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Products
The distinction between products and services is difficult to define when it comes to the internet, but our way of looking at things is that when it involves giving advice, or carrying out a task on behalf of our client, it is a service. If we have to 'make' it, then it is a product. Information about the services that we offer can be found here.
There are many who will offer to build you an attractive web site, but we know the difference between a mere brochure, and a shop. Pro-active e-commerce presents opportunities for the innovative business looking to venture into the exciting commercial frontier of the internet.
The web sites that we build are functional and efficient, professionally presented, aesthetically appropriate to their intended purpose, and with a clear focus on the concept of informing rather than entertaining the consumer. Our sites get the job done and accurately reflect the 'real world' nature of a particular business.
If you don't have clowns performing in your shop, then we won't put sideshow entertainment on your web site. If you are a conservative business that trades on quality and professionality, we won't embarrass you publicly with an amatuerish web site. And if you are an aggressive 'no-holds-barred' player, we have the experience and the skills to play promotional 'hard ball' against those managing the sites of your competitors.
We have deployed many successful web sites over the past 5 years, and that experience has left us in no doubt that building a web site is just the start of the process. The web site must be put together as a solid foundation for the online business endeavour that follows.
Your Web Site
We recognise 2 distinct stages to web site development - planning and execution - and our costs reflect this:
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• Web Site
Setup: This covers the costs associated with getting the project rolling,
and includes things like client contact, concept development, preliminary
artwork, and site navigation design. It is on a sliding scale (since bigger
jobs take more planning) and ranges from about $250 for a 3 page web site,
up to $575 for a 25 page web site. Larger sites are quoted on a job-by-job
basis.
• Web Site Construction: Charged per page where a page contains up to 400 words of text and up to 4 photos. Once again on a sliding scale, but downwards in this case as there is a certain amount of the page construction that can be can duplicated from page to page. Pricing ranges from about $145 per page for 2 pages, down to $120 per page for 25 pages.
Why not prepare a quick web site quote for yourself right now?
If you already have a web site, then why not consider a web site face lift. This is a particularly good option if you are satisfied with the content and structure of your site, but feel that the style of presentation is a bit dated, or it's time for a more professional or contemporary look.
Interactive Content
At this stage your web site will be fully functional and have satisfied its intended objective of presenting your text and images in a brochure format. This is called a 'static' web site and although quite effective as a promotional tool, you may wish to enhance its functionality by adding some 'interactive' features:
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• Email Based
Order/Enquiry Form: As an alternative to a simple email request from
your site, the web site user is provided with a form to fill out to communicate
their requirements. A standard form that collects customer details, product
selections and customer comments is $85.
• Shopping Cart: We've all seen them - click the buy button, browse some more products, buy a few more things, and then at the end of the process you have an order form that is already filled out with all of your product choices. The initial setup is $350 plus $3.50 per product.
• JavaScript: Calculators, event calendars, interactive maps - you are only limited by your imagination. JavaScripting is charged hourly at $105/hour and prices generally range from $100 to $800.
• Multimedia: Sound, pannable images, and streaming video can all be applied to your site. Prices vary depending on what you want to do, but in most cases you will be talking tens or hundreds of dollars, not thousands.
• Web Site Search Engine: The ability for a user to keyword search your web site for a particular piece of information or product. For a 20 page web site this can cost as little as $250.
Database Delivery
The next stage involves introducing 'dynamic' content updated by the web site owner in real time from a browser interface.
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• Simple Dynamic
Embedding: If you have a small web site with a limited amount of data
that changes every now and then, consider the benefits of being able to
change it yourself. A single-page web site for a hotel could become dynamic
by having a rate table that updates itself from a simple text file for
under $100. We will show you how to update and deliver the text file to
your server, and off you go.
• Simple Database Delivery: Deliver text based data, like a set of product price lists, to your web site and have them displayed in table form. In addition, have the ability to update the contents of the online database yourself. Depending on the complexity, usually under $1000.
• Full Database Delivery: A fully fledged database application that includes descriptive text, images, and prices for each product, product search capability on the site, and a browser interface for you to manage the product database yourself. Pricing varies depending on your requirments and the size of your products database. Download a brochure for our Small Business E-Commerce Site. (PDF file 305Kb - Adobe Acrobat required)
All prices are based on our scheduled rate of $105/hour (GST inclusive).
E-Commerce
If you need real time credit processing or authorisation in a secure environment, we have the answer for you. We are now a development and integration partner for the National Bank's NSIPS online payment system and can provide plug-in e-commerce services for your web site, back office 'virtual EFTPOS' systems, and online BPay functionality.
Coming soon will be consumer finance web site plug-ins that allow you to sell goods online with payment facilitation by GE Capital Finance and AGC CreditLine. 'No deposit and no repayments until 2002' now goes online.
Tourism And Travel Products
The first of our in-house developed products is AgentMask, the answer to all of those wholesalers and inbound agents who have been asking you for a copy of your web site so that they can include it as a page in their own web site. The web site that took you hours and hours of blood, sweat and tears to get exactly right.
The web site that you have worked for the past 12-18 months to get up on the search engines. The web site that cost you more than you could really afford to have built.
We couldn't see any point in giving away a copy of your web site free of charge to someone you're going to pay commission to as well, and then have it competing with yours on the search engines and eroding into your current level of commission free sales. We got to work on a solution, and AgentMask is it! Click here for more info.
What's Next?
Whether you are planning your first web site, or looking to improve an existing web site, try a quick quote first, then send us an email or give us a call on 07 4055 8470, and we would be pleased to discuss your options.
You might think that the phone is a "low-tech" way of communicating for us, but we don't just use technology for the sake of it. We recognise that many of our clients are not nearly as internet literate as they would like to be, and we go out of our way to make sure that the whole web site development process is as 'non-technical' as possible.
Once you have told us what you need, we will advise you on the best ways to achieve your objectives, and suggest a few alternatives to take advantage of the new opportunities that the internet offers. In this way everybody understands the nature of the project, and the final result will satisfy everbody's expectations.
We always attempt to partner with our clients to achieve a solution, and to ensure that the final product is not beyond the ability of our clients to understand, or to operate.
In addition to building web sites we also offer a range of services.
