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Quiet Elegance Design Planning Guide
Easy Step Website Preparation Guidelines
1. Decide purpose of site. Do you want to provide information for clients and customers, or sell products directly (Do you need a Shopping Cart, Merchant Account?)
2. Do you need to register a Domain Name? (ie: World Wide Web.yourname.com) If so, we can help you check availability and register your domain for you.
3. Do you need hosting? High quality hosting at very reasonable prices is available with Quiet Elegance, or you may choose another company to host your Website.
4. Plan out the number of pages and their titles. The name of your homepage might be your company name and whatever product you are offering. Titles/links to other pages might be "About Company", “Books”, “Articles”, ”Calendar”, “Photo Gallery”, "Products", "Services", "Contact", "FAQ", "Guestbook", "Order Form", “Links”, etc.
5. Get a copy of your logo, letterhead, (hard copy or digital format) brochures, catalog, etc. and mail or email them to Quiet Elegance.
6. Decide specifically what graphics/photos you would like on your site and which pages your want them on. Label them by name and where they will be located on your site. Send the photos for scanning or send digitized images via email, diskette or CD-Rom.
7. Compose and format text to be on each page of site. All text and information is to be provided by the client and provided via floppy disk or CD Rom, or sent to Quiet Elegance by e-mail on Microsoft Word. Otherwise, there will be a small charge for typing.
8. Decide if you want any additional options for your site: Shopping Cart, Site-Map, Guestbook, Links to Related Sites, Sound or Music, Animation, Additional Forms, Java Scrollers & Effects, Autoresponders, Password Protection, Bulletin Boards, Database
9. Do some research on the World Wide Web. Using various search engines, do a number of searches using keywords that you think are best for a site like yours. (For instance: If someone were going to look you up on the world Wide Web, what keywords or search words would you put in? Author, Speaker, Lecturer, Teacher, etc). Bookmark the sites that come up in the top 2 or 3 positions when the keywords you have used bring up a lot of relevant Websites. This will give you important keyword knowledge, ideas for the layout and content of your site, and examples of sites that rank high with search engines. This will enable Quiet Elegance to work from to design effective meta tags and keyword content.
10. Browse the World Wide Web for Websites you like and for ideas about planning and building a successful Website with Quiet Elegance as your partner. Bookmark the sites that you would like your site to be like, so Quiet Elegance will have an idea for customizing your design.
What You Provide
1. Outline of desired Website pages, starting with your homepage.
2. Names of all links to other sections and all pages in each section.
3. Titles for each page
4. Complete content and text for each page must be in a readable file form, preferably Word, and formatted the way you want it to look on the Website. We will charge an hourly rate to transfer, type or format text that is not in a standard formatted file form.
5. Logo in hard copy or digital file form. Logo design is available if you need one for $35-$150 depending on complexity.
6. Graphics for each page in the form of photos for scanning or in digital file form. Each image should be labeled by name and the location where your want it displayed. Graphics that require extensive cleaning up or editing will be charged our hourly rate.
7. Keywords that you decide are the most important to use for search engine registration. We will be happy to help you with this in consultation.
8. Provide all materials and information to Quiet Elegance in a timely fashion to facilitate project completion according to agreed upon timeline.
We will be happy to advise you on any of the above during consultation phone call(s) and via email. We are also available to take care of any part of the above that you cannot provide and will perform that work at our hourly rate.
What Quiet Elegance Provides
1. Custom design and layout including clean, validated HTML, validated links.
2. Custom graphics, including lines, bullets, buttons, background, masthead and page headers derived from your logo.
3. Meta tags utilizing keywords and site description provided by client.
4. Basic search engine registration with the major engines. (Google, Yahoo, Lycos, etc)
5. One hour of free consultation. Second hour billed at $20. Additional consultation over two hours will billed at our hourly rate.
6. Completion of work in a timely fashion agreed upon by both parties.
7. Uploading of your site to your domain upon completion of agreed upon work, and upon receipt of the total balance due.
8. Content creation and text editing available at our hourly rate in addition to Website costs.
9. Continuing maintenance on an hourly or contract basis.
10. Consistent, friendly service.
11. List of references upon request
Your Costs:
1. Domain Name: Typically $15-$20 per year, 2 year minimum.
2. ISP Hosting: Typically $90 to $300 per year, yearly payment. (Monthly payment is available but at a slightly higher cost.)
3. Initial cost of Website: Typically $300 to $3000.
4. Maintainence costs if you will not be doing the work .
To Contact Us:
David Schneider
Quiet Elegance Design 16777 Thatcher Rd
Eden Prairie, MN 55347 |
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