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There are
people who seem to think that good websites are built primarily with
technological components, formatting options, plug-ins, graphic
elements, domain names, host server space, search engine placement and URLs.
And then there are people who know that all the above are meaningless
unless you have “something worthwhile” to communicate… and then
purposefully choose to cohesively use every iota of the aforementioned
technology to effectively and efficiently mold your website to make your
point.
In other words, website development is both art and science and our
professional aim is to employ and enliven both these vital qualities,
mixing them at the molecular level of thinking, to accomplish
synergistic quality in the services and products we deliver to our
customers, to wit:
Hello Christine!
We're coming to Holley Mountain in a couple of weeks to look at property
and we're so excited! We've been spending lots and lots of time on
www.HolleyMountainAirpark.com.
We just wanted to take a minute to tell you what an incredible job
you've done with the website... We have been to many, many airpark
websites in the past few days and yours is not only the best, but the
others are not even in the same league. Not only does the Holley
Mountain site look fantastic and manage to convey the strong positive
spirit of the airpark, but it also has really good functionality. It's
logically laid out and easy to navigate... Great job!! ~~~
For a detailed explanation of...
Click the links below to
visit some of the sites designed, built, and maintained by Gozarks. Find
the right size and type of Web presence for your business, then give us a call at 501-745-4153 or fill-out our simple
request form
and we'll contact you.
Your
very own Website
starting at $350
plus domain registration & hosting
Arkansas Airframe
ArkGREENS
ArkNORML
ArmchairHoodlum
Booneville Municipal Airport
Choctaw Special School
Conway Municipal Airport
Don Richardson
Holley Mountain Airpark
Protocad Manufacturing
Quilt In Time
SassafrasWilds
Insert
Website
starting at $150 per year
includes 1 year sub-web hosting, annual update & unique URL
Aircraft Maintenance Center
Ann's Pet Resort
Fairfield Bay Marina
FSBO (real estate brochure page example)
Good
Karma Domes
Jacobs Printery
USPA AR01
Van Buren County Child Care Center
Wishing
Well for Paws Inc.
Once you have an Internet
presence you can publish your Web address (URL) on your business cards and
in your radio, TV and newspaper ads, effectively maximizing your
advertising investment by sending customers to visit your online office or
store 24-hours a day.
TERMS:
Prices include all basic Web design and layout work with customer
providing all text, graphics and photos in "ready to
post" format
Non-compliant formats
and/or creation of custom graphics/logos and or the enhancing and
optimizing of digital photos will incur additional charges.
Click here for more info on these fees.
Prices for full-scale Websites do
NOT include annual domain
registration fee or monthly hosting fees (scroll down for an explanation of
these costs).
Prices for insert-Websites DO
include sub-web domain name (aka: "unique URL") and 12 months
hosting.
Revisions made at customer
request after 15 days from date of email notification of first
publication to the Internet are subject to standard website maintenance
and updating fees (scroll down
for details).
THANKS A BUSHEL AND A PECK!!!
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WEBSITE START-UP & MAINTENANCE
Start-up costs come in three categories:
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Website development, including: creative
design (aka: graphics & layout), creation and editing of written
content, and technical engineering.
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Hosting.
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Domain name.
WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Website development may be estimated at $100 to construct a basic
“template page” that has the color scheme, layout, and key features you
want on every page of your site. Your template page is also conformed
for “cross browser compatibility” and is set-up to maximize the ability
of search engines to locate your site, thus every new page added to your
site meets these same criteria.
Once your template page is designed, estimate minimum costs at roughly
$60 per page. Thus a very basic 5-page Website could cost as little as
$400 ($60x5+$100), given that the client has all photos, graphics,
logos, images and text available in “ready to post” format.
This material is assembled as a “concept site,” the purpose of which is to give you, the
client, something to think about and say yes or no to as we develop
the elements, style and functionality you desire. And, as we work our way through this
creative process, your template page is creatively refined and
technically finalized.
Building on this, if you desire highly specialized enhancements like
Flash animation, an e-commerce engine (ie: shopping carts and online
catalogs), custom-rollover navigation, and/or if copy needs to be
written, photographs need to be taken, and graphic artwork must be done, etc., etc., and
so on, the cost per page goes up proportionately to the required amount
of work and skill.
For your consideration, Gozarks offers a comprehensive range of
technical and creative services, including all those listed above. We do
not, however, provide hosting or domain registration services, but I
highly recommend and prefer to work with Hyper Tech, Inc.
WEBSITE HOSTING
To be accessible 24/7 to Internet surfers, your Website must “reside on
a host server.” Simply put, this means that you must “rent” a kind of
“virtual storage locker” on a commercial computer system that is hooked
into the Internet.
Rates for hosting services vary widely, ranging from “free” to hundreds
of dollars per month. To meet your start-up needs, I recommend HyperTech
where hosting averages less than $20 per month. This package offers plenty of storage space, an
unlimited number of email accounts, a statistical tracking utility, and
also features MS FrontPage access which is vital if you desire to
eventually have someone on your staff do routine updates to your site
and is a required hosting feature should you choose to have Gozarks do your
website development and/or maintenance work.
DOMAIN NAME
As with hosting services, there are many “domain name registrars” and
their fees vary from $3.50 to $35 per year. A registrar enters specific
information about you and your chosen domain name (aka: URL) into the
computer systems that make it possible for individuals to surf the
Internet and connect to your site.
HyperTech charges
less than $20 per year for
this service.
Regarding hosting and registrar services, there are specific reasons why
I recommend
HyperTech beyond the fact that they are a well-established,
independently owned and operated Van Buren County business. And there
are many more reasons why I am confident that Gozarks is best qualified
to develop and maintain a Website for you. Call us (501-745-4153)
and we'll be happy to discuss this with you.
UPDATING & MAINTENANCE
Costs for updating and maintaining your site once it is built, as with
initial development work, are entirely dependent upon what you determine
to be a “real need” and whether you elect to contract for this service
or train in-house staff members to tend routine tasks.
It is important, however, to consider these options at the time your
site is designed because it is easier and more economical in the long
run to set-up certain portions of your site to accommodate in-house
updating than it would be to install these features after the fact.
STANDARD FEES
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$25 per hour for routine website development, updating &
maintenance services.
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$40 per hour for image optimization
(formatting your photos and artwork to display properly on the Internet)
and animation (Flash, Java, etc.).
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$60 per hour (and up) for the
installation and administration of specialized technical functions such as e-commerce engines,
database design, PHP pages, do-it-yourself updating features and
on-site training.
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$100 per hour for strategic
promotional/marketing campaign development, ie: event/promotional timeline
development, writing and distribution of news releases, design of promotional materials
including custom artwork and layout for newsletters, flyers and brochures.
For detailed information about
custom graphics services, please
click
here to open a new window.
Sincerely, I look forward to answering your
questions. Phone 501-745-4153 and ask to speak with Shalom or Christine, or
fill-out our simple form
and we'll contact you! |
