Website design agreements

About these documents:
ECM001 is a very comprehensive website design agreement. It is set out with a view to your negotiating terms with a client, then both sides sign it. It provides for the entire process from meeting client to providing specification of the completed work at the end of the day. It covers graphic design, records, testing and all other areas of your work. No professional can afford to risk the misunderstandings and possible disputes that arise so commonly in this area of work.

ECM003 is in the form of terms and conditions for your website design work - take it or leave it; your clients have no choice. This is an abbreviated version of ECM001 and is less comprehensive. It is designed for sale of standard packages of services, chosen and sold from your website.

Because no business can use both versions at once, if you buy ECM001, we give you ECM003 absolutely free automatically, so that you can choose which way you want to work.

Who will use these documents?
e-commerce professionals, who want a standard contract or for web site instruction.

Key features of the website design agreement:
There can be no more important document to a business engaged in e-commerce than the website design agreement. The scope for misunderstanding in this very wide and varied field is immense. Use of one of these documents is essential to you, whether the website is a simple 10 page promotion or a 1000 page e-commerce catalogue. The Net Lawman website design agreement:

• is comprehensive;
• suitable for any size of website;
• covers technical as well as legal issues;
• educates customers as to what is involved;
• provides a complete framework;
• protects you;
• is ideal as your standard contract.

The agreement ECM001 includes provision for:

• your customer to approve website design but pay for additional work if multiple choice required;
• writing of a “Detailed Specification” covering all elements of the website design work, to provide your customer with a complete record of the work done;
• regulating customer changes to the specification;
• provides concisely for responsibility for search engine strategy.
• lists excluded matters for customer's separate attention - e.g. names, hosting; merchant service;
• testing and acceptance;
• alternative payment arrangements;
• ownership of all elements of the software both created and plugged in;
• appropriate legal provisions - exclusions, indemnities, etc.
• regulating customer changes to the website design specification so that it is clear what work is “extra”.