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How much do you spend on your Yellow Page ad? How much on your last newspaper or trade journal ad? You'll find that web design cost if fairly insignificant when compared to the return on investment (ROI). We charge $85 per hour basic services to existing websites. $200. per Hr for SEO work, flash design and programming.

We use MySql and PHP for our databases. We use either PHP or Pearl/CGI for shopping carts. We also offer logo design and print products. Call for info and pricing.

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  • Website conception and design:
    KO-Websites provides creative and effective websites. Depending on     your needs, we may build your website from scratch or use a professionally designed template. Or, if you have an old website, we can start with that.
  • Web Stats:
    Where are your visitors coming from and how is your website listed on search engines? You NEED to know this! We can tell you.
  • Search Engine Optimizing:
    Aka. "SEO" Search Engine Optimization is a process that makes your website attractive to search engines like MSN - Google - Yahoo - ASKJeeves. We have a saying at KO-Websites... "It doesn't matter how pretty your website is... If no one can find it, it simply doesn't exist!" We are the best SEO firm in the Bay Area and we have samples to prove it.
  • Dynamic website updating by you:
    Would you like to be able to update your newsletter or items on sale yourself, without learning HTML? We can setup your webpage so you can simply cut-and-paste your updates yourself.     Read More about CMS here
  • Text authoring and editing:
    We have an on-site editor.
    Search Engine Optimizing & Submissions:
    This is one of the most important and overlooked part of web page design. This process is complex and ever changing and can be expensive! But at KO-websites, we're good at this and include it in most of our web packages.
  • Domain registration:
    We can do this, too. But recommend you do this yourself. This will insure YOU always maintain total control of it. We'll be happy to help. It's very simple.
  • Website Hosting:
    NEW! If we build your website, we'll host it for free for the first year! We have pride in our work and this is the only way we can guarantee the follow-up work necessary to make your website a success.     More about hosting here.
  • Photography:
    We will meet your photographic needs as required.
  • Digital artwork, Video, FLASH and audio:
    We do it all!


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Our websites work! We are the only Diamond Certified web design firm in the bay area. Our customer satisfaction rating is excellent and we invite you to contact our clients for a referral. Does any other website design firm your considering offer this?

KO is located in the East Bay Area town of Castro Valley, CA.

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KO-Websites Enhanced Content Management System (CMS)

The KO-Websites Enhanced Content Management System (CMS) is set to give you control of your own future on the web. It allows for you to edit ALL of your own pages with a simple WORD style editor.

The KO-Websites Enhanced Content Management System consists of many different parts, which are built to be as modular as possible, allowing extensions and integrations to be made easily. An example of such are extensions called "Plugins". Plugins are background extensions that extend the CMS with new functionality.

In addition to plugins, more comprehensive extensions are available. "Components" allow us to perform such tasks as build a community by expanding user features, backup a website, translate content and create URLs that are more friendly to search engines. "Modules" perform such tasks as displaying a calendar or allowing custom code like Google AdSense etc to be inserted within the base code allowing for smoother transitions.

KO-Websites Enhanced Content Management System permits administrators to set global configuration parameters that affect all articles. Every page conforms to these parameters by default, but a page can have its own setting for each parameter. For example, you can elect to show the article author, hide the author, or simply go with the global "show author" parameter.

Domain Name Registration-
A domain name is www.mycompany.com or .org/.net/.tv ,etc. Keep in mind that the shorter the name, the less expensive to print on signage and easier for people to remember. We highly recommend talking with us before selecting a domain name, because there are some other very important issues to consider. To search if a particular domain name is available, click here or just ask us and we'll find out for you.
Purpose of your new website-
Think about why you are building a website and what you want it to accomplish. Most reasons seem obvious, but a well-thought-out objective will save you money and insure a successful project. Some ideas to get you thinking are: What is the image you want to convey? Do you want to sell items or services on your website? Do you need to be able to accept credit cards online? Will clients access your website to see samples? Are you trying to get new business, sales leads from your site? Do you care about keeping the website fast-loading for slow connections? or do you need a graphical/media intensive website? Do you require both?
Design style-
What colors and theme do you like? Corporate style? Cartoon? Artsy? Industrial? Combination? What websites have you seen that you like and don't like? Do you want FLASH animation? Do you want to use audio voice presentations? Do you want forms for customers to fill out? Do you want a section that YOU can update yourself? Do you need a data base? a shopping cart?
Text-
Gather text and brochures that you already have assembled. Having this material on disc will save time and cost. Write down some key slogans and points you'd like to emphasize.
Photos-
Gather photos you may want to include on you website. Do they need to be edited or scanned? Or do you have digital copies?
Graphics-
Gather Logos and other artwork you may want on the website. If you don't have a logo, this is a good time to design one. With our partners at Dolphin Graphics, we can help you with this as well.
Video/Commercials-
Do you have videos or audio you want to add to your website. Although this may add to your website hosting cost because of the bandwidth demands, we find it a very effective marketing technique. If you a have a TV commercial already made, we highly recommend placing it on your website.
Voice Scripts-
If your thinking you may want to add voice audio, we'll need to write a script. What's you message? We have professional writers, editors and voice actors on staff to assist you in this.
Layout mapping-
Site navigation is one of the fundamental issues to consider. One thing to consider is, do you want to take the viewers on a "tour" or let them navigate around your website at their leisure?
E-mail- Do you want email accounts that match your domain name (name@yourcompany.com). Do you want this email "forwarded to your existing email accounts, or do you want to set up new accounts?
 

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