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Website Redesign in Zimbabwe - Harare, Bulawayo, Mutare, Gweru, Kwekwe. Re-design your website! You learn that creating customer loyalty is neither strategic nor tactic; rather, it is the ultimate objective and meaning of brand equity. Brand loyalty is brand equity " - Daryl Travis web design, web site design, web page design, zimbabwe web design, web design company, free web design, web design software, best web design, web design graphic, web site design company, free web page design, web design firm, web design and hosting, web design and development, zimbabwe web site design, flash web design, web design template, cool web design, professional web site design, web site design proposal, website design proposal, website proposal, web site development proposal, web site design proposal, site, web design proposal Cellphone Number:+263(0)912652348 Email: dgoto@webentangled.com DID YOU KNOW? Good Web Site Design Increasingly More Important It's imperative for a company to have a quality web site today - but many firms are still throwing up web sites that are just poorly designed or overly complex. Poor navigation (menus and overall site structure) when coupled with low quality graphics is really problematical (!) - online visitors think less of your company as a result which will hurt revenue in the long run. Many think just doing a minimal job is sufficient but they aren't factoring in how close your competition is! On the web any potential customer is only one click away from seeing a high quality web site that is well designed and conveys a quality image. A good rule of thumb when budgeting for a web site is to assume you will pay approximately Z$950 000.00 -Z$2,500 000.00 (as of Jan 2007) per standard website - this should include your graphics design, content development, setting up registration forms, etc. This may sound too expensive for many companies but for better or worse perception is reality in the online world! So, don't short change yourself, put some resources into your web site and be prepared to continue to do so - it's now a vital component of any company's ongoing marketing processes that needs constant upgrading like traditional marketing(PR, print, etc.) materials. Your website can be optimised so that it can be easily found on the Internet . . . After investing in a website most people end up thinking that opportunities on the internet are over-hyped. This comes as a result of web designers who design websites that look good to the human eye and totally neglect their coding which is more important to search engines such as Google and Yahoo! . The significance of high search engine ranking should not be under-estimated. It is estimated that 85+% of visits to web sites come via search engines. According to NetRatings: "Nine out of every ten Web users go to such a site (search engines and portals) every month, and are going there more frequently - nearly five times monthly" The answer lies in choosing a web designer who understands the need have a visually appealing website as well as gives due importance to the optimisation of web pages so that search engine robots can easily index the pages. Just how does somebody who knows very little about the intricacies of web design choose a good developer? The simplest answer lies in the Cremora Web Design Test! Remember the old Cremora advertisement: "It's not inside, it's on top!"Web design specialists who know WHAT needs to be done to get high search engine rankings, and HOW to do so, can surely manage to get high search engine rankings for their own web sites. If they cannot do it for themselves,then why rely on them to do so for you? The bottom line is to do a search for 'website design in zimbabwe' or 'web design zimbabwe' on a search engine such as Google or Yahoo!and check the results. The web design teams you are looking for are ON TOP of, not hidden INSIDE, the rankings.If you want your site to get into the Top 10 listing (on top!) it can be done. But it takes a real understanding of how the search engines work. Would you be satisfied with lower listings? Do you ever look through thousands of search engine results? Does anybody? Is there any point in having web pages with low search engine listings?Of course there are some web sites that do not rely on search engine rankings for high visitor traffic and do not need 'search engine friendly' web design. But they are very few and far between and almost certainly have high off-line advertising budgets. In any event, there are almost no web sites that will not benefit from additional traffic resulting from high search engine rankings.Good web design can make a major difference to your search engine rankings and success on the Internet.Offline marketing/promotion of your website highly important to the success of your website. I have often been faced with clients who think that once a website has been uploaded and is technically sound, then people should be able to "somehow" find the website. While a website designer can play an important role in marketing the website online through search engine registration and optimisation(see article above titled: Your website can be optimised so it can be easily found on the Internet), the onus is on the website owner to do some intelligent and highly creative offline marketing/promotion of the website. To be frank in a country like ours - i feel offline marketing of a website carries more weight than online marketing of the website. How then do you go about it? There are two important pieces to all promotion, and they become even more important in promoting your website offline. Just like the online world, your success at offline promotion is going to hinge on putting your message in front of the prospect in the right context – meaning at the right time and when they are in the right mood to perform the action you are looking for, which in this case is a visit to your website. You need two elements for each viral marketing idea – the hook and the context. Once you figure out how you're going to do it, you need to determine where you're going to do it. If the niche and scope of your business won't lend itself well to local leads, passing out business cards isn't going to work as a viral marketing idea. Every site could benefit from offline leads – it's just a matter of how much time and money you want to throw at them. Obviously the offline world has the constraint of geography, compared to any online based promotion which can be accessed by anyone in the world as long as they have an Internet connection, but then again how many of our businesses have a truly global appeal. The least expensive forms of viral marketing are going to be geographically bound, which can be challenging for some sites.Service summary: Domain name registration Web hosting Web site development - basic Web site development - content managed / dynamic database driven Search Engine Optimisation of your website Brochure design Business card design. Brochure printing Business Card Printing Some of Web Entangled Web Design Zimbabwe's work Cellphone Number:+263(0)912652348 Email: dgoto@webentangled.com About Web Entangled - Zimbabwe "A strong brand position means the brand has unique, credible, sustainable and valuable place in the customer's mind. It revolves around a benefit that helps your product or service stand apart from your competition. " - Scott Davis Mission: Web Entangled - aims to offer the highest levels of quality and service to companies and organisations wishing to be at the cutting edge of Internet design and functionality, and to utilise these qualities to facilitate maximum Internet exposure and presence to our clients. History: Founded in 2002 in Harare, Zimbabwe by Dereck R Goto. Web Entangled has since become a full service Web site design and Web development company that offers full interactive capabilities, online marketing strategy expertise, and e-Business Web development. By slowly developing strategic alliances and partnerships, Web Entangled has become a trusted developer in Zimbabwe and beyond and has created projects for top companies spanning different industries. To date Dereck has single-handedly designed and developed over 60 websites Web Entangled Fact Sheet: Founded: 2002 Headquarters: Harare, Zimbabwe Founder: Dereck Goto Profile: Web Entangled is an interactive Digital Design Studio based Harare, Zimbabwe that delivers highly functional and engaging Web sites, Web applications, e- commerce, multimedia, graphic design, print and Internet marketing solutions for our clients. Areas of Expertise: Web Design and Development, UI Design, Graphic Design, Back-end Technology Development, E-Commerce, Joomla, Content Management System Zimbabwe, Harare, Bulawayo, Kwekwe, Gweru, Mutare Back to top Web Entangled Services "Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only so far as in may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer" - Adam Smith(The Wealth of Nations, 1776) Web Entangled provides Digital Design Services. Web Design & Development A thorough, researched and clever design not only carries a company and its message forward, but also puts it in the most profitable markets. Dereck Goto absolutely realises the importance and has the expertise in designing and upholding a corporate marketing and branding campaign. Dereck has designed and developed over 300 websites. Multimedia Development Web Entangled uses Macromedia Flash in multimedia development. Flash is by far the best application for delivering high-impact, low-bandwith rich media web sites, applications and presentations. Flash is now the most widely deployed technology ever distributed on the Web. Over 97% of all Web users can view Flash. Dereck also uses Flash in the development of interactive CDs and corporate videos. Online Marketing A large part of my Online Marketing approach is making sure that my clients thoroughly understand the search engine relationships. That will inturn, ensure that the time, effort, budget and resources spent on marketing a Web site are carefully planned and targeted. Over 85% of all new visitor traffic to any Web site originates from search engines and directories such as Yahoo & Google. It is absolutely essential that business owners ensure that their Web sites are ranked and positioned where their customers can find them. Web Entangled works hand in hand with you on arming your site with the correct page optimisation techniques and code that'll make each page as search engine friendly as possible. Graphic Design Services Web Entangled doesn't just construct, it creates and originates designs that speak of your inspirations and visions, and at the same time, speak the language of your customers. 'DESIGNS THAT SPEAK OF YOUR INSPIRATIONS AND VISIONS' In our design process, there is no concept that is brought to life without being entirely researched and evaluated from all different angles, so that the final result would carry meaning and aptitude that does not get unnoticed from the viewers. We look at your constraints and make them our guiding lines, so that there are no surprises at any stage of the design and production. From the initial idea to the final concept, Web Entangled designs visuals that narrow the gap between your business and your targeted audience. Corporate Identity Logo DesignBrand Development Corporate StationaryAdvertisements Brochures Packaging Design Guidelines Presentation Tools Sales/Marketing MaterialsInformation GraphicsBack to top Frequently Asked QuestionsIf a brand has become old fashioned, tired and boring, the public see the business or products that the brand represents as being tired and boring. If this happens they will consequently shift their loyalty to another more appealing competitor brand - leaving the old one to wither and die. - Allan BroughDo I need a website? How long does it take to have a website designed? What is a URL? What is the web hosting fee? Can I choose you to design my site and use my own web host? What is site maintenance? Why can't I find my web site in the search engines? How will people find my website? How much information will you need to build my website? Could you redesign my current website? How much would it cost? I want an ecommerce site. Can you do this? How expensive is it to own a website? Do I need a website? The short answer is that you don't. A well-run business should survive perfectly well without a website, at least for the next few years anyway! There are however a number of good reasons why a website can help your business: Access to a global marketplace. Previously a business' marketplace has been limited by the reach of it's advertising budget. A website is accessible worldwide, and can be found just as easily by someone in South Africa as someone in a neighbouring town. More and more people use the internet to find goods and services and will just as happily order from a company in another country if the product and the price is right. You don't need a huge e-commerce site to achieve this either; the cheque is still a perfectly acceptable payment method to many people if they want something your business can offer them. Information 24 hours a day. Many people search the internet to find products and services available before they approach a company or visit a shop. With a website you have an effective 24 hour information service, catalogue and advertisement all rolled into one package which costs less than most single print adverts. Everybody else has one. Strange but true. These days, not having a website can reflect badly upon your business in much the same way as not having business cards can seem unprofessional. People expect businesses to have websites. Another factor is that many of your competitors will already have websites and are attracting clients searching the web for products and services that you also offer, possibly of a higher quality or at cheaper prices. If customers don't know you're out there, they won't find you. Keep in touch with your customers & clients. People like to feel valued when they're regular customers and clients. A website is easily updated so you can inform regular customers of special offers, product or service news, new developments and anything else you wish them to know. You can have special client areas on your website, even password protect pages so that the general public can't get access. Let your customers & clients contact you easily. A feedback form is a popular feature of many websites. Customers are often hesitant to get in touch, even by email, but a feedback form is more anonymous, has questions for the customer to fill in and involves very little effort. The responses and messages that the customer leaves are emailed directly to you, making customer support and care that much easier, and providing more opportunities for you to gain more customers.How long does it take to have a web site designed? The time frame is determined by the size of your web site, the complexity of your site design, and our current client design schedule. Generally, we take between 2 days to 14 days to complete a project. Back to top What is a URL? It stands for "universal resource locator". This is the address typed in to view your web page on the Internet. For example, you would type in http://www.wezim.co.zw to accessed our home page. What is the web hosting fee? Web hosting fee is a monthly/annual fee that you pay to have your site accessible on the Internet. The current rates range from Z$50 000.00 to Z$100 000.00 for the whole year depending on the web host you choose. Can I choose you to design my site and use my own web host? Yes. Web Entangled does not offer hosting services but we can recommend you to several reputable Internet Service Providers who can host your website. The leading hosting companies in Zimbabwe include Mweb-Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Online, Yo! Africa and Telco InternetWhat is site maintenance? Website maintenance refers to the continuous process of updating your website - be it changing the text or images. Web Entangled currently charges Z$20 000.00/hour to update you website. Most updates never exceed 3 hours at any given time. Most good web sites have new content updated regularly. Fresh content is what will keep your visitors coming back.Why can't I find my web site in the search engines? Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may require several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory. How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders. How will people find my website? There are several ways to lead people to your website: Promote your website. You can put your website address on your business cards, stationery, advertising and marketing materials. People are far more likely to visit a website to find out about a company than they are to actually visit a shop/office or call you, because it is anonymous and they don't feel under pressure. Once you've got them to the website then hopefully your website will convince them to contact you in person or to buy online. Search engines. When someone enters keywords into a search engine to find something they will get a list of links to websites based on the search engines judgement of the relevance of that website to the search terms. The trick is to make sure that search engines put your website as high as possible on the ranking for certain keywords. Fortunately for you, here at Web Entangled we are experts at getting your website high in the rankings of the major search engines, and will work with you to decide what keywords you should be aiming to get good results for, and tweak your website to that effect. This is part of our web design service. Many other web design agencies charge a small fortune for this but we believe that a good website is useless without it getting good results on search engines, so we maximise your search engine results for free. Web Directories. A bit like search engines, but with a hint of Yellow Pages. Directories are listings of websites under category headings and are often vetted by real humans for relevance of content and suitability. These can be a bit hit and miss because there are a lot of different directories and people use them less than search engines. Local directories are often the best to go for, and we'll suggest those you might be interested in submitting your website to. How much information will you need to build my website? It depends entirely on whether you have definite ideas of what information you want on your website. Cost is a factor too. Our lower-priced web design packages are based around you supplying all the images and text you want on the website. We will happily scan your leaflets, logos and other printed information for free, in order to get the images you want on the website, but creating images and photos from scratch is a time-consuming business and costs extra. If you need photos on your website we can take these for you using a high resolution digital camera at a very reasonable charge. Text to go on the website needs to be supplied on disc, via email or on CD so that we can incorporate it into the pages we design. Typing text up from printed pages is another time consuming activity and we will have to charge extra for that too. The bottom line is, if you want a basic low-cost website, you'll need to supply all the text, images and photos yourself. Anything else will take more time and customisation and hence cost a bit more. Contact us to discuss your needs and we'll work out something within your budget. Back to topCould you redesign my current website? How much would it cost? We would be happy to redesign an existing website, and will provide a free critical appraisal of any website you submit to us so you can get an idea of what needs changing and updating to make the most of your website. The cost of redesigning a website can vary from a small fee for optimising your search engine ranking all the way through to a full design fee for a website that really needs scrapping and starting all over again. It really depends on how much work is involved, but sometimes it is better and cheaper (especially with our design prices) to get a new website. Feel free to send us a request for an appraisal along with the websites existing web address and we'll get back to you with our suggestions and an idea of cost. I want an ecommerce site. Can you do this? We have the ability to develop e-commerce websites to your specifications, whether it is a simple online catalogue using cheques as a payment methods, or a fully featured online shop supporting credit card transactions. If you are wanting to accept credit cards online you will need an internet merchant account from a bank, which is different from a normal merchant account. We recommend you discuss this with your business banker to see if you can be authorised for one. It is possible to accept credit cards online without an internet merchant account using payment gateway intermediaries such as WorldPay or PayPal, but the fees can reduce profit margins considerably and along with the cost of building a database driven e-commerce site it is something that has to be considered carefully. Online catalogues that require customers to send cheques before merchandise is posted to them can be successful though, so don't give up if you can't get a merchant account or don't want to use an intermediary. How expensive is it to own a website? Although many Web Design companies will have you believe that it is expensive to have a Web site, it is actually quite the opposite.  We offer affordable prices for both the small and large business.  As a guide: Our Standard Website Package has up-to 50 pages, animation, background sound, a search facility, feedback form, a hit/visitor counter,graphic design(visual appeal) you would expect to pay +/-us$1500.00. Contact us for a free quotation. Enterprise Resource Planning Zimbabwe (ERP) - Zimbabwe is a term usually used in conjunction with ERP software or an ERP system which is intended to manage all the information and functions of a business or company from shared data stores. Web Entangled develops Intranet Solutions in Zimbabwe and beyond which make use of Enterprise Resource Planning.An ERP system typically has modular hardware and software units and "services" that communicate on a local area network. The modular design allows a business to add or reconfigure modules (perhaps from different vendors) while preserving data integrity in one shared database that may be centralized or distributed. Cellphone Number:+263(0)912652348 Email: dgoto@webentangled.com© Web Entangled - Zimbabwe (2000-2006) Zimbabwe http://www.webentangled.com/web-design-zimbabwe-harare/

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