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So you need to decide on the domain name from the ones we talked about and were sent for you for review. We agree to include a standard blog (this requires another database) as well as all the other features as mentioned below.

You didnt mention how many galleries you want but assume one main one (within html – main site)

Payment and project details:

Total payment for project £1750

I will accept this very reduced rate on the understanding that you can do a few hours graphic design / logo type work in the future (if possible) and included in my proposal is:

Domain name
1 years hosting
Website design / build
Ecommerce Suite (plus admin access)
Wordpress Blog Basic to be customised at a later date if required (plus admin access)
Email accounts (3)
500MB webspace
All the standard features of a Premium site as detailed here >> http://www.delicious-webdesign.com/website-packages.html
FTP access to website (required for ftp uploads of your products)

Will agree payment stages of

Deposit £750

Payment once project completed £750

Final payment £250 (when convenient but within 6 months of project completion would be appreciated)

There are no obvious additional costs for your project and only 2^ndand subsequent years hosting at £45 per year would be charged. I would also email 123 reg to see if they can cancel your agreement or even reduce the hosting plan from pro to beginner ?

Opting out of WHOIS

I believe we have the option to opt you out of ‘whois’ database on domain purchase but believe that as you are a trading individual its not ‘correct’ see here for further details look at the nic website link.

[Website Client] Hope your bank holiday was good. Must say I am sorry should have thought about this earlier (must remember that the americans do not have bank holidays) Sadly we do so as ever there is a back log on banking. I am waiting on the bank to clear the funds I have put in to pay Delicious Webdesign  the £750 hoping it will be this week (pokes banks). In the mean time art works are finished & text is not far off other half is reading it all through mostly because I can’t spell if my life depended on it.

Once the banks finish being silly & clear the funds I can pay you which makes me happy. Keep smiling & have a great week.

[Delicious Webdesign]  Money received this morning, thank you. Give me a day or two to get the ball rolling and will buy the domain and proceed with the project preparation, expect a flurry of email questions from us in the next week. Domain purchased and holding logo uploaded.  Remember that you were to send us the font (as we dont have the one you used in the PSD layout).  Also can you send us any art work and text (dont worry you can add / correct text as you go)

Are you happy for us to resize your design to ensure it looks and works on the majority of displays ? as your photoshop mockups are too wide to fit into a standard screen resolution, ideally 1000 px is as wide as I would go. We altered the index one to narrow the width a little but its best if you decides what is reduced or not, before we reconstruct this into a page.

[Website Client] Yep not a problem. I have the girls home for another weeks so may take me a few hours to reply to questions. I am getting quite excited about the whole thing not to mention the going back into businesss with the view that if i am good enough to make money  everyday I must be very good. Anyway let you get on have a great day.

Yes the text is coming along sadly taken longer than expected with the girls at home wanting my undivided attention. Here are the two fonts I use called scriptina.  I bought these myself a while back & have found them to be very useful.  I will get all the text finished tonight for everything as well as all the images ziped I will send you an email link to metafire once I have uploaded it all.

Regarding website page size go ahead. I am intirely in your hands on this one. I made it 1280×1024 as that is my screen set up. just tell em what you need

[Delicious Webdesign] Rock on love! Totaly in love with the the animated sakura blossom. Love the way you have got the text to highlight at the top. I know in my original wording at the top says the domain name, can we change that to just the company name and if possible shrink the animation at the top so everything fits on one page with out the need to scroll I know it seems trivial but knowing the customers they are uber picky & will moan about it. Trust me this happends a lot. In the what is new section need to move the graphic up a little as it pokes out the frame a little (slap me I am a perfectionist). The Mission statment still needs to changed to the one on the note card I sent you abotu a week ago & need to find a way of making it larger for customers to read as well as see possibly some sort of not could pop up when they hover over it so they can read it more clearly perhaps not sure. Love the title & the cherry blossom logo on the tab header when it comes up. Sorry to be pain in the pants. Much hugs for doing a fantastic job so far.

Well I am happy with what ever you can do for me love being honest I think I will take a bit of a back seat & let you tell me what will amke your life easier as long as I can edit & add new items & possibly have others do the same I am a happy girl.

[Website Company]  Anna, your photocart store has been installed and configured but suggest you have a play and familiarise yourself with it, we will shortly integrate it into your menu on your website.

[Website Clients] Not only do you rock but your an angel I will take a peek today just waiting on my sl partner in crime to get in & then I can take a proper look. I am so excited

Here is an example set of questions and information we send to new potential Essex Website Design clients

Here is the standard questionnaire that we would ask you to complete and return (please ignore questions that are not relevant and either highlight your answer or delete the answers not applicable to you)

As you have indicated you want to keep your costs down initially and want to have a budget website I would like to to think  about bringing down the costs as much as possible by agreeing to:

1 Agree that you will provide all the text and images for this site.

2 Give me as much detail about what you want (screenshots and example sites are great)

3 Tell me exactly what you want on each page and how many pages you want

4 Tell me How many galleries (outside of the ecommerce suite) you will need to showcase your work (a gallery being something like the ones on our example website I directed you to previously.

Once I have a firm idea about what you want we can put a quote to you but  £1400 is probably going to be below the very minimum we can accept for this work so perhaps I can suggest that if you only have that money available now that we can take a deposit, develop the site, launch the site then take the 2nd payment and then defer any outstanding payment to a later date (to be agreed between ourselves) I suspect that the final quote will be about £1750 but not much more taking into account your circumstances, the fact that you will do the graphic and text work and the fact that it would be great to be involved with a very different business  like yourself. I am very flexible and open to suggestions and hope this sounds reasonable to you.

I confirm that as part of any quote we give will include domain name / hosting / databases / updates etc etc included and 2^nd and subsequent years involve an ongoing hosting cost (currently £45 per year)

Hope this sounds fair and reasonable and look forward to starting your project

[Website Client] So nice to talk to someone who actualy understands what I am talking about. I will warn you now I am unsure if I have filled your questionnaire as you woudl need it but I think after you see what I have in mine provided in the zip you will see what I am aiming for.

1 Agree that you will provide all the text and images for this site. – yes this is not a problem (had this planned a long time ago)

2 Give me as much detail about what you want (screenshots and example sites are great) – never a problem I am a very straight forward woman

3 Tell me exactly what you want on each page and how many pages you want – this is slightly harder due to the amount of items already able to be sold all taga format at this point in time which when zipped is tiny any way.

4 Galleries -  Loving the websites like the Essex water softeners website you showed us during our call, the style is not far off the idea I have put in the zip for you. I hope poked the other half & he asked what payments do you take might be able to save you getting charged any silly ammounts by paying you by other means other than paypal. More than happy with what you have suggested on the paying for everything side really makes my life a little easier as well as able to concentrate on getting my customers happy to the site as well as new content made. Trust me when you see the content of just three of my mega packs you will probably cry at the time I spend making sure my customers are very happy with everything they buy from me. Just takes them time to get use to using a different platform where its paypal instead of L$ (linden dollars) being used.

If I have missed anything please call me I am arround all the time unless I am being dragged out for shopping (hates shopping unless for kimono on ebay)

We have website quote requests all the time, not all of them at taken up but the vast majority of them are as we take time to learn about your requirements and while doing that explain that we can offer you exactly what you want and need plus more to ensure your website actually ‘works’ for you. Here is a recent conversation:

[Essex Website Design Company] Ok we are talking about a 8 page brochure website that you can update yourself (CMS) with a blog (diary) and think that would give you a great grounding for your website. We will be allowing you a CMS system (website pages you can update yourself)  where we can create it such as you will  have a admin menu and access to all your page’s text when your site is build and put live. You would need to tell us what pages you want to control. This would ensure you got an industry standard / search friendly / easy to update CMS system.

Design of website – Recommend our Premium (8 pages / gallery and CMS) website package http://www.delicious-webdesign.com/website-packages.html with a blog http://www.delicious-webdesign.com/blogs.html

So as a package price we can work out some discount for it as long as it includes the customised blog option as we will then be able to off you our standard discount of 5% to existing clients to make the price £850 (we will need a deposit of £350 which is required to start work and the final payment at the end of the  project when you are happy) This includes the hosting / transfer / email setup / design. It doesn’t include any professional photos / stock images or webcopy (text) you need us to create or provide.

[Website Client] As discussed please find enclosed the completed form which you sent. In order to bring the costs down further I’d like to cut back on certain aspects. The only things we cant move on are the photo gallery and updating of the news/events section. Saying that this will only need to be updated once or twice a year.

Also, I’ve already purchased a domain name  which I would be keen to transfer across to you in order for you to create the website. I’ll provide all of the text and images needed but as a starter for 10 we would like the colour scheme to match that of the guide website. Having discussed this with my work colleagues the costs are slightly too much for us to contemplate. For information, the current thinking is to go down the DIY wordpress route. Thanks again for your time and should things change I’ll let you know.

This client failed to give a budget and as such didnt let the website designer build a package suitable for them. At Delicious Webdesign we ask you want you want to spend on your website project to ensure we build something for you that gives you what you want and need and can afford. All websites can be added to or expanded at a later date as its much better to get a small website up early then add to it at a later date, than waiting 1 or 2 years for a larger website.

Have you ever wondered how people view your company, could it be through recommendations, small adverts, leaflets or by your 24 hour marketing tool, which is your website.

Is it doing justice to your company? If you are 100% happy with it then I thank you for taking the time to read so far but if it isn’t please take a look at the websites we have designed and developed for local companies and international companies that are probably due to the range of business sectors we have worked on undertaking similar work to yourself.

If you like what you see and you think your company could benefit from up to date branding and or website designed specifically for your company please feel free to contact us where we can offer a free non obligation meeting to discuss your needs and desires.

This Essex web design company currently specialise in new and redesigns of websites. If you ever feel your current website needs a new look or update, you get in touch with us so we can explain how we may be able to enhance your site.

We come 100% recommended by Freeindex users, have over 200 Facebook fans over 200 Twitter followers. Revamping your site would cost just £399. We have also recently teamed up with Google and until the end of the year we can include £50 worth of free Google advertising credits to help you announce the relaunch of your website on page one of Google.

We also offer custom Facebook page designs to encourace interaction between you and your customers, promote special offers and generate new custom.

This example project plan has been created and included to give our clients direction and advice about some of the detail that we welcome from new clients requiring a website. Obviously we can work with a lot less information but the following project specification is a good example of and ‘ideal’ project plan that could be sent to us for a website design quote for an Essex based business.

Website Design and Development Build Project Plan

1.     SCOPE OF WORK

Our Client requires the design agency to produce a new graphical design, assets and HTML template pages for a redesigned white site.

The design and templates will be used by our clients existing Java web application.

The integration of the templates to the existing application will be performed by our client and is outside the scope of this RFI.

Our aim is to set a new benchmark for simplicity, clarity to the customer,ease of use and ease of integration with partner website and aggregator sites.

To confirm what drives the business written on the motor website we feel that a detailed explanation of the avenues that are currently used is relevant so a full understanding is obtained.

The current site was designed for direct data entry, i.e. clients being directed to the site and typing in risk details, consisting of a small number of questions asked and a large proposition of ‘assumptions’. Our client has reviewed their whole question set and after having internal workshops and reviewing the market now realise that a complete change is required.

Recently there has been a dramatic increase in Aggregator business (price comparison websites such as confused.com), so two entry streams must be possible:-

• Client referred via an aggregator site/or other referral site
  these customers will already have input quote details and which are carried through to our site from the aggregator.
• Client comes direct
  These customers would start on the site of the affinity partner

Ability to Rebrand.

The refreshed white site template must be designed so that rebranding is easily done and it must also be able to cater for the existing brands.

A rebrand could consist of font, colour, header, footer and graphic changes (this is a non exhaustive list and more brandable features are better).A rebrand must be simple to implement with basic web development skills For example, currently buttons are not graphics based but rather rendered using css styles which make the rebranding easier.

The rebranding should be primarily controlled through CSS, and also by including brand specific header and footer sections.

 Web Refresh Requirements 

White site template restyle

• Existing flow for question set remains as is however all questions are asked up front and removal of the assumptive nature of the site.
• Changes of graphics (images and position)
• Fonts and colours may change
• Static text will change
• Redesigned page layout
• New landing page which will work as an up sell interface / marketing adverts

The above list is non-exhaustive and responses need not be bound by this list. We are open to new opinions and thoughts.

Dynamic selection boxes

• Ajax Controls – e.g. Occupation, when you start typing occupation, the list of possible values reduces the further into the word you go

Error Handling

• The current way that the errors are displayed could vary. The removal of pop up boxes needs to be addressed with possibly replacing them with a new window
•  Both the way errors are highlighted and error text is shown could change

Help Text

• The way help text is selected and displayed needs to be amended
• Possible constraint – accessibility was a consideration – requiring now the ability to tab into the help text

Up sell interface

• A Gold, Silver, Bronze add-on structure is required. The graphical interface for selection of these needs to be designed.
• Our client’s add ons include Legal Protection; Key Protection Cover; Breakdown Cover and Personal Accident Cover.

Websites we like

A list of websites that are liked by us will be sent shortly

Features we like

The following list is non-exhaustive and we are open to suggestion and guidance from the selected provider. However our internal workshops and external feedback on our current web application from a range of sources has suggested the following ‘key features’ or key areas where our site could be improved;-

• Websites with a customer friendly ‘aggregator landing page’
• Which prominently display the price per month
• Which can display the logo of the aggregator site
• Which can display product features and benefits
• Which can display customer details so that the customer is aware the quote is correct
• That are no more than 3 pages from the ultimate card payment screen
• Websites which carry variable sales messages throughout the site
• Eg affinity sites will carry a car insurance promotion but details of this promotion are not carried through the quote application form
• Websites with clear progress trackers ‘crumb trails’
• Websites with good facilities to allow customers to retrieve a quote
• Websites which allow customers to ask questions (via email)
• Websites which have consistency and clarity of button styles throughout
• Websites which make it easy for customers to buy additional products (add ons)
• Sites which clearly promote the benefits of these add ons

Technical Requirements

 Accessibility

Our current websites contain a foot link to a page detailing the sites accessibility credentials, this still needs to be on all our websites

Java Script

Some of our affinity partners demanded that their sites had to work without java script enabled. This still need to be technically catered for. Alternative versions of the site would need to be rendered where java script is used for example to implement AJAX controls. If possible the site should be developed to work in both scenarios. (This will have cost implications we are aware and may reduce usability if java script is disabled.) When accessing the aggregator with a java script disable a page is shown instructing the user to enable java script if they wish to access the website. This will still need to be shown.

Browser Compatibility

Currently the sites are designed to work on the following browsers: IE5.5, IE6 & IE7.

We require the new solution to have the following compatibility at a minimum IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9, Safari, Firefox and Chrome.

Delivery channel Compatibility

Minimum compatibility should be; Ipad, Iphone, Android, PC, Macintosh

Ajax Controls

These are feature rich controls such as suggesting a narrowed down list of occupations as the user starts to key in their occupation. These features require, however, java script to be enabled.

Standards

The latest W3C web standards should be used to render the pages.

Search Engine Optimisation

We welcome your feedback on this point.

Design Agency Deliverables

Our client is suggesting a staged delivery approach. This will help us to identify any technically unsuitable or high cost to implement designs at an early stage.

Stage 1 – Performed by design agency

Graphical Design. This will enable our client to select the style for the site.

Stage 2 – Performed by design agency

The design will be mapped to HTML template pages. There will be a template for each page variation. For example, a question page, a quotation page, payment page, an informational page, etc.

This stage will prove that the design is implementable. Test pages for each template should be hosted in a test area of the design agency server for access by our client

The deliverable will include:-

• Layered PSD for all web assets
• HTML pages for every template page. This must include working:

Rollover functionality

Ajax Controls

Error handling example

JavaScript

Style Sheets

Stage 3 – HTML Pages

Based on the page templates from stage 2, our client will map questions to each page and provide the design agency with Visio diagrams.

The Design agency then takes those Visio wireframes and creates HTML: pages for the full site

Current projects we are considering include:

1, A client who is currently looking for an experienced website developer/ designer. They want a complete rebuild of their existing website along the lines of Prestashop, Magento or Tomato Cart. Due to the sheer number of products they sell they will require a very complicated backend system and database. This will be so they can keep track of stock control, products, mail orders, wholesale purchases amongst other things. So this will be quite a complex requirement and experience with other wholesalers would be an advantage.

The client would like an introduction in the first instance to see your services, experience, capabilities, portfolio, designs etc They are happy to discuss further once this has been sent.

2, The client offers a customized hamper service and is looking for assistance with re-designing their existing website.

They are looking for someone to develop their website further as they only have a very basic knowledge of web design. They are currently using a Joomla template for their website and would like to add a few extras to give it a more professional image and make it more user friendly. They have a ‘build your own hamper’ facility on the site which allows customers to tailor their hamper but the format is pretty basic at the moment and not very user friendly. They would like a facility where the site is able to calculate how much or how little room is left in the basket they have selected according to what products they have chosen. There is an example of this on this Hampers website [example site given]. Just click on build your own hamper and it will take you through the process. They would like to achieve something similar to this. They would also like to add some rotating images and just bring the site alive a little.

If you think you can help with this please let me know and if you could send me details of what your rates are along with sample websites and a portfolio link that would be great. If you have designed a site for similar a similar product please make this known also.

3, Our current system is designed around a public facing website, and was not designed with the volumes of data we need to process and display in mind. The interface is also the same for each different type of user, simply with additional features added or removed depending on the permissions of the user. The company has also recently undergone a rebranding exercise which is currently being rolled out, which would need to be taken into consideration. The project is a world beating project, which currently deals with 1 billion new pieces of data each day, and counting. We are looking for either: A web designer and User Experience designer working in partnership, or An individual or company who can offer both as well as providing balanced opinion on both aspects. The successful individuals, partnership or company would then work with us to: Design and develop suitable designs and layouts which are appropriate for the needs of the particular user roles accessing the system, at a minimum this would include:

• Management / Administration
• Engineering
• Service
• End of Line
• Co-branded Customer Interface

Streamline, through User Experience work, the processes and tasks users routinely undertake on the system, including:

Generating reports and comparing and contrasting performance data for a particular truck, a particular fleet, or a range of trucks, fleets or customers. This would include highlighting metrics, and the ability to visualise the data reported against and in comparison with historical data.  Tracking live progress and data of trucks o Adding new trucks to the system, tracking the progress of events and other business processes which involve interaction with the system. Suitably display data, statistics, and indicators. Improve the display of charts, graphs and route maps The client advised that due to the commercially sensitve nature of the system and the project a face to face meeting will need to be arranged before submitting quotes. This is so their existing systems can be seen by the design agency. The client hasnt specified a budget as they would like to discuss this personally due to the scope of the project. A 7 page detailed website design brief is available.

Its always valuable to have diagrams / drawings of websites to better demonstrate what you require, for example please look at the recent request we received, this is very hard to visualise due to its complexity, where a diagram and notes would be must more useful.

Please quote for this website design project
End user experience – keep the website looking as it is now EXCEPT front page carousel. (the client has provided an attachment). This is not the final but will be changed to improve or fit in with what is possible. Ideally the text and overlay states are driven through CMS.

Backend CMS A system that allows a user log in to make changes to the site. It doesn’t have to be everything. We will focus just on the main content areas in the Our work section only and front page only.

Front page – ability to change content of the 3 lower boxes. – ability to assign any job to the 3 part carousel
Our work – ability to add a new job For each job the user will add: A video embed code for the video Project title Project sub title Thumbnail image Front page feature size image Project blurb Client quote, client name and job ‘In the making’ blurb (this is a secondary story section) In the making image: either 1 large image or 2 small ones. To place it in one of the 6 boxes in ‘Our work’ OR just place it in the longer scrolling project list top right OR hidden – not on the ‘our work’ page at all but as an orphan page for private viewing. front page setting: Is it to feature as one of the 3 on the front page?

At the moment the jobs is a list of only 8 and so easily fits into the box on the right. With the addition of new jobs the list will need to scroll
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