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Website & Graphic Design
Tony is our chief website & graphic designer, specialising in content management systems and social media. He uses his CMS expertise combined with a design & marketing background to create superb functional websites.
Before starting Arachne Design, as an Industrial Designer, I began producing special effects for the Film Industry, later going on to direct television commercials for clients around the world. Along the way I accumulated plenty of design and marketing experience. This combination of skills enables me to assist businesses with every aspect of their websites from the web and logo design to the development of content and social media marketing.
Pricing
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Website Design
For a successful website; a great look, flawless functionality and simplicity of maintenance are essential.
Communication Design
When it comes to ecommerce, the perceived value of your products and the trustworthiness of your business is often judged by the quality of your web design.
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Communication Design
When it comes to ecommerce, the perceived value of your products and the trustworthiness of your business is often judged by the quality of your web design.
From Graphics to Photography
Recent Graphic Designs
Product Photography
Our mission, from concept and design through to final production, is to create professional, dynamic, custom graphic solutions to convey your specific message to your targeted audience whether on the web, in print or on television.
Our designers are highly skilled in all forms of design, from corporate identity development (logos and branding), to web sites, publications (magazines, newspapers, and books), print (business cards and leaflets), advertisements and product packaging.
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Logo and Business Card Designs
Product Photography
Pricing
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Mobile Responsive Design
Benefits seen by companies that launch responsive websites include huge jumps in conversions, transactions and revenue, increases in pages per visit and large growth in mobile traffic. David Howell – techradar.pro
It is vital that every aspect of your site, from images to text, be assessed to establish how these elements will or won’t work together when viewed on a variety of different screens and internet access devices.
Design for all.
Mobile responsive design is all about automatically delivering to you the content you want, within the context that you’re viewing it. Typically, there are four general screen sizes that responsive design has been aimed at: the widescreen desktop monitor, the smaller desktop (or laptop), the tablet, and the mobile phone. By utilizing responsive design, your website can be optimised to look great and work on every type of browser giving you a good experience without having to maintain a separate mobile site or app.
Certainly there are exceptions to using responsive design yet for the vast majority of small businesses, responsive design is the most cost-effective, future-proof and efficient way of ensuring your site can be viewed on all devices and platforms.
Unfortunately, not all designs are suited to a responsive format. We will advise whether a rethink of your design layout is necessary in order to produce a custom design perfect for your needs.
Responsive Examples
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Pricing
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Complete Website Design Service
For a successful website; a great look, flawless functionality and simplicity of maintenance are essential.
When building a website, it’s best to evaluate from all points of view based on your specific needs. As designers we will deliver the best results for your project by working with you throughout the Definition, Design and Refinement phases.
Define
Vitally important is to define your website or online marketing effort. Understanding your brand communication, target audience and what your objectives are for your website, is primary. A firm understanding of the technology, tools and process is key to successful implementation.
We will take you through this process to help define a professional solution for your needs or expectations. On completion, we will work with you to generate a design specification that meets all these goals.
From Design to Website
Your design must communicate your brand quickly, capturing and retaining the attention of your audience. It must meet web standards and be attractive, yet it also needs to work seamlessly with WordPress including your defined requirements.
We can take your existing website as a design specification and upgrade it.
Included
Design: We turn your design or re-design into a WordPress website making editing quick and easy through one administration panel.
Power: Built on WordPress, powered by the Genesis framework, you benefit from the power, speed, and security.
Flexibility: Home and inner page layout, with the inner page having all the built-in Genesis Layout Options plus a standard Blog Archive and Single Post layout.
Code: Modern, clean, ultra-flexible well-documented code in a child theme gives you the freedom to customize your website in the future.
Responsive: Your website is optimized for viewing.
Mobile Responsiveness is described in more detail here.
Onboard SEO: Content optimization, using your custom titles, keywords and phrases for pages and posts on your site to achieve higher ranking.
More from Google.
Refine
Refining the functionality of the website includes sample data being used for testing. This data needs to provided as well as additional functionality may need to be discussed and added. Guidance from your designer will be provided.
Training: As an optional extra, access to WordPress 101 video training tutorials can be enabled. It provides a complete walk-through of every aspect of the WordPress interface.
Terms
Depending on your requirements, from Design to Website & Complete Website Design Service require a 50% deposit with the balance payable on going live.
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Services
When it comes to ecommerce, the perceived value of your products and the trustworthiness of your business is often judged by the quality of your web design.
Pricing
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Basic Package
- From Design to Website Package is budgeted on 10 hours of work. We will prepare a quotation for any additional work before commencing. This package is based on telephonic meetings, email correspondence and electronic submission of information. Face to face consultations are excluded from this package.
General Terms and Conditions
- Any variations from the package structures will incur additional charges.
- 50% of the development total is to be paid on approval of the quote. The balance must be paid on completion of the project.
- No development will be published live or delivered to you until the relevant balance of payment has been received and your acceptance has been recorded in writing.
- Only payment via bank guaranteed cheque, electronic funds transfer or cash will be accepted.
- Kindly note that we will charge interest at Standard Bank prime overdraft rates on overdue payments.
- All content (copy, images, logos etc.) is to be supplied by you in the relevant format and you should ensure that there are no copyright infringements as you will be accountable for this.
- E-mail correspondence will be considered as formal acceptance of any development.
- The layout (look and feel) will be designed within 7 – 10 working days, provided you have supplied us with the information you would like on your home page. For example: link names, photos, logo, content and colours etc.
- Please ensure that we receive all the relevant information for your site within 3 working days of your sign off, so that we can ensure the site is completed in a professional and efficient manner. Should we not receive all of the content within this period, we will assume that you have sent us everything, and we will complete the project.
- Should a delivery date be agreed upon, it will remain subject to the timeous submission of all required content by you.
- All projects designed by Arachne Design may contain a footnote, which will form a link to our website.
- All projects remain the property of Arachne Design until full payment has been made.
- Hosting and domain registration costs are excluded from package prices unless otherwise specified.
- Your hosting package will need to meet certain requirements. (PHP version 5.2.4 or greater and a MySQL Database version 5.0.15 or greater). We can check these with your hosting company on your behalf.
- Quotations are valid for a period of 30 days from quotation date.
- All WordPress training is conducted through online documentation and videos. As an optional extra, access to WordPress 101 video training tutorials can be enabled within your website. These tutorials provide a complete walk-through of every aspect of the WordPress interface.
- Terms and conditions may be updated from time to time.