Overview:

Any one who owns or plans start a business should consider having a web site designed. The main benefit to starting your own web site are that your web site will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Your web site can serve as a representative that answers questions about your business, offers customer service even when your business is closed at night and on weekends and holidays and to promote and sell your products and services.

A web site is a very powerful and inexpensive marketing and advertising tool and a great way to expand your business into other areas of the state or country.

Uncle Jims Web Design creates unique web sites which help you reach the goals that you have for creating an online presence - whether it is for a business web site or for personal use.

Uncle Jims Web Design specializes in unique, high quality professional web site design small businesses and individuals. Uncle Jims Web Design is run by Uncle Jim, who has over 21 years of diverse business and computing experience and 17 years in Web Site Development.

Uncle Jims Web Design strives to create professional web site designs that will effectively promote your products or services to your target audience. Our main goal is to make your web experience pleasant, easy, affordable, and enjoyable.

Package Options

This basic site is perfect for the small business who does not have an Internet presence. Besides putting yourself in front of thousands of new customers, you can list detailed information about the services and products you provide, your business hours, your location, and contact information, etc.

This package includes a custom 5 page web site designed to represent your business with a user-friendly interface. Your pages can be home, about, services, location, and contact. Go with our suggestions or choose your own page names!

This package includes a custom 10 page web site designed to represent your business with a user-friendly interface. You can have all the pages mentioned above in the Silver package plus 5 pages. You can include a photo gallery, a calendar of events or any other pages which will advertise your business.

This package includes a custom 15-20 page professional web site designed to represent your business with a user-friendly interface. We can scan in your logo and other graphic elements at no charge to you! This package also comes with a free contact form and thank-you page.

Each package comes with the following:

Appropriate Search Engine Meta tags will be added on each page to put you at the top of the search engines rankings.

Up to 1 hour of training on your web site's control panel, using email, or anything you'd like to know about managing your web site.

If none of these packages work for you, please contact us and tell us what your needs are. We give discounts for large sites, educational institutions and non-profit organizations.

Website Specifications:

A page of text is defined as no more than one 8-1/2 X 11 sheet of paper, 12 pt size font, single-spaced, with 1-1/2 inch margins at top, bottom and sides.

Web Site Content Authoring

Your Web Designer does not write or rewrite content. Your content must be supplied to us written the way that you would like it to appear on your web site.

Web Site Content

Our fees are based on you providing your content to us in electronic format. Written materials may be provided to us in the body of an email, Microsoft Word, WordPad or Notepad format only.

If you provide your content in the form of existing manuscripts, brochures, literature, etc. and you wish to have us process the information, additional fees shall be incurred. Please note that we will not rewrite and/or edit your existing materials/information. Your editing, etc. must be done prior to your submission of your materials. Additional fees shall apply if we must convert printed materials into electronic format.

Deposit

A deposit of 1/2 of the quoted price (payable in US funds) is required to begin all website design projects. Turn around time depends on client workload, but is usually within a couple of weeks depending on your web site requirements.

Site Maintenance, Updates & Support

An important advantage of advertising on the Internet is the ease and speed in making changes. Purchasing site maintenance keeps Uncle Jims Web Design on retainer to update your website for you. If Uncle Jims Web Design maintains your site for you, all it takes is a simple e-mail exchange and the web site can be updated within a matter of minutes or hours. These periodic alterations might reflect modifications in your operation, new products, seasonal offerings or just an occasional addition or removal of graphic images to give your web site a fresh look.

Site visitors and search engines like it when your web site is updated often with new information. Our site maintenance fees start at $15 per month and depend on the size of your web site. Site maintenance covers up to 4 hours of updates per month at a set price. Additional hours can be purchased if necessary. Site maintenance would cover maintaining your existing website such as updating text, replacing photos, etc. It would not cover adding new features to your website. These items would have to be billed separately. Unused site maintenance hours are not carried over to the following month.