Services & Pricing

How to get a great website!

1. Decide what YOU want/need and work from there. Don’t be wishy-washy & don’t keep changing your mind. Look at nice clean sites to get some good ideas before your first meeting with your designer. Then give your designer several ideas to work with to create your samples..

2. Make sure your site works for your customers/target audience. You should be pleased by the site, however if it pleases you but is confusing to your clients, it’s not a good site.

3. Less stuff. Easy navigation. Happier customers.

4. Do some research. Google ‘website cost’ to see the range of costs and learn a bit more. Educate yourself so that you know the kind of work that goes into your site.

5. Give things a chance. If your designer suggests less flash and easier navigation, try it for awhile. If you’re going for a redesign and your old site is flashy, try simple and uncluttered.

6. Your web presence represents you and your business. Do you really want a black background with the ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ theme being looped and flashing red lights representing your plumbing company? Is this what you want your customers to see or think of your business? The same goes for sites that are old and outdated. Click a link and its no longer there, or the page has NO info at all on it, or it has one sentence that has been there for 5 years? Update and get rid of all those useless links and pages.

7. EASE of use! Information at hand! Give your customers what they want and need.

8. If you hire a web designer: hire one who will listen. Then listen to her suggestions. Let her do her job and don’t add to that job (costing you MORE money and her more time) by changing your mind about fonts or menus, etc. Asking her to create new sample pages for you (after you've settled on one design) is asking her for more work. If you do this expect to pay by the hour for those samples. That being said, do not be afraid to say you want things changed or do not like things. You're the boss on this project and it will ultimately represent you and your business. But speak up as soon as you see something that you want changed; if you wait too long your web designer will have hours of work to change and will most probably bill you for this time.

9. Have one contact person to work with your designer. This person must be able to supply information for the site within a reasonable time frame. Your designer cannot guess or make up information about you or your business and you can’t leave her hanging waiting on you to remember to send her what you want.

10. Don’t settle for less than you or your business deserves BUT be reasonable in your expectations of what you’re paying for. Ask for more than originally agreed to, or change things repeatedly and expect to pay for it. Designers must make a living too!

A design budget or a proposal for expected site will be discussed during the first meeting. A contract must be signed and one-half the estimated cost of the site, no matter the size, will be due before work begins. This is due to the high volume of clients who retain our services then lose interest in their own project. We don't work for free; when projects that normally take a few weeks turn into a few months, it winds up costing us all.

Price for Small Website - Complete Site Design and Setup:

  • 2- hour Consultation via meeting or email
  • Up to 8 HTML Pages (Customized Page layout)
  • Setup of webhost and upload of completed website
  • Up to 8 Customized Images or Photos –Made web ready, resized, cropped etc.(customer supplied)
  • Logo & Content must be provided in digital format by client (If we have to translate text to electronic form we charge $38.00 per hour) Logo Manipulation is an additional $38.00 per hour charge.
  • One interactive email web form
  • Two Design Templates to chose from
  • Two Revision Rounds before going live (does not include design changes, only text, photos, etc.)
  • Completion time is maximum of 2 weeks from final revision
  • Cost per additional webpage with the same layout: $100.00 per page.
  • Client requested extras will be billed at $60.00 per hour unless other arrangements have been made. These extras may include more than the allowed custom template creation per this package, more photos or galleries, or other forms. Digital phtography is not included in this price (see below for pricing).

Price for the above package is: $1650.00

NOTHING IS SET IN STONE! Inquire if you need more or less or simply have a question.
Extras Offered:

Brochures- Desktop Publishing - We design brochures for your business! Client supplies all text, photos and any logos. $70 per hour with a 1 hour minimum billed.

Website FavIcon
Have you ever noticed a small icon in your browser’s address window or in your favorites list? That icon is a Favicon and we can create one for your site for $50

Interactive Forms
Forms such as feedback forms (where the reader fills out a form which is sent to you through email) $100 (Tested for accuracy)

Drop Down/Slide out Menus
Regular menus are standard & no charge. There is an extra charge for dropdown/slide out menus. $150 per 10 links.

Maintenance
You may wish to have your site updated occasionally. This service is provided on an hourly basis with a one hour minimum billed. $60 (per hour)

Digital Photography
If you need special photos taken for your website we charge by the hour; $75 (per hour) if within a 20 mile radius.

Scanning Pictures $10 (per print) Scanning is discouraged unless there is no other option. The scans will be cleaned up and made web ready.

Database Programming $145 (per hour) Members list- Members Info etc.

Logo/Banner Design $75.00 (per hour) - One hour minimum billed.

Monthly Contracts -
$60.00 a month - One update consisting of text changes to no more than 4 pages (such as events page, calendar etc.) Four photos made web ready, resized and uploaded to your site. All text must be supplied in electronic form via email, as well as photos.

$100.00 a month - Up to 2 separate updates of text changes to any and/or all pages of the site. Up to 8 photos made web ready, resized, uploaded. All text must be supplied in electronic form via email, as well as photos.

*Custom monthly contracts can be created to suit.

Xtra Small - Information Only sites are also offered from $500.00 for up to 3 pages with one logo supplied by customer, regular menu with all text supplied by client. This price does not include adding photos or contact forms. Every additional page beyond 3 will be billed at $40.00 per page in addition to any extra work for those pages, which will be billed hourly. Contact us for more information!