Website Design
Your company's website is your billboard to the world. Like any billboard, it can be amateurish or it can be professional. Your site directly affects how potential clients perceive your company. Let Industrial Techware build you the fastest, most stable, and efficient website today.
Steps to building a website
To better understand the service IT can provide, we've broken the entire process down into simple, easily manageable elements.
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Design
As with any published medium, we start by conceptualizing the project as a whole. Our first meeting will be open ended with both sides brain storming. We'll go over such elements as; audience, future expansion of the site, content, genre, design goals, and main intent of the site.
We then take these elements into consideration while designing the UI (overall look and access methods). We then present this rough draft for your review at our next meeting. We'll discuss any fundamental design changes that you might want. If our ideas match yours, we will go on to structuring the site. -
Structuring
Any content to be on the site (present or future) will be listed out and sorted in an easy-to-navigate structure. It is at this point that the architecture or framework of the site is realized. Leaving room for future expansion is very important at this point.
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Content creation
Graphics, logos, company info, and other text will be written and placed within the framework of the site. We can utilize existing brochures, catalogs, videos, or other publications to aid in the writing process. All pages are written in professional, yet easy-to-understand language to ensure your site carries out it's purpose. -
Testing
The site is only half done at this point. Industrial Techware has one of the strictest quality control procedures in the industry. All pages on the site must pass several validation, load time, and human interaction tests. This involves internal testing at Industrial Techware as well as outside volunteer testing via HTML-related newsgroups. The end result is a fast, responsive, solid, reputable, and polished website. -
Domain registration
The domain name that we will help you choose will be your '.com' It should be an easy-to-remember name that closely relates to either your company name or the type of service you provide. Domain registration costs approximately $9.00 per year. This is not included in the cost of your website package.
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Web hosting
The website host is where your website pages actually reside. The host normally has a high-speed connection to the Internet backbone for fast load times and reliability. The importance of a good host is often under looked. Most hosts base their fees on how much space the website takes up, and how much bandwidth you are allocated each month (which is another reason we like to make small and efficient websites). All of our website packages include 6 months of free hosting to get you started quickly. We can also provide you with as many email accounts as you need plus FTP access and a control panel, giving you complete control of your website.
Website Packages
Many of our customers need the power of an IT-designed website for an economical cost. We offer several packages that target our budget-conscious customers and new businesses. If these packages are not what you are looking for, please contact us. All prices are subject to change without notice.
Listed below are baseline packages - custom programming such as PHP, Javascript, etc. and any additional pages will be billed at $45/hour.
| Tuneup | $175 first page, $45 each additional page |
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| Full lube service for existing sites that are either bogged down or just don't work at all. |
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| Basic Business | $500 |
| For small businesses or organizations that need their name on the web in a professional manner. |
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| Advanced Business | $1,500 |
| For mid-sized to large businesses or events. |
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| E-Commerce/Online Catalog | $2,500 |
| For businesses wishing to sell a number of products on the web. |
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IT Website Guidelines
In keeping with the quality tradition of Industrial Techware, ALL websites designed by IT either meet or exceed these guidelines. There is no extra charge for these features.
- Attractive designs.
- Valid HTML or XHTML.
- Extensive testing on 5th and 6th-generation browsers at various resolutions.
- Optimized HTML and graphics for ultra-fast loading time.
- Open, extensible site architecture.
- Descriptive ALT text for all images.
- Accessibility for visually impaired users.
- META, TITLE, and URL customization for optimal search engine placement.
- Manual registration on the most popular search engines (Google, Yahoo, Altavista, DMOZ, Lycos, Infoseek, Excite, Snap, Webcrawler, MSN, and more.)
- Free minor updates for up to one month from completion.
- Offsite and onsite backups of your site.
- Layout that adjusts for resolutions (either fixed width or resizable).
- Site statistics (accessible via the web or by server logs).
- FTP access so that you can make your own changes if you need to.
- Optional hit counter.
- Unlimited tooltip annotations.