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Web site Design Questionnaire

Ironclad Technology is pleased to be considered for the development of a web site for you. A web site, no matter how well-designed, is meaningless if it lacks the content required to interest customers in the products you sell or the services you provide. Here are a few questions that, once answered, will help ensure that your web site’s message is as appealing as its design. Please complete the four questions below and I’ll be in touch with you about your design.

What is the purpose of your web site?

Most business web sites have two purposes: (1) to educate the consumer and (2) to sell them products or services. If you sell shoes, for example, the purpose of your web site is to educate potential customers on the quality and durability of your shoes and, as a result, to sell them shoes. If you paint houses, the purpose of your web site is to educate homeowners on why your services are superior to other painters and sell them on hiring you to paint their house. By defining the purpose of your web site, you will give the designer the information required to create a web site that best conveys that purpose to your target audience.

Who is my target audience?

Your target audience consists of those folks you want to attract to your web site: potential and current customers, future and current employees, possible investors and so on. Anyone who might be interested in your company and its products or services is a member of your target audience. Correctly identifying your target audience is vital, since your web site should be designed specifically to appeal to your target audience. Put yourself in their shoes (or in front of their computers). Imagine your web site through their eyes. If you were visiting a web site such as yours, what would you expect to find and what would you be disappointed not to find? Identify your target audience, then have your web site designed to fulfill their needs and surpass their expectations.

What content should my web site feature?

Your web site content should be driven by the nature of your business. If you’re a real estate agent, your site should feature photographs of homes you have for sale and information on buying and selling a home. If you own an auto body shop, your site might feature before and after photographs of cars that you have repaired. Remember to determine the purpose of your site, then develop the content to serve that purpose.

What’s my competition doing?

The last question you should ask is one of the most important: What is your competition doing on the Web? Do a Google search for similar businesses and click around their web sites. How are their web sites designed? What message are they trying to convey? Are they doing a good job of conveying that message and, as a result, selling products? What do you like about their web sites? What don’t you like? Make note of the things you like and the things you hate, then share your findings with Integrated-Digital-Solutions.

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Themes

If you have a particular theme for your web site in mind, we at Ironclad Technology can implement your ideas right away. If you are unsure, we already have themes for, but not limited to:

Other Categories Available

Of course, you are not limited to just the entries above. We can do anything with your site that you want. We tend to lean towards speed, reliability, and compatibility rather than flashy logos and designs.

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Sample Templates

We have these themes, plus many more available for immediate use. Or we can customize one you already have. Just let us know how you want your site to look and we can make the design for you.

Free Templates

We often use free templates from a variety of web sources as inspiration or a basis for your design. We make your site unique to your requirements.

Purchase Templates

If you have purchased a custom template, let us know and we can integrate it into your new design.

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You Maintain the Content

Using the industry standard software, Joomla!, you are able to maintain and update the content for your web site. To be successful, business professionals must communicate with colleagues, customers, and partners on a regular basis and provide them with up-to-date web and blog content. For personal use, Joomla! gives you a single tool for all your web publishing needs, helping you create, update, and edit web content and blog entries quickly, easily, and safely. You can even create and assign roles to others so that they can maintain content. This software allows you to update your website from anywherec!

Give you a single tool for web publishing

Keep your web site content fresh and blog entries current with a single application. True WYSIWYG authoring capabilities make it easy to publish new or update existing content in three simple steps: Just open the page, make the changes, and click save. Your changes are published just that fast.

Maintain web site integrity

Thanks to integration with our design software, web designers and developers can create page templates with editable regions, helping to ensure that web site look and feel is not compromised — even when multiple authors update content across the site. If you want to change the overall look and feel of your site, you can do that without compromising the content. The information presented and how the information is presented are kept separate.

Control web site authoring permissions and content approval workflow

Use fine-grained permissions to define who can edit a web site or update specific content on a page within a site. Or limit certain users to "edit only, no publish" to help ensure content adheres to defined approval workflows.

Help you get started with blogging

Let us help you take advantage of the latest in online communication using the same familiar environment they use to update web site content. Add tags to blog entries without messy HTML coding, and use any tag repository to help other users find the blog content. The native search feature also helps those identify content both in the titles but also within the body of your articles.

Easy to Use

Joomla! makes publishing content to web sites and blogs a straightforward process without requiring users to learn HTML. Thanks to a true WYSIWYG authoring environment, content authors and contributors can edit or update any web site or blog in three simple steps:

1. Open the web page or blog entry that needs updating or editing.
2. Click Edit to make changes to the web page or blog entry.
3. Click Save to post and publish the new content.

This intuitive experience offers point-and-click simplicity — no more complicated forms for simple updates. Incorporating rich media, images, or even Flash® Video is as simple as dragging and dropping the file onto the web page or blog entry. There is no easier way to keep web sites and blogs fresh and current than with Contribute.

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Dynamic Content Catalog

The Ironclad Technology Dynamic Content Catalog with numerous topics helps you to increase your website's entertainment value and to always present up-to-the-minute content.

Dynamic Content

Dynamic content is news articles, games, and other useful information that you can add to your website. Click on a topic, and there you can set up how the content will be presented. A link will be given to you that you can build into your website. When your visitors click on this link, they will see the content. The content is updated automatically, so that your visitors can use your site as a source of information.

News

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Maps

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