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~~ WEBSITE SERVICES, POLICIES, OPTIONS & COSTS ~~

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• Basic Web Pages
• Complex Web Pages
• Rollover Image Navigation
• Web Hosting & Acquiring a URL & Maintenance
• Processing and Upgrading Photos (from your camera)
• Our Photographic Services
• "Bottom Line"
• Some Links to Website Templates

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• Basic Web Pages:

The Basic Page costs between $45-$100 per page.
~~It would include:
• 1 - 4 optimized pictures
• Simple text-style navagation
• Choice of font colors & background image colors and textures
• E-mail link & other links as needed.
• Headlines
• Name Banner
• Already written text and info and links anywhere in the text to other sites.
• If the text needs writing and editing, this is, of course, a seperate and time-consuming process.
• To help marketing, some key words and "meta-tags" can be put in to help search engines find you and your products.
• Registration of your site with search engines is a seperate action and can cost hundreds per search engine.
• PayPal links can be included or extra depending on the time they take. (if the "Code" is not ready to insert)
• e-Commerce sites (Classic Shopping Cart & Check-Out systems on Secure Servers) are not part of my services.
• MP3 media: converting a song from .wav to .mp3 and uploading it to a link on the page: this would also be extra.

>> Here are examples of basic pages ONE or TWO column styles.
(Links are also at the bottom of those pages.) . . . . (Latin is used for temporary content.)

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• More Complex Web Pages:

More complex pages would be in the $75 to $225 or more per page each.
~~They would include:
• Text Navigation links on all pages linking to all pages
• Logo / Banner
• Choice of font colors & background image colors and textures
• Custom graphic designs for banner & interface
• E-mail link & other links as needed.
• Headlines
• Already written text and info and links anywhere in the text to other sites.
• If the text needs writing and editing, this is, of course, a seperate and time-consuming process.
• To help marketing, some key words and "meta-tags" need to be put in to help search engines find the artists.
• Registration of your site with search engines is a seperate action and can cost hundreds per search engine.
• Thumbnail pictures that link to larger optimized photos on this or separate pages, (but still with navigation).
• PayPal links can be extra depending on the time they take. (if the "Code" is not all ready to insert)
• 5 or more photos [300-700 pixels] would be cropped and adjusted for easy display and optimal size, exposure and composition and displayed in various ways on the page.
• MP3 media: converting a song from .wav to .mp3 and uploading it to a link on the page would be extra.
• Thumbnails can be placed at the top to facilitate navigation to the pictures when there are more than just a few.
• Flash content and video content can be added to the banner for special interest, this would be an extra expense.
• e-Commerce sites (Classic Shopping Cart & Check-Out systems) are now part of my services. Prices will be negotiated on an individual basis.
>> Here's an example of a photo page template for 15 photos.
>> Here's an example of a Group webpage that links to several individual pages

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• Rollover Image Navigation:

"Rollover" navigation can add style and, of course, be made with any image/word combination imaginable.
For a unified look, all the pages in a website should have a consistent navigation layout so the user can get from all pages to all pages, in one click.
These image/word combinations would be an extra cost comparable to an additional page ($45 to $75).

>> This current page has examples of "Rollover Images" at the top and bottom of this section and page.
See also : http://www.colorspaceband.com

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• Web Hosting, Acquiring an Address (URL), E-mail & Maintenance:

• Website spaces are actually rented on giant "Servers" (a group of drives the size of a large refrigerator) from a corporation somewhere, preferably a reliable company in the U.S. with a good record of little "down time". Since we're already renting a large space from an excellent firm (Dreamhost), we can sublet or "host" individuals or groups competitively. This can be done for as little as $7/mo. (on a $84/yearly-in-advance basis).

• URL's "Universal Resource Listings" (www.yourname.com) can be acquired for $15 per year each, including free E-Mail accounts. These hosting and URL annual fees come to $99. This saves you from having to learn all the ropes of hosting and activating your own website & establishing an E-Mail account, which can be time consuming and confusing, and will cost essentially the same. The URL providers set up an on-line translation from a large set of numbers, a couple dozen, which is, in reality, the web address, to the name you have chosen.

• There are always things like: adding a couple new event listings, a few new photos, fixing a typo. We will include the service of minor maintenance or updating for free, if this takes less than 15 min per month.
Otherwise we will charge $25/hour. (Most other webdesigners don't have any free services.)

• We will notify within 30 days of expiration, however should a URL's annual registration lapse, then a situation where an extra "Rescue" fee of $100 will be required to attempt to retrieve the URL, and it actually could be non-retrieveable depending on the actions of other individuals.

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• Processing and Upgrading Photos (from your camera):

Your existing photos can be made e-mail "friendly" and sent to us if they're sized down to 300k -1M each in a photo editing program. (Depending on your camera's # of megapixels, originals can be as large as 4 MB or more.)
Raw pictures from digital cameras can be as large as 3000 to 10000 pixels across and need to be in the range of 300-600 pixels for web purposes. For example, on the internet (at 72 pixels/inch), a 3 inch picture = 216 pixels, 4 inch = 288, 5 inch = 360, 6 inch = 432, etc.
We can easily do this kind of editing, along with touch up, exposure, color balance, sharpening and cropping, all included in the web page prices mentioned above.
For those who don't know how to resize their pictures, a CD can be made (on your computer, or at Longs, Walgreens, etc.) and mailed to us. Contact us for my mail address.
>> This page has an example of photo editing with Photoshop® Filters and Image Adjustments.

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• Our Photographic Services:

Chaz is available as a photographer . . . Services would include:

A CD of the full size "raw" photos I take.

Raw photos from my (8 Megapixel) digital camera are very large, up to 4,000 pixels across. These need to be in the range of 300-600 pixels for web purposes. We will resize them for you based on your website's image size requirements. For example, on the internet (at 72 pixels/inch), a 3 inch wide picture = 216 pixels; 4 inch = 288; 5 inch = 360; 6 inch = 432, etc.

If you have specific criteria for photo sizes to send to juries, brochures, catalogues, or customers, etc., let us know these specifications, and we can size a set of pictures accordingly and send them to you on a CD. (For example, a 6 X 8 inch "Landscape" picture at a resolution of 300 dpi would be 2400 pixels across.)

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• "Bottom Line":

In Summary from detailed sections above:
Basic Websites cost $100 per year to be registered and hosted.
Basic Web pages cost $45 to $125 or more (one-time fee) to be designed and uploaded.

The lowest cost total then for a Basic Page + Hosting + Registration would be: $145, double page: $190
The cost for a complex page (with 8 or more pictures and text ) + hosting + registration would be: $200 - $225 or more.

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• Some Links to Website Examples and Ideas:

http://www.webart4u.com
http://www.bigblackbag.com/online_portfolio_samples.asp
http://www.templatemonster.com/website-templates.php
http://www.beautifulartistwebsites.com/portfolio-beautiful-artist-websites.html
http://www.sculptor.org/
http://www.easytemplates.com/html-templates.htm

Other Interesting Websites

http://www.lunadreams.com/web.html
http://www.andyfoulds.co.uk/flash_design.html

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