Brief

To design and develop a static, brochure-ware website.
An initial brief has been given and will be followed by further discussions and emails to finalise the website visual.

Website Content

The website will be content-managed to allow for pages to be added or edited with ease.
For the site’s colour scheme we would suggest keeping those currently used on the
new logo, or variations of this. We aim to make the overall design clean, classy and user friendly.

The pages currently agreed are: Home, Gallery, Packages, Events, Links and Testimonials a blog has also been discussed. PayPal
payments will be enabled on the website

Timeline

  • Brief (semi-completed)
  • 1 Photoshop design
  • Revisions
  • Sign off
  • Website build
  • Sign off
  • Launch

 

Timescale (estimate)

3-4 weeks of production time from receipt of signed contract and deposit.
Please note: This timescale is dependent on your input at certain key stages in the process.

Any delay in responding will result in a delay in the final delivery date.

Pricing

This is a fixed price quote and will not change, provided the scope of the project does not change. All prices are free from VAT.

Fixed Elements

Build of new content managed website £850

Total: £850

Ongoing Elements

There will be no ongoing elements for this project.

Optional Elements

There will be no optional elements for this project.

Payment Terms

Please review our payment terms below.

Fixed/Optional Elements

40% deposit paid in advance. Balance paid on completion. Unless paying monthly.

Ongoing Elements

Monthly in advance.

Optional Elements

Paid on completion.

Validity

This proposal is valid until 22st August 2010.

Design Team

Team

Delicious Webdesign are an Essex based web design, graphic design and search engine company fronted by James Brabyn. James will oversee all aspects of your website, from design to promotion. He has over a decade of experience working with clients ranging from self-employed businessmen to multinational companies.

Delicious Webdesign has a core team of designers, developers and search engine specialists, as well as a network of specialists we call upon on a project-by-project basis. This ensures all our work has the optimal team working on it.

We are able to provide services in a variety of disciplines including:

  • Branding
  • Graphic design
  • Web design
  • XHTML and CSS coding
  • PHP/MySQL
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Search Engine Marketing (SEM / PPC)
  • E-mail newsletters
  • Content Management Systems
  • Blogging
  • Flash

To achieve the highest possible success rate and maximum functionality, the Delicious Webdesign team reviews the completed site from many different angles, this includes: ease of contact; navigation; and time-to-load.

Core Team

James Brabyn
Role: Consultancy, development, Search Engine Optimisation
Experience: 10 years
About: Initially self-taught and with a BSc in Business Information Technology, James has witnessed the web change several times and can tap into all aspects of the website design and computing worlds.

Steve Hague
Role: Consultancy, design
Experience: 6 years
About: Testing out his skills at University, Steve has been a key part in the launch
of many major websites from 2008. No job is too complicated, from logo
design, blogs, right through to javascript. You name it he will deliver. Steve has been a key part to the success of Delicious.

Mike Foster
Role: Development
Experience: 5 years
About : He loves all things technical and is a wizard with most programming languages. A truly great guy, Mike has ideas for everything. Specialising in e-commerce.

Chris

Role: Consultancy, design
Experience: 6 years
About: Loves all things technical and can often ruin a good
weekend talking about his love for graphic design. Settling in well, he is
already sinking his teeth into numerous web site projects.

Website Development

Methodology

All our sites are built to the highest possible technical and design standards.

Client-side development

We use a web standards approach for all our client-side code. This means:

  • All our code is valid XHTML 1.0 Strict at launch
  • All our code separates presentation from layout using CSS
  • JavaScript where used is unobtrusive
  • All XHTML mark-up is as semantic as possible
  • All our code is written with Search Engine Optimisation in mind
  • All our code is written to AA or AAA standard of technical accessibility according to
    WCAG 1
  • All pages will be cross-browser tested
  • The site will look perfect or near-perfect in the following browsers: Internet Explorer 7 & 8 (Windows XP, Windows Vista & Windows 7), Firefox 3, 3.5 & 3.6 (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 & Mac OS X), Safari 3 & 4 (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 & Mac OS X)
  • Older browsers will be able to access all functionality but we do not guarantee the look and feel is identical to newer versions
  • All code is built to gracefully degrade to be “browser proof” e.g. to look acceptable when text-sizes are changed, at low or high browser window sizes etc.

Server-side development

We use open-source technologies where possible, as they tend to be better documented and have a better supply of developers. Generally, we develop using PHP 5 and MySQL 5.

Coding approach

For smaller projects, we use procedural mark-up, as it is the most cost-effective approach for projects of this size. For larger projects, where appropriate, we use an object-oriented approach.

Quality of code

Whichever approach we employ, we code to industry standards.

Documentation

All server-side code is documented, to allow easy hand over of the code to another developer in future.

Use of existing open-source code

Depending on the nature of the project, existing open-source software such as Joomla! may be used to build some aspects of the site. This reduces costs and increases reliability as these tools have already been user-tested by the web development community.

Testing

All code is thoroughly and methodically tested using a variety of approaches, including user testing and heuristic testing (pre-defined check points).