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 $195 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 $195

• 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.

How You Begin

• Contact AboutIT now! At $195 what is stopping you?
  
• Contact AboutIT at telephone: 09 585-1580
  
• Or email Ian Mitchell, FNZCS at Ian@AboutIT.co.nz
  
• Ask for our "Planning Pack" or call in for a review of your needs.
  
• The Planning Pack will guide you in choosing a site name, clarifying your brand,
  choosing your by-line, identifying your Value Proposition and starting to draft your
  copy and select or design your graphics.
  
• We can set your site up in 2.5 hours! We help you draft your first copy.
  
• You can then update your copy directly off your PC