Superior Software Solutions
Web Site Planning Worksheet

This worksheet is designed to facilitate communications between Superior Software Solutions and our clients. You should print it on your printer and have it ready when you discuss your project on the phone or in person with us.

After you've filled in the blanks while we talk on the phone or in person, please make a photocopy for your records, and mail a signed copy to us. This will provide a written copy of our mutually agreed upon plan.

Organization Name: __________________________

1. Purpose

Check the three most important reasons you want to have a website developed. Use a "1", "2" and "3" if you have strong preferences in priority.

__ To gain a favorable impression of the company or organization.
__ To develop a qualified list of prospects
__ To sell products directly taking credit card information over the Internet
__ To encourage potential customers to contact us by phone or mail to consummate a sale.
__ To make available product information and price lists to distributors.
__ To make available product information and price lists to customers.
__ To strengthen brand identification.
__ Other _______________________________________________________

2. Site Organization

Please label pages you desire and cross out the rest.

Typical Web Site

Total number of pages decided upon ________________

3. Site and Domain Names

Site Name on Masthead: ____________________________________

Domain Name It must be registered through your Internet Service Provider and approved by InterNIC before you can use it. You may check the availability of your domain name at: http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois/

4. Masthead Graphic

__ Company Logo incorporated in the masthead graphic? If so, please enclose a color copy.
__ Photo or drawing of product?
__ Typeface preference __________________________________________ __ Colorspreference ___________________________________________ __ Other ideas _________________________________________________________

5. Background Color or Texture

Generally we recommend a white background for best readability and contrast but your choice of images will determine the best background color or image to use. Please provide your preference here:


6. Basic Page Elements

__ Page titles which show at top of Web browser:
__ Top-of-page graphic based on the design of the masthead graphic
__ Standard company ID near bottom of page
__ E-mail response link to the following e-mail address: _________________________
__ Size of normal text type __________________
__ Internal navigation by Image Map bar at the bottom of each Web page

7. Finishing Touches

__ Colored Lines compatible with color scheme
__ Colored 3-D balls or other symbol for menu items.
__ May we include a link at the bottom of the welcome page which reads "Web Site Design by Superior Software Solutions"

__ Other ________________________________________________________

8. Photos and Graphics

Our contract includes a statement that you own the copyright to, or have permission from the copyright owner to use any photos or graphics you send us.

__ Clipart
__ Photos you supply either by sending the photos themselves for us to scan and return, or by sending the digitized images on a diskette.
__ Stock photos obtained from Photodisc (http://www.photodisc.com), Corel (http://commerce.corel.com), or Publisher's Depot (http://www.publishersdepot.com). (You write down the photo number and inform us of your choices, and which page each photo goes on. We can help you select the photos, but we would need to bill you for our time at our hourly rate.)

For an extra charge, we can equip your Web pages with:
__ Sound, either MIDI musical background or streaming Real Audio for music or voice.
__ Animated GIF images. High quality photo images are available from PhotoDisc (http://www.photodisc.com) and other sources.
__ Video clips
__ Other

9. Forms

For an extra charge, we can equip your Web pages with:
__ Guestbooks for visitors to record comments
__ Requests for information
__ Surveys of customer preferences
__ Other ________________________________________________________

10. Uploading and Testing Pages

Internet Service Provider Name _____________________________________

FTP address ____________________________________________

Telnet address _____________________________________________

Username _________________________ Password ______________________

Voice phone: Area code __________ Phone number ________________________

E-mail address (for support or help) ________________________________________

11. Registering and Advertising Your Web Site

__ Key words which people might use to find your product or service. We will give you information on how to generate these words.

__ A 25-word (200 character) sentence or two describing your Web site using as many key words as possible in a "readable" sentence.

__ Submission of your information to Web search engines to "register" your Web site after final payment is received.

12. Maintenance and Updating

__ Package prices include minor updating of up to one hour per page over the first six months of the contract. This covers minor price changes, product changes, etc. Changing newsletter content (which essentially involves constructing a new Web page) is billed at our hourly rate.

__ Target Date for final payment to be made and your Web Site to be advertised: _____________

On behalf of my organization I approve the above plan which I have developed with Superior Software Solutions to construct a Web site, and I authorize Superior Software Solution to use this Web Page Planning Worksheet as the basis of the project.

Signature _____________________________________ Date _________________

These are the items that will make up the package you'll be sending to us:

You may send your package by USPS, UPS or FedEX to our mailing address:

Superior Software Solutions
88 Old Farm Road
South Windsor CT 06074, USA