Whatrain Web Site Design
Standard Site Design
8 hours of web site design. This is enough time for most basic sites. Additional time will be billed at $30 an hour. Specialized programming and graphic art, if desired, will be billed at the specialist's rates.Your designer will talk to you on the phone and email to gather the information needed to make your website the way you want it. You will be able to watch it being built and send your input as it develops. The designer wants to make a site to your complete satisfaction. Your personal involvement makes that goal easier to achive.
About Designing Your Web Site
Your web site is about communicating to the world. It delivers your message. In the web business your message is called content. You have to provide the content. At WhatRain we are able to handle all the technical aspects of your web site but we can not create your message. Web site creation is a team effort and you are the most important team member. Without the content you provide there really is no web site. While the designer may only take a day to produce a very nice page, that you love, but it will probably take you longer to provide the designer your content. So before you start you should consider what message you want to deliver to the world and start getting it ready. The message may include text and/or images. You should gather these together and get them ready to deliver to your designer. The other consideration that you need to make is the look and branding of your site. What colors do you want? How do you want to integrate your logo? What are example web pages you would like similar to your page? If you communicate these things to your designer you will be much more likely to get a design that pleases you.Business Pages
It has become necessary for business of all sizes to have some kind of web presence. Like a Yellow Page listing, the web has become for many people the first resource to find services and products. It is also one of the least expensive forms of advertising.The basic business page is like a brochure. For many small businesses this is all they need. And if you already have a brochure for your business it can become the basis of the content of your web site. A list of the services and products you offer, your contact information and a bit about what makes your business the one to chose for what you offer.
Restaurants should all have a web site. When people search for restaurants in your area they should find you, if they do not you will miss a sale. Some nice photos of your place and your menu and brochure will make a good start for your content.
If you want to sell something on the web, WhatRain's host package contains three good shopping carts. We can install one and customize it to your branding and color scheme but you will need to have images and good descriptions of each item you wish to sell. And you will have to learn how to load the items and manage the sales in the cart.
WhatRain has been providing web presence for the small business for over a decade and understands the needs and limits of a small business owner. We can help you to get that web site you need.
