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Considering a new website, improving your existing site, or ready for a redesign?
How long does it take for the website to be completed?
Our goal is to have standard websites completed within 14 days, more extensive websites are dependent upon the project. We need to receive your deposit, signed contract agreement, and required materials (content, logos, photos, etc.) to complete your website. The timescale of a project is generally dictated by the client - the most common delay in the creation of a site is waiting for content (info/photos) to be provided to us by the client. The content info can be provided by completing the Website Fulfillment Form, and/or providing this info to the sales rep. If you have a deadline in mind we will strive to meet it for you provided all the necessary information is provided in a timely manner.
What do I need to provide for the website, what is the process?
content - information about your company (i.e. About Us, Management, History), products, services, testimonials, references, contact information, photos, logos, partners, areas served, affiliations/certifications, awards, and other information you would like to appear on your website. Providing current print ads, brochures, direct mail pieces, or other marketing collateral is extremely helpful. Please complete the Website Fulfillment Form, and provide as much information to the sales representative as possible.
What are the advantages of having Minds Over Media do your website versus Yellowpage companies such as Dex, SuperPages, or Yellowpages.com?
• Ownership of website. You own your website with Minds Over Media, versus paying a monthly fee and renting your website year-to-year. You are buying a whole new website every year with the yellow page companies. If you ever drop your yellow page program - bingo! You lose your website too.
•Ownership of domain name. You own your url/domain name address, versus the yellowpage company owning it. You don't
know how many headaches this causes businesses when they try to get ownership of the domain name back from the yellow page companies. Why would you let them have legal ownership of your branded domain name? Plus they charge you more than you would pay on your own.
•Less intial cost. With Minds Over Media, you pay a one-time charge for your website. This is less than what the yellowpage companies charge you for one year renting a website.
•Less ongoing cost. With the yellowpage companies, you pay for a entire new website every year! Since your website by Minds Over Media is owned by you (one-time charge), the only ongoing cost is annual web hosting, and updates.
•Design. Your website will have better design, functionality, features, and appearance.
•Support. Having a local vendor will enable you to receive faster response times for customer service and custom work, versus a call center support number in Las Vegas.
Visit Blogs about disadvantages of Yellow Pages websites and videos:
Why you shouldn't buy a Yellowpages Video
Why you shouldn't buy a Yellowpages Website
Do I need to buy a domain name and web hosting?
If you do not have a domain name already, we can purchase an available domain name you would like to use in your name so you legally own the url address. Our packages include 1 year of web hosting also.
Is a deposit required to get the website project started?
Yes a 50% deposit is required to get the website project started. The balance of payment is then due on completion of the website project. Payment can be made by check, cash, Google Checkout, or PayPal. Go to Checkout to submit your deposit or full payment.
Will we need to have a meeting?
In the majority of cases a meeting isn't necessary and 90% of our sites are generally completed with contact via email, telephone, and information collected by the sales rep. Meetings can be arranged when necessary.
What support is offered after the website is completed and up on the Internet?
After the completion of a website project we are available for after sales service. Any slight tweaks or amendments are carried out to the site free of charge in the first month. Any support thereafter will be charged at an hourly rate of $75.
What ongoing costs are there after the website is completed?
The only ongoing cost will be your annual hosting fee. However, you can buy multiple years of web hosting which provides you with a discounted cost.
How do I get listed on search engines such as Google?
It is free to submit to Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We submit all websites we design to Google, Yahoo! and others.
What is search engine optimization or SEO?
All web sites should be 'optimized'. This will enable your site to gain a high search engine ranking. It revolves around the meta tags on your web pages, keywords, and other factors. A website that isn't optimized won't appear in the search engines to any great degree. For more on our optimization packages click here.
Website Design Process
There are several things that we'll discuss with you during the initial consultation. The following provides a guideline, tips and information about planning, getting started, and maintaining your website.
Phase I: Planning
Be prepared with your information prior to your consultation about your website. Write notes while you brainstorm, including questions you may have.
- Make an outline of your needs, followed by writing all the details.
- Organize information and materials for your Web site - photos, brochures, company logo, written materials,
text for your Web site, digitized photos, images, logos, and other pertinent information.
- Visit our Showcase page and preview our website designs to see which layout you like. Also, look at some websites in your industry. This will help you see what your competition is doing, provide an overall perspective of websites in your business, and will help you brainstorm for your own site.
- Make note of the following - web sites that you like and why, websites that you don't like and why, any websites that have elements that you like, such as colors, navigation, overall layout, the type of content and how it's presented.
Things to Consider:
- Purpose of website
- Target audience
- Website content: who you are, what you do, contact information, list of services or products, photographs or other images, logo.
- Write or gather your content and other materials as needed for your website.
- Ways to bring in new visitors, repeat visitors.
- Domain name and registration, web hosting details (for existing websites).
- Ecommerce - do you wish to sell products or services online.
- Search engine registration, optimization. (your website with Minds Over Media will be designed to be search engine friendly, but content optimization is critical, and it's also important to register your site and follow up with search engines and directories.)
Phase II: Building
- Contract Agreement and deposit:
- After we've received your deposit, signed contract agreement and required materials (content, logo, photos, other items as noted above), the design and development begins on the date agreed to in our contract.
- A private test site will be available for review at each step of the design creation and development process, with regular communications throughout (usually by email, but sometimes by phone).
- When the site is completed, we get your final OK, final payment, and we then upload your new site to your server (or send you the site by zip file or disc, if needed).
Phase III: Making Your Presence Known
- Web site registration with several major search engines.
- Add Web site and email address to all advertising and marketing, all correspondence, vehicles.
- Consider sending announcements or commencing other promotion of your new, redesigned, or improved website.
- Other means of bringing in visitors.
Phase IV: Web Site Maintenance and Updating
- Keep your Web site content fresh and alive.
- Provide reasons for new visitors and for them to return to your site.
- Add new information as appropriate and update existing information regularly.
- Check search engine rankings and tweak pages and/or meta tags if needed.
- Continue to promote your website regularly.
- Consider Search Engine Marketing (pay per click advertising on Google, Yahoo!) to drive traffic to your website.
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