Have you visited our
Terms
of Services section? In there you will find our agreement about web
design services which may answer your questions. Otherwise, read
below and see if we address any of the issues you have in mind. For
any other questions, request, or comments not covered by our Terms
of Services or this F.A.Q., please fill out the form in our
contact us page or email us directly at
simplesites@paperfollies.com.
Turn around time for
completion of any website project will depend on the
size of the website, readiness of your content (very
important as you must provided us the main content), amount of work to be done in terms of
application installation and testing, and on our current
work load. Once you contract us for your website design,
and we know more about the type and amount work
required, we'll be able to provide you with a more
specific estimate of completion time.
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Simple answer. Because it's your
website, your organization and you know best about it
than any one else. If you want your organization or any
activity you lead to be
successful, you must plan and research for it carefully
and ultimately be able to present the information gathered.
This effort should be extended to your website too. As
your web design team, we will work with you in
organizing your content, reword it to incorporate
popular keywords in it to make it search engine
friendly. We can
make recommendation on format, 3rd party
applications to use, or ways to promote your website
online. But we can not
write your entire content from scratch for you.
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Our motto
is about creating simple, straight forward sites
because in our experience, we have seen over and
over that bells and whistles is not what make a
site's success but rather it's content.
The most successful sites we have seen (in terms
of page rank and hits) are quite simple in
design but rich in content. In addition, fancy
add-ons such as pop-ups, flash animations,
special color effects, fancy rotating banners,
background or music, etc. add to the coding work
and time (hence to the fees) required to design
a website. They can also slow down the time a
site takes to load. Aesthetics can never be a
substitute for content. That's is why our
philosophy is to work on the latter and keep the
former simple.
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If you don't know how
many pages you need, we will work with you to help you
organizing your content. A website with pages crammed
with too much text and/or image content may be
overwhelming for visitors and it's not the best design
approach. On the other end, a website with many pages
with sparse or little content in each is not a good
approach either. The key is to categorize your website
so that all relevant content is readily and clearly
accessible to your site visitors. Our ordering
process is flexible and additional pages and options can always be
added later.
We suggest that you use
our information in our "How
to get started", "Web
site Structure Guide", and "Web
Site Content Guide" to get an idea. You can also use
read the valuable external resources' links provided in
our site map section.
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The individual additional
page option is given to provide you with more
flexibility with your required number of additional
pages. Although the 5-pages set offers a discounted
price per page, one may not need to pay for 5 additional
pages if only 1 or 2 are needed.
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Web browsers are created
by different programming teams so may
render/display website a bit differently. In our website
design codes, we use strict adherence to
World Wide Consortium's (W3C) established standards.
While web browsers
may be programmed differently, all strive to incorporate the W3C's
standards into their coding. By adhering to the W3C's
standard, we ensure that all our websites will have a
similar appearance and functionality across browsers
even though minute differences may occur.
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When you order your
design package, make sure to select the option "Site
Backup on Disc" in the order form. We only ask $2
for this option which is to cover shipping and handling
of this backup CD. Once your website is complete, we
will also provide you instructions on how to
access/download it's content directly online. So even if
you don't ask for a backup CD, you still have ways to
download and keep a backup of your website.
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If you want to add additional pages to
the your site's current page counts, then it would be an
"a la carte" type of
request. Please submit your request via the "Epsilon
Order Form" and indicate how many additional pages
you need. If your request is not about adding new pages
but about changing content in existing pages, please
indicate the number of pages needing update and put an
explanation in the description box about the specific
update needed. Based on the amount of work to be done,
we will apply a reduced page fee for the update. Very
minor updates (like small typo fixing, or small text
removal or correction) may actually be done for free.
However, if more than 5 pages need to be changed, or if your
request implies change of appearance (graphic, color, etc.) however we reserve
the right to require payment at the reduced page fee.
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Use our handy
word count form right here.
Follow the instructions on how to use the form. If you have over 500 words, price
per translation will be adjusted using a pro-rated formula.
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While we may use
electronic dictionaries to check for spelling or meaning
of special terms, all translations are made by humans This
is because no automated software can give true quality
translation as no software program can accurately factor
in cultural, and idiomatic context. There are
online tools or services that can translate web site
contents on the fly and for free. But those
translation are
literal or raw translation at best and their quality
is often sup par. While they may provide a general
idea of what the page is about, it may give a bad impression
with site visitors of foreign origin especially if you are
trying to sell products or services in your website.
It will suggest that you were not willing to spend time
or resources to translate your page with proper care and
grammar.
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First, be aware that
traffic will not build in one day. Second, Search Engine
Optimization (or
SEO) is a different field of web services in itself.
It's part of web marketing and often involves thorough
research of keywords trends within the type of
industry a website is part of. Web marketing is also
often offered separately from the basic web design. However,
your web site can be designed and worded to make it more
SEO friendly (e.g. to help major search engines index
and find it faster) from the start.
In the design of
your web site, we will research keywords used by
the popular search engines and incorporate them in your
site text content. Once your site is
completed, we will manually submit it to the major
search engines. Another online method to bring traffic
is to exchange links with other organization doing
similar work or of similar affiliation or interest.
If you already know of such organizations, let us know
and we will add them to your links/resources section and
contact them to request them to list your site in theirs
as well. Alternatively, we can help identify
organizations to exchange links with.
However, you must also
not forget to promote your site off the internet. You
are the best marketing promotion tool for your site and
personal networking can bring the best of traffic.
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We will submit your site to GOOGLE,
MSN, Yahoo, DMOZ, Alta Vista and more. See a compilation
list of major search and directories
here.
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Stationery orders will be
processed through our master site,
www.paperfollies.com. Reorder instructions will be
provided once we shipped you your customized stationery.
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If you did not find your answer here,
please please fill out the form in our
contact us page or email us directly at
simplesites@paperfollies.com.
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