We focus on providing dynamic websites that captures your audience to ensure that they remain attentive and receptive to your message.
Bdcom.ca is the first website solution to truly combine ease of use and affordability in one fixed price per month for everything (webdesign, web hosting, domain bandwidth etc.). We offer true value which will save you hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on web site design costs. change page, design or other features as often as you like. Web design from a bdcom.ca based company, specializing in giving small companies their first Internet and Search Engine presence. Get your business online with one of our Small Business Starter Packages, which costs as little as cdn $19.99 per month.
>>Design, hosting and domain name -- yourcompany.com
>>Your own email address -- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
>>No hassle -- we do our job so you can concentrate on yours
>>No jargon -- we don't use technical language you can't understand
We ourselves are a small local Toronto company, who understand that cash flow is often tight. Your website is too important to take a chance on its development, but you don't want the worry of risking your budget on a large, often unapproachable, design firm. Bdcom.ca offer the perfect solutions to develop your website at an affordable (cheap) cost to your business. We have a simple aim: to get you or your web site online quickly, with no hassle, at a price you can afford; enabling your customers, or potential clients, to access information about your business, goods or services, 24 hours a day, every day, from anywhere
The Small Business Package:
Cost: cdn $19.99 per month with annual contract.
The Small Business Package Includes:
A five page website, including: one homepage, one contact form, one guest book, two internal pages;
A domain or 'web address' (yourcompany.com*)
Email address(es) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.*)
Hosting (storage) of your site on reliable web servers
Search engine submission to the top search engines
Extra pages and/or functionality by agreement
* Bdcom.ca will register your domain name on your behalf, but yourcompanyname.com will not necessarily be available. In this instance we will advise of reasonable alternatives.
The Website Layout
Homepage:
The Homepage should be an introduction to your site and your business. This can include a description of approximately 500 words, promotional photography and company logo, for example. We will also build in consistant links to the remaining pages.
The text:
Either supplied in current promotional material by post or sent by email. Bdcom.ca will only retype this information for an additional hourly fee for reasons of speed and accuracy we prefer text to be supplied digitally via email or CD-ROM as either a Microsoft Word document or (preferably) plain text.
NB: Bdcom.ca do not take responsibility for any typing errors; while we will proof-read the site, it is the client's responsibility to send any corrections to us via email or post in the formats outlined above.
The photography:
Promotional photographs (up to a maximum of five per page) to illustrate your products, services or premises and add interest to your website. These can be either existing promotional material or supplied as standard photographs --bdcom.ca will scan photography supplied in this way. Photos can also be supplied on CD-ROM in a variety of formats, which we will discuss with you as required.
NB: bdcom.ca cannot take responsibility for the quality of photographs supplied by the client. If photos or brochures are supplied, we will advise the client if the images will not scan in to a reasonable quality. Bdcom.ca can arrange for digital photographs to be taken at an additional cost to be negotiated.
NB: It is the responsibility of the client to obtain any permission required to use any photographs on their website. Copyright laws still apply to the Internet.
Contact Form:
The contact form allows you to collect valuable details on your customers and their requests. It will contain the following fields: title, name, email address, postal address, telephone no. , nature of inquiry, any other comments. This information will be forwarded to the client's email account, after which it is the responsibility of the client to store this information. We can include a 'thank you' message that will be presented to the user (in the form of a web page) once their information has been successfully sent.
Guest book:
This guestbook allow you to see valuable data on the server (published) by your customer in real time.
Internal pages:
Use these to give more details on your goods, services, location and really sell your company to its target audience. These can contain information from your existing promotional material, or can be written and submitted by the client, containing a maximum of 5 photographs per page and 500 words per page. Please be aware that copyright laws still apply to the Internet, and it remains the responsibility of the client to obtain the required permissions, to use any images, trademarks, logos etc. on their website.
Additional pages: For Web database, Flash, Order form, Digital pictures, ebusiness, Book publishing,cart etc. Please call us for price inquiry!
Website hosting:
This is where your website is actually physically kept. It is similar to the way in which your files are stored on your own office or home computer, but on a special fast computer which can be accessed from all around the world.
Although you are unlikely to be affected, please be aware that there are restrictions on the amount of storage and data transfer with any hosting agreement.
For those with the technical knowledge 500MB storage space per domain and 20000MB data transfer (bandwidth) each month per domain. For those to whom that seems like impenetrable jargon, don't worry, we will look after it for you if required, we offer you the ability to purchase more bandwidth or storage space at very reasonable cost however, should you regularly exceed your allotted quota and fail to upgrade, it may be necessary to suspend your hosting until this can be resolved. (Prices as of 24/04/09. Extra 200MB of Web space at cdn $10 per year.)
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
1.The client -- this is the person whose name is on the signed agreement with bdcom.ca.
2.The package costs cdn $19.99 per month for the first year and comprises a website of five pages, including: one homepage, one contact form, three internal pages; a web address (yourcompany.com*) and email address(es) (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.*); hosting of your site on fast web servers, subject to the above restrictions.
There will be a renewal after one year with same price of cdn $19.99 per month for next 12 months contract.
bdcom.ca will register your domain name on your behalf, but yourcompanyname.com will not necessarily be available. In this instance we will advise of reasonable alternatives. Domain that are registered by us only can transferred to client's name if client pay full year payment.
3.The contract is the terms and conditions document, signed and dated by the client and returned to bdcom.ca . No work will commence until this document has been received by bdcom.ca . Once signed, bdcom.ca will begin the design process and providing all the content is supplied within 7 days of the contract date, bdcom.ca will publish your site on the Internet within a maximum of 2 working days from date of design sign-off.
4.Design process. bdcom.ca will present a first design to the client 7 days after receipt of ALL the content. The client has one chance to make any reasonable design changes, but the designs will follow the client's current promotional material and colour scheme. Once the client has accepted the design, bdcom.ca requires acceptance in writing, either by fax, post or email, this process is deemed as design sign-off.
bdcom.ca will design the website only within the cdn $19.99 per month for 12 month contract basis. Other design, i.e. logos will be charged for as an extra - quotations available on request.
The content is all photographs and/or artwork and copy to be published on the client's website. This can either be set out in a structured format by the client or bdcom.ca can use their discretion to use relevant text and photographs from the client's existing promotional material.
It is the responsibility of the client to obtain permission to use any photographs on their website. Copyright laws still apply to the Internet.
5.A non-refundable retainer is required before any work begins. This will cover hosting space and domain name registration.
Method of Payment: 1. Online; 2. By mail
1. Pay on line: Yearly Payment(for 12 months)
2. Pay By Mail: Call us at 416-720-1605 for more info
