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Design of a cleaning Website

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Design of a cleaning Website

Introduction

Every business needs websites for its general reach purposes. It does not mean the primary focus of an enterprise is making a website, what it means is that if a business wants to increase its visibility, having a website should be one of its essential tools to do so. Sites can be used by customers to access the businesses. Having a professional website makes a business to viewed as a well-thought venture. Many customers would want to know if the company has what it takes to their considerations; a website is where they begin. Apart from creating an impression, a good site can be used in revenue generation, such as using the GoogleAds and Affiliated marketing. These are simple tools to a website and help the company generate extra cash.

Domain name for the site

Cleanersandsundry.com

Hosting

GoDaddy will host the site. It is as a result of the following reasons;

Dependable Uptime: this is the time the website is expected to run without a downtime error. At godaddy.com, the website is always on, and the sophisticated tools are used in monitoring the web pages for optimal performance, GoDaddy has been ranked highly on reliability.

Shared Web Hosting Packages: at GoDaddy one hosting can be done too many subsites. One major company can have subdomains that can be used for other purposes and this helps in varying the products and services offered by the website. They have flexible packages that vary depending on the website category. For the cleaning category, the payment ranges from $5-$10 monthly, and this is payable per year.

Setting Up a GoDaddy-Hosted Site: GoDaddy has a flexible website builder that can be easily be accustomed to suit business needs. Adding forms, social media links and Google maps is a very easy task. In web platform, the website builder by GoDaddy remains the best compared to its rivals such as weebly.com platform.

E-commerce: with the easy to use e-commerce software that could enable a shopping cart, GoDaddy comes in handy when it comes to a website that can be used to generate revenue. A quick shopping cart has more flexibility than the rivals' shopping carts. It takes merely few minutes to integrate the shopping cart fully into the website. With the shopping needed for this cleaning website, this tool will come very useful in this site.

Security Features: the security features offered by the Godaddy cannot be rivalled by any other. Godaddy has very vital tools that will counter the internet security threats such as sperm and Hacking. These and other security concerns on the net are monitored using app scanning, already installed malware monitoring tool. Using the premium package which is the best for a commercial site like this one, the website can lock up to 400 pages for scanning at ago to remove malware.

Excellent Customer Service: With above par customer services, and a dedicated customer service lines that operate 24/7, it is not surprising that GoDaddy has outperformed the competitors in web hosting. Their dedicated personnel are ever present to answer any question at all the times, and this makes maintenance an easy task.

Generating revenue from the website

Revenue can be generated in the cleaning site in the following ways

General advertisements

While using the website space, the local arrangements adverts can be done by placing adverts on the cleaning agents, and tools for suppliers.

Google adverts

The company can increase the revenues using the Google adverts; the adverts can be used to generate income using the Google affiliate programs.

Development approach used and rationale

The website will be developed based on the WordPress theme. Using this platform and PHP, secure pages can be added to the subject that performs the functions not provided by many Wordpress plugins; MacDonald (2011). Using WordPress makes it easier for installation as hosting sites such as Godaddy.com already uses the Wordpress as the self-hosted themes. Wordpress could be used because it has the following advantages;

· Powerful –  Being a number one content management system; leading Drupal and Joomla in that order, WordPress allows the site owners to update the contents without the need for the developers.

· Extendable – several plugins are available which can be used to extend the WordPress. Other external pages can also be embedded within the WordPress using PHP to broaden the functionality of the WordPress; this, therefore, makes WordPress a tool to use for every occasion.

· Supported – the theme is supported. It is approximated that over two-thirds of the web is comprised of WordPress. Tutorials on how to use the WordPress theme are readily available therefore using WordPress as a content management tool makes it easy for users to use it as a content management tool.

· Free, open source software (FOSS) – amongst them, Wordpress is free. By this, it means that the core of the WordPress is few adds can be reprogrammed as desired by the developer.

Design requirements of the website

The design elements have derived from a similar site that can be found at Moura's Cleaning Service(2016). The conditions have been given as follows;

List of Pages

Home Page: provide an overview of the company. It will contain a slide that is used to showcase the company achievements and other stakeholders. The home page will also provide the summary of the cleaning services offered by the enterprise.

Services lists: Lists the services and their prices.

About us: this page will provide the Google maps of the location and Physical contacts

Other pages: other extra pages can be Who we Serve, Purchase; to give the list of items that can be purchased from the site; What is new; to provide the news briefs about the company.

Style and Layout

4.1 Overall Style: the dominant color of the site should be white with a pigment of grey and orange. It will give the site a professional look.

4.2 Navigation: to simplify the user interface, the site will have a single navigation with the above-listed pages.

Site contents

The site content will conform to the standard website content requirement and user interface guidelines as stated by Jacob Nielsen (1993). On home page will be photos of the achievements of the company and a small news sections. The larger part will be full of services offered, and partners of the enterprise. Apart from this, the site will have spaces for adverts. Other pages will only contain what is relevant per page as shown above.

Conclusion

Having a website is a must for different businesses. Developing the website and meeting the cost of the same requires that a company comes up with a revenue stream that can be used in the development of the maintenance of the site. WordPress is the most documented Content management software and is widely used therefore does not face limitations of other content management software such as Joomla; according to MacDonald (2011).

. Revenue streams for a Website are quite vast, but for a site like cleaning company website, using Google Ads remains one of the primary options. The WordPress.org site itself is very well-documented, and it is advised that one ought to review some of the elements and capabilities of WordPress. We can't cover all possible features, functionality and limitations in this document.

Reference

Lloyd, I., & Museth, T. (2011). Build your website the right way using HTML & CSS, 3rd Edition (3rd ed.). Collingwood, Vic., Australia: SitePoint Pty.

MacDonald, M. (2011). Creating a website the book that should have been in the box (3rd ed.). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly.

Moura's Cleaning Service |. (n.d.). Retrieved January 3, 2016, from http://mourascleaningservice.com/

Nielsen, J. (1993). Usability engineering. Boston [etc.: AP Professional.