless
and effortless for you, from registering your domain name***, setting up the
emailing and mail forwarding facilities, designing your website hosting it, and
registering the site with all the top search engines.
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*** Domain names are
being registered at the rate of 4,000 a day, with some companies
buying names solely to be able to sell it to you - at a high price! We strongly urge you to register your domain name as soon
as possible to secure it. If
you would like us to check availability of your name, please contact
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WHY HAVE
A WEBSITE?
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Because ...
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You have some information to impart ... |
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and it increases your audience by millions -
instantly! |
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You want to expand your marketplace to take
in the entire world - instantly! |
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You want to be on a level playing field with
all the big companies. |
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You're a creator - perhaps music or writing -
and you want to show others what you can do. |
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You want to create a forum where people can
interact ... |
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Or, like us, you provide a service and want
to advertise it to millions of people. |
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| Whatever the reason, we'll give you a great
design, excellent service ... and an even better price! We will work
closely with you to ensure that your Web site suits you and does what you want
it to - effectively, efficiently and with powerful impact. |
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DESIGN
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These are just some of the Design Elements which can be incorporated
into your Web Page:
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An original design which will be yours alone. We will
design a Web site which reflects your ideas and ethos, and is in keeping
with the type of site you are looking for. |
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We can also, of course, use existing templates (which will
decrease the cost), and perhaps you would like us to do some customisation
to make it more individual. |
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Your existing graphics (your logo, or perhaps photographs
of you, your staff or your company headquarters, etc.) can be
used on your Web page. We will convert and optimise them for quick
downloading |
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Original artwork (e.g. logo, see Graphics
Design). If you don't already have a logo or company image, we can
design one for you and incorporate it into your Web site. |
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Title bars displaying your corporate logo used throughout
for maximum corporate image impact |
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Customised navigation buttons, button bars and icons can be
used These will give your site a consistent look and feel which is
in-keeping with your company's image |
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Animation, sound and video effects |
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A Database or Catalogue of your company's products and all
the necessary facilities required for on-line shopping, making your Web site
an On-Line
Shopfront from which to increase your company's business and
extend your marketplace worldwide. |
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OTHER ELEMENTS:
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There are many other elements which can easily be
incorporated into your Web page and which you might find very useful.
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Flash or animated graphics, even an
animated logo to make an impact. |
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A Search facility so that they can search for specific
words on your site. |
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A Bulletin Board where suggestions can
be made or issues raised for debate |
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A database, either flat-file or relational, static or
interactive. |
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Feedback forms (for people to submit
while online, perhaps about items they want more information on, or products
they'd like to purchase, or questions they want answered. |
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A Hit Counter so that you can keep track of how popular
your site is. |
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A Guest Book, enabling visitors to sign in and make
comments on your site. This can be very handy to find out what people
would like to see on your site (or the things that they hate!), so that you
can adapt and amend it accordingly. |
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Hyperlinks to other sites. |
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Perhaps a translation facility for
those users who don't speak English. |
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| COPY
WRITING (Content): |
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| If you have existing brochures or
other advertising materials which adequately lay out what you would like your
Web site to say, We can use copy from your brochures or other advertising
materials. We can also convert text from hardcopy using scanning, if
that's the only format you have it in. |
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advertising text, we can write the content of your Website for you. The art of copywriting takes skill and understanding of
the target audience, and we have many years' experience in writing for brochures
and press releases, as well as many other types of copy. |
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with
impact, your
Web page can achieve whatever you want it to! |
| PUBLISHING
- GETTING YOUR SITE "OUT THERE" |
We will take care of all that for
you:
| Registering your domain name |
| Hosting your website on a server with a reliable and
professional hosting company |
| Setting up your email facilities, pop boxes and all mail
forwarding facilities |
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ensuring that you are registered with all the major search engines**
and indexes, and also with many of the less important search engines. |
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** Search Engines:
Registering websites with search takes a tremendous
amount of care and knowledge, particularly as search engine criteria change
almost daily. If registration is not done properly, your website will NOT
gets as many hits as it should do - that is why we take care to manually
register all our sites! |
| AREA
OF OPERATIONS
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| Everywhere! That's the beauty of the
Internet - people can work together across the world. We
have longstanding clients who we've never met personally and we have, in
fact, saved a lot of wasted time that way! Where feasible, though,
personal meetings and fact-finding sessions will take place. |
| You will also be able to view the progress of
your Web site via a Web address at our site which will be completely secure. This fast and convenient method
enables you see all your project visuals in real terms, e.g. corporate
logo, Web graphics, etc. You can view proposals and give feedback quickly and in your own time, thus ensuring that approvals or revisions
do not delay the project unnecessarily. |
| PRICES
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It's difficult to be precise or specific because it will very much
depend on what you want. Therefore, prices will be dictated by the
complexity of the Web site and its content, the amount of original graphics work
required, whether you supply the text or we write it for you based in the
information you give us, and so on. We urge you to contact us so that we
can ascertain what you require and quote accordingly. In the meantime,
though, below are a couple of guidelines.
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A rough guide for a simple Web site of a few pages,
including domain name registration, hosting and registering with the major search engines, would be
about £500 to £600. |
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A complex eCommerce Web site could cost as much as
£2,000 or £3,000 for a very complex catalogue site with lots of photos of products,
shopping cart, payment facilities, etc. |
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Of course, there is a whole range in the middle!
Again we would urge you to contact us - there is no obligation on your part
attached to talking to us! |
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| WHAT
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| That's the easy part! Just fill in the Information
Request Form by ticking the areas you are interested in and giving us a way in
which we can contact you, and we'll take it from there. There is also
space to ask questions - and do feel free to ask lots of questions! The more
information we can give you, the better idea you'll have of what you need and
what you want - and that will help us to help you! |
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