Could you help me please?
I'm sat here recovering from surgery and will be out of action for six weeks. I'm building two Local sites for someone. Now that I've written down the included features, I've realised I have almost certainly under priced. It's no big deal but will have to change in future.
So... from a customer's point of view, what would you expect to pay for a Local site with these things built in?
LOCAL SITE
Wordpress based. This means you can add, update or change pages yourself (even at 2.00 o'clock in the morning), without waiting (or paying) for a designer to do it. You can easily add one, ten or even ten thousand plus pages yourself if you have enough time! These will also be set up to be human and search engine friendly (no long numbers or squiggles in the page names).
You can add articles, text, images or video's yourself using a simple to use "dashboard" similar to Microsoft Word (no website coding needed).
The site will look like a "proper" website rather than a blog (no "comments" box on each page). There will also be a separate blog that is integrated into the site. This will be a proper blog, complete with a comments section.
The individual pages and blog will be set up to "auto ping". This means that the search engine spiders will be notified whenever you change or update something. There will be a built in safeguard to stop you overdoing this and be classed as a "spammer" by the search engines.
The site will have....
-An image slider (between two and seven images sliding across the page (you've all seen them). You can have photographs of the different services you offer. You can turn this feature on or off.
- Choice of seven colour schemes (which you can change yourself with one click of your mouse - and change back again just as easily, if you don't like it!).
- Visitor E-mail capture - to help compile an email list so you can keep in touch with people. Again, this can be turned on or off.
-Links to your Social accounts.. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc.
-Article / post scheduler. You can add several posts or articles at once. The site will automatically publish them (and tell the search engines) whenever you want. You could spend a couple of hours loading up articles and then program the site to "drip feed" publish one say, every week or every couple of days over the course of several weeks.
-"Breadcrumb" navigation. Similar to Amazon. The bit across the top that tells visitors exactly where they are on the site by category, page etc.
Performance wise, it will have a few "plugins" added. These are additional pieces of software that give the site extra functions. These cover things like on page SEO, site / page load speed, blog anti spam, automatically produced Google sitemaps etc.
Not only will they be added but will also be already "tuned" to the right settings (if you don't know what you are doing you could struggle for ages trying to figure out how these work).
All that you will have to do is provide the content.
what do you think?