I want a Website

I need a Website.

How can I get started?
Here's how.

My Website is awful.

How do I make it better?
Here's how.

If you want a better understanding of how a Website can tie in with your business operations, take a look at this.

What can a Website do for me?

Websites are typically created to serve one or more of these purposes:

information: providing a service to specific groups or to all-comers
communication: publishing news items and circulars or promoting dialogue on issues of interest to the host
promotion: giving a good impression of the site's owner, and their activities and possibly extending into electronic commerce

The following table covers the kinds of information, promotion and communication activities likely to be carried out by different kinds of Websites:

	Individual	Organisation	Company
Information	Personal interests and hobbies Favourite links Games Personal projects	Reports on past activities Officer directory Membership directory Library/resource lists Searchable back-issues or index of publications Awards, grants and fellowships Links to related organisations and sites	Product specifications Technical information New releases Annual reports Links to industry partners and associations
Communication	Circulars Personal email link Other contact infomation	Upcoming events Requests for discussion Newsletters Membership feedback Forums Email links to officers and staff	Customer feedback Surveys and focus groups Press releases Crisis management Email links to key personnel Customer service Newsletters
Promotion	CV Examples of work (e.g. graphic art, software, writing) Links to former employers	Organisation aims, supporters and achievements Public events and competitions Requests for public support or lobbying	Company information Major clients Product and service catalogues Samples and free offers Electronic commerce

What do I need to tell you?

Website design and development depends very much on the individual requirements. We can answer your needs at all levels from efficient establishment of small, static sites to highly automated, dynamic sites serving millions of users with sophisticated back-end software support such as that required to provide full online ecommerce or use of database-driven archives.

To do that, we need to know what sort of Website you'd like to have and what it needs to be successful. Here's a quick way to identify your general requirements regarding the site and associated services you want. Fill them out and we'll be happy to provide you with a free, no obligation estimate.

Contact details

Name:
Company or Organisation:
Email:
Phone:

Roughly how much information is to go online?

The amount of information you want to present can range from a small amount to many pages. Your answer to this question will give some idea of how big your Website will need to be. Webcentre can take your printed originals, rewrite them if required and adapt them for online presentation.

Under 10 pages
11-50 pages
50+ pages

Do you have a logo or specific colours you want used?

For companies and other organisations, sites are an important means of promotion and should be consistent with your other promotional material. We can provide logo design services or work from an existing corporate livery.

Logo: Yes No We'd like one designed for us

Colours:

Do you have an idea of the general structure you want?

Think of your site as a book with different chapters covering the areas of importance to you and your site visitors. What are the important "chapter headings" you would want to see on your site?

Please tick likely sections:

Home page About us Contact us Our products: How many pages:
Our services: How many pages:
Our clients Links Shopping cart or other purchasing facilities Media/Press release material Newsletter Job opportunities Other/s:

Do you need any of the following services?

There are numerous special services and enhancements which can be added to Web pages. The cost of each varies depending on your needs and on the facilities available on your host site. If you select any of these, we'll contact you for details so we can prepare a proper costing for you.

Please tick any required:
Custom graphic creation
Multimedia (e.g. sound, video)
Form design and handling (application forms, customer information)
Guest book (who visited, any comments they made)
Information robot (responds to email requests for "more information please")
Interactive page generation (e.g. interactive database search and viewing such as a product catalogue, event schedule or publication back issues)
3D walk-through (e.g. useful for real estate sales, theatre promotion)
Site promotion to other Web users
Maintenance and support contract

Do you want ecommerce capabilities?

Ecommerce does not have to be expensive or complicated, but does require clear identification of likely needs and appropriate planning.

I need:
basic ecommerce support for NZ$ transactions
multiple currency capabilities
a shopping cart system

Does your site need to tie in with a database?

You might have a product catalogue or customer spreadsheet that needs to interact with the Website to help keep track of stock or process sales.

If yes, what kind (e.g. Excel, Access, Interbase):

Do you want parts of the site to be password protected?

You may want part of your site to be accessible only by certain people. This could be staff accessing different levels of information on, for example, company operations. It could be clients checking on how their order is being processed.

For staff
For clients
One password for all
Individual passwords for each client
One section protected for everyone, or different section(s) protected for different people

Are there sites online you particularly like for their look or operation?

Website URL (e.g. http://www.websiteone.co.nz)

I like this site because:
Website URL (e.g. http://www.websitetwo.co.nz)

I like this site because:
Website URL (e.g. http://www.websitethree.com)

I like this site because:

On average, how often is the site likely to require changing?

Most Web pages need to be changed from time to time. Often this is to reflect new events, promotions or activities, or to respond to suggestions, requests and new information supplied by people who visit the page. If the changes are very frequent (daily or weekly), then an automated update system is probably the most cost-efficient approach, and this can affect the page design.

Daily
Weekly
Monthly
Annually

Who will make these changes?

Not only can Webcentre design your Web page for you, but we can also handle all the updates you desire, costed on an hourly basis, or a project basis if the work is regular. Or, once we have designed the page for you, you can make your own updates as required.

We can do it ourselves
Please maintain the site for us

Where will your home page be hosted?

We are happy to work in with your operations, whether you are hosting your Website in-house or with your current ISP. We can also able to provide hosting services, with two well-connected high-speed servers based in the US. this is ideal for Websites with international clients and reduces development and maintenance costs.

On our in-house server
With our Internet service provider
ISP name:
On Webcentre's server

Do you have a desired launch date?

This is just to get an idea of how urgent are your needs. A simple site can be online within a week or so, but larger Websites are best planned carefully, with clear development phases.

If yes, when:

Do you have a budget in mind?

As a general rule of thumb, a simple to mid-sized Website should have a budget of $2,000-$10,000, depending on the amount of material and services required. It pays to be realistic about what you can and should afford.

$2000-5,000
$5,000-15,000
$15,000+