3. Investment
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This section covers how the time or money invested will benefit the client.
Blog
From a site visitor perspective, the site should look professional, and be easy to use. But what about for the administrator or site owner that needs to maintain it? What would make it perfect for them?
  • Runs on Free software, and supported by a community of thousands of designers and developers.
  • An RSS Feed notifies subscribers that your site has updated.
  • Would not be dependent on where it’s hosted, nor would it be dependent on a certain web designer to be able to easily add or change content.
  • Accessible by the site owner - From any computer in the world, to add and edit content as they wish without having to own expensive software, or have a computer science degree. This also lowers the cost of Maintenance Agreements.
  • Able grow with a business - Incorporate things later that may not be needed in the beginning, like a shopping cart, a forum, live chat, contact forms, surveys, audio, video, or anything else the site owner may desire.
  • Built with search engines in mind - Every time a new page is added, a unique page specific title tag would be automatically generated. The description tag too, would automatically come from the first 150 characters of text on the new content page.
  • They can be tweaked with plug-ins, to do just about anything.
  • A site map is generated and zipped, then notifies Google to come an index your site, based off that map. Additionally, dozens of news services too, could be automatically notified new content had been added to the website so that they could come visit and index it immediately.
  • Use Cascading Style Sheets allows for easy design changes, done literally within seconds.
While all these things might take place individually with the proper systems in place and a lot of effort, there really hasn't been an all-in- one solution that could please nearly everyone. It's not hype. In fact, it's why blogs are so popular. Until now, this wish list of things that a perfect website should have wasn't realistic, until blogs came along.
Excel Spreadsheets
I noticed you searching through outlook for information. That does work, but I believe there is a much better way if you're willing to spend a little time learning a few new things.
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Browser Window
We should find ways to make your daily tasks as easy as possible. Excel is not the best place to store and maintain HTML code. I have a solution called a "Map" and it might make your life a little easier once this project is done. Click the Overview map, and you will see something like this:
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This map is clickable, try it. It's nifty.
I envision these maps as keeping your products organized. These maps are how I make this website you're looking at. Maybe it's not that difficult to keep the products you have organized now. But as you said, there will be more. I used the color yellow on these items to indicate that an item has been changed.
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You can even put images in the maps:
Sticky Notes
This says specifically what about the item has changed. Notice that all the prices, heights, and item descriptions are listed with each item. There is no HTML code here, because the code belongs in the shopping cart.
Here is an overhead view of items in the store. Notice how easy it is to see what has changed, and the progress of those changes.
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Map View Of The Items

Another view of your items, presented in a collapsible outline.
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Outline View Of The Items:


Cost:
The program costs like $200, but consider the value of saving yourself 15minutes of time each day. The program will pay for itself. I'll come over for an hour, and show you how to use this program to do all manner of time saving things.