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...for a reasonable price? Just been quoted £5k+ which was a bit of a shock and several times above what I was thinking. Can anyone advise? I'll paste below what I sent to the designers.
I've been developing a digital product (i.e. pdf files) which I plan on selling to schools.
What I'm looking for:
* a great and professional-looking website where schools can pay electronically (not just through PayPal but by credit and debit card / bank transfer too) and immediately receive an e-mail containing the product(s) of their choosing as an attachment.
* If possible, I'd like the pdf files to have a small automatic watermark/modification to say something like 'Licensed for use by [school name] only. Unlicensed use prohibited.' before being automatically sent to them as an e-mail attachment.
* A design that looks quite formal - like an authority such as a government department or similar.
* A design that loads quickly and works well on all types of devices including tablets and smartphones and all browsers.
* Needs to be Mac-friendly at my end.
* Various e-mail addresses set up to work with the domain name and the ability to set up more when I need them.
* An automatic follow-up / confirmation e-mail sent to anyone who purchases the product(s).
* Collection of data as entered into a form on the site by a school and the automatic storage of this in a database which I can access at any time.
* Depending on how things go, I may want to expand the number of pages and downloadable content significantly over a number of months.
* Optimisation for Google / Bing rankings.
* Automatic storage of the details of all the people who buy the product (based on what they enter in the online form).
* I have a large database of e-mail addresses (somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000). I would like a marketing e-mail to be sent to all of them (with an attachment), followed up by a second (different) marketing e-mail sent to those who didn't purchase the product the first time round. Can this be done in a way that the e-mail isn't flagged as spam? I need to be sure that the e-mails will actually make it to all of the intended recipients.
* Can the name of the recipient be included in the e-mail subject? I.e. ‘John Smith, Product X Now Available’ I have the names of the intended recipients in the .csv file along with their e-mail addresses.
* Contact page with FAQs at the top. These should each be clickable to reveal the answer.
A few questions:
* About hosting of the files: how would it work in terms of storing the files and them being available to be automatically e-mailed to purchasers at any time (potentially to numerous people all at once)? The files won't be particularly large.
I've been developing a digital product (i.e. pdf files) which I plan on selling to schools.
What I'm looking for:
* a great and professional-looking website where schools can pay electronically (not just through PayPal but by credit and debit card / bank transfer too) and immediately receive an e-mail containing the product(s) of their choosing as an attachment.
* If possible, I'd like the pdf files to have a small automatic watermark/modification to say something like 'Licensed for use by [school name] only. Unlicensed use prohibited.' before being automatically sent to them as an e-mail attachment.
* A design that looks quite formal - like an authority such as a government department or similar.
* A design that loads quickly and works well on all types of devices including tablets and smartphones and all browsers.
* Needs to be Mac-friendly at my end.
* Various e-mail addresses set up to work with the domain name and the ability to set up more when I need them.
* An automatic follow-up / confirmation e-mail sent to anyone who purchases the product(s).
* Collection of data as entered into a form on the site by a school and the automatic storage of this in a database which I can access at any time.
* Depending on how things go, I may want to expand the number of pages and downloadable content significantly over a number of months.
* Optimisation for Google / Bing rankings.
* Automatic storage of the details of all the people who buy the product (based on what they enter in the online form).
* I have a large database of e-mail addresses (somewhere between 20,000 and 30,000). I would like a marketing e-mail to be sent to all of them (with an attachment), followed up by a second (different) marketing e-mail sent to those who didn't purchase the product the first time round. Can this be done in a way that the e-mail isn't flagged as spam? I need to be sure that the e-mails will actually make it to all of the intended recipients.
* Can the name of the recipient be included in the e-mail subject? I.e. ‘John Smith, Product X Now Available’ I have the names of the intended recipients in the .csv file along with their e-mail addresses.
* Contact page with FAQs at the top. These should each be clickable to reveal the answer.
A few questions:
* About hosting of the files: how would it work in terms of storing the files and them being available to be automatically e-mailed to purchasers at any time (potentially to numerous people all at once)? The files won't be particularly large.