Web site Design, Construction and Maintenance

Services available include:

• Site content consultation
  Working with you to create a web site that highlights the aspects of your business that you want your customers to know about.
• Site interface design and engineering
  Creating a look and feel for your web site that conveys your corporate image, and is both consistent and comprehensible to navigate.
• Page layout and design
  Designing the layout and styles that are used in each area of your website.
• Design of graphical elements
  Creating the graphical elements that give your web site its particular look and style.
• Acquisition and digital processing of images for web use
  Photography, scanning and sourcing images and processing them for optimal web browsing.
• Content creation and editing
  Production of high quality, comprehensible and accurate site content, either from existing material such as media releases, product specifications, working notes, etc or from client and staff interviews, site visits or briefing notes. Editing and converting multimedia material.
• Content maintenance
  Updating existing content, adding new content as required, and verifying and maintaining links to supplier and client web sites.
• Content engineering for cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility
  Maintaining site content, format and code for availability to the widest possible range of computer types, operating systems and browser software.
• Script development, installation and customisation
  Development, installation and customisation of server-based scripts for such applications as, catalogues, price lists, on-line shopping and payment systems, support and download areas, forums, news pages, chat systems, etc.
• Content optimisation for fast downloading
  Fine tuning of site contents for removal of redundant code, adherence to internet standards and for the fastest possible downloading and display by browsers.
• Search engine optimisation
  Creation, optimisation and maintenance of the machine-visible page elements used by search engines to index and display web sites.
• Domain registration and administration
  Manage the domain registration and technical administration of your domain.
• Service, hosting and communications provider liaison
  Handle the site security, mail and file download services, media services, site content and database backups for your web site. Liaise with service and hosting providers for installation and maintenance of backend software. Handle provisioning and maintenance of internet backbone connections.

Cost structure

• Flat hourly rate
  All work, including site design, administration, graphics processing, content editing and creation and provider liaison is billed at a single flat rate.
• Minimum billing increment 15 minutes
  If it takes 15 minutes to update a link, change a price, or upload a brochure, then 15 minutes is all you are billed for.
• Billed monthly on seven day account
  The service you get is very responsive, and operates on the basis that your payments are equally so. Fully detailed work logs are available on request.

Web clients include:

• Ashburton Systems (Internet Service Provider)
• Australasian Lighting Industry Association *
• Browns Precision Welding *
• CADD Systems (CAD supplier)
• CIMO (Psychological and Social Work Consultants) *
• Connections Publishing
• Eugene Alexander and Associates (Immigration Lawyers) *
• The Fragile X project (University of Tasmania medical research)
• Lightmoves *
• Lighttools
• Mass Technologies (Audio R &D)
• Perth Highland Pipe Band
• Presentech Magazine
• Pro Design Lighting
• Production Works *
• Resolution X *
• Total Concept Projects/Productions
• WA Academy of Performing Arts
• WA Department for the Arts
• WA Institute of Music

Last updated Saturday, 21 June 2003 by The Kilowatt Webwrangler
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