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Sample Website Contract

This is a sample contract for your perusal
Our aim is to completely fulfill our client's needs and expectations
A clear understanding of what we expect from each other facilitates this aim.

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Professional Web Agency
STANDARD CONTRACT

This Contract Agreement is made this........day
of .................(month), 20.....(year), between:

Name:
Business Name: "Client"
Having its principal place of business at:
Address: City: Post Code:
Phone: Fax: Email:

And

Professional Web Agency

In consideration of Client retaining Professional Web Agency to design or redesign, and/or build and/or maintain a website for Client, it is agreed as follows:

1. Compensation and Term

The above named Client retains Professional Web Agency, and Professional Web Agency agrees to perform the following services: designing or redesigning, and/or building, and/or maintaining a website for Client according to *specifications agreed upon, and detailed at the bottom of this contract, between Professional Web Agency and Client.

Client is solely responsible for supplying website content, authoring, organization, images in file format unless Professional Web Agency is hired specifically for this purpose and it is stated in the agreed upon specifications. If all text and graphics necessary to complete the work are not received by Professional Web Agency within 10 days from the date of contract the balance of payment may become due and payable upon request. Any products or services not specified in this contract are not required of Professional Web Agency.

The following fees shall apply:

A fee in the amount of £________ to complete the agreed upon work. 50% of said fee is due after initial consultation and before work is begun. The remaining 50% shall be due and payable when work is completed and shall be received before website is uploaded to it's final destination. This fee includes: the cost of domain registration, hosting set up fee, hosting. This fee does not include: the merchant account, secure online authorization or shopping cart.

Maintenance, if included in this contract, shall be on a monthly basis, with a minimum of £35 in any month where updating is necessary. All fees will be assessed on an hourly basis at £35/hr. No fee will be charged in a month where no updating is necessary. Basic search engine submission is included herein and shall be contracted on the same basis as and included with maintenance.

Professional Web Agency agrees to complete this project within the estimated budget, unless client requires additional work or services not agreed upon, or if client requires multiple design drafts or repeated changes which would significantly increase work required of Professional Web Agency. Professional Web Agency will not charge any fees in addition to those specified in this contract without first consulting the client and reaching an agreement regarding this. If it becomes necessary for Professional Web Agency to bring legal action to collect any sums due under this Agreement, it shall be entitled to collect, in addition to all damages, its costs of collection, including all reasonable legal fees.

This Agreement shall commence on the date stated above, and shall remain in effect until all obligations under this Agreement have been properly completed.

2. Warranties by Professional Web Agency

Professional Web Agency represents and warrants to Client that it has the experience and ability to perform the services required by this Agreement; that it will perform said services in a professional and competent manner; that it has the power to enter into and perform this Agreement. However, Client will not determine or exercise control as to general procedures, formats or sub-contracting necessary to have these services meet Client's satisfaction.

3. Independent Contractor

Professional Web Agency acknowledges that the services rendered under this Agreement shall be solely as an independent contractor. It is expressly understood that this undertaking is not a joint venture.

4. Confidentiality

Professional Web Agency recognizes and acknowledges that this Agreement creates a confidential relationship between Professional Web Agency and Client and that information concerning Client's business affairs, customers, vendors, finances, properties, methods of operation, computer programs, and documentation, and other such information, whether written, oral, or otherwise, is confidential in nature. All such information concerning Client is hereinafter collectively referred to as "Confidential Information."

5. Non-Disclosure

Professional Web Agency agrees that, except as directed by Client, it will not at any time during or after the term of this Agreement disclose any Confidential Information to any person whatsoever and that upon the termination of this Agreement it will turn over to Client all documents, papers, and other matter in its possession or control that relate to Client.

6. Grant

Client agrees that copyrights to Professional Web Agency's work product produced in the performance of this Agreement shall remain the exclusive property of Professional Web Agency, and that it will not sell, transfer, publish, disclose or otherwise make the work product available to third parties without Professional Web Agency's prior written consent. Any rights granted to Client under this Agreement shall not affect Professional Web Agency's exclusive ownership of the work copyright.

7. Professional Web Agency agrees to design, build, install, and/or maintain a website for Client according to agreed upon specifications below, including validated HTML, link check, custom graphics, header or logo as specified, all pages and links necessary to display products and/or services of client. Professional Web Agency shall also prepare the site for search engine submission, which shall include analysis of text for keyword content, alt tags for images, preparation and installation of keyword and content meta tags, and submission to the major free submission search engines. Presently we submit to Yahoo, Google, MSN, Open Directory, Alta Vista, Fast/All the Web. Professional Web Agency does not guarantee listings on search engines as they alone determine who they will list and who they will not. Professional Web Agency will provide two months of minor changes and/or updates and up to two hours of consultation. This work shall be completed for the above stated fee.

*Specifications agreed upon

To be stated on an individual basis: IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Client and Professional Web Agency have duly executed this Agreement as of the day and year first above written.

Professional Web Agency .........................Client:...............................................
Name:...................................................... Name:...............................................
Title:.........................................................Title:.................................................
Signed:......................................................Signed:.............................................

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