This package is for you if you are an entrepreneur or small business who wants a site that reflects your own brand and gets results. This package is for businesses or bloggers with fairly straight forward businesses ( e-commerce, real estate, and other requirements are available for an additional fee) who need logo, header and site customization services. This plan includes up to ten hours of our special attention to the creation of the perfect representation of your business.If you have special requirements such as a custom avatar or need a great deal of customization you can pay for extra hours or go to the Best in Breed Package.
1. Talk it Out Session: This package includes a complementary consultation session which runs for 1- 2 hours about you, your site and its requirements. We also go over some of the latest trends in web design and how to portray your particular business best to get the results that you require.
2.. Setup Hosting Account: Your webhosting account will cost you about $85.00 per year (the cost of hosting is not included in the package). WordPress sites being built on databases, need some special software and other special requirements on the server in order to work and function properly. We recommend that our client’s run their sites on Bluehost as they keep all their software up to the latest configurations, WP sites perform well 0n their regular shared hosting accounts ( most cases small businesses do not need a private server) and they provide excellent accessible, and accurate phone support. As an added benefit you will also get a free domain to use as your main or extra domain.
3. Install WordPress: We will install WordPress for you and configure it for optimum performance.
4. Premium Plugins Package: “Plugins” extend the functionality of WordPress to do all sorts of cool extra things. Some make the whole site work better and some Plugins make widgets for your sidebar. Our Premium Plugin Package includes installation and configuration of the following:
- All-in-One-SEO package to get you started with search engines.
- Category Plugin: There are several different styles of category listings. We will choose one that reflects your needs.
- WP-Spam Free or the premium plugin, Akismet (additional 5.00 per month charge from Automattic) protects you from spammer comments.
- WP DB Backup to back up your database of all your great content. Or the premium plugin, Backup Buddy which backs up database and files (additional 50.00 per year)
- Social Media to add follow me icons to the sidebar.
- Sexy Bookmarks , Add to Any or Share and Follow different styles for sharing post content to all the social media sites.
- Google Sitemap Generator also to help you with search engines.
- Google Analyticator
- Simple Facebook Connect and Simple Twitter Connect
- WP Stats
- Intense Debate or DisQus for making comments more useable and interactive.
5. Configure Settings: Change site settings so that site works optimally.
6. Installation and Customization of Theme: The Working Dog Package includes the installation of premium or free themes. We will help you choose the best theme for your site and will customize the theme for up to 5 hours.
7. Logo and Graphics: Create a branded logo and graphics for your site. We will work on this for up to 5 hours.
8. Social Media: Install Follow Me on Social Media sites icons on sidebar and Share This to Social Media sites buttons on the bottom of posts.
9. Five pages: Home, About, Contact and two other pages. I will add the content and images tt you provide to me. If you do not have this content, I will make the page and you can add the content later. Our video will teach you how.
10. Your front page can be a “blog” page or you can have a static home page with a “blog” page as one of your five pages. Blogs are great for search engine optimization and to make you look like you know what you are talking about. Much better to show people you are an expert than to tell them. A blog gives people a reason to return for all that updated goodness.
11. Input 5 Posts: We will input up to five blog posts with one image each and assign each post to a blog category.
12. Input 5 Categories: We will input up to five categories.
13. Widgets: We will add the following widgets to your sidebar:
- Search
- Opt In Sign Up
- Follow Me with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and RSS Icons
- Recent Posts Or Featured Posts
- Categories
- Links
14. MailChimp Account and Opt-in Setup: We will create a MailChimp account for you; install the sign-up on the sidebar of your site; and put a PDF that you create on the opt-in email that people will receive from MailChimp when they sign up for your list.
15. Contact form: We will include a simple contact form so people can fill it out and send it to you right then and there. Easy Peasy.
16. Make a SiteMap and Submit it to Google. This will help your site get indexed by search engines faster.
17. Video Website Training: We will give you a 30 minute video tutorial, which shows you how to get around in your admin section, write blog posts and pages, and how to add images and videos to your posts. We show you when to use posts and when to use pages. We also show you how to categorize and tag your posts.
18. Two Hour Consultation: We will meet with you for two hours (on the phone or in person) to train you on how to work and navigate around your website and answer any questions that you have.
Additional features and requirements can be added on a a la carte basis.
