The only thing constant in the universe is change. Life that stagnates eventually dies. This is true with web sites as well.  Changes in your business, product line, industry, staffing, or operating procedures need to be reflected on your web site as soon as they occur. Web Fin offers a variety of ways to keep your web site current, incorporating the latest web technologies which in turn reflects positively on your company’s image.  Web Fin provides individual feature upgrades as well as bundling several related upgrade features into economical upgrade packages that address specific parts or functions of your site. This page will provide you with information about these site upgrade options.

Deciding to upgrade your web site involves:

• determining what needs to be upgraded,
• deciding on the additional features to add,
• taking advantage of quantity discounts by targeting an entire section of your site for upgrading.

Upgrading involves the delicate balancing of existing site strengths and features, new content better reflecting your current business environment, and new web technology capabilities, all constrained within the limitations of your current budget.
 

Site Evaluation
Web Fin can provide you with a site evaluation that offers suggestions for further development. A thorough site evaluation also includes a close look at your business as it currently is, what it could become, and how web technology best fits into both. Some of the things we look at include:

• The site’s purpose and how effectively it is achieving it

• Feedback about the site from its target audience

• Web page download speeds

• Site’s usability, structure, navigation features, and user interface

• Site’s features and functions, especially within the context of newly developed site features, capabilities, and functions that should be kept, be eliminated, or be added

• Site’s style, its look and feel, consistency and continuity

Webfin will write up specific recommendations on what you can and should do as well as what it might cost. We charge a fee for this service , but the result should save you much more by enabling you to avoid unnecessary features or costs and providing you with a base that can form a specifications list you can use when eliciting qotes for development.
 

Additions to your Site
Upgrading your site doesn’t mean scrapping your existing site. Rather the trick is to integrate the new with the old seamlessly, retaining the best and most successful aspects of the existing site and adding only the new features and functions that are warranted. Listed below are just some of the features, elements, and functions that can be added to your site. Some of the small inexpensive additions can have a large impact on your site. The large, more costly additions absolutely will have a major impact.

• Adding Images, digital photos, graphics - Create new images, Convert and clean up existing images, Use stock photos and artwork

• Creating new pages, site sections

• Adding new features such as:
• Flash animations
• Audio - Music and sound effects, Narration
• Video
• Newsletters
• Press release archives
• Downloadable product brochures

• Adding new functionality such as:
• Email Forms (Orders, Sign up)
• Bulletin board/Message board
• Classified ads page
• Custom Chat room
   

Upgrade Packages
Web Fin offers web site upgrade bundles that combine several related features into single upgrade packages that focus on a single aspect of your web site and provide economical quantity savings. These packages include:

• Web Hosting Upgrade - Changes where and under what conditions your site is hosted, the number of email boxes available to you, the amount of server storage space you can use, or your monthly data transfer allowance. Server-based functionality can also be added such as:
• Secure transaction capabilities through Thawte or Verisign
• Password-protected site control panel
• ECommerce packages
• Message boards
• Streaming audio and video

• Style Upgrade - New background, buttons, color scheme

• ECommerce Upgrade - Set up site to enable sales over the internet.
• Simple sales: Email order form, Secure certificate, online catalog
• Shopping Cart - All of the above plus shopping cart and online credit card processing

• Audio Video Streaming upgrade - Add streaming video to your site. Convert existing video for web use.

• Photo and Graphics Upgrade - Clean up and recompress existing photos. Scan existing photos and optimize for web use. Redo graphics for cleaner appearance, 3D look, color changes

• Site Structure Upgrade - Restructure site section and modify page contents accordingly. Redesign site navigation system

• Addition of New Sections - Adding a completely new section to your site and seamlessly integrating it into the existing structure and navigational system.
• Who We Are
• Our Customers
• Classified Ads