About Us

Better than Average Sites is a Melbourne based business that can design, manage and maintain a new or existing website. We service small to medium sized businesses and organisations and specialise in creating unique custom designed websites to meet your specific needs. All work is thoroughly tested and completed on-time, and most importantly, every job is completed to the highest standard.

Check out the below details and don't forget to try out our Quote System.

About us

Why use us?

We offer a complete website development service including graphic design, coding, testing, and registration.

Competitive pricing at $38.50 per hour (inc GST).

You only deal with the one person.

All work is tied to a .

Each website is custom designed to meet your exact specifications. We don’t just rehash templates.

Your new sites can include , databases, quote forms, image galleries, , animations, video, and almost anything else you can think of.

We make relevant sites that promote your product or service.

Our websites are quick, easy to navigate and catch the eye of the user.

If you are new to web sites or computers, we talk to you in a language you understand.

All work is thoroughly tested in Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers.

Our sites are in many different resolutions including: 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960 and 1680x1050.

We can organise a professional photographer to take photos of your products and services or arrange to be used.

All sites we build come with free from Google Analytics.

Our clients say very nice things about us! See the testimonials in the "our work" page.

What can we do?

DESIGN: We completely design your site from ideas / other sites you give us.

GRAPHIC WORK: Using logos, photos, diagrams and drawings we will piece together artwork.

ANIMATIONS: We can create animated GIF’s , Flash, & Quicktime animations from idea’s and content you give us.

FLASH WEBSITES: We can create and manage fully interactive .

VIDEO: We can create / edit video you give us, have them replay on your site or make them available for downloading in various formats.

DOWNLOADS: Users can download content from your site including PDF files, Word documents, executable files, MP3’s, video’s etc.

QUOTE SYSTEMS: We can create simple to advanced Quote System’s that can validate data, email various users, and / or update a database.

DATABASES: We can create and maintain online MySql databases with the possibility of users or yourself being able to edit / manage data, graphics and printable reports.

CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: Our custom made allows the administrator to control text, graphics, links and downloadable files. Click here for more information.

ECOMMERCE WEBSITES: We can create fully customisable websites to sell your product or service directly online. Including secure payment options, shopping cart, account information, shipping options, unique search customisation, product and category administration and more. Click here for more information.

HOSTING: We offer fast and reliable Australian packages to suit various requirements. Click here for more information.

DOMAIN NAME: We can setup a new for you, valid for 2 years. Click here for more information.

PHOTO’S: We can send out a professional photographer to shoot images of your product’s / service's or staff.

ROYALY FREE STOCK IMAGES: We can find you for your website through Istockphoto.

PROMOTION / SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION: We can help you out with different methods of promoting your site and optimising your pages to rank higher within search engines such as Google.

TRAINING: We can train you or your staff over the phone / email, to:

- Sign up for and select .

- to your site.

- Use tied to your site.

- Manage and use an website.

- Use tied to your site.

- Help out with way’s to promote your site.

How long will it take?

After your site design and content has been locked in, the time to site completion should be about three times that of the work quoted. This of course is also dependant on us waiting for content or questions to be answered by you! Regardless, we will keep you informed of where you are in the process and how long there is to completion.

General pricing

All work charged at $38.50** an hour inc GST (excluding photography).

Minimum charge is 3 hours work ($99** inc GST).

Any onsite work attracts a 4 hour travel charge of $132** inc GST (Eastern Melbourne Only).

All work is invoiced at the satisfied completion of the job or in 3 month intervals from the start of work.

* via Istockphoto

We recommend and use www.istockphoto.com, one of the largest and better value Royalty Free libraries on the net. You can select the photo’s yourself or have us search for images based on your description (which will incur a small finders fee).

- Istockphoto charges roughly $1.20** to $20.00** per image () depending on image size, and US exchange rate.

- Photo Finders Fee. If you would like us to find you an image based on your description we charge $5.50** inc GST per Photo.

* The above products are offered by separate business’s / companies that
have no affiliation with Better Than Average Sites. They are listed because
of our favourable experiences with them and their competitive pricing.

** Valid as of the 18/01/2010.

Ecommerce Sites


	Ecommerce websites allow you to sell your products and / or services directly online. We use and recommend an open-source system called Oscommerce, one of the most popular online shopping systems available. Oscommerce is fast, very configurable and extremely secure, giving your shoppers a safe, easy to use shopping experience whilst allowing us to design a completely unique looking Ecommerce website to meet your needs.

		What is Oscommerce?

		Oscommerce comes as a basic template system that allows us to amend and add to its structure using a multitude of available plug-in modules. It works like any other Ecommerce website where a user must create an account before purchasing, add items to a cart, then checkout to provide payment details and complete the transaction. As an administrator, you will receive an email of a new order, log into the system to check information including credit card numbers or other payment details and invoice out the order from the system. Oscommerce can handle the entire process from inventory control, backup, reports, newsletters, shipping slips and far more.

		Here are just a few things that Oscommerce can do:

		Allow fully customised advanced searches.

		Different methods of shipping can be calculated based on customer location and / or product attributes.

		Customers can sort products by a multiple of different fields.

		The system can deal with many different payment types and fees associated with credit card, PayPal, and COD.

		Selected products can appear in a specials page or window.

		Newsletters can be automatically sent to customers that have registered with you.

		New products can be shown in a separate page or window.

		Customers can write reviews of your products.

		Customers can choose various currencies to pay in.

		Pages and products can be showed in various languages.

		Administrators can view / notify customers and orders including payment details like credit card.

		Administrators can completely update / amend the product catalogue including pictures, pricing and information.

		Administrators can keep track of stock level’s, get reports on best selling items and prepare picking slips and invoices for client orders.

		What is involved in setting up an Ecommerce website?

		Installing and configuring a unique looking Ecommerce website using Oscommerce can take some time. Depending on the complexity of your site and product range, we would suggest a minimum of 30 hours work to completely setup and test a basic Ecommerce website.

		What else do I need for an Ecommerce website?

		An Ecommerce system requires 4 basic things: Fast and reliable web hosting (ideally located in the country you will be selling goods to) See our hosting plans. A SSL certificate so that customers details are being encrypted when they are purchasing goods from you. SSL certificate pricing. A dedicated IP address so that an SSL certificate can be attached to your site. Dedicated IP address pricing. and obviously a domain name. Domain name pricing.

Hosting

A new website will require both a and a host (a business / company that stores and serves out your web pages over the internet). Our fast and reliable hosting packages are stored on Dell 1950 servers securely housed in the TransACT data center in Canberra. Unlike some other hosts, our server resources are dedicated to Business hosting customers on the same server, and processing time and memory are not shared with any other virtual services being used on the same hardware.

In most cases, “BTA1” & “BTA2” packages should provide you with more than enough disk space and bandwidth to meet your needs. Regardless, we will need to work with you during this process to make sure you have the right hosting product to match your site requirements.

Package Name:

BTA1

BTA2

BTA3

BTA4

Disk Space:

80MB

200MB

400MB

800MB

Monthly Bandwidth:

1GB

2.5GB

5GB

10GB

Max pageloads/month (approx):

5,000

12,500

25,000

50,000

Monthly price (paid yearly):

$5.95** inc GST

$8.95** inc GST

$14.95** inc GST

$19.95** inc GST

Yearly Price:

$71.40** inc GST

$107.40** inc GST

$179.40** inc GST

$239.40** inc GST

Addon Domains:

None

Parked Domains:

None

Sub Domains:

None

Email Accounts:

MySQL Databases:

PHP 5 enabled:

Yes

Management:

Cpanel

Server Location:

Australia

Host Server OS:

Linux

Dedicated IP Address

$70.00** Inc GST valid for 12 Months

SSL Certificate

$39.95** Inc GST. GeoTrust 128bit encryption valid for 12 Months

** Valid as of the 18/01/2010.

Domain Names