Possible Applications | Implementation Areas
| What's included
What's Optional | Pricing | Unique Domain Names
Our Quality Presence | Banner Advertising
| Clients
 Possible Applications ...
Our focus is on the
individual or small business with something to advertise or promote. We don't overpower
our customers, so please feel free to enquire about our capability to tailor your site to
your needs and the unique look you want for your site.
Here are some examples
of possible applications - even if you do not fit into one of the following areas, we'd
still like to hear from you with your specific needs:
- Individual needing a
personalised starter Home Page created for ISP Home Page site, for a particular area of
interest, or simply to post a page of personal Bookmarks
- Small business - Custom
graphics and Pages tailored to suit, including feedback and order Forms
- Individual needing Web
Pages for other purposes (eg: genealogical, Guest Book)
- Local/Regional/International
Group needing Page/s to publicise activities
- Local/Regional/International
Group needing to pass on confidential information to others (Page addresses can be private
- ie: unlinked)
Implementation Areas ...
Our WebAuthoring
business is straightforward - we work with our clients by agreement in four main
areas:
- Design
- Creation
- Publishing &
Presence
- Maintenance &
Updates
and we are prepared to
perform any (or all) of these services to your satisfaction as your needs dictate.
With reference to
informational website content, we subscribe to the principles outlined in the essay Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design by Jakob
Nielsen, Ph.D., a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer.
Frankly, we prefer to
design pages which can be viewed by as many browsers as possible. For instance, there are
even some drastic differences between the latest versions of MS Explorer and Netscape
Communicator in what they can display, and in how they present the latest improvements to
HTML code and Java / Javascript.
Apart from it being an
insecure language, a substantial number of browsers on-line - about 30% - simply do not
"see" Java or Javascript programming, because they are not Java-enabled. A
similar percentage of browsers cannot "see" frames.
Java / Javascript code
also takes substantial extra time to load and/or then execute. Frames have another
disadvantage - because they are simply shells which hold other pages, most search engines
are programmed to simply throw them out (not catalog them).
Many viewers (more
than you would think) turn the browser's image capabilities off because pages load faster
without images. So, attention must be paid to how the images interface with the page as a
whole. (Java can also be completely turned off within a browser).
Many things are not
always considered by today's younger or inexperienced web designers, who tend to use
design paradigms that favor brightly coloured pages that shimmer and shake, and that
require bleeding-edge plug-ins, the latest browsers and the latest versions of HTML, in
this way sometimes excluding well over 50% of their potential audience.
We suggest you take a
look at our work, evaluate for yourself the stuff that matters - the content, layouts,
colours, graphics, impact and transfer of message - and, if you like what you see, drop us
a line.
Your business could GO here...
What's included ... ?
- Full Site co-operative
planning and construction, from the blank page forward
- Graphics scanning
- Substantial graphics
creation
- Text scanning and OCR
- Text manipulation for
style, readability, grammar and error checking
- Import text/word
processor documents
- Import Excel
spreadsheet grids
Some graphics can be
acquired, and some graphics - including animated graphics and logos - can be done in-house
at nominal extra charge. An existing brochure can be reproduced in a much more dynamic
format.
The requirements of a
full corporate site (or even an extensive Home Page) can be analysed, and may include some
(or all) of the following... other custom pages may need to be added, depending on the
needs of the business or the originality of the site -
- Front
"Splash" Page - Welcome, & beginning links
- Corporate Mission
Statement
- Future Corporate
Directions
- Star Employee
Individual-Of-The-Month
- Vacancies and
Employment Requirements
- Press Releases, New and
Archived
- What's New
- Corporate FAQ &
Glossary
- Technical Notes &
Descriptions
- On-Line Publications
- Product Descriptions
- Virtual Flyer -
Scheduled Special Offer/s
- Product or Event
Promotions
- Product or Event
Registrations
- Preliminary Customer
Service
- Customer Registration
- Customer Newsletter
& Sign-up Form
- Customer Discussion
Forum
- Customer Bug Reporting
& Info
- Customer Suggestions
- Customer Download
- Customer
"Novelty" Locations
- Meetings, Lectures,
Seminars and/or Events schedule with descriptions
- Corporate History,
including images, text
- Guest Book Form
- Site Search Form
- Survey Form/s
- Employee Descriptions
- Company Telephone/Email
Directory
- Suggested Useful Links,
Bibliographies
- Site map
- Other relevant pages??
Internal links can be
from every page to every other page, from every Department to every other Department, or
differently structured, whatever is appropriate. Included items are limited to HTML code.
Standard "navigation bars" on every page are recommended.
What's Optional ... ?
Optional additions
(and subtractions...) suit YOUR needs, not ours.
If you already have a
Domain, you save on presence expenses (on our server). But getting your pages there and
maintaining (updating) them is in our range of services, too.
If there is some
security dilemma in which you would prefer not to let us use your password, we can make
the entire site available elsewhere on the Internet (with relative internal links) for you
to download and then upload at your convenience, or provide it on floppies or a Zip disk
(at additional cost).
Extra options include
-
- Search Engine
Optimisation/Optimization
- Specialised Custom
Backgrounds
- Animated GIFs
- Frames
- On-Line Forms
- linked to Databases
- linked to response
pages or email transmissions
- Video clips
- Audio clips
- Image maps
- Image composites
- Database/s
- Other languages
- Email - corporate email
address switching/forwarding
- Sections of pages
"Included" from a secure area
Possible Applications | Implementation Areas
| What's included
What's Optional | Pricing | Unique Domain Names
Our Quality Presence | Banner Advertising
| Clients
Pricing ... (as of November 1, 2000)
Our pricing structure
allows you to increase or decrease your site (and expense) in a flexible manner, making it
easier for you to control and balance both your Company's exposure and the cost of that
exposure.
(Price increases are
notified well in advance wherever possible, and are implemented at the renewal of the
contract period).
Figuring out the
present cost of a site is a very simple procedure...
- Web Site Creation - one
time charge to start a new Site
- - $50 one time charge
-
- Web Page Design -
including scanning & most graphics
- - $50 per page, which
includes Web Page Search Engine Optimisation...
(Clients
- please note that a substantial amount of time and effort goes into both keeping up with
the changing requirements of the search engines and doing research into the most effective
keywords. If your potential customers cannot find your site, it effectively does not
exist.)
-
- Web Publishing (if the
site presence is on a directory within candoo.com) - initial minimum 12 months
- - $5 per page, per
month (or part month)
-
- Web Site Maintenance /
Updating
- - $50 per hour (or
part)
-
- Coding and testing,
other than HTML
- - $70 per hour (or
part)
-
For a sustained
relationship you may wish to come to a written agreement which will maintain fees for you
while my casual rates go up... but this kind of arrangement of for instances where work is
done frequently on an on-going basis.
For this purpose I
have a plain-English form of Agreement available which offers protection to both if us. It
is available for inspection upon request.
Unique Domain Names ...
Should you require
your own unique"Domain" name (as in www.yourname.com, for example) we can assist with
suggestions, in researching the availability of and registering the desired name (if it
does not already exist).
At present it is our
policy to arrange for the desired Domain name registration where required, and simply
recharge our clients for this service at cost. Domain name registration is US$70 in
advance (which pays for the first two years), plus US$35 per year (all of which is paid to
InterNIC/Network Solutions, the Organisation governing Domain names on the Internet).
Our policy governing
the set-up of server presence with a provider is to add 20% of the charges for a service
fee. We currently prefer to use a particular industrial-strength provider, but would be
happy to take instruction on this matter.
Our Quality Presence ...
Our own Domain
presence on the Internet was carefully selected to be on a very fast and reliable
equipment in the United States. So far, assessment reports of our site from around the
world indicate that download times for you and your customers are likely to be just over
half that of another average Web Site on the Web - a substantial savings in time, and an
increase in your visitors' appreciation of your fast-loading page/s.
And - so far - the
record of this server's reliability is 100%. This means that I - and my clients - can
sleep soundly at night.
Banner Advertising ...
We accept proposals
for Banner advertising for the WebReception area and all WebOffice walls on the CanDoo
site at standard sizes. The banner source can be either local or derived from your server,
and advertising content is restricted to the contracted client (no sub-leasing!!).
Placement is at the sole discretion of the WebMaster, although special requests will be
considered. Placement on the walls of our clients' offices will be subject to their
approval and requirements.
- Presence:
Full width banner: US$45 per quarter, US$80 per half, or US$150 per full year.
Half-width banner: US$30 per quarter, US$55 per half, or US$100 per full year.
Minimum period in both cases is a quarter (3 months).
- Image Sizes @ 72 dpi:
Full width: up to 700 pixels wide, 60 pixels high, file size not to exceed 16K
Half width: up to 350 pixels wide, 60 pixels high, file size not to exceed 8K
- Image file creation:
US$50 per static Banner, US$100 animated.
- A banner may be rotated
with those of other clients.
Clients ...
- On this company's
sites:
- Caribbean Surname Index
Caribbean Genealogy Resources
- Dover Inn Bed & Breakfast
FT Caribbean Publishers
Jacaranda Beach Apartments
Oliver's"History of Antigua"
Projects - Caribbean Genealogy Publishing
- On other sites:
- BloorStreetWest.com
CaribbeanAvenue.com
Mallorca Vacation Accommodations
(There have been
many others in the past, in both categories, but for one practical reason or another they
are no longer available or listed here)
Possible Applications | Implementation Areas
| What's included
What's Optional | Pricing | Unique Domain Names
Our Quality Presence | Banner Advertising
| Clients
Thank you for your interest - we look forward to hearing from you
very soon!
Jim Lynch
President
CanDoo Creative Concepts
128 Snowsnoe Crescent, Thornhill
Ontario, CANADA L3T 4M9
Tel: 905-881-5197
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