Web design for serious, business applications:

Your contact information:

Contact name: *

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Your E-Mail Address: *

Your Telephone Number: *

and best time to call: *

Your time zone: *

Your FAX Number:

Please give us a general idea of the intended use of the site.

Type of business:

General purpose of the web site:

The next nine sections cover the details we'll need to give you an accurate estimate.

SECTION 1. Domains and Hosting.

Do you already have a domain name?
Yes
No

Do you already have a hosting account?
Yes
No
(If no skip to section 2.)

SECTION 2. Appearance Factors and Graphics

Please rate the importance of visual appearance, quality of graphics, uniqueness and general "visual impact" for this site:
Principal focus of the site
Very Important
Important
Average
Just so it's not actually ugly
No importance

Will you need Flash graphics or other forms of animation or special visual effects?
Yes
No

Will you provide your own logos and other company-specific artwork?
Yes
No

Will you have photographs?
Yes
No

Please describe any special graphics requirements:

SECTION 3. E-Commerce

Will you be selling products or services on-line?
Yes
No
(If no skip to section 5.)

SECTION 4. Shopping Carts

Note: If your customers will usually be purchasing a single item or service per transaction, or if your inventory is such that all the items or services they want can be selected from a single page, it is usually possible to avoid shopping cart software altogether. It is only needed when selections must be accumulated across multiple pages.

I will require shopping cart software:
Yes
No
(If no, please skip to section 5.)

SECTION 5. Site Updates

Please describe your needs for updating or adding to the web site content aside from shopping cart product updates.

I will need to update the content of the site:
Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Never or infrequently
(If less often than monthly please go to section 6.)

I will need to update:
A limited number of special content items.
Pretty much everything.

My preferred method of updating is best described as:

I'll have my webmaster do it.
I want to do it myself.

SECTION 6. Communications Facilities.

Email sent to addresses at my domain:
Should be held in a single on-site mailbox.
Should be held in separate on-site mailboxes.
Should be forwarded to off-site email addresses.

Fill-out forms:
Will be used.
Are not required.

Autoresponders will e-mail documents to persons requesting them immediately on demand. (The request may come from the web site or from e-mail addressed to the site.)
Autoresponders:
Are required.
Are not required.

List servers will distribute your newsletter or other communication to all persons on the list. (The web-site software will maintain and update the list of persons subscribed.)
List servers:
Are not required.
One is required.
Several are required.

SECTION 7. Special Facilities.

On-line Data Bases:
On-line databases are required
On-line databases are not required.

Special programs:
Web site pages may call custom background programs to provide searches and other access to databases, to provide computation based on user input, and many other special responses.
Custom programming is required
Custom programming is not required.

Restricted access:
All or part of a web site may require restricted access. Examples are members only, on payment only, staff only, etc.
Restricted access is required
Restricted access is not required.

Secure Transmission:
For e-commerce credit card transactions, secure transmission is required for your web site. For some applications however it may be needed for other purposes as well.
Secure transmission is required
Secure transmission is not required.

Multimedia:
This usually refers to audio or video presentations. These can take a great variety of forms including brief, canned clips, background music, slide shows, streaming presentations, and even live broadcasts.
Multimedia is required
Multimedia is not required.

SECTION 8. Size of site.

Page count
Ordinary pages without special functions or programs or that are not owner-editable do not add greatly to the cost of a site if a standard look and feel is used throughout. Most special pages will have been accounted for in the above sections. Here please try to estimate the approximate number of ordinary, fixed-content pages (remember to include things like "thank you" pages, privacy statements, contact information, and other 'minor' pages as well as your main informational pages.)

One to five.
Five to ten.
Ten to twenty.
Twenty to fifty.
Fifty to one hundred.
One hundred to five hundred.
Over five hundred.

Traffic
The number of visitors to a site can affect the way in which it must be hosted and the way many special functions such as background programs, pages with variable content, and other features need to be accomplished. Please try to estimate the number of visitors you expect for this site per year:
Average daily visits in 1^st year:  
Average daily visits in 2^nd year:

SECTION 9. Sanity Check.

In the above sections you have had the opportunity to select many options. Sometimes what appears to be a minor difference in choice can make a very major difference in price. Sometimes we can suggest a perfectly adequate alternative that will greatly reduce cost. To help us match your needs to your budget, please indicate below the approximate cost range you have in mind for the site described above.

$2495 to $5000.
$5000 to $10,000.
$10,000 to $20,000.
$20,000 to $50,000.
$50,000 to $100,000.
Over $100,000.

SECTION 10. Comments and special instructions.

Please indicate your comments, questions, and special instructions:

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