Website Options
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Quick Start | Options | Features | Benefits | Procedures | Pricing
Quick Start Program
Quick Start | Options | Features | Benefits | Procedures | Pricing
Optional Features
Need more? Begin with Quick Start and then expand your site with more tools and features. Start fast by adopting one of our standard layouts; apply your own color scheme. Gradually define a custom design at your own pace. Our platform offers numerous tools to simplify creation and editing of popular website features.
Universal Features include
- responsive layouts,
- rock-solid, automated intuitive navigation,
- home page, blog, event calendar, forms generator, FAQ manager and image gallery
- easy to use, do-it-yourself editing with intuitive interface.
Our expanded business service adds tools and revenue-generating features like
- member management with portrait, contacts, biography
- social networking with micro-blog, peer messaging
- personnel roster with portrait, contacts, biography or resume
Professional and revenue tools include
- discussion forums,
- podcasting,
- text and graphic advertising,
- Our content-management and easily used layout tools put you in control of your web site.
- We have extensive experience since 1993 with small business, non-profit organizations, and integration with legacy systems.
- Publish from our proven hosting platform. Update your site instantly right from your desktop.
- Creative and editorial services extra. No special hardware, software or technical personnel are needed in your office.
- Multilingual support is available.
- After professional setup, create custom pages, edit and update using simple forms.
- Why isn't this site more flashy? It could be, but we take our business seriously, and we'll take yours seriously, too.
Quick Start | Options | Features | Benefits | Procedures | Pricing
Managed Sites
Features
- prompt setup by our design team
- domain registration or transfer
- initial theme and tool selection
- adaptation and installation of user-supplied or user-selected graphics
- home page with overview text and previews of key features
- contact form
- up to ten general purpose pages with content you supply
- editor training or development support up to four hours
- private preview at any time during development
- telephone and online training after setup up to four hours during first month
- hosting up to 100 Mbytes each storage and transfers; additional capacity optional
- CIP Journalmaker℠ content management and editing system with our powerful, time-saving tools
Benefits
- Rapid turnaround is assured.
- You gradually take on only those tasks you choose.
- We help as much as you choose.
- Hosting for three months is included in the startup.
- Flexible hosting and technical support plans simplify continuing service.
- Creative services are priced separately.
- You control your cost: no new hardware, software or staff.
- GUARANTEE: Your site will never read as though you didn't finish 7th grade.
Procedures
- You supply text and graphics; most clients start with materials from other media like letterhead, brochures, logos, product descriptions and images.
- We use an online meeting by appointment to configure your site. Choose your own color scheme. Use a preconfigured theme or show us examples of sites you like and let us adapt a design - all in real time. Plan on two sessions of one to two hours each.
- Your design affiliate will turn your existing materials into a website. First we make it work; then we make it pretty. If you do not have standard content, original creative services are available; additional features are available in our Professional, Enterprise and Journalmaker packages or by individual arrangement.
- Delivery time can be just a few hours but is normaily a few days from the moment we have your source materials (text, graphics, product list...).
- Your pre-payment puts your project in our service queue. Discuss the schedule with your account representative before purchasing. Your payment is non-refundable once work has begun.
- You can modify the appearance of the site at any time using a standard theme, or you can use the automated appearance tools, or one of our designers can alter it at low cost; minor appearance adjustments and advice are free.
* Pricing Overview
Quick Start
- Basic
- Hosting and technical support after startup billed monthly at $19 or annually at $195 to your credit card. The minimum period of service is three months prepaid. Includes initial setup, one hour of training and support, one gigabyte of storage. Does not include content management (writing, posting, editing).
- DIY
- Optional expanded hosting and technical support package prepaid monthly at $59 includes the Basic plan plus 5 gigabytes of storage, monthly content review, and one hour of training or content management.
- Added services
- Writing, graphics and other content services are available at rates published elsewhere on the site.