Website Design Material Requirements

This document is created to help guide you through the process of gathering materials for your website design. Collecting materials can be a difficult process but we can not stress the importance of good materials strongly enough. The effectiveness of your website hinges on the impact it has on the perspective audience. Old, small, or low-quality images will all create a negative effect and your audience will be less likely to bookmark your web site. Help us design a spectacular website for you by providing us with good quality images and the ideas you have to get started.

Images - Please provide us with the following:

• Good quality photos
• Your entry page will require at least one large image and possibly another small image within the text. Please send us all of the images that you have so that our designers can choose the best image(s) for the design.
• Please remember that photos from magazines and other copyrighted materials cannot be used without written permission from the image owner.
• Digital photos are acceptable. Please provide images larger than 640x480 in .jpg, .gif, .bmp, .png, .psd, or .tif formats.
• Images from magazines, rack cards, and other print materials are not suitable for digital reproduction. Our scanners will read any/all flaws in the print and they will be highly visible on the screen. Please send originals.
• Print photos and slides are recommended.
• We use high-quality flat-bed and slide scanners, their quality is excellent.
• Please do not write on the back of prints because the scanner will read through the image and see your writing.
• Let us know if you would like any/all of your prints returned to you.
• Your existing logo
• If you have an existing logo, we require a digital copy of the image or we will need to re-create the logo.
• Logos on business cards are not acceptable.

Content - This information may be supplied during the process as it isn't as appropriate at the start but will be required later:

• Text for body of website (in digital format)
• Current prices of inventory, inventory descriptions and policies.
• Area attractions that you would like to show.
• While we advise against odd fonts we will follow your wishes. If you have a particular font you wish to use, you must provide us with that font in the event we do not already have it. (Fonts must be provided in Windows format)

Additional Features - Additional site features that you may be thinking of we should know about before we begin. We may not begin work on these items until farther into the process but it helps to know the technical level of a website before we begin:

• Flash slide shows or other animation
• Maps (static or zoomable?)
• Reservation or secure order forms
• Online availability service
• Virtual tours
• A client-edit specials program

Odds and Ends - There are some unforeseen items that may incur additional costs during the design phase and they are as follows:

• Communication and consultation with your 3rd party marketing consultants. (Consultants are under your employ and we must bill for any communication with them. We suggest you work directly with your consultants and submit the resultants to us directly.)
• Difficulties with virtual tours
• Extensive animation
• Any major graphic work over and above the estimate
• Late changes in background colors or graphic elements
• Designers will do their best to follow the customer’s design specifications and ideas. However, repeated revisions of either design elements or text due to a lack of design materials and/or constructive design ideas will incur additional charges.