Web Hosting
Only $4.99/month! Equus Studio is an affiliate and reseller of Startlogic. We get discounted prices for their ProLogic package, and pass the savings onto you! That's only $59.88 a year to host your website! With the ProLogic plan, you'll get:
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- Unlimited Storage
- Unlimited Transfer
- FREE Setup
- Web Statistics
- vDeck 3.0
- E-commerce enabled
- Front Page Extensions
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- 99.9% Up-time Guarantee
- FREE Domain for the first year
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Host Unlimited Domains*
- Money-Back Guarantee
- FREE Google AdWords credits
- FREE Yahoo! Search Marketing
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*For domains, your first domain is free for the first year. Extra domains, and renewal of domains will be charged a domain fee on top of hosting fees. Check out Startlogic's page of package benefits! Also, see my Terms of Service. If you need a monthly subscription, Host your Web site with StartLogic!
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- Autoinstallers for popular applications such as:
- Joomla - a great CMS application -
- this is the application I use to build custom websites
- Drupal
- Wordpress
- and many more!
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Web Design
If you have some general questions about building a site, feel free to contact me - your questions may appear on this site to help others! If you need more help, or would like for me to setup a website for you, let me know. Be sure to look at my own site and through my previous designs to see the type of work that I do. Websites are custom-built using Joomla, an open-source CMS (Content Management System). This program will be installed into your hosting account, making it very easy for you to take control of your site once it is finished!
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Equus Studio:
Equus Studio Home - Art by Jen
Clay Sculpture & Horse Art Demos
Web Hosting & Design
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Visual Artist Alliance of Springfield:
Custom built website for
the Artist Alliance
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How searchers will find your website - I build websites around solid SEO techniques in an effort to rank the site well in search engines. Each site that I build will include specific keywords - if you have certain keywords you would like to include, make a list. Keep in mind that the more specific these keywords are, the better chance you have to rank for them. For example - ranking top 10 for google for the keyword "sculptor" is next to impossible, but the phrase "Springfield Missouri sculptor" is much better. Specific keyword phrases also bring in a better quality of searchers, so you are more likely to make a sale. If Equus Studio designs your website, it will include the following SEO techniques: title, description, and keyword meta data for each page; meta tags for all images; keywords placed into content. |
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Cost for a custom site depends on the scale of the website, but in general I can build a site, that includes up to 10 pages, for $750. This will include gallery pages and a simple PayPal cart. Hosting costs are in addition to design costs.
Feel free to contact me for more information:
Jen Pratt, Equus Studio | 417-763-0428 | jen(at)jenpratt(dot)com |
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Custom, Dynamic Galleries & Shopping Carts
I can build custom carts that use google checkout and/or paypal. These carts can be integrated into an existing website or into one of my template or custom websites. Using these companies to process payments works well for small websites, because:
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- you don't need your own merchant account,
- you don't need an SSL certificate for your site, because google checkout and paypal are secure,
- you will still get your customers shipping information via paypal or google
- you don't need a database to store customer information
Galleries will be built using MySql and PHP. You will be able to add new artworks (products) to your site by uploading the images and updating your database. The galleries will never have to be altered, making updating your site extremely easy!
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Custom Banners
I can create your custom banner and implement it into a custom-built site, or, use the banner for a site you've already created, for your etsy store, or anywhere else that you need a great banner that represents you!
Banners are included with your web design. You will receive a free .jpg image of your banner to use anywhere you need it. The cost for a custom banner with no website is $150.
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Keeping Your Customer's Information Confidential: Unless you have an SSL certificate and a way to protect your databases, you should NEVER ask for or hold confidential information on your site. By using google/paypal, your customers confidential information is kept safe.
* Because of the complexities of a custom shopping cart, existing pages (and sometimes databases) will need some modification, or possibly a complete re-build, in order to be compatible with a shopping cart.
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Image Digitization
Equus Studio offers image digitization for artists (or anyone) who wants their images available in multiple formats for computer applications, gallery submissions, etc. We scan your images and size them to meet your needs. The benefits of having your images digitized include:
- Many galleries now accept digital images as a submission for exhibitions. Sending digital images saves you time.
- Sending digital images also saves you money - no more paying to have your images replicated for every gallery submission.
- Digital images take up very little space compared to photographs.
- If you still need a printed copy of your image, you can print (yourself, or have a photo lab print) your images.
- Once your images are digitized, you can save them on your computer, you can write them to more CDs / DVDs, thus having multiple backups of your art images.
If you want your images available for gallery submissions, we will save your images as .jpg in up to five different sizes. These are the sizes that correspond to most guidelines for gallery submissions:
- The file size of your original picture
- 1920 pixels (the largest size) at 72 dpi
- 4"x6" at 72dpi (288 x 432 pixels)
- up to two other sizes that you specify
If you intend to have these images available for website use, I would suggest a 1200 pixel and a 150 pixel image. This will give you a good high resolution image and good thumbnail images. For regular gallery pictures, you could use the 4"x6" at 72dpi image size.
See our Great images make a great art website article for tips on taking pictures of your artworks.
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Or try these other imaging solutions:
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