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Web Design Package (Rent A Site) - FAQs
What do we offer?
What does it cost?
Who does the content?
Who owns the site?
What is the design process?
How do I arrange a site update?
Can I update the site myself?
Are unlimited updates too good to be true?
How will people find my site?
Can I add ecommerce at a later date?
Rent-A-Site is a complete website package for a business wishing to outsource the design and MAINTENANCE of their website.
To our knowledge, we are the only organization in Australia offering customized websites and a full update service for a fixed price.
All our websites are professionally designed from scratch - no templates are used. Rent-A-Site provides up to 10 pages of content and 20 images in the basic package.
Additional pages can be added for $82.50 a page (which includes allowance for 2 photos on the page). More photos can be added, if required, at the cost of $16.50 per photo.
Once the site is live, there is a monthly rental to cover the ongoing cost of hosting the site and providing our update service. With our package, you can update the content of your site whenever you wish for no extra charge (conditions apply).
In summary, Rent-A-Site provides:
- a custom website with up to 10 pages & 20 images
- unlimited “reasonable” updates
- hosting with 24 hr technical support
- email redirection or separate accounts
... and so provides everything a business needs to outsource a business website.
Call 1300 THE LAD and get your business on the Web with the best value package in Australia!
Website design: $2,475 (up to 10 pages & 20 images)
Monthly rental : $66.55 (incl updates & hosting)
(Just a minute! Did you get that!! The monthly rental includes both HOSTING and UPDATES. Do you know of any other package like that?)
There is a once-off server set-up fee of $88 (includes email set-up).
Additional Pages, Images & Flash Animation
The Rent-A-Site package is very flexible. Additional pages and images can be added as required.
If more than 10 pages & 20 images are required in the initial design, each additional page is $82.50 (once-off) and each additional image is $16.50 (once-off).
A flash panel, to highlight some major selling points, can be added to the home page for a once-off fee of $330 incl GST.
If an unusually large change (or update) is required to a website - and it would need to be quite time consuming to us to charge - we would quote the work on $99 per hour.
Payment Structure
Initial deposit: $973.50 - a "look and feel" is then designed to your satisfaction or your money back. A breakdown of the payment is:
- once-off server setup fee: $88.00
- hosting: 3 months @ $38.50 per month = $115.50
- design payment: $770.00
Progress Payment: $1320.00
Final design payment: $2,475 - $770 - $1320 = $385. Monthly rental now moves from $38.50 during design phase to $66.55.
We find most small businesses are too busy to get involved in the detail of their site and have trouble putting pen to paper.
We're used to that.
If you can describe how you make money in your business, we can reformulate that into a website that will highlight your Unique Selling Proposition and be an effective marketing tool for your business.
We use your company logo, if you have one, and any existing catalogues, reports, photos etc.
If you are not the world’s best writer, don’t worry. We can take any drafts or page ideas and whip them into shape. Yes, it’s all in the price … no extra cost! But please help us as much as you can.
When you rent, you don’t own. That’s the point of renting. So The LAD owns the site but our two companies work together as a partnership.
The LAD is responsible for the computer side of things and the company is responsible for the accuracy of the content. You need to be as careful with what you say on your website as you would be with any other published marketing material.
We have chosen this arrangement so that we can offer a low establishment price. If we didn't keep possession of the site, some sharp operators would ask us to do a $3500 site for $2475 and then wave goodbye as they walked out the door with the site on a CD and The LAD out of pocket!
But seriously, there is really no need to own the site and incur a high upfront fee. If someone wants to own it we will negotiate – usually we charge an extra $1000.
The circumstances when this might be necessary is when a company has contracted out its computer services and wants the site consolidated with those arrangements.
Learn more about the benefits of renting your website.
The Rent-A-Site design process has 5 steps:
Sign up
Once you contact us to say you want to proceed with a website, we will email you a copy of our Service Agreement and an invoice for the $863.50 deposit. Once we receive the signed Agreement and your deposit (which we fully refund if you are not happy with the draft design as outlined in Step 3 below), we will contact you by phone to discuss the design of your site.
Phone Interview
A consultant will contact you to discuss your requirements in sufficient detail to begin a draft design concept. We will establish the primary purpose of the site, who your target market is and what materials are available for use on the site e.g. logo, photos, brochures etc.
Creation of Design Concept i.e. a draft design
Once we have received your materials (which a courier will pick up free of charge), we will begin a draft design. Normally this consists of the front page, including logo and appropriate images, and a specimen interior page layout. We then post it to a private address on the web for you to view and await your feedback and alterations. We will work with you until you are happy with the design OR YOUR MONEY BACK!
Progress Payment and Site Content
Once you are happy with the draft design, a progress payment of $880.00 is due and we then proceed to complete the content of the site. Again you are invited to make comments, alterations etc. However, we do not allow changes to the design concept at this stage because it has already been given final approval.
Publication to your web address
Your business is now online! Once your site is "live" the final account falls due.
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