Category: Website Design & Development

Web Design Services

Website design and development articles and items by ZinZang Studio.

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Starter Website

Starter Website Special

You can have a skillfully crafted website for $529 within 2-7 business days.

This Starter Website special package will be a simple, clean, attractive website design that is search engine friendly and simple to use. We will quickly give you a professional Internet presence, built on a solid foundation, and ready to easily expand into the future.
Note: Starter Website Design special for Virginia businesses and residents only.


The basics


5-page web site

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Some more of what you’ll receive from us

  • Domain name registration for 1 year
  • Hosting for 1 year (500 MB of space, 3 GB of monthly bandwidth – extremely likely to be much more than enough)
  • Up to 5 email addresses
  • Google Local Business Center/Maps listing set-up
  • A design and coding structure that can easily expand to accommodate future content and pages
  • A site that will work in recent versions of the major browsers (Firefox, IE, IE for Mac, Opera, Chrome, and Safari)
  • 100% valid XHTML code using full CSS, no outdated tables
  • Great service and support after the transaction


Get started


Call us now at 804-557-0017, or fill out our online Get a Quote form, making sure to choose “Starter Site” as your budget option.

We hope to be involved in helping your company grow well into the future, and look forward to designing for you!


Site content you will provide


Textual content

You will need to give us the majority of text for your Starter Website, culled from your current marketing materials. Content should be in digital formats such as txt, rtf, odt, doc, or simply pasted into an email. Transcription of scans, faxes, and printed material takes time, and may result in extra costs.

Logo

Provide us with your logo in high quality digital format, preferably vector. If you don’t have a professionally crafted logo, but have chosen a typeface, color scheme, and/or “just a quick sketch” image you’ve used for business cards, stationery, or advertising, please scan it at a minimum of 450 dpi to a JPG, TIFF, or PNG file.

Photographs

You may send us up to 5 photographs to use on your Starter Website. Please send us the largest versions of the photos you can, in digital format like raw, jpg, or tiff. We will do any basic color correction, exposure compensation, or cropping if necessary.

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Reasons Ecommerce Businesses Need an SSL

Reasons to get an SSL

  • Build online trust with potential customers
  • Protect your businesses liability
  • Protect your customer’s information

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Why your ecommerce business needs an SSL (Secure Socket Layer)

SSL encrypts data personally identifiable information like credit cards numbers and prevents the maliciously inclined from stealing personal information. An SSL protected page has an address begins with “https” and usually has a padlock icon (or similar icon) at the bottom of the page or in the address bar of your web browser.

Your browser encrypts the data and sends to the receiving website. A browser by itself cannot secure the entire transaction and that’s why it’s imperative for ecommerce website developers to do their part in educating their clients about SSL’s.

How do SSL Certificates work?

The SSL certificate sits on a secure server to encrypt data and identify the website. The SSL certificate contains information about the certificate holder which helps verify the website belongs to whom it says it belongs to. It also authenticates the domain the certificate was issued to, the name of the Certificate Authority who issued the certificate, the root, and the country where the certificate was issued in.

ZinZang Studio offers SSL’s with:

  • Unlimited Servers per Certificate
  • 256-bit Encryption Strength
  • 99.9% Browser Recognition
  • 24/7 Phone Support
  • Extended Validation Green Bar
  • Up to $250,000 Warranty
  • Installation Tool
  • Unlimited Re-issue Period
  • SAN (UCC) Support
  • IDN Support
  • Verification Seal
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Maximize Efficiency by Minimizing Routine Tasks

Giving Directions

Most of our clients have a zoomable, scrollable, Google map (as well as written directions from major city locations) on their website’s direction page.  When new patrons, clients and/or business partners need to know “how to get there”, direct them to your website’s directions page.  This will minimize the time it takes to explain directions over the phone and let them more accurately discern the best route for them.  Directing them to the page will also increase the traffic on your site. (Of course we are not suggesting losing the personal touch, but recommend this especially when time is short.)

Using Interactive PDF Forms

Using these forms will save valuable time before initial client meetings and appointments, not only for you and your staff, but for your clients.  Forms can be filled out online and submitted via email or as a printed hard copy.  PDF forms create easy accessibility for your clients to your most used documents and present a modern professional approach, rather than slower, less ecologically friendly, traditional method.

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Standards of Quality and How They Benefit You

ZinZang Studio sets itself apart from other web developers by keeping up-to-date with the latest web standards as provided by the World Wide Web Consortium (w3.org).  The World Wide Web Consortium is comprised of leading experts who have developed and tested web development technologies and is the best resource for issues of compliance and web standards for the web community. Adherence to these standards assures that each website we design is a stronger, more responsive, and sustainable final product.

How does this benefit you?

Saves you time and money

Minimizes the time required to maintain, edit and update your website, therefore saves you money.

Accessibility to those with disabilities

Standards compliant sites are accessible to people with disabilities, such as those who use screen readers or braille bars.

Search Engine response

Search engines (like Google) follow standards. Since your site complies with standards, it will be more visible in online searches than your competitors, who probably don’t follow these standards.

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Complete Customer Service

Long gone are the days when complete and consistent customer services only included staying in touch with clients via phone, mail and in person. These days even small businesses benefit from adding email campaigns, E-newsletters, blogs, instant chat features and other self-service web-based applications. Your web site is a 24/7/365 storefront that should work for you and your customers, even if you are off the clock.

3 Important Tips for Seamless & Consistent Customer Service

1. Design matters

A good design should be both aesthetically pleasing and fully functional.  All websites created and developed by ZinZang Studio are produced with both criteria in mind and are fully compliant with web standards. Adding features to your website enhances customer usability, reduces strain on your staff, and results in a well-rounded service experience.

2. Frontline staff

Your frontline staff is an invaluable resource for identifying the needs of your clients, customers, and patrons. Utilize this resource by having them think about and answer – “what questions are constantly being asked?”, “what do clients, customers, and patrons complain about?”, “do clients, customers, and patrons ask to get particular services in an alternate way?”.  Finding the answers to these questions and coming up with an innovative solutions can greatly increase your all-around customer service.  You may want to consider adding a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) page to your website to answer those questions when you aren’t in the office.

3. Listening

Consider your customer experience as a work in progress by welcoming client, customer, and patron feedback.  You may want to consider providing a customer satisfaction survey as a hard-copy in your lobby, and an interactive PDF online.  This will assist you in determining where you should focus your attention for customer service improvement.