The Buyback promotion

We are offering a huge promotion that will last till the end of the year.  That’s right for the rest of 2009 we essentially buying your business. 

There are many people that I talk to that tell me that they paid a lot of money for a website and never got the results that they were promised by the web design company.  Whether it is because of poor design, not finishing the project like they had stated, or it was simply not what they said it was going to be.  People are frustrated because they spend a lot of money on web design but never get what they paid for.  So now they are hesitant to spend more money on web design or any other design service for that matter.  That’s where the buyback promotion comes in.

How does the promotion work?

Let me give you an example so that you will better understand how the promotion works.  Let’s say that you paid $2500 for a custom made website and for some reason were very dissatisfied with the results OR  your project was never  completed. Bring your receipt for the web design service that you paid for by the other company and we’ll give you the amount that you paid for as a credit with OUR Company for our services. You only pay the difference between our cost and your credit.  You might be saying what’s the catch?  No Catch!

You could simply get a custom made high quality website for hundreds of dollars and finally get what you paid for.  Were simply giving you another shot to get that premium website that you’ve been waiting for.
This is an unheard of promotion and people might call us crazy but that’s what sets us apart from these other companies.  We not only want you business now, but we want your business long term and another advantage is that we are a FULL SERVICE design company. We want you to put us in charge of all your design needs. 

How do I apply?

Simply email us at buyback@wired2design.com or call us at 214-938-4294 and simply tell us your story and provide us with your receipt and we’ll get started today.  Consider this your web design bailout plan.

Visit http://www.wired2design.com/buyback-promotion.php to learn more!

Take advantage of this unheard of promotion and redeem your website today!

I read this blog and had to repost as I thought this was the most honest answer when it comes to “How much does a website cost?” The questions is often asked and it’s amusing to hear web designer’s answer. I do have to give credit it to www.3232design.com for this blog.I wish most web designers and developers would give answers such as this.  To those who really try to figure an answer to this question stop thinking so hard and read below. 

“42 what?” You ask. Dollars? Pounds? Quatloos?”

Well, yes.

That’s because there’s not enough information for a meaningful answer. The cost of a given website depends on what goes into producing that website. This is related to, but not entirely dependent upon, an hourly rate for the concept, design, coding, and administration.

“Great!” You exclaim. “What’s your hourly rate?”

Hold on, there. Let’s suppose a designer uses a rate of $10 an hour. As a designer gets more experienced, she will create better designs, and at a faster pace. What used to take an hour now only takes twenty minutes, and the quality has improved. As time goes on the designer realizes that she is making less money for creating higher-quality websites. So she does the obvious thing and raises her hourly rate to $30.

Now how much does that website cost? For the quality and amount of time it takes, not much more–because our more experienced designer is much faster now and the quality of her design has gone up. But you don’t know that, all you know is her hourly rate is more than that other guy ($10), and way more than those generic HTML templates where you can get 12 for $25.

So our designer then decides to charge on a bid basis and not use an hourly rate except internally to aid in estimating the project. This way her clients can make more reasonable comparisons between designers based on a total cost for the project, and they want our more experienced designer because her designs will tell their marketing story much better. And with her added experience, she may have suggestions on how to improve their marketing message.

Which brings us back to the original question. How much does that website cost? Once you know what you’re doing with your website you can begin to find meaningful answers. If your site is just a few static pages, it probably won’t be as expensive as one with a lot of programming, which adds to the cost depending on the complexity. If you want a really exceptional design that will win awards, that will take longer to develop and might cost more. But the designer needs to know what you want to do to figure out how long it will take, and thus what your site will cost.

“OK,” you say, “I want a website like yours. What would that cost me?” So I break down what was involved in designing my company website: the marketing copy, the conceptual design, coding the blog, contact forms, portfolio page and Flash navigation…

“Hey, I don’t need all those things,” you say. And you’re right, unless you are me. And even then maybe your marketing message doesn’t require a blog, or a Flash navigation. You may need similar elements, but customized for your applications. “Just give me a ballpark range,” you say.

42-ish.

There can be a lot of variation even in a website that just needs a few static pages of content. Will you need stock photography? Do you have your copy written, or will you need a writer? Maybe your copy includes a lot of complicated tabular data that needs to be translated into HTML, or it turns out that you really need something entirely different from what you thought.

A good design firm will walk you through a process where you can answer all those marketing, design, and technical questions in a straightforward, step-by-step manner. You can then compare pricing from different design firms based on the costs for creating the same content, and when the costs are different you can factor in the quality of design or whether or not you think your designer will be loads of fun to work with, and will offer you creative solutions that will make you stand out from the crowd.

And when you’ve gone through the process, you’ll finally know it won’t cost 42.

It’s probably closer to 43.

Bad Web Site Design
Why are there so many bad web design techniques in use today? Anyone that spends time online sees them everyday, and they make us all crazy. With a wealth of good web design information available, you would think that these web sites would change their ways. Below is our TOP-TEN list of the worst web design techniques.

#1 – Pop Ups and Broken Back Buttons
You hate the site and just can’t hit the back button fast enough, but the web site has broken your browsers back button, locking you down to throw popup ads at you faster than you can close them.

#2. Huge Flash Intro Screen
How about making a visitor with a slow dial up connection wait 5 minutes to load your site, so they can watch some Flash effects first. Visitors don’t want to wait to see a cartoon, or a fireworks display, just to see your products on your site. Most will hit the back button if they have a dial up connection.

#3. Horizontal Scrolling
Web sites can really drive people crazy making them scroll left and right to read each line. I don’t think anyone likes horizontal scrolling. So why do so many sites have horizontal scrolling? It is a result of poor design, period.

#4. Slow Load Time Problems
Slow load time, is usually the single biggest problem for an e-commerce site. When customers try to navigate around the site, looking for items they want to buy, the site drags at a snail’s pace. Most visitors leave and find a faster site to purchase from.

#5. Overuse of Banner Ads
I have visited e-commerce sites that must have been in 20 banner ad exchange programs. Frankly, the site looked like the classified section of the back of a cheap magazine. Banner ads for casinos and lingerie don’t belong on a golf equipment site. It looked like this site was actually selling golf products, but the average user would be very confused.

#6. Poor Spelling
Computers come with built in spell checkers. Why do some people just go out of their way not to use one? You are broadcasting your intelligence level to the world when you display your poor spelling on the Internet. (Buy sum cool thingz on mi sight!)

#7. Lots of Moving Things
Banners flashing, graphics twirling, words scrolling, with a string of fireworks chasing your mouse pointer.
Now, try and read the white text on the black background with all of that going on.
It makes my head hurt just thinking about it.
Please limit your site to only one moving or flashing object per page.

#8. Plenty of Music
Make sure your site cranks up some really loud, meaningless music, so you get everyone browsing the Internet at work in trouble. That is a super-fast way to make someone hit the back button. A lot of people surf the web at work, and could be potential customers, so don’t scare them off with pointless music!

#9. No Contact Information
You have searched the site high and low and are ready to buy. But now, you can’t find how to buy it, or how to contact anyone for more information. What is the site for then? No way to buy and no way to contact anyone. Did they forget an important part?

#10. Garbage Sites
Yes, make sure you include 10,000 words related to products you don’t even carry, just so that I find you on the search engines and then waste my time looking all over your site for it. Trust me, I am not going to buy what you’re selling if you trick me to your site with items you don’t even carry. I found a site on a major search engine that had about a thousand pages of garbage, that all took you to his Ebay link.