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As some of you may have read in one of my earlier posts, I am in charge of getting a printing website designed for a local printer. Since you are all pretty smart in this area and I have never done it, what are some of the things that stand out in websites for better or worse?

What are some basic guidelines for a print, embroidery, pin website?

What happens on website's that you think is irrelevant and a waste of time.

Thanks!


also, for a company that offers print embroidery and pin, what would you say should be the grand total for this? I have a high budget But dont want to waste money paying a company to do it when I can get similar work from a highschool web design student. thoughts?

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Rodney

Must haves:

• Phone Number
• Quote form
• Easy navigation
• Product catalogs
• photos of past jobs

Irrelevant:

• fancy flash
• heavy graphics
• fancy flash quote design online form (although some people love this. I haven't been 100% sold yet. It may be a must have for some people )

Quote: also, for a company that offers print embroidery and pin, what would you say should be the grand total for this? I have a high budget But dont want to waste money paying a company to do it when I can get similar work from a highschool web design student. thoughts

I don't think hiring a high school web design student would be a good idea.

But you could get a GREAT site designed, coded, installed with the ability to manage the site online for under $1500

Price breakdown:

Design/layout: $500-$700 via 99designs.com I just ran a design contest there and got over 200 design entries for just over $700

Coding: $100 - takes the graphic layout and turns it into HTML that can be used for a website or a template for a site management software. Can be done by searching google for psd to html

Install/Software: $0-$250 - the wordpress software is free (wordpress.org). You can install it yourself with a couple of clicks or you can hire someone to install it. You can either take the HTML layout that you have and customize the default skin or you can hire a wordpress theme designer to implement your new layout from 99designs into your wordpress install.

After that, you've got a slick site, a blog, a way for your client to login and make simple updates to the site, a contact form, etc.

The only other fees would be the web hosting. If you choose a place like lunarpages, they have a button you can click in their control panel that installs wordpress in a couple of clicks.

That's my suggestion anyway

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