Personal Sites

AboutIT delivers:

A Personal Web site for a breakeven price
Additional Graphics and creative work
Templates tailored for Personal Records; Travel Diary Site;
Extended Family Site; Hobby Site
Many Additional Features in a form easily used directly by the customer
Inexpensive light hosting of sites and email serving
Sophisticated and specialised Web-based Software and Services.

Why you need a web site?

A Web Site is your show-room in Cyberspace. It is your Billboard. It carries your Brand
A Web Site is visible to family, friends, fellow hobbyists, potential employers
A Web Site allows you to manage your career by maintaining your history and writings
A Web Site is a repository of information about You and Your talents
A Web Site enables you to communicate with multiple Communities of Interest - World-wide
Your Web Site promotes you - in your career, in your community, in your political views
Different views of your web site can be made available to different people.

What you can do with the web site?

Record your personal thoughts, feelings and Great Ideas
Maintain a diary of your life
Maintain complete records of your children and family members
Maintain a photo catalogue for all the family
Keep your personal lists of What's Hot and What's Not
Email e-zines summarising what's happening in your life and share them with family and friends
Build a database of all your contacts and create different lists for your digests.

How AboutIT can Help

AboutIT will establish your site for only $395 including GST
You need no software except a recent Microsoft operating system
You can maintain your site from any computer with a browser
AboutIT provides many additional services for highly competitive prices
AboutIT will Preview and Scan in your existing Graphics
Additional Graphics can be prepared
AboutIT will take digital photographs and place them on your site
AboutIT will Review your Copy in advance
AboutIT will set-up a Domain for you such as YourName.co.nz
AboutIT will place a Site Search facility on your site
AboutIT will place a Site Meter on your site giving you access to statistics on visitors
AboutIT will set-up email accounts for you (Volume limited)
AboutIT will provide free hosting for an initial period of three months
[Within stated limits on volume, limited physical security and not a high software security environment.]
AboutIT will submit your site to search engines
Your friends can enter their data on your site and you may post it directly into Outlook and
subsequently email them back
AboutIT can provide you with a full relational database
When people enter data about themselves, privacy and "Double Opt-In" conventions as
advised by the Direct Marketing Association are implemented
People re-visiting your site are greeted by name
A privileged user may update the database; in particular they can set Who can See What making selected pages visible to different people; and receive reports on database activities
Moderated Commentaries allow you to review email commentaries made by visitors
to your site and post a digest of the commentaries on your site topic by topic
Email selected names from your database. Full statistics on subsequent responses are reported.
Selectively email people who have visited some combination of pages.

What You Get for $395

• A 2.5 hour visit by our qualified staff (less travel time if more than 10 Km from a DSE store in Auckland)
  
• Decide on your web site name; set-up your email; if necessary set-up your modem and browser
  
• Discuss your objectives; help you choose your templates, style and colour-ways
  
• Enter your basic data and create your site
  
• Take up to 6 photos and load them into your web site (20 minutes allowed)
  
• Capture up to six images through a scanner and load them into your web site (20 minutes allowed)
  
• Show you how to update your text content and add new pages.