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CWA offers you a logical Web site design conveying your professional image and compatible with the look of your current logo and print materials. You need to supply ready-to-use components for a site, including electronic files of text and high-quality images.

We have developed our Basic Design for owners of smaller businesses and for organizations. Web design quotes in the thousands of dollars or a lack of experience about using the "world of the Web" can discourage you from making a commitment to a Web presence. CWA's aim is to provide not only an attractive, user-friendly site but also an understanding of, as well as confidence in, the process.

Basic Design Service is explained below in these sections:
Planning the Basic Design | Meeting to Plan Your Site | Going "Live" | Maintaining Your Site | Ensuring Quality | Contracting Services

If you eventually desire additional design, writing, and educational services, they are available on an hourly or negotiated fee-basis . In either case--selecting a Basic Design or choosing additional services--CWA approaches the design as a team effort so that you participate in the design process.

Basic Design Service

Planning the Basic Design. A Basic Design includes a home page and 4 additional pages. As we develop a concept for the site, we focus on the "look" of your pages, along with the logical organization of links ("navigation"). A concept includes:

Meeting to Plan Your Site. Two meetings are included in your Basic Design package:

If your business is not located in the Iowa and Illinois Quad Cities area, we can discuss the potential of conducting "meetings" through the most common distance communications: email, phone, and fax.

Between meetings, we will show you examples of the work in progress in a specified location on the CWA Web site. The examples will include one or two design themes for your site. By exchanging ideas through e-mail and phone, the design theme may be adjusted as the work progresses. An example of an adjustment is selection of a different color palette and layout. The Basic Design provides the opportunity for making adjustments twice during production.

Going "Live." When your site design is final and you are satisfied, then it is time to go "live" (i.e., on-line) on the World Wide Web. We can help you in starting a hosting account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP), for example, Internet Express, which has highly competent personnel and reliable state-of-the-art equipment, and offers three levels of accounts for small- and medium-sized businesses.

Ensuring Quality. During the design phase, our quality control methods include:

Maintaining Your Site. After the site goes on-line, the Basic Design service includes two months of follow-up. The follow-up time is another step toward ensuring quality so that your site is error-free. After the two-month follow-up period, you may wish us to continue maintaining your site. In that case, we document our time spent until at least one hour is reached, and then we invoice you for that hour. The documentation is kept on your web site so that you can access it for details of my update activities and charges. (View the update worksheet.)

Contracting Services. Our first meeting is free. It is our time to get to know each other and your project needs.:

After you use our Basic Design service, please consider Christine Walker Associates for your future professional and technical communications needs. (See a review of Christine Walker's Experience.)