Atlanta Web Design
Monday 04 April 2011 at 12:27 pm.
What if you don't have a website design yet? What do I need to consider? How much should I spend?
- Logo - Modern business graphics requires logo design in a digital format. It can then be used for business cards, email, and the website. Budget $200 to $2000 for Logo design.
- E-mail Accounts - Do you need to have email accounts set up? Will you be using Outlook or webmail. Do you need forwarders to interface with yahoo or gmail?
- Will you be need a copywriter, or do you have your text ready to go? Even if you have copy, our linguists / computer scientist will read through it and make enhancements to improve the SEO potential.
- Flash - This is embedded video. A little motion and pizazz is good to hold the visitor, but too much interferes with peoples decision making, and slows down the process, or turns people off completely. If you have existing video, we will convert it and embed it for $ 500-2000.
- Slideshow - Probably also in flash, this is often a sharper method of holding visitors that are attracted to a little sizzle.
- Content Management - Do you need to update some of your site without using the web designer? A simple Wordpress or Joomla module can be done for as little as $ 100, or much more to match style and pizazz with your home page. Logo and layout integration on this 'blog section' generally starts around $ 2,000 and can be higher, if desired.
- Online Store - We can implement Zencart, without style and analytics, for as little as $125. Style, artwork, SEO, and analytics add up around three times quicker than for a wordpress blog.
- Credit card processing - A simple payment portal starts around $ 350, integration to shopping carts or online accounts can be much higher. A third party such as authorize.net or paypal is used.
- Community Bulletin Boards - We will talk about the responsibility and overhead of moderating this sort of thing before we talk money. This could cost one of your employees hours every day to maintain.
