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Website Agreement
Please be sure to READ ALL OF THIS INFORMATION before we get started. Upon purchase of your website, you have entered into a contract of agreement of the following information:
Hosting:
The
hosting is through Pappashop.com (or ShoppePro.com) - (please contact us after your purchase
and we will show you how to set up your account with them so I can
begin building your website for you). The hosting account is as low as
$12.95 a month for their Basic Account, which I recommend to you. There
are no fees for selling items on your website other than what Paypal
charges to accept payments/credit cards. You only pay the $12.95 a
month which can be deducted automatically from your online Paypal
account or credit cards.
Why I use Pappashop: The website is EXTREMELY easy to take over on your own!
If you know how to list an item on ebay or etsy, then you can work your new website once I have completed the design. This
is why I have chosen Pappashop to host my client's websites. Plus,
their customer service is AMAZING with 24 hour support, online
tutorials with video and pictures, technological sound software and
simple editing. No one wants to pay a designer a million dollars a
month to maintain their website for them! That's why my websites are so
great for businesses. I design the core of it, and you can save money
on monthly maintenance by doing it yourself! Sell your products and make
a profit that you can KEEP instead of spending on web maintenance! List your own items, create your own categories and pages, and upload your own photos in a BREEZE!
Search Engine Submission and Meta Tags:
SEO optomization: Your website will include search engine submission to
all of the major search engines: google, yahoo, aol, etc. This is
included in each of the packages. However, please be advised that this
does NOT guarantee any page rank when people search for your websites.
Most first page searches that you see on the search engines are
paid-by-click. Your website WILL come up when your business name is
searched for, your website, etc., but for individual items that you
sell it is not guaranteed. For instance, if your business name is
Tina's Brides and you sell wedding dresses, you will be the first
search on search engines when someone types in "Tina's Brides" but if
somene types "wedding dresses" into the search engine, there is no
guarantee that you will be first. In fact, you likely will not without
paying for that service through the search engines. But I DO include
meta tags, which will put you in the searches.
Meta Tags & Keywords:
Your website will include meta titles, meta tags and keywords for EACH
page and category on your website. I include these in each of my
packages. Please keep in mind that there is no guarantee on the search
engines as outlined above, but I will include keywords, search terms,
etc. for each of the pages on your website. Also, please keep in mind
that ANY text that I, or you, type into your website is automatically
search engine optomized as part of the design/hosting provided in your
website. That will help your website stand out in the search engine
wars!
Custom Designed Pages for PREMIUM and EXCLUSIVE Packages:
What is a Custom Designed Page?
With these two packages, your website will include either 5 or 10
custom designed pages that I will set up for you. For instance, if you
get 5 pages, you can choose for me to completely design your homepage,
about us page, gallery page, faq page, services page, etc. Custom
designed means that I will design all of the elements, clickable boxes,
graphics, wording, etc for that page, and give it the most professional
look possible! Your home page, for instance, is very important and most
everyone chooses that one as one of their pages. Each custom designed
page can have up to 5 clickable boxes (Flash boxes not included, but
can be purchased separately). We will work together to design these
pages one at a time once the First Draft (which you will read below) is
completed for your website. The EXCLUSIVE package also includes a custom LOGO design and a front and back BUSINESS card design!
The Design Process:
STEP 1 - After Purchase:
I
will begin email contact with you and start asking you questions about
your website design and what you are looking for. We will discuss
websites that you like and don't like so I can get ideas for your
First Draft. You will set up your Pappashop.com account and forward our
administration password to me so I can get in and begin working on your
design. Design changes will be live, and not an image that is emailed
to you.
STEP 2 - The First Draft:
Once
I have gathered enough information from you to begin work on your
template, I will design your first draft. The first draft will include
all of the MAIN elements of your website:
-Background
-Mouse-Over Top Buttons
-Template Header
-Category & Page Links
-Site Search
-Template Footer
-Copyright Text
Once
all of those designs are in place, I will email you to have a look at
them. I will not start the next designing phase until these designs
have been approved.
I will allow up to 2 major changes before this design must be approved.
Changes must be submitted in email format to me, and your changes
should be listed according to the area title (ie background, template
header, template footer, etc). ONE EMAIL of changes is considered your
FIRST change. Therefore, please be sure to TAKE YOUR TIME when
reviewing your first draft and get everything into one email. EACH
EMAIL of changes will be considered another major change, even if it
only contains one simple thing, so again, PLEASE be sure to take time
to think about your design. I will allow TWO EMAILS with changes to be
submitted only. After your two emails, have been submitted, any changes
needing to be made to your template will be assessed extra design fees.
As part of trying to keep our design prices low, we must do
this in order to compensate ourselves for time spent working on
multiple designs for hours/days/weeks/months at a time. Click here to see fees for changes.
IMPORTANT
NOTICE: YOU HAVE 30 DAYS to submit your changes to me! I have been
having a lot of clients purchase websites, we get it half-way designed
and then I do not hear back from them. They will email me back 3 or 4
months later and expect to pick up where we left off. This is ok if a
legitimate reason is given, HOWEVER please be aware that you WILL be
put on my waiting list and you WILL be assessed a design fee of $100.00
to start back up. It will take me extra time to go back through all of
your information, ideas, read through everything we were conversing
back and forth from 30 or more days ago, and I need to be compensated
for that extra time. There will be NO EXCEPTIONS with this whatsoever.
You understand that you DO agree to this upon purchase of your website
design from CADS. This applies to ALL PHASES of the Design Process.
The First Draft is considered approved by you when:
1.
You have no more changes to be made to it after your TWO EMAIL CHANGES
(or extra fees associated with more than two emails of change)
2. I
have NOT HEARD FROM YOU in 30 days since your last email contact with
me. In this case, you will be assessed the $100.00 start up fee before
I will begin work again on your website again, no exceptions.
Once
your First Draft is approved, design fees will be assessed to make any
changes to the template. CADS will reserve the right to assess design
fees at anytime if we feel it deemed necessary to continue work on your
website (you will be emailed first). Once this First Draft phase of the
website design is complete, we move on.
STEP 3 - The Fine Details:
This phase of the design will be much more involved. Here is where we
will design your custom pages, list items if they are included in your
package, talk about page-clickable graphic boxes, etc.
The
EASIEST way for me and for you to do this is to work on one section at
a time. Therefore, we will both decide together, via email contact,
what area you would like to work on first. If you want to start listing
items first, you will send me an email with ALL of your items,
including photos, descriptions, color and size choices, etc. The same
rule applies here as with your First Draft. I WILL ALLOW TWO EMAILS. I
would suggest to get together all of your information for your items
into one email to me, even if it will take you some time to get
everything together (just be sure to communicate that to me). I will
get all of the items listed for you. You can take a look at all of them
and then send your SECOND EMAIL with changes. Remember, all changes,
even if something very small, WILL be assessed a design fee per change.
The reason I do this with the fees is because it forces both designer
and client to be extremely organized together when we are working on
your websites. It also saves me a LOT of time not having to read
through 10 emails from you a day, logging in to make a bunch of
different changes scattered throughout the day versus making them all
at once, and etc. It becomes a very overwhelming process, and I spend
way too much time when there is an unlimited amount of changes and
emails coming through.
AFTER YOUR TWO EMAILS with changes to the
first section you choose to work in your website, it is considered
approved and will be assessed design fees to make changes. It is also
considered approved if 30 days have passed and I have not heard from
you. Again, the SAME RULES APPLY here as with your First Draft.
We
will then move on to the next section of your website, which you will
choose, such as designing your custom pages. We will choose ONE PAGE AT
A TIME, you will get TWO EMAILS with changes, etc. Again, same rules
apply as all of the above.
I strongly prefer to work on only one
section of your website at a time in this manner. Therefore, if you DO
NOT HAVE all of the information for a certain section, such as wanting
to go ahead and get your 20 items listed but you do not have all of the
photos for them or all of the descriptions, then I will NOT work on
that section until you DO have all of that information at one time. If
it is going to be more than 30 days before you can gather all of that
information, you MUST communicate this with me immediately or you will
be charged the $100.00 start up fee.
If you are unsure about
your website still and have not had time to gather everything for it to
submit to me after your purchase, then it might be best for you to wait
until you ARE ready. This will allow you to become much more organized,
not be charged extra fees for designing, and it will allow us both to
complete your amazing new website much more quickly and efficiently.
Please understand that all of this is just my attempts to keep web
designing moving as fluid as possible for both designer and client, and
these rules MUST be applied in order for that to happen.
STEP 4 - The Final Approval:
We
will work on each section of your website in the same way as above,
with two email changes per each section, until all is approved and
crossed off of the list of the package that you approved. It is at this
time that your website will be completed. Any changes to your website
AFTER this time will require that you purchase the 30 minute
maintenance package that I offer for $25.00 per 30 minutes. This fee
does NOT include any click-able box designs, graphics, and etc. Those
will be charged separately PLUS the 30 minute maintenance fee.
If you have any questions regarding any of this information or how it works, PLEASE be sure to email me first and I would love to answer your questions before we get started.
After
the entire design is approved, I will then hand the website over to
you, and have at it! I am ALWAYS available to answer any questions that
you may have regarding your website and how to use it. If it is a
question that I can not answer, then Pappashop.com has a tutorial
section on their website that is more vast than you can imagine. They
answer EVERY question you could ever have on there. And if not, please
don't forget that you can email or call them at ANYTIME.
Extra Information:
Item Listing:
If
your package includes the listing of a certain amount of items, please
understand that all of those items must be listed AT ONE TIME, as
mentioned above. If your package includes the listing of 20 items, for
instance, and you can only come up with 13 items, then you can not
email me back more than 30 days later and ask for the rest of your
items to be listed. Please understand that we have certain time limits
that we can work on your designs so that we can take on new clients,
update waiting lists, and etc. Again, please communicate with me at the
time that we begin listing your items, so that we are both on the same
page about exactly what is going on. The same TWO EMAILS ONLY and 30
days rule applies here as does with all design areas of your website,
no exceptions.
You are in charge of being in charge of me!
Please understand that I
have X amount of clients at any given time, and that even though I do
my best to keep all emails that you send to me on file (as well as all
photos, graphics, etc), I do need reminded every now and then about
what is included in your package and when you are ready to start
working on it. Remember the 30 day rule. The goal with this is to get
your items designed within a time limit. For instance, if we get
through your entire website design and it is approved, and 30 days have
passed and you then remember we forgot to work on your web advertising
banners, then please understand that there will be a fee assessed to
work on those banner designs. That is what I mean by being in charge of
me too! Please always be aware of what you purchased and what is
included in that to remind me.
A Few Extras that are Very Important:
• Copyrights:
C.A.D.S. retains the copyrights to all artwork, templates, layouts,
banners, etc for your designs and websites. Everything that is designed
for your website is owned by C.A.D.S. However, upon publication of your
website/designs, you are obtaining the license to use your designs for
your business. Therefore, you are entitled to use the artwork as your
business identity, etc. Please be aware, though, that my designs are
not vector art, and a website design can not be duplicated by you for a
postcard design, etc. Each individual design must be purchased
SEPARATELY. Furthermore, your designs are created individually for your
UNIQUE business. Though C.A.D.S. owns the copyrights to the artwork
created for your designs, your designs will also not be duplicated in
their entirety for use as designs for my other clients.
• Copyright Text: This is the text that will be at the very bottom of your website. This text must NEVER be changed or edited by you.
I check these regularly and if it is ever changed, criminal lawsuit
action will be taken. If you ever change or delete it by accident,
please contact me so that I can repair it. This text is VERY important
for your business and for mine. For if this is not present on your
website, you are allowing other companies/businesses/designers, etc.,
the availability to steal the designs to your website, which will then
result in serious copyright infringements which I will take action
against.
• C.A.D.S reserves the right: to change our policies at any given time, without any written consent prior to or after purchase of your designs.
• Rotating Flash Banners: These are not included, but make a really professional impression to your website can be purchased separately here.
• Web Advertising Banners: These are small and are used for linking your website with other businesses. Please CLICK HERE to see an example and what sizes are available.
• Substitutions:
We DO allow for some substitutions to our website packages. For
instance, if you wish to purchase the EXCLUSIVE package but do not need
a logo design, you CAN replace that service, with limitations, for one
design service of equal or lesser value to the logo design. All and any
substitutions MUST be discussed before purchase and approved before we
begin.
If
you are interested in other services such as the listing of your items, flash front pages,
adding changes month-to-month and as you go, making updates when you
have a sale/etc, or having your entire website maintained by Corporate
Avenue Design Studio, please see the other listings in our Custom
Website Design category or contact us now for quotes.
Please email the information for your proofs, including your already
designed graphics, logos, any images/photos, font preferences, color
preferences, and design ideas to: info@corporateavedesign.com.
Please remember that the more descriptive you are with your design
ideas, the better we can build amazing creations to suit your needs
without assessing extra fees for alternate designs.
Turn-Around Time:
Depending
on our current work-flow and waiting list, and your timing with getting emails back to
us, you can expect the first draft of your website to be up and ready
to view online within 6-18 business
days. Please keep in mind this is AFTER we have received your email
with your pappashop password and also after we have discussed all ideas
for your website. For a more precise time, and to find out if there is a current waiting list, please email us.
Payments:
Payments
on our website are processed through Paypal. We will also accept money
orders (no personal or business checks).
Websites
must be paid in full before we will begin your design. At this time, we
do NOT accept half-down payments for our designs.
Once placed, ALL orders are FINAL.
No cancellations, refunds or returns on custom design, whatsoever, even if we have not started on your designs.
**We,
C.A.D.S., reserve the right to deny work and refuse a refund on your
purchases if 30 days have passed with no response from you, the client,
without prior knowledge. This is to prevent spending months working on
your logos, print designs, websites, etc. If after 30 days you have NOT
approved your proof/s or website designs, you will be assessed fees for
us to continue work on your designs. Please contact us for any
questions regarding this prior to purchases. Upon payment for your service, you have agreed to this notice.**
Questions?
Please use the contact form above to ask us a specific questions and we will contact you within 48 hours. Thank you!
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