What's Included in the Package
Building a website isn’t as simple as just designing and putting up a site. There are other things involved. Here is an outline of some of the major elements. These will be included with development of your website.
SEO
SEO means Search Engine Optimization. Adding SEO means that we will construct your website in a way that will facilitate the best possible rankings in search engines. It is a long, complicated process, but in the end it will allow for better search results for you. We do organic SEO, which means we prepare your site to rank well without you having to pay the search engines for it. Keep in mind that many factors go into where you rank, including how you handle updating of your site, your business’ reputation, and what your business has to offer the community.
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ADA Compliance
All websites are required to be ADA Compliant. That means they need to be able to accommodate individuals with handicaps. It is the law. And at some point in the near future, those who aren’t will be fined. This requires that the site be designed a certain way and that specific things be encoded into your site, throughout the site, to allow for things like site readers, color-blindness, epilepsy, and mental disabilities.
Optimization
Have you ever been to a website that took forever to load? How about one of those that continued to load as you scroll down the page, so it jumps, and you keep losing the spot you want to see? Optimization makes sure sites load quickly and they don’t jump around. Studies show that people will wait only 3 seconds for a site to load. If it doesn’t they move on. With our optimization, you will load quickly and not have to sacrifice quality.
Site Security
We require all of our sites to subscribe to a backup security. And we recommend that they subscribe to Fraud Protection. Neither of these services are through us, and we do not receive any compensation for them. You will have to pay for them yearly. Look to spend about $120 per year for a small site if you subscribe to both. The back-up service will allow you to restore your website very easily if something happens to it. Without it, you could be paying to have your site completely done again. Fraud Protection stops hackers from being about to insert malicious code in your site before it ever even reaches your site. This prevents hackers from stealing your customers’ card information or inserting code that will allow them to download malware onto your customers’ computers. Although there is free software for each of these, our experience is that they aren’t very dependable.
User Design
User design means we use design best practices to accommodate a good user experience. Millions of dollars of research have gone into what people look for in a website. And from that come UX design principles. Minimalist design has become a trend, but we have found that full-on minimalist design is not only boring but can sometimes lower SEO. Therefore, our style is to follow design best practices for the highest possible SEO ranking. You will find it to be clean, functional, and still retain some interest.
Training
We will provide basic training, along with a written training manual about how to make simple updates to your website without having to hire a web developer.
Domain Email
We will set you up with 2 email accounts using your domain name and set them up to forward to your personal email if you like. We can set up additional email addresses at a cost of $2 each.
Asset Inclusion
Asset inclusion is the addition of your photos and videos to the website. If you do not have photos of your own, we can find some for you from a free license service, or you can opt to subscribe to a paid service if you like. If you are wanting someone to take actual photos of your products or your business, we have a professional photographer that we work with that can do that at a discount rate. Please let us know that you are interested in this service when you contact us so that we can get you on her schedule.
When we include photos or video, we need to optimize them to provide for the best outcome for your customers. So, it isn’t quite as simple as just inserting them. This is included in your package.
If you are interested in a website, please contact us at info@manxxsapphire.com.