A good web design is important not only to convey a professional image, but also to ensure that your customers can find the information they want, when they want it. This can in turn free you up to tend to the tasks of generating more business as opposed to answering common questions.
A web site can also allow people to ask more comlex questions, while giving you the time to research and provide sound answers. In addition leads can be generated literally while you sleep, and you can respond to the leads in a timely fashion, which also conveys professionalism. Basically, a web site can give you the ability to take your business to the next level without a corresponding increase in effort. All of this begins with good web design.
Standard Web Design:
$100 per page
1 picture per page
additional pictures - $10 per picture
scanning of pictures: $10 per image
graphics/photo manipulation (resizing, effects): $5 per photo
Extras:
Newsletter: $40 setup, $15/month
Recommend script: $30 flat fee
Customer updates of page content: $50 setup, $10/month
Message board: $75 setup, $15/month
Feedback form: $50
Desktop publishing: $35/hr
Programming: $45/hr
Descriptions
Newsletter - This is a system that allows you to run an email newsletter. It takes care of people subscribing, unsubscribing, and maintaining the email addresses automatically as well as allowing you to send the newsletter to all of your subscribers.
Recommend Script - This is a script that allows you to have a page where people can recommend your site to their friends. They can enter an email address and a possible message and send a recommendation to your site.
Customer Updates - This is a system that allows the customer to update various parts of a website without intervention of a webmaster. It is user friendly and allows updating without coding.
Message Board - this is a "bulletin board" type system where people can come to your site and leave their comments on whatever topic you wish.
Feedback Form - this is a form that allows people to email you feedback without having your email address visible on your site.
Desktop Publishing - this is typesetting, typing, and formatting of text.
Programming - this encompasses any kind of custom creation that doesn't fall into "standard" web formatting. Anything that involves some kind of interpretation as opposed to just "display this" involves programming.
