Please use this form to
begin planning your website. It will help form the foundation of your
development strategy and help you clarify your goals for this project.
We know it's a long form, but PLEASE fill it out as thoroughly as possible if
you would like us to prepare a quote/proposal to design your website.
Remember, successful websites are built on planning and strategy.
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Step
1 - YOUR DETAILS
Your Name*
Company Name
Please Briefly Describe Your Business
Ext. Best Time to Call
City, State Zip Code
Your
Domain Name or preferred name/s that you would like to use
Step
2 - YOUR OBJECTIVES
Why do you want a website (or want to upgrade your existing site?)*
What do you hope to accomplish that you aren't accomplishing now?
Step
3 - COMMERCE
Will you be
selling products on your website?*(If
no, move on to Step 4) Yes No
If so, roughly, how many products will you be selling?
What forms of payment will you accept?
Do you already have a 'Merchant Account' set up (do you currently accept
credit cards in your regular business)? Yes No
Step
4 - CONTENT
Not counting product catalog pages, how many content pages do you expect to
have?*
Can you please
provide a very rough outline of your site? This will help us determine what
kind of navigation system is required.
Step
5 - DESIGN
Do you have any specific design styles, colors or fonts in mind for your
website?
Do you require Flash or any other animation? Please be specific as to the
nature and purpose of the animation.
This is very important: please give us some URLs of sites that you
like or want to model your site after. You can point out specific parts or
aspects of the sites if you don't like the whole thing.
Are there any sites that you don't particularly like?
Step 6 -
REASONS FOR YOUR WEBSITE
Check
for Yes
Reason
Sell
a product or service
Build
interactive branding/identity
Provide
E-commerce
To network
To make
information available
To service
your customers
To heighten
public interest
To release
time sensitive materials
To make
pictures, sound & film files available
To reach
a highly desirable demographic market
To answer
frequently asked questions
To stay
in contact with salespeople
To open
international markets
To be "open" 24
/ 7
To make
changing information available quickly
To allow
for easier feedback from customers
To provide
direct marketing opportunities
To test
market new services and products
To reach
the media
To reach
new markets
To reach
specialized markets
To serve
your local market
Improve
access to information
To facilitate
corporate communication
Step
7 - MAINTENANCE
Do you have areas on your website that require daily or even weekly
updates? If so, please explain.*
Are you able to update your own site using basic HTML? If so, what software
do you use?
Are you interested in a maintenance contract? Such a contract usually
involves negotiating a minimum number of hours per month that you must pay
for (at a greatly reduced hourly rate). Any work above and beyond the
allocated hours can be negotiated 'per mini-project' or may be performed at
the locked-in hourly rate.
Yes No
What is the approximate timescale of your requirements?*
How did you hear about us?*
Please
write any additional comments, questions or needs that you may have in the
space provided.