Basic
Contract #2
Contact Name ______________________________
Phone ___________ FAX ___________
Company/Client _____________________________
Address ___________________________________
__________________________________________
City ____________________ State
____ ZIP ____ Country ___
E-mail address _________________________
Present WWW URL (if any):
_______________________________________________
Our desire is to delight the
client. One way is to make clear our understandings with each
other. These are the terms of our agreement together:
1. Authorization. The above-named
client is engaging Wilson Internet Services, a sole proprietor,
located at 4301 Barton Rd., Loomis, California 95650, as an
independent contractor for the specific project of developing
and/or improving a World Wide website to be installed on the
client's web space on a web hosting service's computer. The
client hereby authorizes Your Company Name to access
this account, and authorizes the web hosting service to provide
Your Company Name with "write permission" for the
client's webpage directory, cgi-bin directory, and any other
directories or programs which need to be accessed for this
project. The client also authorizes Your Company Name
to publicize their completed website to Web search engines,
as well as other Web directories and indexes.
2. Standard Website Package Elements.
(For Standard Website Packages Only. Cross out for online stores.)
Your Company Name includes the following elements
in their Standard Website Packages:
E-mail/phone consultation (Up
to 2 hours total general Internet orientation education, marketing
strategy, Web design consultation, and helping clients learn
to use their own webpage editor. Telephone long distance charges
are in addition to package rates quoted. Additional education
and consultation is at our hourly rate.)
Words of text supplied by the
client (200 words per page approximate maximum if not supplied
via diskette. webpages of more than 1,200 words of text may
be subject to additional fees, especially if they require a
great deal of formatting.)
Links to external pages, up to
an average of 2.5 per page.
Custom Graphics Package. Masthead
graphic on first page (simple custom graphic incorporating
company logo). Top-of-page graphic for all other pages in your
website. Colorful lines and bullets, and colored and textured
background.
Photos and other misc. graphic
images supplied by client (up to an average of 1.3 included
per page in standard websites and "regular" online store pages,
in addition to masthead and top-of-page graphic. Color originals
larger than 5" x 8" are extra).
Installation of webpages on the
client's web hosting service.
Minor updates and changes to
existing webpages for six months, subject to the limits outlined
below. Additional changes billed at hourly rate. For online
stores, this includes only "regular" pages, not product pages
or the ordering system pages.
Site publicity to at least a
dozen major Web search engines, such as Yahoo, AltaVista, InfoSeek,
WebCrawler, Lycos, HotBot, etc.
E-mail response link on each
webpage to any e-mail address the client designates.
Feedback or guest book form (Basic
CGI program included. Includes up to 20 fields. Extra charges
may be incurred if the client's web hosting service does not
use a Unix operating system. Not included in the package price
for sites smaller than 6 pages. This is not included in online
stores, since the shopping cart software is a functional equivalent.)
Image Map for internal navigation
(Not included in the package price for sites smaller than 6
pages.)
3. Standard Website Packages
only. (Cross out this section for online stores.) The content
of the webpages will be supplied by the client and executed
as specified by the client in the "Website Planning Worksheet" dated
_______________. This website includes up to ___________ webpages.
In case the client desires additional standard webpages beyond
the original number of pages specified above, the client agrees
to pay Your Company Name an additional $_______ for
each additional webpage. Graphics or photos beyond the allowed
average of 1.3 per webpage shall be billed at an additional
$____ each. Where custom graphic work (beyond the scope of
the "Custom Graphics Package" detailed above) is requested,
it will be billed at the hourly rate specified below. The store
size and additional services, and prices of each are detailed
on the attached estimate.
4. Online stores only. (Cross
out this section for Standard Website Packages.) The text and
graphic content of the webpages will be supplied by the client
and executed as specified by the client in the "webpage Planning
Worksheet" dated _______________. and the Store Planning Worksheet
dated _____________. It is understood that total prices calculated
below are likely to vary from the final amount due to different
quantities of products, categories, photos, regular pages,
etc. in the final store. An Estimate from Your Company Name
dated ____________ is attached to this document and governs
the prices for this contract. Notwithstanding any prices listed
in literature or on webpages, the client and Your Company Name
agree that the services described above in this section shall
be completed for $__________________ and upon this amount the
first payment shall be determined. The final payment shall
reflect and include all elements actually completed at the
prices attached.
We include e-mail/phone consultation
of up to 2 hours total general Internet orientation education,
marketing strategy, Web design consultation, and helping clients
learn to use the store software. Telephone long distance charges
are in addition to package rates quoted. Additional education
and consultation is at our hourly rate.)
Product webpages, products, or
photos added after the store is ready for advertising to the
Web search engines will be calculated for actual time spent
at the hourly rate specified below.
5. Maintenance and Hourly Rate.
This agreement includes minor webpage maintenance to regular
webpages (not store product pages) over a six-month period,
including updating links and making minor changes to a sentence
or paragraph. It does not including removing nearly all the
text from a page and replacing it with new text. If the client
or an agent other than Your Company Name attempts
updating the client's pages, time to repair webpages will be
assessed at the hourly rate, and is not included as part of
the updating time. The six-month maintenance period commences
upon the date the client signs this contract.
Changes requested by the client
beyond those limits will be billed at the hourly rate of $
_________. This rate shall also govern additional work authorized
beyond the maximums specified above for such services as general
Internet orientation education, marketing consulting, webpage
design, editing, modifying product pages and databases in an
online store, and art, photo, graphics services, and helping
clients learn how to use their own webpage editor. CGI programming
charges (if any) are not included in this rate.
6. Changes to Submitted Text.
Please send us your final text. Time required to make substantive
changes to client-submitted text after the webpages have been
constructed will be additional, billed at the hourly rate.
7. Web Hosting. The client understands
that any web hosting services require a separate contract with
a web hosting service. The client agrees to select a web hosting
service which allows Your Company Name full access
to the website and a cgi-bin directory via FTP and telnet.
The client further understands that if the web hosting service's
operating system is not a Unix system, standard CGI software
may not work, and providing a substitute may incur additional
charges.
8. Completion Date. Your Company Name
and the client must work together to complete the website in
a timely manner. We agree to work expeditiously to complete
the website no later than _________________________.
If the client does not supply
Your Company Name complete text and graphics content
all webpages contracted for within six weeks of the date this
contract was signed, the entire amount of the contract becomes
due and payable. If the client has not submitted complete text
and graphics content within two months after signing of this
contract, an additional continuation fee of 10% of the total
contract price will also be assessed each month until the website
is advertised.
9. Payment of Fees. Fees to Your Company Name
are due and payable on the following schedule: 50% upon signing
this contract, 50% when the webpages have been constructed
according to the client's original written specifications.
If the total amount of this contract is less than $600, the
total amount shall be paid upon signing this contract. In case
the client has not secured Web space on a web hosting service
by the time the webpages are completed, the webpages may be
delivered to the client on diskette or attached to an e-mail
message. Advertising the pages to Web search engines and updating
occur only after the final payment is made. All payments will
be made in US funds.
10. Assignment of Project. Your Company Name
reserves the right to assign subcontractors to this project
to insure the right fit for the job as well as on-time completion.
11. Legal Stuff. Your Company Name
does not warrant that the functions contained in these webpages
or the Internet website will meet the client's requirements
or that the operation of the webpages will be uninterrupted
or error-free. The entire risk as to the quality and performance
of the webpages and website is with client. In no event will
Your Company Name be liable to the client or any
third party for any damages, including any lost profits, lost
savings or other incidental, consequential or special damages
arising out of the operation of or inability to operate these
webpages or website, even if Your Company Name has
been advised of the possibility of such damages. If any provision
of this agreement shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason
unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable
from this agreement and shall not affect the validity and enforceability
of any remaining provisions.
12. Copyrights and Trademarks.
The client represents to Your Company Name and unconditionally
guarantees that any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs,
trademarks, or other artwork furnished to Your Company Name
for inclusion in webpages are owned by the client, or that
the client has permission from the rightful owner to use each
of these elements, and will hold harmless, protect, and defend
Your Company Name and its subcontractors from any
claim or suit arising from the use of such elements furnished
by the client.
13. Laws Affecting Electronic
Commerce. From time to time governments enact laws and levy
taxes and tariffs affecting Internet electronic commerce. The
client agrees that the client is solely responsible for complying
with such laws, taxes, and tariffs, and will hold harmless,
protect, and defend Your Company Name and its subcontractors
from any claim, suit, penalty, tax, or tariff arising from
the client's exercise of Internet electronic commerce.
14. Copyright to Webpages. Copyright
to the finished assembled work of webpages produced by Your Company Name
is owned by Wilson Internet Services. Upon final payment of
this contract, the client is assigned rights to use as a website
the design, graphics, and text contained in the finished assembled
website. Rights to photos, graphics, source code, work-up files,
and computer programs are specifically not transferred to the
client, and remain the property of their respective owners.
Wilson Internet Service and its subcontractors retain the right
to display graphics and other Web design elements as examples
of their work in their respective portfolios.
15. Payment of fees. In order
for Your Company Name to remain in business, payments
must be made promptly. Delinquent bills will be assessed a
$15 charge if payment is not received within 10 days of the
due date. If an amount remains delinquent 30 days after its
due date, an additional 5% penalty will be added for each month
of delinquency. Your Company Name reserves the right
to remove webpages from viewing on the Internet until final
payment is made. In case collection proves necessary, the client
agrees to pay all fees incurred by that process. This agreement
becomes effective only when signed by Wilson Internet Services.
Regardless of the place of signing of this agreement, the client
agrees that for purposes of venue, this contract was entered
into in Placer County, California, and any dispute will be
litigated or arbitrated in Placer County, California. Please
pay on time.
16. Sole Agreement. The agreement
contained in this "Website Design Contract" constitutes the
sole agreement between Your Company Name and the
client regarding this website. Any additional work not specified
in this contract must be authorized by a written change order.
All prices specified in this contract will be honored for six
(6) months after both parties sign this contract. Continued
services after that time will require a new agreement.
18. Initial Payment and Refund
Policy.
The total amount of this contract
is $______________
This agreement begins with an
initial payment of $_____________. If the client halts work
and applies by registered letter for a refund within 30 days,
to the Director of Wilson Internet Services, P.O. Box 308,
Rocklin, CA 95677, phone (916) 652-4659, work completed shall
be billed at the hourly rate stated above, and deducted from
the initial payment, the balance of which shall be returned
to the client. If, at the time of the request for refund, work
has been completed beyond the amount covered by the initial
payment, the client shall be liable to pay for all work completed
at the hourly rate stated above. No portion of this initial
payment will be refunded unless written application is made
within 30 days of signing this contract.
The undersigned agrees to the
terms of this agreement on behalf of his or her organization
or business.
On behalf of the client (authorized
signature):
_______________________________________
Date ________________
On behalf of Your Company Name
(authorized signature)
_______________________________________
Date ________________
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