Custom Web site Design and Programming by Robert Freeman

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Custom website contract and worksheets which will be used for all development projects:


Custom Website Development Planning Worksheet

This questionnaire is designed to enhance communications between Glip It LLC and our clients. Please have it handy when you discuss your project on the phone with a Glip It LLC representative. After you've filled in the blanks please print a copy for your records and email a copy to us. It provides a memorandum of our mutually-agreed plan.

Organization Name: __________________________

1. Purpose

Give the most important purpose a "1", next most important a "2". Leave those blank which do not interest you at all.
__ To gain a favorable impression of the company or organization.
__ To develop a qualified list of prospects
__ To sell products directly taking credit card information over the Internet
__ To encourage potential customers to contact us by phone or mail to consummate a sale.
__ To make available product information and price lists to distributors.
__ To make available product information and price lists to customers.
__ To strengthen brand identification.
__ Other _______________________________________________________


2. Site Organization

Please label pages you desire and cross out the rest.

Typical Website

Total number of pages decided upon ________________


3. Site and Domain Names

Site Name on Header: ____________________________________

Domain Name It must be registered through your web hosting service and approved by a domain registration service before you can use it. You may check the availability of your domain name at 1and1.com but it is best to allow us to register the name when setting up your web hosting account.

Domain name ____________________________     ___Desired ___Already Registered


4. Header Graphic

It is very helpful if you will include a copy of your company's letterhead, brochures, catalog, etc... so we can see how you present your company image. If you have your original logo artwork please email that to us.


__ Company Logo incorporated in the header graphic? If so, please enclose a color copy.
__ Photo or drawing of product?
__ Typeface preference __________________________________________

__ Preferred colors in palette (PMS colors?) _______________________________________

__ Other ideas _________________________________________________________


5. Color and Accents

Typically we recommend a white background and dark text for best readability and contrast but many designs call for some variation to clinical recommendations. Your preference?:

May we include a link at the bottom of the welcome page which reads "Website Developed by Glip It LLC"? (You are under no obligation to say yes)  ___Yes ___No


6. Navigation System

The navigation system of all our Standard Website Packages includes:

Links /Menu from the front page and sectional pages to every page in the system to enable Web search engine spiders to crawl and index content on every page.

Optional Systems Circle those you wish incorporated in your site.

  • "Buttons" can be used, but we do not recommend them, since they are more expensive and time consuming to maintain or when a change or addition is made to the website. Also it takes longer to load many buttons than simple text (Extra charge)
  • Search Engine is useful on larger sites of 20+ pages to help visitors quickly find what they're looking for. (Extra charge)

7. Basic Page Elements

These are the important items which appear on nearly every webpage on your site.

  • Page titles which show at top of Web browser only
  • Header graphic for every page
  • Page Title in larger type. Heading Font Style: ________________
  • Text. Body Font Style: ___________________
  • Standard company info near bottom of page
  • E-mail response link to the following e-mail address: _________________________ (if requested)
  • Copyright and trademark information in small print at the bottom of every page. What registered trademarks, trademarks and/or service marks does your company want to indicate here?

Do you have any trademarks or service marks? If so, please list them here and indicate which are registered trademarks.


8. Photos, Graphics, Animations, Sound and Video

Our contract includes a statement that you own the copyright to or have permission from the copyright owner to use any photos or graphics you send us.

  • Photos you supply either by sending the photos themselves for us to scan and return or by sending the digitized images via email.
  • Stock photos obtained from iStockPhoto.com. Email us the photo numbers and which page each photo goes on. We can help you select the photos but we need to bill you for our time at our hourly rate.
  • Custom photos can be arranged if requested. We can put you in contact with a great photographer.

For an extra charge, we can equip your webpages with:

  • Flash Animations
  • Video clips

9. Response Forms

What is the purpose of your response form?

Note: We do not set up sites that use the response form as an order form since these require secure servers. For one or two products we recommend using PayPal. We charge extra to set up online payment options.


10. Web Hosting Service

We are not in the web hosting business. We recommend our clients use the 1and1.com Microsoft Business Package. Any others will require an additional charge for us to become familiar with.

Web Hosting Service _____________________________________

Phone: _____________________________

E-mail for support or help ______________________________


11. Registering and Advertising Your Website

We can direct you to good current information on how to do this. Consider:

  • Advertising your Website to Web search engines that index the Web
  • Giving customers a good reason to come by offering them something
  • Finding industry-wide linking pages and negotiating reciprocal links to and from their webpages.
  • Purchasing Web advertising
  • Becoming active in several Internet news groups and mailing lists
  • Developing a "signature" mini-ad attached to all your e-mail messages
  • Making your website part of one or more of the internet "malls."
  • Including your e-mail and Web addresses on all your company's business cards, print literature, stationery, and display advertising
  • E-mail newsletters
  • Create Blogs that reference your site(s)

Information about visitors to your website can be obtained from your Google Analytics and provide a wealth of information.

We submit your website to Web search engines after final payment is received. Before doing this we work with you to include the appropriate keywords in your page content so your pages can be effectively indexed. We are not in control of search engine companies and this is not a promise of a particular ranking by any search engine but we are interested in providing them accurate content so they can determine how best to place you in their search results.


12. Maintenance

Target Date____________________

Package prices include minor updating over the first 3 months of the contract. This covers minor text changes. It does not include major changes such as changing site design or rewriting an entire page, which is billed at our hourly rate.

Target Date for final payment to be made and your Web Site to be advertised: _____________


On behalf of my organization I approve the above plan which I have developed with Glip It LLC to construct a website, and I authorize Glip It LLC to use this Website Planning Worksheet as the basis of the project.

Signature _____________________________________ Date _________________


These are the items that will make up the package you'll be sending to us:

  • All forms listed at the top of this page
  • Written content for your webpages (preferably via email in Word files. We can translate from most word processor formats with ease.)
  • Photos or graphics to be included. You may send graphics and photos which we can scan into electronic form but it is preferred electronically in any popular PC format such as GIF, JPEG, BMP, EPS, PNG, etc...).
  • Your company logo (if any) in electronic format and tell us the PMS or CMYK colors. Illustrator files are preferred with all text converted to shapes.
  • Samples of your printed materials -- business cards, brochures, letterheads, cards, booklets, etc... so we can see how you present your company image
  • Payment for at least 50% of the total. You may pay us online at: https://www.glipit.com/community/Purchase.asp or send us a check to the address below

You may send your package to Glip It LLC via Email or by US mail:

support@glipit.com
Glip It LLC
250 Jack Boot Way
Monument, CO 80132

We are looking forward to receiving your materials and constructing your website!