Development

What Website Is Best For You?

Different businesses require different types of websites and there is no need to buy a Farrie hood for your holden commodore, you'll just be wasting your money and it won't suit your needs. If you have a clear idea on your website requirements then you can get a more accurate quote.

Don't Know Where To Start?

What do you want your website to do for your business?

This is the first question you should ask yourself and for the most part a client's response is...

I really just want a web presence showing what our business does and can do. It must have a contact form... oh and in the first page of Google!

If this describes your business then you will be wanting what we call "A Brochure Style Website", this usually consists of the following:

  • 5 to 10 pages of information (you can have as many pages as you want but usually 5 or 6 is enough to represent most small businesses. Usually these pages are titles something like Home, About Us, Services, Gallery, Clients, Contact Us, etc.)
  • A simple contact form (name, email, subject & message, or something similar)
  • The site is built on a pre-selected design (template) selected by the client & designer then the  company logo, colours & images are added.
  • A page displaying images or articles representing your businesses work or products 

Included in a Brochure Style Website and all website development:

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  • designer & client consultation via email or phone, or if located in Townsville, we will gladly come to you for a face to face meeting during site development & pre-development
  • testing site for cross browser compatibility
  • testing site in different screen resolutions
  • testing site on different operating systems (Mac & PC)
  • basic Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

Browser Displays Stats

Did you know your designer has to consider that your website will be displayed on multiple screen resolutions?

Screen Resolution Stats 2009

Higher
1024x768
800x600
640x480
Unknown
57%
36%
4%
0%
3%

View more statistics here: Browser Display Statistics

Browser Usage Statistics

Did you know that web sites can be displayed depending on the Browser it is displayed in? Some browser types are MS Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, Netscape (Discontinued) and Flock.

Browser Stats 2009

IE7
IE6
IE8
Fx
 Chrome Safari
Opera
23.2%
15.4%
3.5%
47.1%
4.9%
3.0%
2.2%

View more statistics here: Browser Statistics

ZenCart E-Commerce Shopping Cart

Zen Cart is one of the more popular shopping cart systems and one of the reasons for this is because it's FREE. This is called "Open Source" software. D.P. Web Design will:

  • install
  • add selected shop template (browse templates at www.templatemonster.com)
  • set-up products
  • payment systems
  • postage & delivery systems
  • add images
  • required plug-ins
  • plus full testing of the final store.

Zen Cart truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.

There are hundreds of shopping cart programs available, but none come close to offering the level of options, features and support available with Zen Car. Even the commercial programs have a hard time competing.