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| Design
Policy & Costs |
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When we design a website, we incorporate elements that support
good search engine performance, ease of navigation and compatibility
between multiple web browsers. We do not copyright any website
we design - once it is finished, it belongs to the customer.
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Costs
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- Lowest prices are for accommodation sites - typically
£500 for a 4 - 5 page Bronze Egg site. This includes
telephone/email consultation, design time and revisions.
For more price options please see services.
- For Bronze Egg sites Snowgoose do not provide an on-site
consultation visit. For higher value sites Snowgoose will
arrange an on-site consultation visit to discuss your requirements
in detail.
- We will estimate the design time and require up-front
payment of 50% of that estimate in order to schedule design
of the website.
- A draft site will be made available to the customer during
the development stage. Once the customer is satisfied that
the site is acceptable, any outstanding balance must be
paid in full, after which the site will be published in
its live environment under the customer's chosen domain
name.
- The design of a four to five page website typically takes
up to 10 hours, excluding customer consultation and any
ongoing amendments to the initial draft. Once the site design
is agreed, additional pages typically take 30-90 minutes.
- Other costs in addition to site design apply:
| domain name registration @ £20 per year |
| hosting from £30 per year |
| site statistics @ £20 per year (optional). |
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Customer Requirements
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Please provide us with information to create your website.
This normally includes: a brochure or comparable text describing
your business, pictures, photographs (prints, negatives or slides),
logos, quotations or testimonials, prices, policies and any
additional information you would like included. If you have
specific design elements and/or color schemes in mind, please
include those. If you would like to e-mail materials, please
send them to: design@snowgoose.co.uk.
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This design time is minimized when the customer:
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- Provides design materials in an organized and easily understood
fashion.
- Provides text for website in digital format, so we don't
have to retype it.
- Provides good quality photographs or negatives, or good
quality digitised images.
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The design may take longer and cost more if the customer:
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- Desires complicated elements like slideshows, hover buttons,
flash, virtual tours, printable pages, etc.
- Wants Snowgoose to work with third party designers or
consultants.
- Does not provide us with design expectations such as colors,
logo, or layout before we begin work, or if the customer
changes his/her mind frequently.
- Requires a pre-registered domain name to be transferred
to Snowgoose. The set charge for transferring a domain name
is £90 per hour, and we cannot estimate how long this particular
process will take.
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Digital Images and Text
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The preferred format for supplying editorial content (text)
to Snowgoose is in a digital text document via email, HTML,
Microsoft Word, or a general text editor such as notepad.
If text content has to be manually typed by Snowgoose there
will be an additional administrative charge of £5 per A4 sheet
or equivalent.
Snowgoose produce images for websites at screen resolution
quality only and are under no obligation to reproduce them
as high resolution print quality digital images. Please note
that scanning of negatives and slides will incur an additional
charge of £3 per image as these take longer to process.
Where digital images are provided by the customer instead
of prints or negatives, these must be in PC format and in
Adobe PhotoShop or Illustrator compatible files (example formats
include .jpg, .gif, .psd, .ai, .tif, .eps). If the files are
not convertible, we will charge to take them to a third party
for conversion.
Snowgoose will place an unobtrusive link at the bottom of
your site pages saying "Website designed by Snowgoose".
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Timescales
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Defining a specific time period for developing
a website is always hard and in some cases the estimated timescales
may run over schedule. Estimated timescales are particularly
dependent on the timely receipt of suitable business information
and photographic material from the customer and prompt customer
feedback to each draft of the site produced. The price as agreed
will remain fixed even if development runs over schedule.
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Site Maintenance
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| Additional charges (such as ongoing annual fees
for site hosting, domain registration, online statistics, extra
pages, site maintenance etc.) may be incurred. If payment timescales
for invoices subsequently issued are not met by the customer,
Snowgoose reserves the right to withdraw the live site from
the public domain until such time as all outstanding customer
debts are settled in full. |
We can send customers a copy of the completed website on CD-Rom
for £10. |
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