Do you want to drive new customers to your company over the internet? Do you want to convey a highly professional image of your business to current customers? Would you like to increase your business revenues and/or expand the audience that follows your company’s progress?

If you can answer “yes” to any of the above questions then the reality is that you cannot afford not to enlist the services of a skilled and reliable web development company.

Complete the online Assessment Questione naire at http://cmtc.rkglobal.biz/questionnaire.html and CMTC will help you decide which features are necessary to create a value-driven business website.

Usually 3 - 4 weeks. The time frame of a website design project is most often dictated by the client. If you have a deadline in mind we will endeavor to meet it for you. The most common delay in the creation and completion of a new website is waiting for content (text/images) & feedback from the client.

In most cases a meeting isn't necessary. Our websites are generally completed with an initial assessment in the form of an Online Questionnaire and follow up via email and telephone. However, an onsite visit is possible.

No. We assess your website requirements and then present a comprehensive Statement of Work including add-ons such as web hosting and domain name registration. Prices are based on the Statement of Work. Once you have placed an order for your website design, we strictly adhere to the quoted price unless we have your written consent to change the scope of the project.

Registering or renewing a domain name is a simple process which we will take care of for you. We recommend registering or renewing your domain name for the next five years since domain name registration lengths reflect your commitment to your work and can translate to higher search engine rankings. Extending your registration for several years shows companies like Google that you’re serious about your business

Typical first year prices are as follows (this should be in a 3-column table):

.com
Represents the word “commercial,” and is the most widely used extension in the world. Most businesses prefer a .com domain name because it is a highly recognized symbol for having a business presence on the Internet.
$9.99

.net
Represents the word “network,” and is most commonly used by Internet service providers, Web-hosting companies or other businesses that are directly involved in the infrastructure of the Internet. Additionally, some businesses choose domain names with a .net extension for their intranet Websites.
$9.99

.org
Represents the word “organization,” and is primarily used by non-profits groups or trade associations.
$14.99

.biz
Used for small business Web sites
$14.99

.us
Used for American Web sites and is the newest extension. It has the largest amount of available names in inventory.
$14.99

Yes, you can use any web host you like. Once your website has been completed, you will have to provide us with your web hosting username and password so that we can upload your website.

It is all about quality, not quantity. A company’s goals with relation to its web presence will define the number of pages recommended for a website. There are standard pages on almost every website (Home, Products, Services, About Us, Contact Us, FAQs, Privacy Policy, etc.) and other pages determined by the purpose of the site and industry specific requirements. Since a website must have aesthetic appeal, we do not recommend overloading pages with content. Instead, we create a well organized, easy to navigate site structure with concise content rich pages. From the standpoint of Search Engine Optimization, keyword rich content is very important. Pages on the site often increase with the number of products and services in order to ensure that the site is optimized for all your keywords

The purposes for a corporate website tie in directly to business objectives and how the website will help to achieve objectives.

Four of the most common purposes for a website are as follows:
Brand development: Your brand is the image of your business in the minds of your customers and prospects. One of the chief reasons your company should have a website is to demonstrate that you're staying up with the times, that you're on the cutting edge. Everything about your site - the quality of the design, the clarity of your wording, the sense of interest and excitement, the color scheme, the download time, and much more - contributes to the image of your business in the minds of customers and prospects.

Revenue generation: Almost every website can be tied to the purpose of direct or indirect revenue generation. For example, having an e-commerce website where online sales transactions are carried out or having a lead generating site that turns visitors into inquiring potential customers both achieve the purpose of revenue generation.

Cost savings: A website can help companies cut costs in several ways. Examples are the distribution of sales materials, product demonstrations, order entry, staffing and advertising.

Customer support: A website can provide the very best in customer support. Examples include a simple but powerful FAQ, a complete troubleshooting decision tree page, an easy to use, printable online map with driving directions to your business, and live chat to explain product options and answer support-related questions-while customers are still on your site.

Business Plus and Enterprise users can manage content through a Content Management System. Business users can make changes using an FTP client like DreamWeaver or Microsoft Expression Web. We will make changes for you prior to project completion: all our website packages include 10 hours of maintenance valued at $650. For ongoing changes requiring our web design or development services, you can purchase fee-based maintenance on an hourly basis

Our Business Plus and Enterprise website packages come with a Content Management System which enables you to make changes such as adding, removing or modifying text, images, and web pages yourself. If you prefer that we make the changes to content, site design and functionality, take advantage of our fee-based maintenance services.

The approach taken by many organizations with regard to their website development would seem to indicate that a website is somehow a special case and not subject to the same financial criteria and resource planning as, say, a shop. As an exercise, it can be useful to replace the word website with the word shop during planning.
1. First identify what the corporate goals are for the website. Is this site going to be essentially an on-line marketing brochure for your company? Or is it a comprehensive duplication of your entire business in an on-line format? 2.Identifying who will be using the site can determine at a high level what your website needs to accomplish.

The following are typical objectives for a business website:
• Brochure – showing what you do: products and services
• e-Commerce – selling what you do
• Customer Relationship Management – keeping the customer happy and encouraging return visits
• Decision Support – helping a prospect decide what to buy (this can be for both online and offline sales)
• Product support – reducing costs of supporting your products and services
• Extranet – private area for partners, suppliers, customers etc. to transact business
• Intranet – accommodated such activities as remote work on centrally stored files or timesheet updates by remote staff
• Reference – provision of non-commercial data such as technical specifications, statistics or reports

Frequently, thought is only given to the design element, but most serious websites also require databases and perhaps integration with an existing sales order processing or inventory management system. Some calculation has to be done on the likely returns on investment for a commercial website to keep the expenditure appropriate. However, there are minimum costs below which you cannot expect a reasonable result.

The budget should address the following (at the very least):
• Planning – setting out requirements and specification
• Design ‘treatment’ or ‘visuals’ – sample style pages
• Implementation – including databases, associated support software, integration with existing systems
• Testing – both functional and cross-platform compatibility e.g. PC, Mac, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Safari
• Launch – website deployment, website configuration, search engine submission, search engine optimization, website analytics setup
• Operational costs – hosting, maintenance, search engine marketing, secure cert
• Website content management – in-house or outsourced?

Website design has a lot of constraints – notably the shape, size, and resolution and colour capabilities of the viewing system. Font options are also severely limited. The accurate placement of design elements that print media allow is not available on web pages, so there are a series of compromises to be made.

The following list indicates most of the major design considerations:
• Target market – what viewing system are they likely to have?
• Base layout – is there existing corporate branding?
•Content – how often does it change? How will it be managed? Is it date dependent?
• Databases – do you have corporate data or reports that need to be presented?
• Multimedia – is it appropriate?
• Search and drill down facilities
• Multiple languages – Spanish, German, Japanese, etc.
• Markets served and facilities supported (e.g. US, Europe)
• Website Security – particularly for e-Commerce
• Visitor experience – speed, ease of navigation
• RSS Feeds/Newsletters – collecting emails, publishing news, releasing product updates
• Blogs/Forums – creating a community and a reason to revisit

E-Commerce – There are specific issues with e-commerce that can cause problems. Apart from selling something downloadable like software or reports (which are infinitely available) any other system has to take account of inventory either in-house or from a wholesaler. This infers some integration with the inventory system assuming there is one. Even selling software presents its own issues because a number of people making a simultaneous download of a 25Mb program may have a serious impact on the performance of the server, not just for the visitors downloading software, but also for others visiting the website.

Some of the issues are:
• Shopping systems – product management, price list management, baskets, special offers, affiliate schemes
• Payment handling – credit card, check, wire transfer, manual or automatic
• Credit card transactions – merchant ID, AVS (address verification system)
• Secure certificates
• Drop shipping – shipping directly from a wholesaler
• Integration with your existing sales order processing system
• Serial number management (software sales only)
• Terms and conditions, copyright, privacy policy and securing “personal information”