Black Box Packages

Web Development Packages

Bespoke Web Design and Development

Why "black box"?

The dirty secret of the web development industry is that many companies' "design" packages are little more than off-the-rack shell website templates with their clients' branding and content added to give a superficial appearance of customization.

That's how they can confidently display a price tag on their packages - because they know in advance exactly what you're going to get... Never mind what you really need.

We're different - we call our packages "black box" because the contents depend on your needs. We design the architecture of each and every project from the ground up, based on a consultation process that determines your individual aesthetic, functional and technical requirements.

We find that our clients tend to fit into one of a variety of categories based on market, requirements, and budget. That's a good place to start the consultation process, so please have a look through the list below, see which suits your needs best, and click the Request Estimate link.

Based on what you tell us, we'll give you a ballpark estimate* - then we can begin to work with you to see what needs to go in the box!

Local Business	Local Business Web Design and Development This package suits individuals and small companies who need a simple, elegant website to promote their services, but who require a lower-cost solution. Websites in this class are built on a standard Content Management System (CMS), allowing you to change the site content at any time. Request Estimate
Enterprise Class	Enterprise Class Web Design and Development For companies who require a strongly commercially-oriented, global presence, possibly with advanced technical functionality integrated with their existing business processes, our SME package fits the bill. Based on our customized CMS - individually tailored to your specific needs to provide easy day-to-day administration - your company's website will be designed to perfectly mirror your existing branding, and streamline with your business activities. No more Website Inadequacy Syndrome - you'll be proud to direct new contacts, partners and clients to your site! Request Estimate
Creative Portfolio	Creative Portfolio Web Design and Development We love working with creative enterprises; it's an opportunity to build the perfect marriage of content and delivery, to create a promotional presence for your work that truly gets your message across. Writers, artists, musicians and even designers have traditionally been let down by lackluster websites that fail to live up to the art itself. However, when you work with Creadyne we'll make sure that the medium reinforces the message; your website will perfectly showcase your work, without overshadowing it, and assist in the inspiration of the viewer. You'll also use a content management system that lets you add, remove and edit content from a straight-forward interface. Request Estimate
Standard Ecommerce	Standard Ecommerce Web Design and Development The time has never been brighter for entrepreneurs to sell products online - we call this the "ecommerce explosion". For the vast majority of straight-forward ecommerce websites we recommed BigCommerce (www.bigcommerce.com); it is hands-down the simplest, most flexible, most impressive platform on which to base your online store. We have a great deal of expertise in creating highly-customized BigCommerce stores for our clients, and are also BigCommerce partners. Prior to founding Creadyne, Rick was BigCommerce's User Education Manager - he literally wrote the book on the system! You can find out more about BigCommerce here. Request Estimate
Enterprise Ecommerce	Enterprise Ecommerce Web Design and Development For corporate clients who require an ecommerce component as part of a more complex system, or have non-standard ecommerce requirements, our Enterprise Ecommerce offering provides all the benefits of our standard Enterprise package, with the addition of an extremely flexible and fully-featured ecommerce component that allows you to sell goods, services, downloads, subscriptions and much more - and manage it all seamlessly from our individually-tailored custom CMS interface. Request Estimate
Enterprise Community	Enterprise Community Web Design and Development Building a community-oriented commercial service, where members of the public or paid members create and interact with content, can be an extremely lucrative source of income as well as a terrifically valuable marketing tool. Our flexible Enterprise Community package integrates incredibly powerful user-interaction features into your Enterprise-level website - as always, with our tailored management interface to make administration a breeze. For websites with a financial component - for instance, subscription-membership or pay-to-publish - we can integrate our Enterprise Ecommerce features to provide a seamless end-to-end solution. Request Estimate
Corporate Flagship	Corporate Flagship Web Design and Development For larger enterprises and those with higher budgets, whose primary objective is to dominate their market and obliterate the competition, we offer our Corporate Flagship package. Flagship clients receive our undivided attention, and their higher budgets allow us to work with them extremely closely on a daily basis to ensure that they receive the "Rolls Royce of websites". We are also available to contract exclusively for such clients for fixed periods of time. Request Estimate

Branding and Design

Many of our clients come to us from established businesses, but many others represent startups at various stages of development. For all of our packages, we will consult with you about branding and design. As a design-led agency, we are in a position to take on any part of your corporate branding and identity design as required, including psychological strategy, logo design, typography, imagery and much more. Just let us know what branding position you're in when you get in touch with us and we'll take it from there.

Web Hosting

Hosting requirements will be different depending on the complexity of your project. For all website packages, we can either work with your existing web hosting service provider if you have one, or refer you to our trusted hosting partners.

Many web development companies offer hosting on their own system as part of a package deal. However, we prefer to refer our clients to a dedicated professional service provider who we trust instead. Web hosting and server administration is a mission-critical task that is best entrusted to an organization for whom it is a 24/7 priority, rather than being offered as an add-on by a company whose primary interests lie elsewhere.

Content Management Systems

Choosing a framework on which to build your website is the most important decision in the development process. Not only does it determine the range of technical possibilities available, it impacts directly on the ease with which you can manage your site's content.

All of our enterprise-class packages use our in-house custom version of Drupal - the world's most flexible, powerful, technically-advanced development framework. Not only have we tweaked it for performance and ease of use, we'll individually customize the administration interface to streamline and simplify your day-to-day operations. In fact, if you have different staff who need to perform different tasks, we can create custom interfaces for each of them!

* Initial estimates are not formal cost quotations - quotes are delivered once a project's requirements and feature set are clearly defined.