Stephen Adeoshun is an Electronic Business Consultant. He was a Financial Consultant with Laurentian Financial Group, and has worked with City of Westminster, APCOA UK, and Bells of Richmond UK. He is an honours graduate of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Benin, had a Post-Graduate in Marketing from the University of Westminster and a Masters in Marketing Management from Middlesex University. He also attended the London Guildhall University. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, London and Chartered Institute of Biology, London. He is a Netscape Solution Expert.

Baton Benson is a Networking consultant; he has worked with London Underground UK and Slip Charity UK before joining Yamaguchi UK.

Israel Oluyomi is an Engineer. A graduate of the Obafemi Awolowo University. He is part of the Yamaguchi Web design team, and a Cisco Solutions trainee. He is based at the Nigeria office.

Olusanya Oyerinde is a Web Designer and a also Microrosoft Certified Professional (MCP). He's a graduate of Metallurgical and Material Engineering from the Obafemi AwolowoUniversity, Ile Ife.. He is based at the Nigeria office.

Abiye Braide is a Graphics expert. He's one of the frontline Web Design experts on hand in the country today. He doubles as the Business Development Manager of the Group.

Others are : Jide Oyatogun, Gbenga Akinola and Adewnumi Gbadebo.

An Electronic Business Project (Web site Design) as any other process follows a certain pattern.

Here at Yamaguchi, we have a proven pattern that allows us to develop an appropriate electronic business strategy for our clients.

Our consultants will work with your staff at every stage of this process.

This will enable us to achieve our objective of:" Two naira (N2.00) return for you, in benefits, savings or otherwise, for every naira you invest in an electronic business project within the first one year"

The five-stage processes are:

• Concept
• Creation
• Hosting
• Management
• Strategic Evaluation

This involves highlighting the reasons for a web site and the objectives of the site.

Most aims and objectives for having a Web site include:

• Improve brand awareness
• Improve customers perception
• Improve Public Relations
• Facilitate cost effective direct marketing
• Improve information access for customers
• Help in product/service modification and development
• Create an informational site that will have your organisational look
• Use the site to analyse companies and people that are interested in your organisation
• Have a global presence for information dissemination

As a Netscape Solution Partner, our consultants are the best in the world, when it comes to advance Web site design benchmarked against any international site.

The technologies used include: Java, HTML, DHTML, VRML, CGI, API, XML, Cookies, Push and Pull technology, Animation ( Macromedia Multimedia) Channel Definition Format and Netcasting.

Our office in Nigeria has all necessary equipment for Web design, and these include scanners, digital cameras and top of the range servers.

The framework for the site will be designed in Nigeria, while the finishing touch will be added in London.

TOOLS:

Tools that will be used on the main page and all other pages where such technology is necessary will be:

Xtensible Mark up Language (XML) and Hypertext Mark up Language (HTML) for the background Dynamic HTML will be used for virtual effects

Adobe will be used for the images

Java, Java Beans or JavaScript will be used for interactivity

Macromedia Multimedia may be used for the animations if needed

Application Programming Interface will be used to develop the feedback and search facilities.

GLOBALISATION:

The site will be in both French and English, appropriate technology on the right platform will allow visitors from French speaking countries (France, Benin, Niger, Cote D'Ivoire, e.t.c.) to see only the French version of the site. There will also be links between the French and English versions.

The main page will have eight buttons designed with DHTML or a graphic tool. The buttons will be:

• About US: This will create links to sites that contain information on Mission Statement, history and future plans of the organisation.
• Feedback Form: The will create a link to the Feedback form, this will be directed to your Email address. The form will have spaces for Name, Company, Position, Address, Email, and a notepad.
• Search: This will allow visitors to search the site for information.
• Members: This will create links to sites with information on all members of the organisation.
• Staff: This will create links to pages with pictures and information on management staff. ( The pictures will be taken with digital camera and treated with advance imaging tools)
• Services: This will create links to sites with information on the organisation’s services and products.
• News: This will provide information to visitors on the organisation’s events.
• Others:

The site will have a discussion forum facility; this will create interaction between visitors and staff of the organisation.

The main page or menu will include the logo of the company; cookies will be inserted into the source code to provide audit and analysis.

Yamaguchi is a reseller for one of the world's most secure Web servers-Hostforyou Inc.

Yamaguchi takes the performance and reliability of your site seriously. The Hostforyou server uses class-leading Silicon Graphics origin 200 servers with Cisco routers and switches.

Separate Silicon Graphics systems are used for statistic and account processing to make sure your web site runs at optimum speed. The connection to the Internet is a massive 135Mb/s (61 times faster than the fastest in Nigeria, which is a T1). The connection is made through three separate backbones for security and redundancy.

In addition, in case of any incident, there is a 60,000watts backup generator and backups are performed daily on a 40Tb-storage system.

The hosting plan includes these facilities:

• POP3 accounts
• Massive data transfer
• E mail forwarding options
• E mail autoresponders
• CGI Directory
• Anonymous FTP
• Excite search engine
• True Speech server
• Online chat
• Real Audio and Video
• Database support
• Electronic Commerce facilities
• SSL secure server

Web Statistics: This will allow you to see how many hits per page/graphics/scripts you get, which are the most popular days, hours, months e.t.c.

CGI Directory: It allows installation and development of personalised Common Gateway Interface scripts to create interactivity.

E Commerce facility: We will provide a commercially available script that has been licensed to enable you to set up a fully functional on-line shopping site, with direct connection to a bank server for authorisation.

SSL Secure Server: This enables the collection of financial information including credit card details via a strongly encrypted connection.

Excite Search Engine: This allows the use of search engine to search your web site.

Audio, Video and Speech Servers: This allows you to transmit audio and video, including broadcasting from your site.

Pilot Testing and Launch: We recommend a pilot testing period of two months, during which visitors are encouraged to comment on the site. These comments are used to modify the site before the final launch.

Advertisement: When a site is created, there is a need to notify other organisations of the existence of the site. We expect the web address to be on your stationery. On our part we will register the site with over 500 search engines and directories worldwide.

We will also place an advertisement in the Financial Times if required.

• The Financial Times has approximately 1.2 million readers' worldwide.
• FT advertisement is produced on the FT.com site, which is visited by about 500,000 people.
• FT reaches 94% of members of the London Stock Exchange
• 65% of readers have a computer in the home.

Auditing and Analysis: With the necessary facilities on the server, we will audit and analyse responses and visitors to the site.

Management: We will take up the responsibility of managing your site effectively if required. We will update the site as many times as possible and will provide banner based newsfeed daily from Africa Economic Intelligence.

After the first year, Yamaguchi will conduct a strategic evaluation of the project, to find out if it has met the set aims and objectives.

It will take four weeks, for the site to be fully online.

All our Web sites come with the following features at no extra charge:

• Latest Technologies: Tools will include HTML, Dynamic HTML, Java Scripts, API, CGI, Advance Graphic tools, Frames and the recently approved XML
• African Culture: The content will reflect rich African culture.
• Bi-Lingual: The site will be in both French and English.
• Cost Effective: The quality of the site will not be compromised, but the cost has been taken into consideration in designing the framework of the site.
• Web Statistics: The facility is already installed on the server.
• Feedback: The facility will be included in the site.
• Easy Accessibility: The design has taken easy accessibility by staff and easy accessibility by visitors into consideration.
• Database Support: The facility will be included in the site.
• Security: The site is hosted behind a firewall, on one of the most secure servers in the world.
• E-commerce facilities.
• Tables as standards.

 COST

• Cost of Domain Name Registration (your company.com) = N 17,000 for 2 years.
• Web Hosting of up to 10mb = N 35,000 (including all facilities).

This level includes:

• Up to 10 Pages
• Up to 10 Images
• Up to 10 Links
• 1 Response Form
• Autoresponder

This level includes:

• Up to 20 Pages
• Up to 20 Images
• Logo enhancement
• Corporate style navigation
• Up to 18 Links
• 2 response forms
• Image-mapped site navigation
• Autoresponder
• Search and Database features.

This level includes:

• Up to 25 Pages
• Up to 25 Images
• Logo enhancement
• Graphics library
• Personalised art director layout
• Corporate navigation Java script roll-overs
• Borderless frames
• Java Script site-map with roll-overs
• Up to 20 Links
• 4 response forms
• Autoresponder
• Search and Database function.

This level includes:

• Custom content development/art direction
• Borderless frame
• HTML
• Dynamic HTML
• Java Script roll-overs
• Up to 25 Pages
• Up to 45 Images
• Concept Java script site map
• PhotoShop master rendered images
• Hit Counter
• Database interaction
• Autoresponder
• Search and Database features.

Complete with proxy server, mail server and 3 simultaneous Internet Access.

Complete Electronic Banking system.

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