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Design Elements & Site Components: Your web site is a reflection of your business.

Graphic titles, bars, buttons and menus.	Domain Registration
Content pages for each menu option	Web Site hosting
Scanned and digital images.	E-mail you@your-web-address.com
Flash and gif Animations	Site maintenance and updates
Video and Sound	Registration with search sites
Real Estate Sale Property Searches	Web site statistics
Shopping Carts for on-line ordering	Search Engine Placement Reports
On-line data collection and order forms	Discussion Groups and Surveys

Design Issues - Converting a visitor to a Customer:

Many of our potential customers say their current site is getting lots of traffic, however, the visitors are not securing or purchasing their product or services. In most cases their existing web site failed to meet essential requirements:

	Present a sense of credibility and product quality.
	Offer a desirable product at a reasonable price.
	Offer consistent, clear and easy web site navigation
	Present content in a concise and attractive manner.
	Offer convenient options for purchasing or making contact.

Screen Resolution & Your Web Site:

The first screen of your web site must convey the web sites purpose, promote the service or product and provide links to major topic areas and present a feeling of quality.

The higher a users resolution, the more information they will be able to see on the screen at one time.
If a web site is designed for a screen resolution higher than the visitor is using will require the visitor to scroll left/right and up & down to view content and to find site navigation. As a result they will not stay on the site very long.

Web sites can be designed for either size depending on the site. Commercial sites are now at 800x600. Sites that have to conform to standards for handicapped or appeal to senior citizens will require 640x480.

You can check your screen resolution: Right click somewhere on your screen, where there are no open windows or icons. From the menu that will pop-up select "properties" then select "settings".

If your screen is set higher than 640x480, change it 640x480 and view some web sites. If you are already viewing at 640x480 you may want to try a larger resolution, say 800x600, and see what happens. On 17" monitors try 1024x768 or higher. You may want to explore the color settings...high and true color will greatly improve one's visual experience.

Web Site Design Rates: The preferred method is to discuss the site requirements with you and let us quote a price. The price will be based on a number of different items:

	Complexity of the graphical theme		Complexity of site navigation
	Number and quality of images		Number of pages and amount of content
	Level of search engine preparation		Number Data collection forms
	Accept on-line credit card payments		Shopping Carts

Securing your www:

Registering Your Domain: If you plan to have Cape Graphics design your site we will do this for you. If you just want to save the name, Network Solutions can provide temporary hosting (for a fee), until you find a permanent hosting service. If you elect to do this be sure to save all correspondence from Network Solutions.

Finding Your Internet Identity: Securing a domain name is simple process. First you must determine if the www.name.com you want is available. Visit www.netsol.com and follow the screen instructions to see if the name you want is available.