| website design: $3000. Includes
teleconferencing with the head designer, email communication
detailing the proposal, design work-ups and adjustments to client
satisfaction.
Saving money: You can save money by designing your own website and sending that design to us for translation into webcode. You can send us that design via HTML email or in .PDF format. (Sorry, do to the high vulnerability of .doc files and .ppt files, we can no longer accept those formats.) You can save more money by having us prepare your shopping cart or other application, then do the product or data entry yourself.
web development and website construction:
price depends upon design and applications to be integrated.
Requirements include:
- finalized sign-off on design (you have to
sign-off on our design)
- secured domain name(s) and hosting services required for
successful implementation (we secure this
for you upon your approval, placing that service and
domain name under your jurisdiction.)
- all database, text, and image content to be submitted as
per contract specifications by agreed upon deadline for
beginning the construction phase (This is
your responsibility. You must get the content to us in a
timely manner.)
After the design is complete, most web developments we do
include:
- creating the hand-coded SEO HTML pages,
- image preparation,
- SEO optimization (if service purchased)
- forms, autoresponders, and email set-ups
- CSS development, theme development, skin development
- applications installation and configuration,
- database preparation and upload,
- testing
- training your database and shopping cart upkeep and data
entry team
Our builds start at $2000 for small sites. For e-commerce, a general formula you can use to figure actual cost after design is around $10 per product for inventories of 100 products and up. Huge inventories, numbering in the hundreds of thousands of products, do get significant discounts IF their catalog database(s) are in good order and compatible for translation to web applications.
search engine optimization and marketing service:
If you desire our SEO team to market your site, securing quality
links, working and reworking your site to permanently establish
your site in the top ten natural results of the major search
engines, we charge an additional $4000 to optimize the site for
your keywords and keyphrases. Then we charge a monthly fee of $2000.
What you are paying for is our expertise as well as the time and
labor involved with building the necessary links and link-backs,
plus code and text adjustments, monitoring, and keyword
placements.
If it is that important for you to instantly rank on top, and
you want to do it cheaper, try pay-per-click, though we don't
advise that approach for serious web developments. Reason? We
have yet to find one site that uses Pay Per Click that also ranks
well in the natural results unless that PPC site is using a
different domain to funnel that traffic to the organically well-ranked
site.
Anyway you go about getting high search engine ranking is
going to be expensive, because it either requires expert and
experienced human resources to work your site up through the
ranks (what we do) or the funds to pay the
price everytime someone clicks on your link in a search engine
result, whether they buy from you or not.
FYI: Just because we build a site for you,
doesn't necessarily mean it will rank on top or that we even
purposely code it to rank well. For one thing, you have to pay us
to do that. Secondly, you have to pay us to get you on top, which
can take months of tedious, hard work for our SEO team.
Basically, that means you are paying for the time it takes to get you up there. To keep you
up there means that you continue to pay us to monitor your site,
and to continue to keep your site competative.
OTHER SERVICES
website analysis service - we, as a team,
analyze what we think needs to be done to make your website rank
better with the top search engines, namely MSN, Yahoo, and Google. What you get is research
conducted, not by someone pushing enter on a piece of computer
software, but by hands-on human research. This requires time and
effort, team collaboration and conferencing. Cost for this
service is $1600 prepaid and non-refundable.
text rewrites - have our copy-writer rewrite
the text on your pages. Cost is $150 per 500 words. $100 minimum
prepaid, nonrefundable.
batch image preparation: if you have a volume
of images to be processed into web compatible format, we can do
those for you for $1.00 an image. Minimum set-up fee is $150,
then $1.00 per image. Images to be mailed to us on CDR only. If
we can't read the files or the format is proprietary, we can't
and won't do the job. There is a $30 time and remailing fee, the
rest of your money is refunded.
individual image preparation: hand resizing
and color adjustment - $10 per image. Images requiring retouching
are charged on a per image bases at $60 per hour.
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Advice for the DIY (do-it-yourself-er), which are most
of the visitors reading this.
You can't have a high-ranked, successful site strictly using
database delivery or any kind of dynamically delivered content.
SSI, CGI, PHP, ASP, JS, JAVA and Flash presentations just don't
make the grade. You have to get back to the basics of .html and .txt
somewhere in your builds. Now, I know the rage is dumping output
from the SQL or MySqL to XML these days. Quite honestly, while it
will be "eaten" by the SE bots, it still won't rank you
as highly as .HTML and .TXT
Also remember that anything generated from a WYSIWYG html page-building
program (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Pagemaker, etc.) is not
generating code that is going to get you a highly ranked website.
What it gets you is "code bloat."
There are no shortcuts or easy entry solutions. You must learn
to code correctly, by hand, then learn how to apply it
significantly and appropriately. This is part of the reason that
hiring a professional website design and code team is so very
expensive. We know what we're doing and we do it the right way,
first time through.
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