Octopus Systems provides a complete web site design and hosting service.
Our expertise covers:
Website design
E-commerce applications
(shopping carts)
Web-based databases
Web based calendars
and booking systems
Server side scripts
(CGI scripts)
Client side scripts
(JavaScript)
Secure areas on the site, restricting access to permitted users only
Digital photography,
manipulation and retouching
Mail
or see our contacts
page for our phone number and address.
Stages of web site design
We offer a free one hour consultation
to discuss your needs, this can be at your premises, our premises
or via phone.
After the consultation, we will write and agree a specification
with you for your site and produce a quote for the design and production
of your site.
Once the specification and the quote have been agreed, we will
then produce several initial site designs for you to choose from,
which will be placed onto our site for you to access. It is best
to make any changes to the overall design at this point, as later
changes will cause extra work and may result in a higher price being
charged.
At this point you will need to provide the text and any agreed
images to go onto the site.
When the design has been agreed we can then
build your site, write any necessary scripts and then upload the whole
site onto the web. We can host
your site on our server, upload it onto your server or supply it in electronic
form for you to place on your server.
Once you have tested and accepted the web site, payment will then become
due.
Pricing
We work either to a fixed price contract or for an hourly rate if appropriate.
We find that most customers prefer a fixed price contract as this allows
them to budget for the cost of the web site more easily.
It is impossible to quote a typical price for a web site before entering
into a period of consultation with the customer as requirements vary so
much.
