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Grace Computer &
Internet Corporation (GCI)
design your web site including your
company's logo and a brief description
of your products or service, and display
it on our server 24 hours a day 365 days
a year. You can get your customer's
order through a phone call, fax, E-mail
or even online order. You don't have to
know how to use the computer to expand
your business all over the world. It's
one time charge and save you money! |
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Most Commonly question:
- What is custom web design?
- How much is cost to make a web site?
- What is GCI Shopping cart feature?
- What you need to prepare for your web site?
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How can I communicate with you the layout I like?
Before
Start
The first step in designing a Web site is to
make sure you have defined a set of goals know
what it is you want to accomplish with your Web
site. Without a clear statement of purpose and
objectives the project will begin to wander off
course and bog down, or may go on past the point
of diminishing returns. Careful planning and a
clear sense of purpose are the keys to success
in building Web sites. Before beginning to build
your Web site you should:
* Identify your target audience
* Have a statement of purpose
* Know your main objectives
* Have a concise outline of the information your
site will contain
Several Principles Of Home-Page Design
User-centered designing
The goal is to provide for the needs of all of
your potential users, adapting Web technology to
their expectations, and never requiring the
reader to simply conform to an interface that
puts unnecessary obstacles in their paths. This
is where your research on the needs and
demographics of your target audience is crucial.
Build clear navigation aids
At the current state of web technology most user
interactions with Web pages involve navigating
hypertext links between documents. The main
interface problem in Web sites is the lack of a
sense of where you are within the local
organization of information. Clear, consistent
icons, graphic identity schemes, and graphic or
text-based overview and summary screen can give
the user confidence that they can find what they
are looking for without wasting time. Users
should always be able to easily return to your
home page, and to other major navigation points
in your local site
Bandwidth and interaction
Users will not tolerate long delays.
Human-factors research has shown that for most
computing tasks the threshold of frustration is
around 10 seconds. Web page designs that are not
well "tuned" to the network access speed of your
typical users will only frustrate them. If your
users are primarily general public browsers
"surfing" the Web via 28.8 KBPS phone line
connections; it is foolish to put huge bitmap
graphics on your pages.
Simplicity and consistency
Users are not impressed with complexity that
seems gratuitous, especially users who may be
depending on your site for timely and accurate
work-related information. Your interface
metaphors should be simple, familiar and logical
to the audience.
Design stability
Functional stability in your Web design means
keeping the interactive elements of your site
working reliably. Functional stability has two
components getting things right the first time
as design your site, and then keeping things
functioning smoothly over time. Things change
quickly on the Web, both in your site and
everyone else's. You will need to periodically
check to be sure that your links are still
working properly, and that the content they
supply is still relevant to your needs.
Feedback and dialog
Feedback means being prepared to respond to your
user's inquiries and comments. Well-designed Web
sites should always provide direct links to the
site's editor or the "webmaster" responsible for
running the site. Planning for this kind of
on-going relationship with the users of your
site is vital to the long-term success of the
enterprise.
Structure design
These days the computer press is full of very
fuzzy thinking about how Web-based information
can somehow "link everything to everything." The
implication is that with the Web you can
probably dispense with one of the most
challenging aspects of presenting information:
How to put it into logical order and create an
interesting and understandable resource for the
user.
Sequence
The simplest way to organize information is in a
sequence, where you present a linear narrative.
Information that naturally flows as a narrative,
time line or in logical order is ideal for
sequential treatment. Sequential ordering may be
chronological, a logical series of topics
progressing from the general to the specific, or
even alphabetically sequenced, as in indexes,
encyclopedias, and glossaries. However, simple
sequential organization usually only works for
smaller sites (or structured lists like
indexes), as long narrative sequences often
become more complex, and thus require more
structure to remain understandable.
Grid
Many procedural manuals, lists of university
course, or medical case descriptions are best
organized as a grid. Grids are a good way to
correlate variables, such as a time line versus
historical information in a number of standard
categories such as "events," "technology,"
"culture," etc. To be successful, the individual
units in a grid must share a highly uniform
structure of topics and subtopics. The topics
often have no particular hierarchy of
importance.
But, unfortunately, grids can be difficult to
understand unless the user recognizes the
interrelationships between categories of
information, and so are probably best for
experienced audiences who already have a basic
understanding of the topic and its organization.
Graphic overview maps are very useful in
grid-like Web sites
Hierarchy
Information hierarchies are one of the best ways
to organize complex bodies of information.
Hierarchical organization schemes are
particularly well-suited to Web sites, because
Web sites should always be organized as
offshoots of a single home page. Most users are
familiar with hierarchical diagrams, and find
the metaphor easy to understand as a
navigational aid. A hierarchical organization
also imposes a useful discipline on your own
analytical approach to your content, as
hierarchies only work well when you have
thoroughly organized your material. Since
hierarchical diagrams are so familiar in
corporate and institutional life, users find it
easy to build mental models of the site:
Web
Web-like organizational structures pose few
restrictions on the pattern of information use.
The goal is often to mimic associative thought
and free flow of ideas, where users follow their
interests in a heuristic, idiosyncratic pattern
unique to each person who visits the site. This
organizational pattern develops in Web sites
with very dense links both to other information
within the site, and information on other World
Wide Web sites. The goal is to fully exploit the
Web's power of linkage and association, but
web-like organization structures can just as
easily propagate confusion and fuzzy thinking
about the interrelationships of your information
chunks. Ironically, organizational webs are
often the most impractical structure for Web
sites, because they are so hard for the user to
understand and predict. Webs work best for small
sites dominated by lists of links, aimed at
highly educated or experienced users looking for
further education or enrichment, not for a basic
understanding of your topic.
Summary
Most complex Web sites share aspects of all four
types of information structures. Except in sites
that rigorously enforce a sequence of pages, you
are likely to use any Web site in a free-form
"web-like" manner, just as most non-fiction or
reference books are used. But the nonlinear
usage patterns typical of Web surfers do not
absolve you of the need to organize your
thinking and present it within a clear,
consistent structure that complements your
design goals for the site. The chart below
summarizes the four basic organization patterns
against the "linearity" of your narrative, and
the complexity of your content.
Function List
1.Site Covers
Site covers can serve a number of different
purposes:
* Some function as "splash" screens that offer
little information, but are intended to entice
users into a site by using snazzy graphics or
effects.
Plan I: domain name registration $10.00.
First page $120 and each
additional page is $80 or $3
each product. Flash $150
Web Hosting
starts from $6.00/month, if you have a independent Domain name like
www.yourcompany.com
Search Engine submit: Submit 10 key words to 2 major search engines such as Yahoo, Google, etc.
Web update: $35/hour or by page.
Plan II: Business Packages
Please call us about our business packages at (713)779-8444.
GCI Shopping Cart for up to 1000 items. Front end
design web page, cover page
setup company page (customer provide content)
contact us page, (customer provide content)
return policy page, (customer provide content)
set up all product categories, (customer provide a list)
Subcategory in under category
set up all product sub categories, (customer provide a list)
Set up product page with small, medium and large pictures
Small pictures with products' name,
medium size product with products description and "add to cart"
Large picture with target window picture only
Each category has a summery page
Products can find by manufactures
New products automatically by the time which product been added
set up database, search feature
Customer order feature, tracking order status
Shipping calculation UPS, SUPS by weight or flat fee
Accept Credit card feature, Visa, master, papal,
Automatically transaction has use GCI choose merchant companies
*Merchant account monthly service bill by credit card company monthly
Back end
Customer information
Order information
Generate Invoice from order and packing list
Generate Coupon for discount
Update status to allow customer check status after login
Email news letter to customer can modify, add or remove product, description, price.
What you need to prepare for your web site?
- About Company:
- Logo (if you have one)
- Letter Head (if any)
- Company Profile (if any)
- Building picture (if any)
- Owner picture (if any)
Company Introduction (In
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Service Information:
What service you provide
Product Information:
- Item no, Description, Price (Excel file
with file name and products name
- Pictures (from Digital Camera, Catalog)
- Shipping information
- Return Policy
- Tax Rate
Customer Thanks letters, Location, Contact Information
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For
more info, please contact us at
info@gracecomputer.tv |
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