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Professional Website Designs for local, national and worldwide companies developed with creative zest from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland

Does your website provide you with qualified leads or sales? Are you making money from your website? Can your prospective customers find your website easily? Do you have access to a diverse and well qualified team of online and offline marketing professionals to take your business to a whole new level?

If the answer is "no" to any of these questions, you need to get The Creative Collective to design your new website.

The Creative Collective team have designed hundreds of professional websites for local Sunshine Coast individuals and businesses, as well as large companies located around Australia and internationally - from small start ups to large nationwide organisations with multiple offices.

We pride ourselves on our ability to design self-managed websites that can be created at an extremely competive cost. How do we do it? Let's just say we have a few tricks up our sleeves which means you could have a website designed as quickly as inside three weeks - that looks great, works well and most importantly, if you want, can be completely self managed by you or your staff for years to come. 

Imperative to any website competing in today•s market is that it is well optimised; that is, it can be easily found by potential customers. Few creative companies can provide your business with access to internationally trained website optimisation experts. The Creative Collective can. Having an optimised website is a separate strategy to the design of your website. So to find out more about how to optimise your website, click here.

If it's all a new thing to you why you must join the 'Webolution'

If you have lived your life with your eyes even half open in the past decade, you would surely have noticed a little phenomenon taking place around you called the Internet.

Did you know that:

1. There are now over 1,154,358,778 people online using the Internet worldwide? [1]
2. In Australia there were 14,729,209 users as of Nov/06 representing 70.2% market penetration??[2]
3. Worldwide it has only taken four years for the Internet to reach 50 million users. This compares to 36 years for radio, 13 years for TV and 16 years for personal computers???[3]

With figures like these we're sure you'll agree that you'd be crazy not to jump on the internet bandwagon and ensure you have a website presence on the internet so you can start to enjoy new prospective clients and of course sales!

You may think that website design is really expensive and takes a lot of work right? WRONG! We can do websites from scratch, and it is possible to get up and running with a website very quickly too. When you understand what a difference a website could make to your business, you'd have no hesitation in making this crucial business investment. It is so important that your website is working as an effective business tool and generating results.

Part of our edge in the market is that we understand the big picture. We don't just know how to build websites and make them look pretty, we know how to optimize them so that they are able to be found by people searching on the major search engines for keywords related to your business, and we know how to integrate your online marketing strategies with your offline strategies such as general marketing and promotions.

We specialize in making websites that work, and websites that you can continue to update as your business changes • it's very easy to upload new information or delete old stuff. There's nothing worse than a website displaying outdated and irrelvant information!

Comparing the prices and rates of different web design companies can be misleading and the finished product will vary considerably. Just as important as not paying too much, is getting a professional service and being able to trust that the website developer will work with you as a trusted business partner, not just a vendor wanting to make a quick sale.

An example of how we differ from other website design companies is that all our static HTML websites are XHTML compliant (on completion of project)and we can ensure that proper title tags, metatags and keywords are inserted in the code if website optimisation is important to you and will be signed off on as part of the quote. Many web designers do not do this because it takes longer to do. Not spending the time and effort ensuring that the code is done correctly, means that your site will not appear on search results, even on basic searches like searching for your company name.

Our prices are extremely competitive and we believe that our customers get value for money.

Turn your Website from a Business Expense into the Best Marketing Strategy You Ever Implemented

Your website should not be viewed as a business expense. Done correctly, it could become the most powerful marketing exercise you have ever engaged in.

Just check out some of our testimonials here to find out how websites we have created have revolutionised some of our clients businesses.

If you'd like to know more about website design and getting a website up and running for your business, call or email us.

• Website planning
• Website content & design
• Website functionality including Members Only log-in areas, events calendars, article and links management
• Content management systems (which allow the user to easily update their site on an ongoing basis)
• Domain registration
• Flash animated design
• Website management
• Website re-design
• Email accounts
• Newsletter management
• E - commerce
• Online forms
• Custom Website design
• Forum construction
• Dynamic page design
• Update services 
• Training 

Packages to get up and running with a website start from $1995.

Here's just a few of the standard inclusions you can expect with our wesbite content management based sites:

• In-built Content Management System (CMS) - most of our clients LOVE the ability to self-manage their website once it has been created via our extremely easy to use content management system.

  Trust us when we say we have seen many other content management systems on the market and whilst they might profess to be easy to use, some of them almost require an IT degree to work out how to make one small change!  Our content management system has been tested by 12 year olds. That's right, even 12 year olds have added significant amounts of pages to new sites with just our user manual in hand as have many non-techie clients! Over time this sort of technology can save you thousands of dollars in paying us!

• WSIYWIG interface- which ensures your ability to make changes to the content yourself at any time so long as you have Microsoft Word skills in most areas of the website

• ezy-members • (Create and manage your own Members Only area on site). This could be either an area for your VIP clients or website users. Includes self management of passwords and user details
• ezy-admin - Password secure area online to manage all facets of your website from any computer connected to the internet, ezy-admin - Online file (documents and images) manager.
• ezy-website - Create and edit pages in any area of your site (add as many pages as you like).
• Link Manager - Manage your own link program (needed to enhance search engine results).
• Content templates • Up to 3 basic style templates created (plus ability to add and create as many as you wish) so that you can create new pages quickly and easily with the same professional branded look.
• Site layout • Pages required set up as per agreed sitemap. **
• Content upload - We upload up to 6 pages of supplied content to get you started. Every page thereafter would be at an additional charge. **
• Image and audio/visual upload - These can be anything you like images, photos, Flash, Video or Audio.
• ezy-forms - Create and manage any online forms you wish including accepting online bookings which are emailed direct to you to either call or email back to confirm and auto responders (however you may choose to utilise a more sophisticated system asper list on •extras')
• ezy-events - Manage your own events listings on site.
• ezy-articles - Manage your own articles (news, information, press releases) on site.
• ezy-members - Create and manage your own Members Only area on site. Including self management of passwords and user details.
• Online access and instant updates - Password secure area online to manage all facets of your website from any computer connected to the internet. Updates appear live from the moment you have hit •update page' without any need for FTP services in between.
• ezy-admin - Online file (documents and images) manager
• site optimisation capabilities - Add page titles, keywords, and description META tags for each individual page on the entire website. All Web Pages are static and are not dynamic URLs to ensure that all search engines can see your entire website.
• site map - every time you add pages to your site and make them live they will automatically appear in the in-built xml site map which assures that Google and other search engines can see your site and love it!
• search facility - help your users find information on your site - fast! with our in-built search area which can be pasted into your template or placed on a specific page such as your home page.

In addition we offer:

• Google Analytics tracking installed and your own access granted if required, monthly reports issued direct to your email account free of charge
• Internal Site Statistics system (awstats) installed
• Google Webmaster Tools to track how Google "sees" your website
  
• In-depth pre launch quality control process which reduces chance of your site going live with error
• Search engine optimization of up to 6 key pages (meta titles, meta tags, meta descriptions, alt tags, keyword density review and recommendations made)
• Submission of website to •Big 5' search engines
• Directory submission drive (submission of best practice title, keywords and meta tag description to multiple relevant directories to improve search engine ranking
• A control panel to manage your account:
  • 20 email accounts (unlimited alias and forwarding)
  • Virus Cleaned
  • Webmail (web based email service)
  • 200MB Disk Space *
  • 1GB Data Traffic *
  • Detailed Web Activity Statistics
  
  
  
  

OTHER •PERKS' OF WORKING WITH US

• SUPPORT - Every client enjoys 1 hour of complimentary training and a free manual.  In addition to this there is an extensive library of help files. Additional training hours can be purchased or if you find it overwhelming or do not have time to enter and administer your website longer term (as you get so busy processing orders and/or new clients!) and would like someone else to manage it, we can provide such a service and various levels of support if needed. We also offer procedures for setting up email accounts, paypal and Eway.
• Client user name and password granted for access to our exclusive client only area of our website full of updated user guides, tips, news and useful information solely for clients of The Creative Collective.
  
• Dependent on level of work contracted for, if VIP status granted you are entitled free access to our educational and other events and priority access to PR and other opportunities
  

Click here to read more about the website production process