RareRooster

WHAT THE ROOSTER DOES

RareRooster builds web sites for small businesses, and local not for profit organisations.

We build sites using standard web technologies, like the ones you see on here, and if you've a need to incorporate different features like the use of databases and multimedia, that's OK.

You can get in touch by e mail, send to design@rarerooster.co.uk or call on
079 0169 948.

We are located near Cambridge, UK. So if you're local to us, happy to discuss projects in a variety of local coffee houses.

HOW DOES HE WORK ?

Well we start with text and images that you see here using Web compliant tools like XHTML & CSS.

As well this and navigation for your site you can stream video or audio. We can build in moving graphics, and add other features like web forms to send information to a database or retrieve data for display on your site.

If you tell us what you need we can talk through some design ideas. You might already have access to some of the content including the text and the images, but if we we need to get, create or edit that for you, we can discuss it as part of the project.

If you're ready to go ahead, we will build the site and make any changes you have. For a basic site like this one we should be done after ten days. For more complex ones we will discuss the project timeline when we are negotiating the project.

There are probably loads of questions you want to ask, just mail or call.

WILL THE ROOSTER HOST

RareRooster doesn't offer hosting packages but we can point you in the direction of companies that will host your site and register your web address.

For a site like this one you'll be in business for around £60 a year.

WHAT DOES HE CHARGE ?

Well if you're after a site built with the kind of technologies you're looking at right now and with the limited number of images and pages around £200.

That would include basic cropping and colour correction of any images that you supply for use on your site. And so that your in control of the final design, up to four iterations to fine tune the site, to get it exactly as you want it.

You may want to change some of the content when the site has been running for a while, for example changes to contact details. We will include some of those changes for free. If you have a site that will need updating quite regularly, then we can offer several ways of doing that at varying levels of cost.

There are a full list of prices and terms of business which you can download.

WHO IS THAT RAREROOSTER ?

The principle guy at RareRooster has been watching the web since the early days of the Mosaic Browser and has experience of the web, and also broader experience as a marketing exec. working for a UK based blue chip telco, and for start up companies in Europe.

LOCAL COMMUNITY

The RareRooster is willing to help out local community organisations with free advice on the internet or web design. So if you're in that category, especially if you have zero funds to pay for that kind of help, then drop us an e mail at design@rarerooster.co.uk

WHAT IS THE ROOSTER WATCHING ?

Refresh Cambridge
http://www.refreshcambridge.org/

The WatchMaker Project
http://www.thewatchmakerproject.com/

A list Apart
http://www.alistapart.com

Sitepoint
http://www.sitepoint.com/

Vitamin
http://thinkvitamin.com/

Design Is Kinky
http://www.designiskinky.net/

CSS Zen Garden has provided some inspiration lately and so has the book the "CCS Anthology" by Rachel Andrew
http://www.csszengarden.com/

and JQuery provides lightweight and excellent JavaScript libraries with great Plug ins and UI elements
http://jquery.com/

Credit

Thanks to Hitchster, USA, for the use of High Resolution Textures under Creative Commons Licensing