Pricing
Materpiece Studioz creates websites ranging from basic to complex. We can produce a highly functional website for just about any budget. Our more advanced websites utilize the latest technology, with new technologies added to existing websites as appropriate. We keep you aware of new technologies that could add valuable functionality to your site. Each site is unique in form and function, so we will sit down with you to formulate a suitable price based on your budget and expectations. Our hourly rate is $55 per hour, with the initial appointment provided at no charge. We put your satisfaction as our client, first. Therefore, we will make every effort to make our quote well within your budge, while also producing a website you will be proud of.
Member Fee
Basic Member Fee ($360 per year)
This fee covers editing or adding new content but does not include changes in layout design, adding of new pages, or server side script.
Advanced Member Fee ($480 per year)
This service includes all of the Basic Member services plus an analytics report emailed to you covering site usage, visitors overview, traffic sources overview, map overlay of the world, and content overview. The email report will be sent four times per year.
Informational, Standard HTML Website ($55 per hour)
Basic HTML Website
The basic HTML website provides a template of your choosing, with up to 10 html pages. While there is no custom design, you will obtain a highly functional and useful website.
If you require only 3-5 pages we can consider working on an hourly basis at $55 per hour. For a smaller and less complex website, an excellent product can be produced for $400 to $800.
Standard HTML Website
The standard HTML website includes a custom design and up to 10 HTML pages.
Advanced Server-side Script Website ($55 per hour)
Membership and User Profiling
- Users can create new accounts independently, by filling out an online registration form.
- Users can later change their own credentials.
- The administrator can grant or deny access to specific sections.
- The administrator is able suspend a user account for not following the site’s policies.
- The administrator can access summary and statistical data about registered users.
Article Management
- This online tool acquires, manages, and shares the content of your site.
- Design of the database tables for this module.
- Design the object models of the data and business layers.
- Security for the administrative section is ensured.
Opinion Polls
- This feature provides poll functionality for the site.
- To easily access the database we provide tables, stored procedures, a data access layer, and a business layer to keep presentation layers separated from the database itself.
- We’ll design the database tables, stored procedures, data and business layers, user interface services, and security.
Newsletters
- We’ll develop the best way to store subscription data, including e-mail address, name, and other key information.
- Due to users’ preference, the registration will require only user name and e-mail address, while profile data will indicate such things as the preferred format of the newsletter such as plain-text or HTML.
- Users will be able to make changes in such things as format, for themselves.
- We’ll develop a system that allows you to send out a hundred or several thousand newsletters.
- We’ll maintain full security for the system.
Forums
- You will have support for multiple categories (subforms) that are basically specific to a single topic or argument.
- Each forum will be supported by “moderation.” A forum requires a way to approve or disapprove of posts to ensure they conform to forum rules, are pertinent, and are non-offensive.
- The list of threads for a subforum and the list of posts for a thread will be paginable and the list of threads will be sortable.
- Posting is usually permitted only for registered members, whereas browsing is allowed for everyone.
- Those who post will be able to modify their posts at a later time and simply indicate it has been edited.
- Users can have an avatar image associated with their account.
- You will have full support for RSS 2.0 feeds and users will be able to get a feed with the 10 newest threads or the 10 most popular threads.
- A policy statement will be included to tell users what the rules are and will help protect the site owners and administrators from lawsuits, especially if a nasty, hateful, or untruthful message is posted and not caught quickly.
E-Commerce Store
- Implementing a custom e-commerce module can be a challenge, but we will show you how we can create a full-featured system to enable you to run a real, although small, e-store.
- Products will have a description and thumbnail images will become larger when the user clicks on the small image.
- Products will support a discount percentage when a promotion is being run. The customer will see the original price along with the discounted price.
- This module will utilize RSS feeds for the products catalog. Customers can be notified about new products.
- The module will support a stock management system to ensure you maintain a specified stocking level as sales occur.
- A full featured shopping cart will be provided. Using a “persistent cart,” will allow a shopper to place items in the shopping cart, close the browser and end the session, yet still come back to the site later to find the shopping cart just the same as when left.
- The quantity and price of each item and the subtotal will always be visible.
- A user account will be required for each shopper. It will enable a new shopper to complete their shopping and only then require user information, making the initial shopping experience as easy and enjoyable as possible.
- You will have all the tracking data that any store owner would want.
Personalization and Web Parts
- There are numerous ways to strengthen a website. Based upon our discussions about your needs and what you want to accomplish, we can discuss added features that may prove beneficial to you.
Localizing the Site
- The first step is to determine if you want to localize only static content such as menus, links, and tables, or whether you want to provide translation for everything.
- Localizing needs to be considered from the beginning. Otherwise it will require complete rework of the database design, the user interface, and other critical parts.
Special Widgets and Service
Search Engine Optimization ($2000)
Effective search engine optimization requires considerable programming and knowledge of all the techniques and technologies that that are continually being developed. Timothy Wu stays fully updated on these technologies and can explain the benefits of each one.
You will receive teaching on how to produce your portion of the search engine optimization. You will need to produce a keyword section for each Web page and other content, such as articles.
Web Form ($300)
A web form enables visitors and customers to easily contact you by email. A web form will prevent several problems, including:
- Email address being harvested by spambots.
- A mailto: link relies on the user’s preconfigured email client but college and library machines most likely won’t have.
- Not all browsers support the range of options.
Search Tool ($300)
Visitors can search PDF, Word, PowerPoint, and other file types in addition to regular text. A search results page is produced in less than a second.
