Website design agreement for clients

About these documents:
These detailed agreements address most of the problems that may arise between you and your web writer, graphic designer or coder.
ECM004 is suitable for larger or more complicated sites.
ECM005 is suitable for smaller sites. It does not contain the depth of provision found in ECM004.
ECM006 is suitable for very small sites and additional small works to a larger site. It provides the basic essentials to regulate a contract for a particular item, such as an e-mail response system, or a few pages.

Who will use these documents?
The website design contracts as drawn are designed to protect you, the client, so any person or Company wanting to allocate website designing work to a professional website designer will use one of these documents.

Key features:

• very comprehensive;
• suitable for any size of web site;
• provide a framework for meaningful discussion with your website designer;
• cover technical as well as legal issues;
• provide a complete framework;
• help take the stress out of web site procurement;
• protect your project, your intellectual property and your money.

These documents include provisions for:

• separating the design element, so that a separate design contract could be drawn;
• provisions for customer to approve design but pay for additional work if multiple choice required;
• writing of a “Detailed Specification” covering all elements of the work and to be be amended on completion to provide the customer with a complete record of the work done;
• a template for the detailed specification;
• regulating customer changes to the specification;
• lists excluded matters for customer's separate attention - e.g. names, hosting; merchant service;
• provides concisely for responsibility for search engine strategy;
• testing and acceptance;
• alternative payment arrangements.
• training option;
• who owns the software created;
• appropriate legal provisions - warranties, exclusions, indemnities, etc.