Its helpful to meet face-to-face so that possibilities can be explored.
To give you a flavour of the cost of adding additional items to our standard
packages. Our charges are based on the number of tasks.
One task costs £40 ($60, €60).
Here are a number of the more widely-used extras, and an indication of the number of tasks they
involve on typical musicians web site:
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Design extras
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Simple custom layout (a text based page):
Differentiate yourself from
other sites by an economical design that reflects your
corporate image.
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one task |
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Graphic layout (custom layout with supporting graphic or sets of simple
graphics): This No Fuss professional page design includes
the layout, and supporting graphics, but not the graphical
navigation or logos.
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two tasks |
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Extra graphic for
layout design: A particularly impressive layout may require
extra graphical work. This might include
a collage of pictures, or custom-created graphics.
A complex graphic may count as more than one task.
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one task |
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Designing simple
navigation bar containing graphics: Making the links
between the sections of your site graphical rather than text
can increase the visual impact of your site.
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one task |
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Animating navigation elements: Graphical navigation can be animated
(such as changing colour when the mouse moves over something) to
enhance visual impact and ease of use.
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one task |
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Extra graphical
element for graphical navigation: This is the design of a
frame or a button that surrounds the navigation graphic and
integrates it into your site in a way that enhances your
overall design.
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one task |
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Creating a graphic:
We can design original graphics to your
requirements. This task covers the creation of a logo graphic
to go with your company name, or an icon as part of your
navigation, for example. Complex graphics or logos may require
additional tasks.
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one task |
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Creating an animated graphic: Movement and animation (including
graphics which change when a mouse moves over them) can add dynamism
to your sites appearance. Animations can also distract from
the rest of the page, and should be used with
care.
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one task |
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Web site promotion
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Your web site is only useful if people are able to find it.
Our desins take account of the way in which search
engines work and aim to bring relevant traffic to your site.
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Submitting your
site to the major search engines :
Google, AltaVisa, Excite!, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos,
Webcrawler, and Yahoo! handle 90% of online searches. We
submit your new site to all of them, increasing your chances
of being found in online searches. Four months later, we check
and resubmit to the missing engines.
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one task |
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Resubmission to
search engines, per annum: Three times in the year we will
check your presence in the major search engines and resubmit
where appropriate. This will help maintain your search engine
listings, and ensure your site is submitted to new search
engines as the list of major engines changes.
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one task per annum |
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Submitting your
site to search engines and directories specific to your
needs: Helping related sites to link to you can be an
effective way of promoting your web site. We can find the web
directories and business sites relevant to your field, and ask
them to link to you. If we do not find any that link to you,
we do not charge for this task.
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one task |
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Submission to
classical music directories: Because of our greater
knowledge of the classical music industry, we are able to
submit your new website to classical music directories at the
same time as to the major search
engines.
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one task |
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Hosting, email and domain names
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Hosting your website is the name for putting it on
the world wide web.
We can arrange to host your site and to store or forward
your email, msing a major internet service provider so that your site is
continually available.
Your "domain name", or web site name, should be
memorable and appropriate. Many good domain names are taken, but
we can help you find a suitable name which will usally be from among the more familiar
.com, .co.uk, org, .org.uk, .ltd.uk name sor the newer .info, .biz, and
.name domains.
Alternatively, you we could host your site under a domain
name we own such as www.classicalperformers.com/yourname/.
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Domain name (.com,
.org, .uk) and hosting, per annum: We will help research
and set up appropriate domain names for your site. Most domain
names are available for this price please
enquire.
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two tasks per annum |
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Access to a monthly summary of your websites visitors:
We can add the facility to allow you to see monthly information on the
level of traffic to ypur web site,
breaking them down by day, time, page, and place of origin.
For those people who have come to your site via search engines there is
also information in what they typed in the search boxes.
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one task per annum |
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Set up or
modify up to 10 email addresses:
Basic email is included in hosting if you are hosting with No
Fuss Websites. Multiple email addresses let you give several
email addresses for different people or functions.
The emails are either available to you in POP3 mailboxes
which you can access from anywhere in the world, or
forwarded to other email addresses.
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one task per annum for up to 10 email addresses |
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Online form for collecting feedback: An enquiry form makes it easy for
potential customers to get in touch. It is an alternative to
an email link that can be used by people browsing without
access to their email account, ensures that people leave the
right contact details, and can be redirected to any email
address.
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one task |
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Online selling
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Online sales e-commerce ranges form very sophisticated
systems handling substantial sums of money, to simple facilities allowing
people to take orders.
Sometimes it makes sense to set up facilities to fulfil large numbers of orders,
but it can also be appropriate for a perfomer to arrange the sale of their CDs in
co-operation with another organisation, such as Amazon.com.
Well happily talk you through the e-commerce maze. Options include:
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Printable order form: Some clients prefer to take orders offline by giving
customers an order form to print out. We usually advise a
credit card facility to make the buying process as smooth as
possible, but this can be the right choice for companies
expecting low but loyal sales, or who wish to avoid taking
credit cards. Divina
Records take most of their sales from a printable order
form.
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one task |
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Secure hosting for credit card numbers and other confidential information:
If you wish to take credit card numbers online and
run them through your own card processing system, you will
need a facility to securely upload, download and store credit
card numbers.
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one task (per annum) |
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Standard shopping
cart system: We can create a site that will make it easy
for your customers to buy their products and pay by credit
card, by using the proven shopping cart motif. The fee
includes customising to fit in with your site design.
We can
also provide a completely customised system,
though this involves an addition to the number of tasks.
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ten tasks |
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Simple online order form (for up to 20 items):
Some product ranges can be presented and purchased
through an online order form. The order form and credit card
numbers are held on a secure server. (We cannot process card
numbers for you: you will already need merchant
status.)
Typically this would form part of a wider e-commerce solution involving
additional programming.
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