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Web Development - Project Specifications Questionnaire

1. What is the name of your company?
2. Who will be the main contact for this project?
Name:
Phone:
Email (response will be sent here):
3. Is this a new or existing business?
A. New
B. Existing
4. What type of web service are you looking to purchase?
A. New Web Design/Site
B. Ecommerce Site
C. Bid/Auction Site
D. Classified Site
E. Upgrade Existing Website
F. Maintain Existing Website
G. Other
5. What is your website purpose? What would you like to accomplish?
A. Establish Presence
B. Provide Information
C. Provide Service
D. Virtual Community
E. Intranet/Extranet
F. Sell Products
6. List the websites that you like:
URL 1:
URL 2:
URL 3:
7. List the websites of your competitors:
URL 1:
URL 2:
URL 3:
8. Does your company have a logo?
A. Yes
B. No, but will need one
C. No, we won't need one
9. What style are you looking for?
A. Don't Know
B. Contemporary
C. Artistic
D. Business Oriented
E. Futuristic
F. Minimalist
G. Other
10. Static pages are considered to be web pages that need to be edited individually.
How many pages will you require?
A. Don't Know
B. 1-10 Pages
C. 10-20 Pages
D. 20-50 Pages
11. Do you want your site to be animated?
A. Don't Know
B. Just a Little Animation
C. An Animated Introduction
D. Complete Animated Website
E. No Animation
12. How would you like your website to be updated?
A. I would like to maintain the website myself
B. I would like a content management system
C. I would like for your company to maintain it
13. What else would you like your website to do for you?
A. Sell products or services thru a shopping cart
B. Provide a membership system
C. Sell classified ads
D. Allow people to communicate thru a forum
E. Provide an online directory with search capabilities
F. Provide online customer support
14. Does your website require any specific language?
A. Yes
B. No
15. If answered yes above, please select:
A. Java
A. Perl
A. PHP
A. ASP
A. .Net
A. VBasic
A. C#
G. Other
16. Explain need/purpose of each specific programming/scripting language within your website:
17. Do you have website hosting?
A. Yes
B. No
18. What is your monthly budget for hosting?
A. $5 - $10 /month
B. $10 - $15 /month
C. $15 - $20 /month
D. $20 - $50 /month
E. $50 - $200 /month
19. Please describe, in some detail, how the website will be used. Also, please list the overall function of your organization, eg. the products that you sell, the services you provide. This will help us better understand your business.
20. Request start date:
A. ASAP
B. In two weeks
C. In one month
D. In two months
21. Do you need a user/member section on your site and pages that only registered and logged members can access?
A. Yes
B. No
21.1. If answered yes above, please state the following:
  1. Will any website visitor have access to register or would you like the registration to be manually done by the website administrator using previously obtained information
  2. Information that you need to be gathered from the users on registration (fields that will appear on the registration form, either if for user or direct admin use)
  3. Would you like an email confirmation system ? (when the user is registered, an email is sent to his registered email address and the account gets activated only if the user clicks on a special link in that email)
  4. Do you need a pasword recovery page for members to be able to automatically recover their passwords? (yes/no)
  5. Do you need a page where users can change their password (accessible only while logged to their account)? (yes/no)
  6. Do you need a "remember me" (automatically sign me in) system so that users get automatically signed in each time they visit the website from their computer? (yes/no)
22. Will your website charge its users for membership?
A. Yes
B. No
22.1. If answered yes above, please state the following:
  1. What online payment system would you be needing? (paypal/creditcard (specify what cc processing service you will be using)/2checkout/moneybookers/other/please suggest)
  2. Would you be needing recurring billing (need the system to automatically bill the users at regular intervals)? (yes/no)
  3. Do you want to setup a coupon/code system so that users can enter a code and get a discount/no charge? Those systems are useful in advertising your website and giving out discounts or no charge thru ad campaigns as rewards on other webistes or media. (yes/no)
22.2. How would you need the user membership to be handled?
A. Allow users to register and have access to all website pages and features, the payment is for something else, not for website content access.
B. Allow users to register and have access to some website pages and features, when user tries to access the member only pages and features, redirect the user to the payment page with a notification message telling him to become a paid member in order to use those pages/features. **
C. Require payment on registration, if no payment is done, registration process cannot finalise and user does not get an account. **
D. Other (please provide an accurate description of how you would like the member billing to be handled in the field below)

** If recurring billing is set, and on occurance it fails to draw the money, for (C) the account should get automatically deactivated and user only has access to payment page to pay his bill, or for (B) the user is reverted to non-paying member and doesn't have access to paying member features/pages anymore.
22.3. Will you need multiple types of paid memberships?
A. No, I only need to differentiate between paying and non-paying members.
B. Yes, we will need to allow access to various pages/features based on the type of membership, some memberships will cost more than others and will have additional features.
23. Will your website need a cart system?
A. Yes
B. No
23.1. Would you like users to be able to purchase items without getting registered to your website?
A. Users that are not registered should be able to buy (will provide address and other info when paying) as well as users who are registered and are logged in (address and other info will be automatically pulled from the info they provided when they signed up).
B. Only registered and logged in users should be able to buy. **

** If you answered no on question number 21 (do not need a member section of the website), option (B) is not available.
23.2. How would your products be handled?
A. I only have a few products and they don't change much, I will not be needing a management system for them, they will be managed manually (editing the web pages and scripts that contain/relate to them).
B. I have many products and they change from time to time, I would need to have an administration section where I can create new products, upload adjected images and files for the products, and manage/remove products from the listing.
C. I need option (B) but have additional requirements. (please provide an accurate description of what those requirements are in the field below)
23.3. Would you need an order tracking system? The order tracking system will allow the administrator to view purchase orders, date of purchase, payment information, detailed information about what has been purchased and prices and various tracking stats?
A. Yes
B. No
23.3.1. If answered yes above, please state the following:
  1. What information about the order would you need tracked (for example, shipping status, payment status, refunds, client feedback).
  2. If you need additional features to this system please provide details on what those would be.
24. Will your website need a point awarding system to reward points to your members on various occasions and then members to be able to use those points to pay for various services or even products that you sell on the website?
A. Yes
B. No
24.1. If answered yes above, please provide an accurate description of how you want this system to work.
25. Do you want members to be able to deposit funds into their accounts and then use those funds online to pay for various services?

(Please note that we cannot be held responsible for any problems related to the funds of your users and any legal problems that any security breach or mishandling of data may bring forth, we make sure our software is as secure as possible however fund management/administration will always involve a risk and it falls into your responsability as the software operator to keep backups of information, to check and recheck all transaction information for accuracy and to take all necessary steps to protect your user's funds/money.)
A. No
B. Yes they will use a payment system to make payments to us and the amount paid will be added to their accounts in addition to what there may already be there.
C. Yes they will use a payment system to buy credits/points at an established price/point rate and those purchased points will be added to their account in addition to what there may already be there.
25.1. If answered (B) on question 25, would you like users to be able to withdraw funds from their account as well?
A. Yes, they will select a payout method, they will provide their information (for that specific method) and on a regular basis, our administrator will check the list of withdraw requests and make manual payments to users using the selected payment method, when the administrator is certain that a the payment has been successfuly complete, he will approve the completition of the withdraw and the withdrawed amount will be permanently removed from the total funds that the member has in his account.
B. No
25.2. If answered (B) or (C) on question 25, will you need your members to be able to transfer funds between their accounts and make payments to each other?
A. Yes
B. No
26. Will your website require any other data processing and features besides what has been already established by answering the questions in this questionaire?
A. No
B. Yes, my website requires other informations to be processed and/or other features. (please provide detailed information in the field below)
27. Will you need an administration section for your website?
A. Yes, I will need to have an administration side where we can manage the data and users of the website.
B. No
27.1. Would you need to be able to have multiple administrators and allow/restrict their access to various features/pages of the administration section of your website?
A. Yes
B. No

Thank you for taking the time to fill in this questionnaire.
Please review your answers one more time before submitting.