CONSULTATIONS

A consultation will include all the following major topics plus many more which will vary depending your specific website needs.

Understanding your own business.

• the services/products your business provides
• your reasons for having a website

Examining Desired and Potential Uses of Your Website

• What you want your site to convey to your visitors/customers
• What information you will need to make your website shine
• How best to describe and showcase your products/services
• Best methods of selling your products/services
• Information you need to gather for inclusion and why
• Items you will need to exclude and why
• Best methods for increasing or attracting visitors to your specific site.

Options for Change (if already have a website)

• Changes required to accomplish current objectives
• Changes possible to achieve new or expanded goals
• Relative cost / complexity of implementing change

Your website is your window to the world. It's important to you - and it's important to us. We want to ensure that your website is the best it can be for your needs. We want you to succeed. To do that it's important that your website correctly reflects your business and performs the way you want it to.

Whatever the reason for your website it's important to you, and it's important to us. We want to get to know you and something about your business so that together we can create the best website possible for your needs. To do this we begin our design process with a consultation where we talk to you, in person or by telephone, to get some understanding of what your needs are and what you want from your website. In many cases new clients don't really know what they want from their websites, they only have a few vague ideas. This process helps you focus on what is important, which pieces of your business - or whatever - your site needs to focus on and what is most important to you. Creating for the web is very different from any other media so it's very important that material is displayed in a way that will make the most impact on your visitors.

Too many web designers just create a website for you without bothering to sit down and talk to you about what you really want. Designers want to think they know best without even considering what you might want. It's far too much trouble to listen to the client when all they need to do is create some standard design and tell you this is the best thing for you. They don't want to spend the time listening to your needs and creating something that is tailor made for you, it's too much trouble. Besides if they explained to you how a website worked and how it needed to be constructed they would have to do all that work - most of which you can't really see, it's all hidden behind the picture. If they don't tell you about it, they can leave it out, and you are none the wiser. Then you wonder why your website is not working for you.

We don't operate that way. We want you to have the best site for your needs and to understand why it's best. We want you to be found by search engines and attract visitors. Your business is our business!

FEES.

Standard Consultation.

This standard charge is for a telephone consultation within the contiguous united states.

One hour. $50.00. This is our minimum charge.
Additional time will be billed in 15 minute increments at $12.50.

ADDITIONAL CHARGES.

Telephone charges outside the contiguous US.

Travel Expenses.
Most of our consultations are done over the telephone, however we will do face to face consultations within the following areas.

New Jersey
Eastern Pennsylvania
Manhattan.

Personal consultations outside these areas may be considered on a case to case basis.

All travel expenses to and from a consultation will be billed at the standard federal expense rates which can be found at

We expect payment for all the above before a consultation commences.

Additional Charges.
Some consultations may require us to perform additional research of your behalf. All such research will be agreed with you in advance and billed at our standard rate of $50.00 per hour.