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Phase I - Web Site Design - $150.00
Price includes up to 8 hours. Additional hours will be billed at $25.00 per hour. All design fees will be waived for larger sites. Phase II - Basic Development - $25.00 / page Your web site will include a masthead incorporating your company logo, navigation bar, buttons, background, and unlimited external links. Customer supplied photos or images can be placed on any page(s) at no extra charge. Price also includes up to 1200 words of customer supplied text if supplied in electronic format, 200 words otherwise. All additional work will be billed at $25.00 per hour. Additional work includes custom photos or graphics, searching for public domain photos, graphics, or clipart, animation, image maps, and additional text. Non Basic Development - $25.00 / hour Depending on your site and what you want to accomplish with it, you can add forms (a guestbook, newsletter signup, surveys, request for feedback), databases, applications, applets, electronic commerce, and more. We will be happy to explain your options, and to make recommendations. Many customers begin with a basic site, some with a feedback form, adding additional capability later. Phase III - Web Site Hosting - $25.00 The fee includes setting up a new web hosting account with a Web Host Provider , or upgrading an existing personal account to a web hosting account. If you don't currently have a web host in mind, please see our Web Host Packages page for our prices and features. The $25.00 fee is waived if you use our web host. There is no fee for uploading web pages to any host. Domain Name - $10.00 If you don't already have a domain name, you will need to get one. The cost is $10.00 per year. These fees cover domain name searches (to insure your choice isn't already taken) and domain registration. Phase IV - Web Site Promotion Web site promotion includes designing an interesting, easy to use web site that offers something to your users. Once a visitor comes to your site, you want them to come back, and you want them to recommend your site to others. If they have a web site, and if they feel your site will be of interest to their visitors, you want them to include a link to your site. This aspect of web site promotion is included in the basic design. The other aspect of web site promotion is letting people know about your site, and getting them to come there the first time. This aspect generally includes registration with search engines. Other options include encouraging other sites to link with yours, banner exchanges, inclusion in online communities, etc. Which options you use will depend on the purpose of your site, and its target audience. Of course, there is also your part. Put your web site and email addresses onevery piece of business stationary you have. This includes business cards, invoices, receipts, quotes, proposals, and of course, all you're advertising. Pricing:
Phase V - Maintenance Your web site advertises your business, and is more flexible than most other forms of advertising. You can modify it on your schedule, not someone else's. You don't have to wait for a commercial to run its course, a new book to come out, or a new issue to be released. You can make major changes, or minor modifications. And you can make some, many, or all of the changes yourself, if you feel up to it. Understand that once your web site has been fully paid for, it's yours. You are under no further obligation to us, though we would of course prefer to keep your business. We offer several maintenance options, falling into three main categories:
Web Hosting - There are various administrative functions associated with a web hosting account. What they are varies somewhat from one ISP to another. We will be happy to explain them to you, and walk you through their use. We will also show you where to find, and how to use any online help that your ISP offers. If you prefer, we can handles these tasks for you. This can be done on a fee per incident basis, or we can develop a support contract. Maintenance contracts are also available. Maintenance contracts differ from support contracts, in that they include regularly scheduled tasks, for example, monthly reports on site usage. Web Site Upgrades - Your web site should be upgraded periodically, the more frequently the better. You want to keep your visitors' interest. You want them to keep coming back to see what's new. If you include pricing, or product descriptions, you need to be able to modify them as needed. If you receive feedback from your visitors (via a form or email), you want to incorporate many of their ideas, making your site better and better. The cost for modifying a page will, of course, depend on how extensive the modifications are. If you are anticipating many modifications we can design a support agreement, charging a reduced hourly rate instead of per page fees. You might want to make frequent, minor modifications yourself (i.e. price changes), in which case we can provide any training you need. Technical Support - In addition to support and maintenance agreements, we can also provide manuals and training. We can help you learn how to get the most out of your web hosting account, and how to handle administrative tasks. We can also teach you how to make minor changes to your web pages, and how to upload those changes to your web site. Once training is completed, we remain available for any technical support questions that may arise. We offer per incident pricing, as well as support and maintenance agreements. The customer is responsible for all software purchased, and for all other goods and services not supplied directly by Mainship Systems. Note that all goods and services procured by Mainship Systems from a third party on the customer's behalf, are not considered as being supplied directly by Mainship Systems. |
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