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Vision House Studio offers creative, advanced, database driven web site design services for businesses, churches and individuals.  We leverage the lower costs of open source components such as PHP, Linux and MySQL with our in house creative talent to offer truly effective, interactive web sites that will impress your visitors and motivate them to action.

Advanced features include:
User Login
Rights Management
eCommerce Stores
Calendaring
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
Video & Photo Galleries
Content Management Systems
Flash Interactivity
Custom Designed Forms
Document Management
Much more...


Recent Designs:


www.hoistwarehouse.com   

CLIENT: Crane America Services
PURPOSE: B2B eCommerce & Content Management
Crane America Services required an online store with 80,000 parts, a Content Management System, and a database driven, fully indexed Document storage system for over 900 manuals.  We also created configurable products for purchase in their store- check it out.

READ MORE for a free Web Site Planning Form then send it to us for an estimate!






www.HappyTrailMinistry.com   happytrail

CLIENT: Happy Trail Ministries
PURPOSE: Ministry Showcase, Events & Content Management
Happy Trail Ministry wanted a clean and easy to understand site that would allow them to showcase their ministry and ministry activities.  We created a a very intuitive site full of useful tools including an interactive Event Calendar, Guestbook, FAQ's and Latest News.

READ MORE for a free Web Site Planning Form then send it to us for an estimate!







For an estimate, please print this form out and return to us at:

Vision House Studio
PO Box 1031
Lebanon OH 45036

You may also download the form here: pdf form-_web_site_planning 460.78 Kb




Website Planning Worksheet

Organization Name: __________________________

1. Purpose

Rank each item in importance (Give the most important purpose a "1", next most important a "2"...)

Leave those blank which do not interest you at all.


__ To gain a favorable impression of the company or organization.
__ To develop a qualified list of prospects
__ To sell products directly taking credit card information over the Internet
__ To encourage potential customers to contact me by phone or mail.
__ To make available service or product information and price lists to distributors.
__ To make available service or product information and price lists to customers.
__ To strengthen awareness of ministry or brand identification.
__ Other _______________________________________________________

 


2. Site Organization

Please label pages you desire and cross out the rest. planningsheet



 

Total number of pages decided upon ________________

 


3. Site and Domain Names

Site Name on Header: ____________________________________

Domain Name It must be registered through your web hosting service and approved by a domain registration service before you can use it. You may check the availability of your domain name at Network Solutions (http://www.networksolutions.com) Or we can take care of all registration & hosting- please call 800-683-1349

Domain name ____________________________     ___Desired ___Already Registered

2nd request"______________________________

3rd Request:_______________________________

4th request:________________________________




4. Header Graphic / Logo

It is very helpful if you will include a copy of your company's letterhead, brochures, catalog, etc. so I can see how you present your company image.
__ Company Logo incorporated in the masthead graphic? If so, please enclose a color copy. 

__ Photo or drawing of product?

__ Typeface preference __________________________________________

__ Preferred colors in palette _______________________________________

__ Other ideas/websites that you like _________________________________________________________


5. Color and Accents

For the most part, I recommend a nuetral/bright background for best readability and contrast, with a band of color or a pattern running down the left and top margin of the web page. Your preference:

Unless specifically agreed otherwise, each web page will have a discreet link stating 'Web Design by Vision House Studio- this will link to http://www.visionhousestudio.com  This is normal practice.  Any removal of this link will be considered a breach of contract.  


6. Navigation System

The navigation system of all Standard Website Packages includes:

  • Links from the front page and sectional pages to every page in the system to enable Web search engines to "spider" and index content on every page.
  • Colored bar "Image Map" with a brief word or two indicating each page -- or, in larger sites -- each section of the website. This appears at the bottom of every page. In some sites I put this both top and bottom. You are limited to a maximum of about eight (8) selections on this image map.
  • Left-Side column with text links are especially useful on larger sites. Included in sites of 6 pages or more. They can allow more detail than an 8-item bottom image map, and can enable visitors to see from any page how to get to any other. These may be white or light-colored over a dark left-side color or pattern, or black or dark over a light left-side color or pattern.
Optional Systems. Circle those you wish incorporated in your site.

  • Logo Development
  • eCommerce with Product or Donation Processing
  • Integrated eMail newsletter system
  • Forums Section
  • Search Engine is useful on larger sites of  20+ pages to help visitors quickly find what they're looking for. (Extra charge)
  • Many others available- please inquire - call me at 800-683-1349.


7. Basic Page Elements

These are the important items, which appear on nearly every web page on your site (except the "home" page).  If you DO NOT HAVE A PREFERENCA - JUST PUT "STANDARD"

  • Page titles which show at top of Web browser only
  • Top-of-page graphic based on the design of the masthead graphic
  • Page Title in larger type. Heading Font Style: ________________ (recommend Arial Bold)
  • Text. Body Font Style: ___________________ (recommend Times New Roman)
  • Standard company ID near bottom of page
  • E-mail response link to the following e-mail address: _________________________
  • Copyright and trademark information in small print at the bottom of every page. What registered trademarks, trademarks, and service marks does your company want to indicate here?
Do you have any trademarks or service marks?  If so, please list them here and indicate which are registered trademarks.


8. Photos, Graphics, Animations and Sound

Our contract includes a statement that you own the copyright to, or have permission from the copyright owner to use any photos or graphics you send us. The standard web site package includes basic use of graphics and Flash.

  • Clipart tends to look a bit tacky on websites. I recommend photos.
  • Photos you supply either by sending the photos themselves for us to scan and return, or by sending the digitized images on a diskette.
  • Stock photos obtained from Photodisc (http://www.photodisc.com), Corel (http://commerce.corel.com), or PictureQuest (http://www.picturequest.com/). (You write down the photo number and inform us of your choices, and which page each photo goes on. I can help you select the photos, but I would need to bill you for my time at my hourly rate.)
  • Photos which I take utilizing a Nikkon Coolpix 990 Digital camera (extra charge)
For an extra charge, I can equip your web pages with:

  • Sound, either MIDI, Wave or MP3 musical background.
  • Animated GIF images. High quality photo images are available from PhotoDisc (http://www.photodisc.com) and other sources. I can also make animations for an extra charge.
  • Advanced Flash Animations - highly recommended
  • As a video production company, we can create quality video pieces based on your product or service- in some cases we can do this from photos alone, saving the cost of a production crew. Please call 800-683-1349 for more information.

9. Response Forms

What is the purpose of your response form?

__ Guest book for visitors to record comments
__ Request for information
__ Survey of customer preferences
__Custom - please describe:__________________________________________________________

Note: On-line stores can also be provided with secure servers.  Please call 800-683-1349 for more information. 


10. Web Hosting Service

We can provide or recommend quality hosting services.  We do not recommend hosting on your local dial-up ISP, since they too often are not well prepared to meet specialized business site hosting needs.  We require cgi-bin access, MySQL, PHP 4 or 5 and FTP access, and strongly recommend telnet access.

____ Check here if you want us to provide hosting services for you.

Please fill in these detail if you already have a hosting service:

Web Hosting Service _____________________________________
Phone: _____________________________
E-mail for support or help ______________________________


11. Registering and Advertising Your Website

Consider:

  • Advertising your Website to Web search engines that index the Web
  • Giving customers a good reason to come by offering them something
  • Finding industry-wide linking pages and negotiating reciprocal links to and from their web pages.
  • Purchasing Web advertising
  • Becoming active in several of the thousands of Internet news groups and mailing lists
  • Developing a "signature" mini-ad attached to all your e-mail messages
  • Including your e-mail and Web addresses on all your company's print literature, stationery, and display advertising
  • E-mail newsletters
We can provide add-ins to your site that provide comprehensive statistics about visitors, bots, spiders and page inmpressions at an extra charge.  Information about number of visitors to your website can usually be obtained from your Internet Service Provider, from statistics generated daily by such programs as WWWSTAT, GETSTATS, or Analog on the host computer.  We do not include page counters on Standard Website Packages

Yyour information will be submitted to Web search engines to "register" your website after final payment is received. 


On behalf of my organization I approve the above plan which I have developed with Vision House Studio to construct a website, and I authorize Vision House Studio to use this Website Planning Worksheet as the basis of the project.


Signature _____________________________________ Date _________________


 
Once you are ready to proceed, these are the items that will make up the package you'll be sending to us:

  • This Signed Website Planning Worksheet
  • Signed Estiamte Form & Terms
  • Website Content Emailed to Us which will define:
    • Written content for your web pages (preferably emailed or sent on a diskette formatted for Word for Windows [2.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, or 2000], Word Perfect [5.1, 6.0+], or other word processor
    • Photos or graphics to be included. You may send graphics and photos, which we can scan into electronic form(scans may require additional charges). Even better, email or send us a diskette or ZIP disk with your graphics in any popular PC format, such as GIF, JPEG, BMP, EPS, CDR, PCX, etc.). If these are in Mac format, make sure each picture has a 3-digit extension, such as .jpg to indicate the format in which it is given.
    • Your company logo, and tell us the PMS color- contact us if you need a logo to be developed - 800-683-1349.
  • Samples of your printed materials -- brochures, letterheads, cards, booklets, etc. -- so I can see how you present your company image.
  • Check for at least 50% of the total.
 

You may send your payment & package information to:

ATTN: Web Site Development
Vision House Studio
PO Box 1031
Lebanon, OH 45036

Last Updated ( Sunday, 20 January 2008 )