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 Web site design and development
is our primary
service. All other services stated below offered by PROFound add value and integrate into our comprehensive
full-service Web solutions.
PROFound
provides effective
architected Web solutions with high
quality custom professional content,
creative imagery, and robust underlying
programming utilizing ASP.NET technology. The combination of these
components makes us unique within this industry. We pride
ourselves in our understanding of
information technology balanced with our
artistic craftsmanship and delivered with high regard
for customer service. The result is your assured
satisfaction in our Web design solutions and products.
Our customized Web solutions are based
completely on our clients’ unique
requirements, business processes or
nature of business. Whether you require
a new site or the renewal of an existing
one, we work with you in partnership,
analyzing your business requirements,
identifying opportunities, making
recommendations and developing a Web
presence that is exactly what you need
or desire. We thoroughly communicate
with you throughout the development
process so you know exactly what to expect and therefore have full control
over the final product.
Our development process is summarized below.
| In our spirit of great design and useful interactive Web solutions,
we offer our INFO CONTROL
PRO ( or IC
PRO) technology for customers that demand the highest
level of control over the content of their Web site. If you have
information that is time-sensitive or needs to be up-to-date at all
times, then
PROFound's IC
PRO technology is the solution for you!
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OUR PRICING
We charge according to the
complexity and amount of work that needs
to be done in order to produce your best possible Web solution. We do NOT charge
by the page or individual
component since we believe this to be irrelevant to your needs. Ours are complete solutions
that integrate all necessary components
to give you the best possible product
with the highest impact and value. Therefore, once we
discuss and understand exactly what needs to be done specifically for you, we
provide you a proposal with an
accurate and fair cost estimate. Our
fees are very competitive and you can be
sure you will get full value and more
for your cost.
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| As a Canadian firm, PROFound's services
are billed in Canadian Dollars.
The dollar exchange rates can save you
significant costs. When outsourcing Web
development, choose to go near-shore
rather than offshore and still retain
the benefit of North American
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EXAMPLES OF WHAT YOUR WEB SOLUTION MAY CONTAIN
PROFound
Web site solutions may include, but
are not limited to: |
- static pages i.e. the most common and
usually the majority of a Web site
is made up of regular static pages
with information in the form of text
and graphics
- interactive pages e.g. contact
forms, feedback forms, surveys,
database driven Inventory lookup,
self-serve information retrieval,
etc.
- animation e.g. Macromedia Flash components
- commerce applications
(E-commerce), e.g. sales, customer
orders
- Special Web applications - extension of your internal business process
with Internet accessibility
- Database driven pages – usually
associated with large amounts of
dynamic information
- Password protected content
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PROFound
offers hosting services to clients for
whom we provide Web design and
development services. Our clients are equally free to choose
hosting with any other Web Hosting
Provider. However, we strongly recommend
that you choose PROFound to host your
site. Our hosting rates are highly
competitive and a much better
value than most others. We offer
high-bandwidth connectivity to ensure
visitors to your site get quick and
reliable access. Furthermore we are able
to guarantee that your Web site
functions fully and properly as intended
and designed.
At PROFound, we do not publish a
comprehensive hosting fee schedule since we offer only first-rate world class
hosting service as a full value-added feature. Since
our advanced solutions are developed on
a robust ASP.NET technological framework, they require
a compatible server environment which we
can provide. You will likely find our hosting
rates to be
much better than you will find
elsewhere.
All our Web hosting services of course include
appropriate e-mail accounts and Web traffic statistical reporting.
PROFound
will provide ongoing administration and
support of your Web
site and e-mail accounts as required.
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As part of our Web
development services, PROFound
also registers domain names
for our clients free of charge. We can
also administer and renew all domain
names on an ongoing basis. We do not
charge for the effort involved in bringing you this service
since we consider this as value-added. We
only charge the registrar fees which
can be long or short term.
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Once your Web site is complete and published, PROFound
will initiate an
online marketing campaign to fully
register your site with the major search
engines and industry specific
directories. This will allow for your
Web site to be easily found on the
Internet through keywords and subject
searches. Each search engine or
directory has its own specific
requirements and therefore there is
significant effort involved in this
process. However to ensure the success
of your Web presence, it is imperative
that your site is found as easily as
possible in the vast amounts of
information on the Internet.
Equally as important, PROFound
will
optimize your Web site appropriately in
order for it to be easily found by the
various search engines. PROFound
applies
several techniques that makes it possible
to accomplish this very important
feature of your Web presence.
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We strongly recommend that you
entrust the continued ongoing maintenance of
your Web site to PROFound.
This will ensure that
it continues functioning correctly and
that all elements conform to the
intended standards established
during its initial development. At
PROFound, we do not attempt to lock a
client into a pre-paid maintenance
contract that often is excessive and
unnecessary. We prefer to maintain and
administer your Web site on an as-need
basis. You can expect the same
receptive, cooperative and professional
approach to service as with the initial
development of your site.
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Often, the Web design process drives
or inspires an organization to adopt or enhance
their overall business identity or marketing
strategy. Sometimes this can involve the
development of a new logo or branding
scheme. PROFound
can help you develop
these in a similar fashion as our Web
design services.
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3 GENERAL PHASES
Our
development process methodology may be
summarized by the following 3 phases...
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PHASE I ::
DESIGN |
- We gather and established all of your requirements. Once we gain
an understanding of these, we proceed to recommend and design your
Web solution
- The overall visual look
and layout is composed and
established
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PROFound
drafts a proposal that
describes the various
features and structure of
your Web solution along with
all other relevant
information. We include a
full cost estimate and time
schedule
- Once approved by you,
our client,
we move on to evolving the
design, taking into account
any
client feedback.
- We then move on to the
Development phase
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PHASE II
:: DEVELOPMENT |
- The various pages and
components of your Web site
are constructed based on the
Design
- While we are building,
the site is published to a temporary location, not in
public view. This allows you
to monitor the progress and give
feedback if you wish.
- We advise you when the
site is completed, at which
point it can be fully
reviewed.
- Upon approval, we move
to the Testing and
Implementation Phase
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PHASE III
:: TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION |
- The Web site components
are published to the Web
server and fully tested for
proper functionality,
verification and link
validation.
- Upon approval, your Web site solution goes live and becomes
accessible to the
general public.
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| NOTE : This by no means is an exhaustive
description of our development
process. It does however reflect a summary of the
main points of our methodology.
Naturally the details of our
development process are driven by
the complexity of your
particular Web solution and
requirements.
Consequently, the more complex
the requirements, the more
detailed the various phases
become. For highly advanced Web
solutions,
PROFound
submits to our clients,
a fully detailed Design
Specification Document for your review
and approval prior to any
significant development being
done on the Web
solution itself. |
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PROFound Technology Consulting Inc.
Mississauga, Ontario (near Toronto)
Canada
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