| Service / product | INFO | HKD | USD | EUR | GBP | NZD | AUD |
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| Pricelist effective December 2013 | |||||||
Standard websites |
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| Homepage |  |
$5250 | $650 | €500 | £470 | $800 | $750 |
| Additional pages | |
$525 | $65 | €50 | £47 | $80 | $75 |
Optional extras |
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| Gallery (add your own images) | |
$1090 | $140 | €100 | £90 | $190 | $165 |
| Gallery images (added by Piccante) per image | |
$28 | $4 | €3 | £2 | $5 | $4 |
| Contact form (simple) | |
$420 | $60 | €40 | £37 | $72 | $64 |
| Availability calendar (single) | |
$1260 | $159 | €107 | £92 | $220 | $190 |
| Language translation tool | |
$680 | $85 | €60 | £50 | $120 | $105 |
| Online chat tool | |
$680 | $85 | €60 | £50 | $120 | $105 |
| Search function | |
$420 | $60 | €40 | £37 | $72 | $64 |
Ecommerce |
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| PayPal integration to a standard site (single 'buy now') | |
$840 | $109 | €69 | £60 | $140 | $125 |
| PayPal integration to a standard site (shopping cart) | |
$1260 | $159 | €107 | £92 | $220 | $190 |
| Each additional product for PayPal shopping cart | |
$50-$150 | $6-$19 | €4-€15 | £4-£13 | $8-$25 | $7-$22 |
| Purpose-built ecommerce sites | |
$29999 | $3900 | €2900 | £2400 | $4900 | $4600 |
Content Management |
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| Content Editing System (CES) | |
$870 | $110 | €80 | £70 | $150 | $130 |
| Content Editing System (per additional page) | |
$165 | $23 | €17 | £15 | $40 | $36 |
| Purpose-built Content Management System (CMS) | |
$29999 | $3900 | €2900 | £2400 | $4900 | $4600 |
General service, updating and ongoing SEO fees |
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| Hourly rate | |
$400 | $50 | €40 | £34 | $70 | $60 |
SEO and marketing packages |
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| Search Engine Optimisation package | |
$6700 | $870 | €600 | £550 | $1150 | $999 |
| Search Engine Marketing (per campaign) | |
$670 | $87 | €60 | £55 | $115 | $100 |
| Google Analytics Package | |
$680 | $90 | €70 | £6- | $120 | $104 |
| Email Marketing Campaign | |
$6300 | $800 | €520 | £470 | $1080 | $935 |
Web hosting |
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| Plan 1 (per month) - 100MB | |
$50 | $7 | €5 | £4 | $9 | $8 |
| Plan 2 (per month) - 200MB | |
$100 | $14 | €10 | £8 | $18 | $16 |
| Plan 3 (per month) - 1GB | |
$300 | $45 | €25 | £20 | $50 | $40 |
| Add 10GB for extra email storage (per 10GB per month) | |
$500 | $70 | €50 | £40 | $90 | $80 |
Yes, I'm straight up about web design prices
Homepage information
You get a unique, one-off custom design (not a template). Responsive (mobile-friendly) design is standard so your visitors get a great experience when visiting your website no matter what device they are using. The homepage cost includes all client liaison and contact, design, layout and menu production. Semantically correct HTML5 and CSS3 hand-coded design, standard SEO services (meta information) and image tagging is included all our websites. All static images included in price. Free logo design is provided with every website purchased
Additional pages information
The cost of additional pages is based upon a style consistent with the homepage. Websites that require a significantly different design for each additional page may attract additional costs, but we will advise you of this before we begin
Gallery (add your own images) information
I can create some image galleries that you can add your own images to, often using online accounts such as Flickr or Google. Not all galleries have this capability, please contact me to find out which ones are available
Gallery images information
There are literally hundreds of styles of image galleries, sliders, carousels, lightboxes and slideshows that I can add to your website. These add interest, colour and often movement to a website. I do not charge any fee to add a gallery or slideshow to your website, but there is a small cost for each image to be included which covers the installation and the time it takes me to edit and crop / thumbnail each of your images
Contact forms information
Contact forms are used by your clients or users browsing your website to get in touch with you. Information that you need to gather is emailed to you after your visitor fills out the necessary 'fields' of information. I highly recommend these for the following reasons:
They reduce spam
They look professional
They can provide instant feedback that an email has successfully been sent
An auto-reply email can be generated with your chosen message to the sender
They can be used by all internet users, i.e. Yahoo!, Hotmail and GMail users who may not have email set up on their computers or devices
An example of a contact form can be seen on our own contact page - take a look if you are unsure what I mean
Search function information
Help visitors to your website find information quickly and easily by adding a site search function. This is particularly useful and important on larger websites with many products or a lot of textual information. There is an example of this at the bottom of this webpage. Simply enter the desired keywords and click "Go" and your search results will be shown almost instantaneously. For a one-time payment you receive the basic search function, which will include internet search results as well as your on-site results. To avoid this and provide site-only search results a subscription can be paid, ask me about the cost of this. Other benefits of the subscription include no links to the search engine and no sponsored results - the search will be conducted purely within your website.
PayPal single product 'buy now' information
PayPal is probably the best-known and most trusted online payments system for small businesses in the world. If you are selling a single product, this system is ideal for you. Your website visitors simply click to 'buy now' your product and are taken to the PayPal website to make the transaction using their PayPal account or credit card. The big advantages of using PayPal for you, the seller, is that there are no expensive monthly merchant fees, you don't pay a cent if you don't make a sale and you don't have to handle credit card information yourself. This is taken care of by PayPal on their own ultra-secure website
PayPal shopping cart information
PayPal is probably the best-known and most trusted online payments system for small businesses in the world. If you are selling several products, this system is ideal for you. (However, for hundreds of products you will probably need a Purpose-built ecommerce site). Your website visitors simply click to add your products to the shopping cart, and once they have finished are taken to the PayPal website to make the transaction using their PayPal account or credit card. The big advantages of using PayPal for you, the seller, is that there are no expensive monthly merchant fees, you don't pay a cent if you don't make a sale and you don't have to handle credit card information yourself. This is taken care of by PayPal on their own ultra-secure website
Additional product information
Using the PayPal shopping cart, it will be necessary for me to add each product's information, images and price to the code of each webpage. The price for doing this varies depending upon the amount of information for each product, images and how these images are presented (static or as part of a gallery viewer?) The minimum and maximum prices are published, however, I will provide you a quoted price for each product once you let me know what information should be presented and also the number of products you need (the price reduces as the number of products increases)
Purpose-built ecommerce website information
A shopping cart site designed and installed by Piccante is an outstanding way to sell your products or services online. These sites are cost-effective, updateable yourself and have many features that include order processing and automatic invoicing, specials and discounted products, shipping calculators and even multiple currencies and languages. I set up your website with five information pages (such as 'about us', 'terms and conditions' etc) and your first five products to get you underway. A handy User Guide will assist you to maintain and update your website by yourself, saving ongoing fees and costs.
Your customers can track their purchases online and be updated automatically as you process their orders. PayPal integration is included in the cost of these sites so you don't have any expensive start-up costs or high monthly fees if your sales are low. The features we can implement to these sites are too numerous to list here, so please contact me if you have a query about what our purpose-built e-commerce solutions can or can't do.
Please note that some ecommerce software licence fees may apply and ongoing maintenance / updates of your site will be required for security purposes. Regular site and database backups are highly recommended
Content Editing System (CES) information
Perfect for those website owners who want to update information on their sites themselves - saving the cost of having to pay someone else to do it. Simpler than a full Content Management System, just tell us which sections of your website you want updateable and we will do the rest. When your site is completed you will be able to securely login to an administrator panel and select the block that you want to change. Type your changes into a text editor, save, and your new content is immediately published to your website. Please note that the CES is limited to changing fairly simple content, such as text, images or links to files such as PDFs or Word documents. The CES cannot be used to add new pages. For the fee of the CES, I will install the system for you and add an editable region to one web page, set your password and advise you how to edit your content
Content Editing System (CES) additional page information
This cost is associated with creating editable content on additional pages. For example, to have editable content on five different webpages, you will pay four times this amount (the first page is included in the CES installation cost). Please remember that the CES is excellent for updating your website content yourself, but it is limited to fairly simple changes (such as text and images) but it cannot create new web pages - for that you would need a Purpose-built Content Management System (CMS)
Content Management System (CMS) information
A very flexible and powerful type of site for displaying a lot of information, product data and/or news items. CMS sites are able to be updated without any assistance from Piccante Web Design and have many additional interactive functions for you, and your customers. The features of these types of sites are too numerous to list here - but they include multiple languages, product galleries and sales, database handling, client login and the protection of information / pages.
Please note that most some CMS software licence fees may apply and ongoing maintenance / updates of your site will be required for security purposes. Regular site and database backups are highly recommended
Hourly rate information
Ongoing website updates, requests for assistance with hosting / email management, Search Engine Optimisation work etc are billed at my hourly rate, to the nearest 0.1 of an hour (six minutes). Work is done efficiently and honestly, you have my personal guarantee of this
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) information
A written package and/or two hour personal brief (where possible) covering the importance and relevance of:
Content (copy) writing guidelines and techniques, keyword selection, research and placement, website structure and hierarchy of pages, links (internal and external), managing your SEO strategy, social networking and blogs.
Post-production copy review and feedback, keyword selection review and feedback.
Onsite SEO includes fully optimised code and comprehensive meta-tag inclusion, page title (URL) optimisation, link optimisation, sitemap submission, robots crawl-file submission, site submission to at least three major search engines, Google analytics code added to each webpage for traffic analysis purposes, Google account setup on your behalf to utilise the many tools available for analysing traffic trends and to assist your ongoing decision-making processes, Google Local Business submission (where the business has a physical address), Local Search Directory submission, Squidoo hub-page construction and submission, selected social bookmarking and sharing tools, website analysis of pageload time, heading tags, checks on W3C compliance, HTML5 semantically correct design, .htaccess file creation for optimising accept:vary headers and leveraging browser caching
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) information
Advice on the selection and use of keywords for your advertisement(s)
Advice on setting your advertising pay-per-click rate based on estimated client 'conversions' formulae
Copy writing guidance for your ad
Single ad copy review and feedback
Single ad creation (including any pictorial ads), placement and activation
Google AdWords account setup on your behalf to utilise the many tools available for analysing ad performance
Google Analytics Package information
For a one-off fee we will we will add and submit a sitemap indexing your entire website and a robot-crawl file, which will direct the search engine crawlers to all, or specified parts of your site. We will also submit your domain name(s) to the three major search engines (Google, Yahoo! and MSN/Bing) to ensure that your site is indexed by the search engines as soon as possible. In addition, a .htaccess file will be created to leverage browser caching and maximise accept:vary header performance. Finally, we add Google Analytics code to every one of your webpages so you can monitor and analyse traffic through your Google Analytics account (which we will set up for you)
Email Marketing Campaign information
Email marketing is a powerful advertising tool to reach out and excite your existing client base - and entice new customers. Rather than sending out boring, plain text, junky looking emails simply sign up for our professional email marketing plan and we will turn your regular monthly contact emails into something special, often reflecting elements from your website for consistency.
For this fee we will send out a monthly email for a period of 12 months to your client database - the content of course will be provided by you in the form of updates, specials, latest news etc. We do the rest, from handling the client list to producing the sparkling e-marketing campaigns that really have the 'wow' factor. During this 12 month period you may update your client list yourself (manually) or ask us to help (hourly rate applies).
Piccante Plan 1 web hosting information
Disk space 100 MB
Bandwidth - unlimited
Email accounts with SpamAssassin and Antivirus - unlimited
Email forwarding - unlimited
Webmail access - yes
FTP accounts - unlimited
Parked domains - unlimited
Sub-domains - unlimited
Administrator Control Panel access - yes
Fantastico installer - yes
MySQL databases - unlimited
Piccante Plan 2 web hosting information
Disk space 200 MB
Bandwidth - umlimited
Email accounts with SpamAssassin and Antivirus - unlimited
Email forwarding - unlimited
Webmail access - yes
FTP accounts - unlimited
Parked domains - unlimited
Sub-domains - unlimited
Administrator Control Panel access - yes
Fantastico installer - yes
MySQL databases - unlimited
Extra email storage plan
Ask us to price your plans. The price is per email account and depends upon how many gigabytes (GB) of storage you require.
Piccante Plan 3 web hosting information
Disk space 1 GB
Bandwidth - umlimited
Email accounts with SpamAssassin and Antivirus - unlimited
Email forwarding - unlimited
Webmail access - yes
FTP accounts - unlimited
Parked domains - unlimited
Sub-domains - unlimited
Administrator Control Panel access - yes
Fantastico installer - yes
MySQL databases - unlimited
Availability Calendar
Perfect for showing bookings and availability of holiday homes, products available for rent or services available. An availability calendar significantly increases the number of requests you will receive when customers can see that your service, accommodation or products are available for their required dates. We will normally connect the website calendar with an web-based service such as Google.
Language translation tool
Uses the impressive Google Translate tool to provide multiple-language translations (of your specification) for your website. Includes (if required) flags from an image-based 'sprite' as the links to the translation.
Online Chat
Immediate contact from your clients or website visitors via an app to your phone or computer. Catch those all important questions with immediate responses to up your inquiry:conversion rate! Please note that this is an installation cost and there may be costs associated with high volume or certain chat products, though free plans are available through providers like Drift or Chatra. We'll let you know if it will be more than this quoted price, we'll always try to hunt out great (and free) options for our clients.
Prices
Indicated prices do not include 15% GST which is a requirement for NZ-based business
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Please note that payments made by credit card will attract a 5% surcharge to cover associated costs
Domain names under the administration of Piccante Web Design may be transferred to a third party or to the client for a fee of HKD$750. This covers the time taken to complete the changeover procedure and billing.