The yummy details

This is web design like you’ve never seen it before: quick, inspiring, and downright delectable!

We’ll dive down deep to discover your true desires for your website – and then we’ll turn them loose in the form of a gorgeous WordPress blog or website, created in a single day. It’s called your Chocolate Session, and it’s an anything-but-average adventure that will take you and your online presence to happy new heights.

Intrigued? Here’s what’s involved:

1. It all begins with a fun and fruitful hour with the amazing Sally Hope. Sally is a rockstar life and business coach who will help you calibrate your web compass with a single Website Therapy Session – conducted by phone or Skype. If you’re at all unsure or confused about anything related to your business or project and how it will take shape online, Sally will help you discover the path that’s right for you.

2. After your session with Sally, you’ll be perfectly poised to fill out the Better Than Chocolate Questionnaire – designed to take you on a thoughtful journey deep into your likes, dislikes, and technical must-haves when it comes to your site. The Questionnaire will even unearth those secret ideas you have for your web presence (the ones you’ve only told your dog about). One you’re done, you’ll send it back to me, and I’ll interpret it through the lens of my 16 years of experience in web design and coding, copywriting, online marketing and usability.

3. For the next week, I’ll be hard at work behind the scenes, creating a stunning design for your site based on the gems I find hidden in your Questionnaire. On the morning of your Chocolate Session, I’ll unveil what I’ve created. Then we’ll spend the day finessing and fine-tuning via Skype calls and instant messaging, with me showing you changes in real time. For someone who likes to see instant results, it’s an invigorating process, and by 5 PM, you’ll have a glorious, fully functional site or blog that’s ready to rock in every way. I’ll cap it all off by handing over your “Handy Guide” – a truly useful document that tells you everything you need to know about updating and maintaining your own site, so you don’t have to pay me every time you want to change some content!

5.Have followup questions? Craving some final design tweaks? Once you’ve sat with your site for a week or two, just get in touch with me to schedule your free followup Skype session. We can use this hour to talk about and do anything you like, whether it’s making a new graphic to go in your sidebar or discussing online marketing tactics. No matter what you want to work on, I’m all yours!

Total cost: $1587.

Here’s what you’ll get as part of your Better Than Chocolate website:

- A unique and intelligent layout that’s anything but cookie-cutter
- A strategic, marketing-oriented approach to web design that takes into consideration your specific business goals
- A beautiful branded header
- Custom graphics throughout
- A custom-designed navigation bar or menu
- As many pages as you need (About, Services, Testimonials, Contact, etc.)
- An integrated blog, if you want one (with share/save functionalities to help spread your content)
- Your very own favicon (that cute little square image you see next to the URL at the top of your browser)
- A search box
- A contact form, to spare your inbox from spam
- Social media links to your profiles/pages on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
- Installation of several key plugins that will make life easier for you online
- A site that’s search engine optimization (SEO)-friendly, thanks to the Thesis framework for WordPress
- A site you can update yourself, whenever you want, because it’s built using WordPress (it’s as easy as typing a Microsoft Word document or sending an email)
- Your “Handy Guide”, which tells you everything you need to know to update and maintain your own site (I’m all about empowering my clients, so I won’t leave you high and dry with your new site!)
- The chance to ask me any followup questions you may have during a free, one-hour Q&A session (also via Skype)

Pretty tasty, if you ask me!

How much does it cost?

A site by Better Than Chocolate costs $1587, plain and simple. (To put this in perspective, most custom sites cost the same or more, and if you work with me, you get a guaranteed go-live date so you can hit the ground running with your spiffy new site! No delays, no frustrations, and no putting off your launch date).

The only thing that’s NOT included in the price is the cost of any stock photos or images we decide to buy (amounting to $25 on average) – but many sites don’t need these at all.

Ready to book your Chocolate session? Or maybe you have some questions you need answered first?

No problem! Just hop on over to this page and fill out the contact form.