Web Site Development

Web Site Design

We develop both desktop and mobile websites.

Please TAKE NOTE that we do NOT develop or support sites built with Joomla (IToctopus, n.d.a), Moodle, Wix, Wordpress (Raymond, 2024) or any other Content Management System (CMS).

All our sites are iteratively hand-crafted with HyperText Markup Language 5 (HTML5), Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3), JavaScript (JS), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and related technologies.

Static Desktop Websites

Static desktop websites are purpose-built to be accessible on desktop and laptop computers, and therefore, only offer limited responsiveness on tables and smartphones.

These sites can be expanded to include mobile versions for tablets and smartphones

Static Mobile Websites

Static mobile websites are purpose-built to be responsive, and therefore, accessible on specific mobile devices (or a series of mobile devices sharing the same viewport breakpoints).

Google Site Search Functionality (Optional)

Google Site Search

A customizable Google-powered search engine for your own website - allowing visitors to quickly find what they are looking for.

To see this functionality in action, take a look at our own search functionality.

Print Friendly Customizations (Optional)

Print Friendly

We can also hide and style elements of your website to render its content highly-printable via Print Friendly.

Print Friendly is very popular, especially amongst students.

Print Friendly plugin extensions are available free-of-charge on Apple Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox.

To see these Print Friendly customizations in action, try printing this page with Print Friendly.

Progressive Functionality (Optional)

Progressive Web App

We can also add progressive functionality to any desktop or mobile website, providing limited offline functionality when installed to desktops, laptops, tablets and/or smartphones.

It is important to TAKE NOTE that the abovementioned progressive functionality may have to be updated, whenever the website is updated - in order to maintain offline access to additional content. This of course, will incur some minor charges.

Your Responsibilities

You will be reponsible for the following:

Selecting and Presenting a Graphic User Interface

You will have to either, design your own Graphic User Interface (GUI), approach a graphic designer, or find inspiration at Astra, Canva, Colorlib, Template Monster, ThemeForest and Webflow.

It does not matter whether your design (or design elements) is compatible with any particular platform, since we will be adapting the designs you present to align with your requirements, theme, logotypes and content.

Copywriting and Providing the Necesssary Content

You will have to either, write your own content, or approach a professional copywriter. We will neither, produce the content, nor finish the site without the content.

Failing to provide the content in a timely manner will result in developmental delays, which may ultimately result in an incomplete project and the forfeiture of the non-refundable deposit.

Portfolio of Recent Projects

Apart from the site you are currently looking at, we also recently completed the following projects.

Smith Inc Law
Lavender and Lilies Interiors
Overberg Refrigeration

Total Cost of Ownership

R1000 per page for static desktop websites. In other words, a desktop website with 'Home', 'Products', 'Services', 'About', and 'Contact' pages will amount to a minimum of R5000.

R1000 per page for static mobile websites. In other words, a mobile website with 'Home', 'Products', 'Services', 'About', and 'Contact' pages will amount to a minimum of R5000.

R500 per site for implementing Google Site Search functionality.

R50 per page for customizing Print Friendly functionality.

R1000 per site for implementing progressive functionality. In other words, the aforementioned websites with 'Home', 'Products', 'Services', 'About', and 'Contact' pages will incur an additional R1000.

We will require a non-refundable deposit of 50% before any development will commence.

To book a consultation, please Contact SOHO Computers.

References

  1. IToctopus (n.d.a) 10 Reasons Why Your Joomla Website Got Hacked
  2. Raymond, D. (2024, January 18) Top 10 Cons & Disadvantages of WordPress [ProjectManagers.net]