Five Hour Websites

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Digital Solutions' five hour website includes custom graphic design and a easy to use navigation system, which includes the following items:

Domain Name* - as part of your purchase price, Digital Solutions can help you search for available domain names and choose one that's right for your company.

E-mail - an e-mail address that is unique to your domain name gives you the professional edge you need. yourname@yourdomain.com can be displayed on all of your marketing materials and will help keep your business e-mail from your personal e-mail.

Custom Graphic Design - you will sit with a Digital Solutions' graphic designer at the Digital Solutions' main office for two hours to create the custom graphics for your website. To help the designer create your site efficiently, it is best if you have an idea of what you want your site to look like before you come in for your appointment. (see our checklist on the next page) You can preview our stock photography selection and our completed websites to help ensure that your project is completed within the allotted hours. Additional hours may be purchased with the graphic designer for $60/hour.**

Content and Training - you will be able to manage your website content with an easy to use administration panel. A two hour meeting with a web coordinator will allow you to customize the content your website and go through training for your administration panel. Additional hours with the coordinator may be purchased for $60/hour.**

Ability to Add New Pages to the Site - you can add new buttons to your main navigation section. This option makes your website virtually limitless! You can choose from several web-safe fonts for use in your navigation system.

Search Engines - your website will be submitted to major search engines when it is launched to the Internet. You will also be able to add page titles and keywords in your admin panel.

Quality Checklist - your website will go through a tough quality checklist before going live on the Internet.

Follow Up Meeting - a one hour meeting that you can schedule with either a graphic designer or a web coordinator after your website is live. This follow up meeting is used for fine tuning of graphics/content on your site or additional training. Additional hours with the coordinator may be purchased for $60/hour.**

Price includes 2 hours with a graphic designer, 2 hours with a web coordinator and 1 hour of additional follow up with the person of your choice. Production meetings must be on Mon-Fri. 8am - 5pm. Each meeting has to be scheduled as entire chunks of time (you can not schedule a 1 ½ hour with the graphic designer on Monday and ½ hour on Tuesday. It must be a full two hour meeting.

*First year domain name included, upon availability ($20/domain/year thereafter **Additional meeting may need to be scheduled for a day other than your scheduled production day. All additional time must be pre-paid.

The following items will help in producing your website within the allotted time. If you do not have these materials with you at the time of your production meeting, then you could potentially go over on time and incur additional fees.

1. Sample websites - provide a list of three sample sites that you like. These sample sites can be from your industry or any website you like. Things to look for are color combinations and arrangement of content on the page.

2. Your logo- you will need to have a good copy of your logo. If you have it on your computer, you may e-mail it to Digital Solutions ahead of time. Remember, if we have to scan a logo from your business card, it usually takes about 10 minutes to scan, and clean up the logo before it can be used in the website. Having this done a head of time makes things run smoother.

3. Text content - this is probably the most important thing about your website. When providing text, it saves time if you have it typed out already and provide it in either an e-mail or Word document. If you bring in printed text materials, the time required to type out that text will be counted against your five hours.

Text tip: Try to include as many ‘keywords' in your text as possible. Key words are the things that you would expect someone to type in a search engine to find your website. For example, if you sell clothing, then some logical keywords to include in your text are clothing, shirts, pants, ties, custom clothing, brand name clothing, etc.

4. Photos- there are several ways you can provide photos to us for creation of your site. If you have products, it saves time if you have photos of the products already in jpg format (you can e-mail these to us in advance). Digital Solutions also has a subscription to a stock photography website located at photos.com. You may preview any of the images on that site and write down the number of the photo you would like to use. Bring in a list of those photo numbers and the graphic designer or web coordinator can download the images for you.

Photo tip- adding photos to a website can be quite challenging if the photos are not in the proper format or size. (if they are too large, they will make your website load really slow). Some people prefer to buy an additional hour of time and use it before the regular production meetings for ‘prepping of artwork'. During this meeting, a graphic designer will make sure your photos are the correct resolutions, format, and size for a website. This will save a lot of time during the actual production of your website.

5. Links- come prepared with a list of links that you would like customers to click to. Links are usually outside websites that customers can visit to learn more about a particular topic. Remember: if Digital Solutions has to re/type these links from a printed sheet of paper, it will count against your time.

6. Keywords- provide a list of keywords (at least 10) that should be used for the titles of your pages and in the ‘meta tags' of your website. Metatags are one of the things that search engines use to determine to display your website when people search for certain topics.

7. Domain name- choosing a domain name can be one of the hardest things to do when creating a website. Some people like to make it their business name, others like to make it something else. (if your company is called ABC clothing, you could buy a domain name that is ABCclothing.com or you could by totallyawesomeshirts.com). We recommend doing a search for available domain names prior to your production meetings. Websites like godaddy.com or networksolutions.com are great resources for this.

8. List of buttons- have an idea of the buttons you would like to see on the main navigation of the website. This helps in both the graphical layout of the site and the content management. Look at websites from competitors or similar industries to get an idea of what you would like to include in your site.

9. Artwork- if there are any other particular logos you would like to include on your site be sure to include them with your logo for the site. Examples of these are Chamber of commerce, better business bureau, clubs, awards, and even certifications.

The five hour website Referral System - once you have bought your Five Hour Website and it is live to the internet, you can refer other clients to Digital Solutions and receive credits towards additional hours of maintenance, search engine optimization, and graphical design. You will receive a ‘referral number' if you are interested in this program at your follow up meeting. When clients give us that referral number, they will receive $50 off the set up of their website and you will receive one hour of additional time (value $60).

There is no limit on the amount of people you can refer to Digital Solution's five hour website program.