Website Design
Cognite offers a professional website design service for small to large companies.
Naturally additional pages can be added at an additional cost per page. The quotation will include the Business Web Pack and the additional costs.
Features of the Business Web Pack
Our websites offer a set of standard features:- Beautiful and focused designs that compliments your brand.
- Structured with clear sales paths in mind. We advise clients on the best balance of marketing hooks, product/service information and strong call-to-actions.
- Once completed, the website allows the client to log into the powerful administration area and do basic text and image updates with minimal technical knowledge.
- Built-in search functionality.
- Built-in news/article categories where news or articles can be posted into to keep the website fresh.
- Advanced gallery system, as seen on Cognite’s portfolio page.
- Contact form that sends a contact message to the client’s email account.
- Basic banner animation with eye catching photos. Beautiful stock photos can be bought on the client’s behalf at around R50 a photo.
- Dynamic navigation menus that allows drop down functionality.
- Google Map integration allows for an interactive sattellite map to show an office location.
- YouTube video and MP3 player integration. YouTube videos can be embedded into pages to add flair and power to any page.
- Basic Facebook and Twitter feed integration.
- RSS feed is available. This allows people to subscribe to your RSS news feed and stay up to date on posts to your website.
- Basic SEO optimisation. Our websites focuses of providing basic Search Engine Optimisation during development. This is not to be confused with external SEO or Search Engine Marketing.
- Commenting of pages or posts allowed. Visitors to your website can post a comment on an article.
- Spam prevention. We have powerful anti-spam plugins available to stop form spam and comment spam.
Where to start?
We suggest that you purchase a Business Web Pack (See Pricing page for prices). This website package includes all of the above functionality and 5 pages of text and imagery. An example of a standard website navigation could be :- Home (Marketing banner imagery and marketing hooks)
- Products and Services (1 page featuring products or services or both)
- About Us (Why is your company the best at what it is doing?)
- Our Clients (Testimonials are very important. A list of top 10 clients can be shown. If the company is new then this page could be replace with anything else)
- Contact Us (Full contact information)
Naturally additional pages can be added at an additional cost per page. The quotation will include the Business Web Pack and the additional costs.
The website design process
The process is very specific when designing a website :- Client states what they want to show on their website
- Cognite proposes a navigation structure to satisfy the requirements
- Client agrees on proposed navigation. If not then Cognite will revise the navigation
- Cognite provides a quotation for the scope of the website based on the navigation structure
- Client pays 50% deposit to initiate project
- Cognite starts with design of website structure
- Client provides content and imagery for the website. Cognite can source stock photos at around R50 a photo.
- Cognite gives the client a website address to test the live concept
- Client gives feedback on design and content. Cognite makes the changes until the client is happy.
- Client gives signoff on website and pays final 50% of invoice
- Cognite sets website live
How long does a website take to design?
A standard Business Web Pack normally takes around 3 weeks to complete. Our quickest was 2 days and longest was 2 months. It depends on the quality of the content that the client provides and how quick the feedback is received, but normally it takes about 3 weeks. Bigger projects will take longer to complete than the normal 3 weeks.Pricing and Portfolio
Take a look at our Business Web Pack Pricing…
Take a look at our Website Portfolio…
