DesignByAngela.Com Questionnaire

DesignByAngela.Com Questionnaire

Please print this form, fill it out, and mail to DesignByAngela.Com, LLC, 60 Prospect Park, Newton, MA 02460.

I. General Info

Name

Company Name (if applicable)

Address

City, State, Zip

Phone

Fax

Email

II. Your Computer (If you don't know how to answer a question, just leave it blank.)

1. Do you use a PC or a Mac?

2. What operating system do you use? (Mac OSX, Windows XP, etc.)

3. What Web browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, etc.) do you use?

4. What do you set your monitor resolution at? (1024x768, 800x600, etc.)

*To determine your monitor resolution on a PC, you can right-click on your desktop, choose Properties, go to Settings, and look under Screen Area. On a Mac, you can go to the Apple Menu, choose Control Panels, and then go to Monitors.

5. How do you connect to the Internet? (dial-up service, DSL, cable modem, etc.)

III. Your Web Site Situation

1. Do you want us to create a new Web site for you or do you want us to do work on an existing Web site?

2. If you already have a Web site:

What is the URL (Web site address)?
Who is your hosting company?

Please make a list of the things you would like changed on your site.

For the remainder of the questionnaire, just answer whatever seems relevant.

3. If you want us to create a new Web site:

Would you also like us to set up your domain name and Web hosting for you?

IV. About You

1. Tell us a bit about your company. What do you do?

2. What is the objective of your Web site? (Informational only? Sell stuff online? Get people to order your catalog? Get people to go to your store? Etc.)

V. Who is your audience?
1. What do you know about your audience, the people who may be looking at your Web site?

2. Is there anything you can say about the computer habits of your audience? (Novice or experienced users? Lots of Macs? AOL users? Anything you know would be helpful.)

VI. General Feel

1. Are there any adjectives you would use to describe the Web site you envision? (Simple? Hip? Classy? Trendy? Conservative? Funky? Etc.)

2. Are there any particular colors you would like used in your Web site? (Swatches or examples would be helpful. Please keep in mind that different colors look slightly different on different computers. We will do our best to match your colors.)

3. Are there any Web sites out there that you really like or like parts of? List them and note specifically what you like about them. How might you want these concepts incorporated into your Web site?

4. Are there any things that you absolutely hate about certain Web sites? What are they?

5. Any other comments about the general feel you want for your Web site?

VII. Nitty Gritty

We can help you work through a lot of this at our Consultation if you like, but thinking about it beforehand can be very helpful.

1. What do you want for your main navigational links (menu items)?

2. Do you think you will want more pages than the ones that your main navigational links will go to? If so, how will they relate to your main navigational links? Sometimes it helps to make a diagram. If there is not enough room here, you may mail this separately or send the files to us electronically.

3. Please write out any text (if applicable) that you will want on your home page. If there is not enough room here, you may mail this separately or send the files to us electronically.

4. Are you interested in maintaining your Web site yourself (i.e. doing your own text edits)?
Yes No

5. Will you want to promote your Web site to search engines?
Yes No

If yes, what do you think would be the three most likely phrases that people would use on search engines to find your site?

6. Before our Consultation, please gather together the following items to give or send to us:

Any materials that may help to familiarize us with you and your company (brochures, catalogs, print ads, etc.).
Any photos, images, or text that you know you will want on your Web site, especially any that you want on your home page.
This questionnaire.
Any notes, diagrams, ideas, etc. that you have about the Web site.

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