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If you
are a non-profit ministry in need of a web design, please
read the following
important announcement which details a new procedure and
opportunity for you...
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We live in a society that
regularly uses the internet each and every day as the first source of
information they turn to.
 ...and
when it comes to finding a church, people turn to the internet because it
allows them to quickly find out what they want to know
...Location ...Doctrine ...Specialized Ministries
...Staff ...Service Schedules ...Contact Info ...Calendar of Events
...Guest Speakers ...and more!
Is your church on the
web?
If not, then potential visitors may
never visit your church because they did not find you or else find out
what they wanted to know about you. And the current members of your church
could more easily check what times meetings are, download sermon notes or
give your church's web address to a curious friend, co-worker, relative or
neighbor who wants to know a bit more about your church before visiting.
Does it really matter how well
your church's site design looks?
 Just as long as
you
have a web site, that's all that matters, right? Your church's
web site might be the first impression a potential visitor gets of your
church. The
saying is quite true! "You only get one chance to make a first
impression." ...
don't let it be a wrong one! Part of your church's goal is to project a
positive image to your community. Isn't that why you go to such efforts to
make sure that your building is clean and attractively decorated?
Likewise, your church's web site should also be a reflection of the care
and quality that you want to convey to the community. People really do
judge a book by it's cover.
Professional web design need
not cost a lot!
You can have an
attractive, professionally designed web site because professional web
design need not cost allot! As a youth pastor and elder in my church, I
sit at church budget meetings each month, so I understand how difficult it
can be to "find money" for what seems like something unimportant.
But as a professional designer I know how important a
professionally designed web site is! Many times my pastor has told me of
someone who visited our church because they saw our web site. A web
site pays for itself in the services it returns to you and your
congregation. Unlike print, radio or TV, a web site is available 24 hours
a day with text, pictures, audio and video for your congregation and the
people of your community to access at will.
I can show you ways to make a
professionally designed web site even more affordable.
 If
you would like to have a web site but thought you had to wait until you
had thousands of dollars first then wait no more! If your budget is
limited then you can start your site out small and build onto it as you
can afford to. Additionally, my Full Package web design plan includes
training which will allow you too easily maintain your own site, saving
you potentially hundreds or even thousands of dollars! Don't keep putting
off your new web site.
Call Mike Bennett Graphics today and let's discuss how you can start today
with your new, or re-designed web site!
WEB DESIGN RATES
FULL PACKAGE CUSTOM SITE DESIGN
$400 for the first page. $50 for each additional text and graphic page*,
$30 for each "text only" page*.
No "prefab" templates and graphics.
Everything is custom designed so that your site will be
unique, not a templated copycat site that came out of a box. This is
by far my most popular web design plan as it allows you to easily
maintain your own website without requiring you to know any
html. This plan uses Microsoft FrontPage. FrontPage is perhaps one of
the simplest web design programs to use. It is powerful enough for the
professional, and at the same time easy for the novice. Most people
already know how to use Microsoft Word or Excel. If you already
possess these skills, you have all the skills needed to maintain your
own FrontPage site! The user interface is very similar to Microsoft
Word's interface making the learning curve a snap and this plan
includes a single, over-the-phone training session in using FrontPage.
Once the site is built, I will get on the phone with you and walk you
through, step-by-step, all that you need to know to edit a page and
build a new page.
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This Plan Saves You Money! Because
you do not have to pay a design professional to make simple, routine
changes to your site, you save money from monthly "webmaster" and
"maintenance" fees.
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This Plan Gives You Control! Need
to make a quick change to your site? Instead of sending a request to
your webmaster and waiting for them to find the time tomorrow, next
week or next month in their schedule, you can make the change
yourself right away! No waiting! Make changes as freely and as often
as you like!
WHAT THIS PLAN INCLUDES:
A Custom Designed FrontPage "Theme":
Microsoft has built into it's design
program what it calls a "theme". The theme consists of all of the
sites master navigation graphics such as the color scheme, vertical
and horizontal buttons, page title banners, formatted text etc..
This allows your site to be visually consistent from page to page,
giving your site a clean, consistent, professional look. It also
makes site maintenance a snap because it automatically generates new
buttons and page title banners for you. It then updates all of the
links on every page for you by placing the new button with the page
name on each page automatically. If you delete a page it
automatically updates all of the links on all of your pages and
removes the button for that page automatically. It gives you
complete control over your site with a minimum of effort.
A Custom Designed Template: I will
create a custom designed page template which will control each
page's layout and visual design. This will give your site a
consistent look on each page and allow you to create new pages with
simplicity.
Photo Editing: One of the most important
elements that sets apart a well designed site from a poorly designed
site are the photos. I have seen many sites that made awful mistakes
with the photos such as resizing images using html. This method
should never be used because it distorts the image. I am an expert
in Photoshop. Using Photoshop I will color and tone balance them, if
necessary, retouch them and then size them to the correct resolution
and dimensions. With this plan you can have up to ten photos/images
per page*.
Text Formatting: Using the text that you
supply, I will format it and lay it out to give it a clean,
professional look with consistency from page to page.
Basic Training: If you've never used
FrontPage before, no need to worry! Once the site is built, I will
get on the phone with you and walk you through, step-by-step, all
the basics that you need to know to edit a page, rename a page,
delete a page and create a new page.
SIMPLE SITE DESIGN
$150 for the first page and $30 for each additional page.
This plan, just as the name implies is a "simple
design". No "theme" or custom designed navigation graphics. You will
get a simple page which consists of your logo (supplied by you, or if
you like you can
order a
custom logo design from me), an animated navigation bar (animated
button links), your text and up to two photos per page.
ADDITIONAL DESIGN
OPTIONS
Additional design options such as
Flash animation and
custom graphics for use on various pages of your site can be added to
your order at the rate of †$75
per hour for Flash and †$50
per hour for custom graphics
Please call or
email me if you
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A page for the purposes of pricing is defined as the equivalent of
what will roughly fit within a 800 pixel wide by 1200 pixel depth
page. Page contents which extend beyond this limit will be billed
as an additional page for each incidence of going beyond the 800
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Half hour minimum. |
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