Professional Website Design
For companies that want a customized professional website design, we specialize in taking the hassle out of getting your business onto the Internet. Tampa Bay Hosting can be relied on to work closely with you to provide on-going from web design to servicing and updating of your web site. Your customers will continually be informed with the most current information on your company and its products. Tampa Bay Hosting has been providing web development to the Tampa Bay, Florida area for since 1998.
Some small business customers want help getting started with their web site and then want to maintain it themselves. For those less technical we suggest using a content management system (CMS) like Joomla. Joomlay allows you to build and expand your site with little or no web experience. Many templates exist that you can use to give your site a rich look and feel.
We will work with you to give your site a professional web design and once you feel comfortable, you can maintain the site yourself. If you want us to do all the work we can arrange that through one of our managed hosting packages, You provide us the changes and we will update it for you. When you need additional ideas or add an e-comerce shopping cart, we are available to assist you in developing what ever you need.
Tampa Bay Hosting demands of itself, to keep costs to a minimum. We therefore offer web site designs and small business consulting that will best suit your companies requirements. Prices are based on you providing the written and graphic material (logos, images ET.) to be used in the web site. You retain all ownership and copyrights to your materials and those we develop for you. For larger sites that require displaying a large quanty of data we can work with you to develop an on-line data base to provide an easy to maintain and updated web site. Want an online store? We will design your store around our OS Commerce shopping cart that has all the features of the big guys but has your store own unique look and feel.
To give you a better idea of costs and what we have done recently, the examples and pricing below is based on building a complete site of at least four pages using only the content, images, and logos supplied by YOU the customer. Basic design provides a web presence and doe not include any elaborate animation, navigation, forms or unusual content.
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Web Site Portfolio
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Speak Up Tampa Bay Community Network
http://www.speakuptampabay.org
This community public access TV network wanted a highly flexible content management system that allows expanablility to allow rich media and streaming conten. Here we used Joomla which is the best open source content management available. With this product the client can add interactive blogs, allow the submission of articles, take polls and surveys, provide advertising, and provide the community with the latest news as to what is happening at TBCN.
To keep initial costs to a minimum we customized a template with their logo and color scheme. This project was ready within a couple of weeks. |
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This Week's NEWS in Florida
http://www.twnifl.com
Site that displays consolidated news, weather and sports in Florida. This site's content is mostly dynamic, in that it obtains its content in real time from various news and related services. This makes it mainly self-maintaining and great way to place your advertising and or products on a site that gives the visitor the feeling of a very up-to-the-minute site.
This site was also implemented using Joomla 1.5 the latest version of Joomla content management system (CMS). The real time news is gathered using the built in newsfeed capabilities and has been expanded to allow Google AdWords for an additional income stream from the site. |
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Shape Wear and More
http://shapewearandmore.com
Tired of just selling on Ebay, Yahoo or one or the other mall sites? Well here is a great example of what can be done quickly and inexpensively. The site uses OC Commerce (OSC) the open source E-commerce shopping cart software. This cart software is included with most of our hosting packages free.
You can start setting up you store immediately or you can do what shape wear and more did to get a more professional look was to purchase a OSC template and have us cutomize it with their color schemes and logos. We also added extentions to the basic product to allow handling of their checkout and gateway system for their merchant account.
Cart administration is done via your browser so you can add, change and delete products, track orders, and email customer newsletters. If you can fill out an on-line form you can administer this shopping cart. |
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1st Class Care - Tampa Bay, FL
http://www.1stclasscare.net
This site is an on-line prescription site that allows visitors to signup to receive medications at discount prices once they provide sufficient medical data.
This site involves an entire back office application that provides all the functionality to keep track of records, history, shipments an refills. The system is highly secure and requires little training to use. |
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Powerboat Safety and Operating School
http://www.powerboatsos.com
Boating school that provides both powerboat and salting lessons in safe boating and operation. This site uses the latest in interactive mapping to show its locations.
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Tampa Bay WIFI
http://www.tbwifi.com
Provides the tampa bay area with wireless Internet equipment to businesses and organizations so that they can provide WIFI hotspots to their customers.
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Caprice Vacation Condos
http://www.capriceresort.com This Florida vacation destination site describes all the amenities, rates, virtual tours and vacation activities for the guests of the resort. We are in the process of updating the virtual tours to ones based on Flash which provide much better quality without the distortion and inability to see the view the units provide. We also will be providing the condo association with the ability to have online availability calendars that will not only appear on this site but on individual unit owners sites that they maintain. |
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ATM Central - Clearwater, Florida
http://www.atmcentral.com
This Portfolio site is a great example as to how a small company can create image of a very large company image online." ECS ATM Sales and Service " utilizes the Internet to promote their selling and leasing of ATM's nation wide. Over 75% of their business comes from the internet.
ATM Central has promoted their site in the search engines and portal sites that has resulted in high web site traffic and resulting business.
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Best Design Center - Tampa Bay, Florida.
http://www.bestdesigncenter.com
The Best Design center site is a portfolio site to show the variety of custom kitchen and bath cabinets, The site uses flash animation on the home page in the header to catch your attention. On the product page is an interactive flash slide show of various completed projects.
The Contact us page contains an interactive map that allows real time zooming and dragging of the map so that the visitor does not need to leave the site. |
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Tampa Bay Boat Expo - St. Petersburg, FL
We took the existing print media advertising graphics and adapted them to the web site. A major portion of this site is devoted to potential expo vendors. The site provides everything a vendor needs to know including, site plans, application forms, contract terms and contact information. Many are provided using PDF files that allow exact printing so they can be filled out and mailed.
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Long Key Beach Resort - St. Pete Beach, Florida
http://www.longkeybeachresort.com
A new-look logo designed to resemble a flashing neon sign was the starting point for this site makeover. 3D menu rollovers, seashell wallpaper and a whole gallery of excellent virtual tours combine to give the visitor a very real sense of being there. |
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Central Florida Boat Show - Tampa Florida
One of the major boat shows held each year in Tampa, Florida. A major portion of this site is devoted to potential expo vendors. The site provides everything a vendor needs to know including, site plans, application forms, contract terms and contact information. Many are provided using PDF files that allow exact printing so they can be filled out and mailed.
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Waterfront Home For Sale . - Madeira Beach, Florida
http://ourwaterfronthome.com This is an excellent example of a basic startup site that portfolios a waterfront home for sale by owner. It incorporates a clean look and feel while providing adequate details, photos and interactive location map. |
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CED Interiors - Palm Harbor, FL
http://www.cedinteriors.com An excellent example of how a business can display their portfolio of work on the Internet. This very graphical site shows the style and creativeness of this interior designer. |
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Idiots on the Loose - Tampa Bay, FL
http://www.idiotsloose.com This site displays sightings of people doing stupid things. It is a parody of some of the things we all do from time to time. Visitor who have witnessed someone being funny can submit it for posting on the site. Revenue is generated by on-site advertising. |
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I Can be a Millionaire - Tampa Bay, FL
http://www.icanbeamillionaire.com
An informative site on how to improve your net worth and accumulate wealth. Includes a small shopping cart to allow for visitors that have gained good information from the site can contribute to the costs of the site to help others.
This site is a great example of how sites are becoming more interactive to keep visitors coming back. By adding an on-line forum that allows visitors to input their ideas and experiences it keeps the site fresh and growing. |
Pricing
Web Design costs can vary greatly depending on your specific requirements. To get you started,
we have provided some get started pricing below. With this pricing you should have a good idea as what to expect to pay, whether you select us or one of our competitors.
BASIC FOUR PAGE SITE – Ideal for Small Businesses, Lodgings, organizations or Restaurants.
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$750 |
Includes the following:
Home Page: Includes basic navigation design, color scheme and layout using existing graphics and logos. |
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| Page Two: About us, Rooms, additional info etc. – may include floor plans and pictures. |
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| Page Three: Products/Rates/Menu etc. – typically includes a table with multiple cells that describes the products and/or services you provide. |
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| Page Four: Map link to Mapquest – two views of location |
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BASIC CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMS) SITE - So you can add, change or delete site content. This is best deal for those sites over 4 pages or sites where the content changes regularly and you want to update it your self, but don't want to learn HTML and all it complexities.
Includes the following:
We will install the Joomla or wordpress CMS system on our servers and make all the initial configurations of categories, sections and static items to allow you to begin adding your content.We will customize the look and feel to include existing company logo and graphics you provide. We also will turn off unused features.
Includes 1 hour of training - Extra Training $75 per hour.
Note: Website Hosting must be provided by Tampa Bay Hosting |
$750 |
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BASIC ECOMMERCE SITE – The best way to get started selling your products on-line.
Includes the following:
We Install the OSC E-Commerce shopping cart or OSC based template on our servers and make all the initial configuration for it to work with the Pay Pal Gateway.
We will make initial configuration of the categories and products. (3 Categories and 12 products included). We will customize the look and feel to include existing company logo and graphics you provide. We also will turn off unused features.
Includes 1 hour of training - Extra Training $75 per hour.
Note: Hosting must be provided by Tampa Bay Hosting |
$750 |
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Additional Services |
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Additional Basic Pages – Basic Contact Form included.
Definition: A basic page that conforms to the standard site navigation and includes up to 3 images and copy. |
$75 |
Real Estate Web Site Photos - Per Unit
Have a condo, house or apartment that you would like professional photos taken of ready to be placed on your website? Well we can help you with that also.
Includes photo shoot, 6 to 8 photos of the inside of each unit. You will receive two versions of each photo one suitable for print the other ready for the web. (Outside pictures of a home or facility would be an additional unit.) Pricdes per shoot and Travel time > 30 minutes is extra. |
Single $75
> 3 $60ea
> 6 $50ea |
Virtual Tours - FLASH VR Panoramas Page
Includes , two x 360 virtual tour Flash images ready for upload to your site. (Includes 1 hr photo shoot) For Real Estatse Sites discounts are available for shooting multiple units at the same time. |
$180 |
Prices indicated above do not include any special graphical design work, photo shoot, or hosting. |
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Larger projects will be estimated for time and cost based on the project complexity. In most cases you can
can base your larger site estimate on the basic site above with the addition of additional pages or the flat rate mentioned above.
Flat rate for all Internet site design, data base design, e-commerce design and setup, site updates and other related
services start at $60 per hour.
