D E S I G N

The site design begins by working with the client to determine the purpose and goals for the site. A graphic designer gets involved at this early stage to develop a look and feel for the site. The graphic designer will storyboard the site, producing graphical image views of the main pages.

Guide.Net prefers to work with graphic design or ad agency firms in and around the Honolulu area. Guide.Net will work with you or your preferred graphic designer or ad agency to make sure your Internet website has the look and feel that you want and works best for you.

For most designers, Guide.Net will slice graphical page views (produced as actual size .GIF files) into efficiently compressed JPEG or GIF images and produce the HTML code for a web page acceptable to the designer. The second, equally important criterion is that the web page be efficient to load, page to page, as users browse the site.

Guide.Net charges $250 for the first page, and $100/page thereafter for implementing HTML documents from graphical images.

I N T E R A C T I V I T Y

From the initial interviews with the client, interactive sections will be proposed for collection or display of database information and incorporated into the storyboard design. It is important for the graphic designer to be aware of the level of site interactivity as it may influence the menu navigation design and other aspects of the site's look and feel. For more information, see the section on interactive options.

P R O M O T I O N

Guide.Net is continually updating its techniques for increasing site visitorship for its clients. Guide.Net works with the client to determine what search words the target audience would most likely use. Page titles, meta tags and opening text are prepared and adjusted to increase the site's chance to appear early on search lists. The site is submitted to more than 100 search databases.

M A I N T E N A N C E

Guide.Net hosting comes with 1 hour of free support every month. Guide.Net encourages its clients to use this support time to update or upgrade their site.

An overall site design goal is complete client maintenance. Guide.Net will suggest and implement site upgrades to ease self maintenance when unused support time accumulates.