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learn important facts about your business and target audience;
and to get a better understanding of your preferences.
It is also an opportunity for us to examine any materials that you have in
hand that you would like included on your website. Because Web Creations by Z
prepares its guaranteed estimates based on the number of hours required to
complete your site, using existing materials when appropriate can significantly
reduce your final cost. If you have some marketing materials and
a logo, you already have a good start!
Through out this process, Web Creations By Z is mindful of the fact that this is
your website, not ours... and in order
for your site to be successful, it must meet your business needs, suit your
organization's image, as well as fit your budget.
 Website Style and Layout
Your website represents you to the online community.
So its important that
your website fits your style and meets your aesthetic preferences while
performing the job you need it to do.
Several of the questions in our Website Planning Guide are designed to
enable us to learn about the content you wish to include on your website
as well as your preferences on styles, colors, and imagery. The layout of your website is generally dictated by its content and
functionality. There is no limit to the number of pages your basic
website can have. Your basic website can be a single page, or have
many pages... it all depends on how much information that you need
to provide to your target audience and how that information is best
organized and presented. When it comes to style, you have several options. You can have Web Creations
by Z use information from our initial consultation to design a custom
format that fits in with your current materials or you can select from a
wide variety of website template layouts, like those shown on the right,
and have us modify them to your liking.
Images and Graphics
Web Creations by Z can work with your images, or we can come
and take custom pictures on location. In addition, we belong to several
organizations and subscribe to a fee-based royalty free image service that
can provide studio quality stock images for use on your website.
We also do basic retouching as is illustrated by the image below, showing a
before and after shot of an image provided by EBZ Moving & Storage for
inclusion on their website.
 Likewise with graphics.
We'll work with materials you supply, third-party
materials, or create what your site needs... and if we can't create it ourselves,
one of our affiliates probably can.
We created everything on this site other than the logos and icons as noted on the
Our Tools page.
Content Development
Many businesses and organizations already have a good deal of content and don't
realize it. Do you have a brochure, pamphlet, or form letter that you send to
potential customers that details your product offerings? These materials can
be a wealth of information and provide a jump start creating the text content for
your website. But even if you don't have any materials, our review of the
Website Planning Guide will provide a good starting point.
We'll interview you and others to learn about your business. We'll research other
related businesses to learn about your market. We'll learn your angle... the things
that make your business stand apart from your competition and accentuate that
message. We'll make sure that your site contains the proper meta data to help the
popular search engines like Yahoo!, Google, and MSN Search find your site.
Hopefully, you've taken a look at the websites we've developed; think we've done
a pretty good job with the all original content, images,
and layout; and have been convinced that we can put
together a great website for you as well.
But if you think that you may need more, check out our
Custom Development page highlighting
what we can accomplish when you add a MySQL database and php to the mix.
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