Weblogix Website Development WorkSheet

Contact Info: First Name:    Last Name:
Email:   Current Website:

1. Purpose
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 us by phone or mail to consummate a sale.
To make available product information and price lists to distributors.
To make available product information and price lists to customers.
To strengthen brand identification.
Other:

1b. Web Sites to Model After
Please pick 2 or 3 websites that you like from the elements from or would like to model your website after.

Web Sites that you like the visual elements (color, white space, style, navigation etc)
Site 1: Why:
Site 2: Why:

Web Sites that you like the graphics, pictures, animation from:
Site 1: Why:
Site 2: Why:

Competitor's web sites that you like the furnctionality from (forms, chat, forum, database, search boxes):
Site 1: Why:
Site 2: Why:


2. Site Organization

Please complete the outline below, each line being its own page. Some recommended pages are about us, history, staff, competitive edge, clients, examples, screen shots, photo gallery, news, events, resources, links, contact, FAQ, help, testimonials, forum, portfolio, maps, directions, board, legal, privacy, etc..

Total number of pages decided upon


8. Photos, Graphics, Animations, Sound, and Video

Do you have pictures that you want to put on the site? How many total? If not, are you willing to pay $49 per picture from stock photography? About how many pictures per page?

Do you have a logo, if not do you want one created?


9. Response Forms - What is the purpose of collecting user data?

Guestbook for visitors to record comments
Request for information
Survey of customer preferences
Online order forms. If you want to receive credit card information, you'll need (at extra charge) an SSL-secure server and either

THe above DATA is THEN SENT TO Either:
Your email or multiple emails
Your email AND a Database to be downloaded later


10. Do you want a website that is dyanmic or has special scripting other then forms in #9 above?

I would like a shopping cart that I can maintain via a web based tool
Yes, I need a database that can update the pages dynamically. In other words, I have data, text, pictures that I want to show, based on certain user input or queries.
I have other web based functions I need to perform:
Do you already have an existing database? If so, what database & how many records?


11. Ecommerce

Do you want to accept credit cards or checks through the internet?
Do you want the credit card number to be authorized through the internet in realtime? (Additional mo. fee of $25/mo)
Do you have a merchant account already?
Can your products be sold via a shopping cart? Things that require lots of special calculations or only have a few products may not need a cart system.
Do you offer discounts, coupons, distributors prices, bulk discounts?

HOSTING
What are your hosting needs?

  1. Will you need web hosting services? If not, what is the website address with the company you are you hosting with?

  2. Please check off the products and services you will need with web hosting: (standard hosting includes: (storage,data transfer, FTP, statistics, and emai

      Shopping Cart - Products are selected and placed in a shopping baseket from a database of products.
      Secure Directory - Secure an area for only certain customers or members to login and see.
          Extra MB of storage for documents,pictures,etc..
      Bulletin Board Feature - Visitors can post messages and communicate
      Special scripting language - Front Page Extensions, Perl, etc..
      Secure Server: For Secure Credit card or other transactions
      Newsletter Management - Mail out newsletters from the server with template and campaign controls
      Off Site Backup service - Send files to your or another backup location
      Database Access: Circle One: MS Access, SQL Server, or MySQL

  3. Based on the amount of traffic and storage, and extras services you checked above what do you think is the going rate of web hosting? $ / mo.
UPDATING
How will your site be maintained?
  1. How often will it be updated? Which sections?
  2. Do you need a web based page editor to maintain the textual content of your web pages?
Vendors

COST
What is your budget?

One approach to developing a budget is to go back over all the questions in the Worksheet and put costs to what you answered for your Web site wish list.

  1. Initial expenditure.
    Development $
    Hosting $
    Promotion, Optimization, Search Engine Marketing $