the design process

Designing web sites since 1998, 3 Ducats starts with a client survey to understand your industry, brand, and overall goals. The following is our design process:

1. Defining your needs
   • client survey
   • overall goals
2. Develop your site structure
   • story boarding
   • navigation
3. Design the visual interface
   • concepts
   • designs presentation
   • custom templates from approved design
4. Building & integration
   • Creating and populating pages
   • Scripting and back end
5. Launch and maintenance
   1. Quality Assurance testing
   2. Usability testing
   3. Site maintenance

web site services

We offer custom sites for a solid online foundation and unique Web presence. Our designers will work with you on delivering the right concept for your organization. Whether you choose a simple web presence or a comprehensive, multi-page site, we serve every client as if they were our only client.

Our services include, but are not limited to:
custom web site design flash sites, intros and animation ecommerce content and brand development on-site interviews and photo shoots Meta tag development	search engine submissions photo galleries, calendars and forms custom graphics interactive navigation (rollovers, pointers, drop-down, etc.) W3C accessibility for the sight impaired
Custom sites start at $600.

 

site maintenance

Keeping your site up-to-date is every bit as important as its development. There are some key areas that should be addressed on a regular basis.

Once your site is active, maintenance is vital to ensuring your site fresh and up-to-date. Our Webmasters will monitor your site regularly by:

• Creating new content and graphics
• Archiving old content and graphics
• Updating pages
• Organizing files
• Managing the site map and FAQ
• Tracking and repairing broken/obsolete links

The people at 3 Ducats Web Design will work with you to develop a maintenance agreement to suit your specific needs and budget.

 

hosting

3 Ducats offers professional domain name registration and web site hosting with personal, reliable service at a fair price. Our Basic Plan is only $11 per month and includes the following:
50MB of commercial-free disk space 3GB monthly bandwidth allowance Audio/Video streaming capabilities	99.9% server / network uptime Custom email filtering Spam filtering (Spam Assassin) FTP accounts Password protection for directories	MySQL databases Private cgi-bin directory Free account upgrades 7 POP3 email/WebMail accounts Email Anti-Virus protection Unlimited email aliases Unlimited email forwarding and much more

 

graphic design

Logo Design: Starting at $280 Up to three separate logo concepts Unlimited colors 2 revisions of chosen concept One final concept prepared in the following formats: An optimized web file Gif or JPG An Encapsulated Post Script (EPS) for commercial printing facility A Tagged Image File Format (TIF) for MS Office applications like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook	Flash Design: $55/hr Web animation Banners Web sites Photo Galleries
	Image Scan: $2 (maximum 8 1/2 x 11")
	Custom Graphics: $48/hr Image editing (creating, cropping, retouching, optimizing)