Web & Creations

What is our offering ?

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Xavantes has developed one specific offering for website concepts and online application designs. We have developed an online e-commerce portal, where customers can buy graphic designs or web development solutions online or ask for a free quote. The aim is to propose cost efficient "packaged" solutions for start-ups up to luxurious e-commerce boutique applications for online businesses. The brand "Entreprendre-en-ligne.fr" which has been created for this offering in France, will soon also be spread all over Europe.

Create your brand

With Entreprendre-en-ligne.fr we propose all types of businesses to work on their brand creation (logo, name and slogan) and graphical charter. We create and improve brands all over Europe.

Study the marketing

Which channels are most adapted to your business? E-Commerce, Internet Presence, E-Mailings, CRM, we are there to assist you in your choices.

Market online

Assistance in choice of appropriate web solution, design and development of on-demand websites for your online marketing.

Work & Sell online

Assistance in choice of appropriate E-Commerce Solutions, concept of online sales solutions, prototyping for innovative web applications, Offshore Development Solutions.

Business on Internet

Overcome obstacles

The networked enterprise

Every new technology has its skeptics. With regards to Web 2.0, managements all over the world try to understand if they are a passing fad or an enduring trend that will underwrite a new era of better corporate performance. Should they implement, or will all this die out?

New research shows a new class of company is emerging—one that uses collaborative Web 2.0 technologies intensively to connect the internal efforts of employees and to extend the organization’s reach to customers, partners, and suppliers. (Source: McKinsey, 2010) This new kind of company is widely called the networked enterprise. McKinsey results show that the Web 2.0 use of these companies is significantly improving their reported performance. In fact, the data show that fully networked enterprises are not only more likely to be market leaders or to be gaining market share but also use management practices that lead to margins higher than those of companies using the Web in more limited ways.

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The networked enterprise
Every new technology has its skeptics. With regards to Web 2.0, managements all over the world try to understand if they are a passing fad or an enduring trend that will underwrite a new era of better corporate performance. Should they implement, or will all this die out?

New research shows a new class of company is emerging—one that uses collaborative Web 2.0 technologies intensively to connect the internal efforts of employees and to extend the organization’s reach to customers, partners, and suppliers. (Source: McKinsey, 2010) This new kind of company is widely called the networked enterprise. McKinsey results show that the Web 2.0 use of these companies is significantly improving their reported performance. In fact, the data show that fully networked enterprises are not only more likely to be market leaders or to be gaining market share but also use management practices that lead to margins higher than those of companies using the Web in more limited ways.

Among respondents at companies using Web 2.0, a large majority continue to report that they are receiving measurable business benefits—with nearly nine out of ten reporting at least one. These benefits ranged from more effective marketing to faster access to knowledge.

Market share gains reported by respondents were significantly correlated with fully networked and externally networked organizations. Technology-enabled collaboration with external stakeholders helps organizations gain market share from the competition. They do this, in our experience, by forging closer marketing relationships with customers and by involving them in customer support and product-development efforts. Respondents at companies that used Web 2.0 to collaborate across organizational silos and to share information more broadly also reported improved market shares.

The attainment of higher operating margins correlates with a different set of factors: the ability to make decisions lower in the corporate hierarchy and a willingness to allow the formation of working teams comprising both in-house employees and individuals outside the organization.

These findings suggest that Web technologies can underwrite a more AGILE organization where frontline staff members make local decisions and companies are better at leveraging outside resources to raise productivity and to create more valuable products and services. The result, surveys suggest, is higher profits.

Falling behind could be a critical mistake
The imperative for business leaders is clear: falling behind in creating internal and external networks could be a critical mistake. Executives need to push their organizations toward becoming fully networked enterprises. Here are some specific steps we recommend:

Integrate the use of Web 2.0 into employees’ day-to-day work activities. This practice is the key success factor in all of our analyses, as well as other research we have done. What’s in the work flow is what gets used by employees and what leads to benefits.
Continue to drive adoption and usage. Benefits appear to be limited without a base level of adoption and usage. Respondents who reported the lowest levels of both also reported the lowest levels of benefits.
Break down the barriers to organizational change. Fully networked organizations appear to have more fluid information flows, deploy talent more flexibly to deal with problems, and allow employees lower in the corporate hierarchy to make decisions. Organizational collaboration is correlated with self-reported market share gains; distributed decision making and work, with increased self-reported profitability.

Apply Web 2.0 technologies to interactions with customers, business partners, and employees. External interactions are correlated with self-reported market share gains. So are internal organizational collaboration and flexibility, and the benefits appear to be multiplicative. Fully networked organizations can achieve the highest levels of self-reported benefits in all types of interactions.

What does a website cost?

Are you a small business looking to build a website, but you don’t know where to get a first price estimation and you are afraid to get cheated? Or maybe you’re a large company thinking about creating a social networking application for your company and you REALLY want to know what the going rate for website developments costs are. Low cost rates and real rates. Regardless of who you are, having a baseline to work with is always a good idea.
XAVANTES does a lot of research for customers every day about pricing schedules of other providers, AND: The most amazing part here is that there is NO existing comparative pricing site on the web for this question. If you need a price, you need to go and ask for a QUOTE.
There are comparative sites for nearly everything, shoes, guns, cars,dresses, construction services, but when it comes to web, prices are only given after having asked for detailed quotes! What is the reason?

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What does a website cost?

Are you a small business looking to build a website, but you don’t know where to get a first price estimation and you are afraid to get cheated? Or maybe you’re a large company thinking about creating a social networking application for your company and you REALLY want to know what the going rate for website developments costs are. Low cost rates and real rates. Regardless of who you are, having a baseline to work with is always a good idea.
XAVANTES does a lot of research for customers every day about pricing schedules of other providers, AND: The most amazing part here is that there is NO existing comparative pricing site on the web for this question. If you need a price, you need to go and ask for a QUOTE.
There are comparative sites for nearly everything, shoes, guns, cars,dresses, construction services, but when it comes to web, prices are only given after having asked for detailed quotes! What is the reason ?

Some providers in the Internet marketing field are not experienced professionals, thinking that fast money can be made by charging somehow “lost” clients with different amounts based on their situation, urgency and income. Also, there are a lot of smaller structures which don’t have any marketing team working on their pricing schemes’ publication. In the end, you will not get any real idea of pricing grids for web applications, before having spent a lot of time by asking for quotes and comparing them. This is your only way to get an idea of the best price for a website.
Or you read until the end of this article and you will get a somehow better idea of general prices for websites and designs in France and/or Europe!

OK, so you need a website. And not just any website, but a great website with a clear, crisp easy to navigate design, with superb usability and functionality. Your business can be broad or niche, it can be large or small, and despite what you may believe… you need a website !

Like the businesses they represent, websites are not all created equal and serve various purposes, therefore they can vary greatly in cost as the level of design and functionality increases and becomes more complex to suit your company’s needs.

Basic Presentation Website – not more than 1500 €

A basic presentation website, acts primarily as an online brochure, establishing a necessary presence online to show your customers: “we exist”, “we are professionals” and “what do we do”. A basic presentation website can be done for a mere market range of 700 € to 1500 €.

This website will not allow you to interact with your audience (social networking, blog), transact business directly through your site (ecommerce). It should enable you to manipulate and update the content within your site without hiring a web programmer, so you will need a Content Management System (CMS) to do this. Unfortunately, the design of your website may be based “template” at such low costs. This means that your site probably mirrors that of other sites on the web. With Xavantes Web & Creations this will not be the case, because we only provide custom made on-demand design solutions, and we are still in the given price range, but here we are really at best market rates then, with our Presentation Website “START” with on demand design for 649 € !

Custom designed Commercial Website - € 1500-$3500

Really good custom designed websites, with all the aesthetic beauty that you can possibly envision, cost a market average of € 2500. These sites are still not quite as functional as other sites, but are extraordinarily pretty and all design elements are created and designed specifically for your site and tailored to your market needs. These sites may sometimes enable audience interactivity, ecommerce, or content management. The sites cost is due in part to the number of hours it takes to create your company’s custom design. The site will serve the same necessary purposes that a basic designed website will but will be far more aesthetically pleasing and custom to your businesses desires. As we said above, Xavantes can provide you these custom made websites for the price of a basic website in Europe, as prices start as low as 649 € for that type of website.

Content Management System (update it yourself) - $3000- $8,500

These are the websites everyone is looking at nowadays. Be free of calling your webdesigner to change your content, do it yourself through your CMS! BUT: Depending on the level of aesthetic design that is requested, Content Management System (CMS) websites will run at a market average of at least € 5000. These websites are created with both functionality and design in mind, as you will receive both custom art design and mid level functionality including the ability to manage and update all content, images, and text contained within the pages of your site (infinite number of pages possible). With a CMS capable website, your site will have endless possibilities as a pluggable, flexible web application capable of adding additional features as you desire. These websites are built with the idea that you will have a significant number of changes, additions or updates to be made to your site in the near future. Some ecommerce and real estate listing sites can be also fall in this category and this price range depending upon level of functionality and design. Also, sites of this caliber have varying prices with regard to design elements. These sites do have custom design work, but more expensive elements like Flash Art creation will affect pricing. Again, with Entreprendre-en-ligne.fr , these websites start at a much lower rate: around 2500 € !

E-Commerce Applications: 5000 € to 40 000 €

There are various possibilities to develop your E-Commerce Boutique. The cheapest being : Use a ready-made E-Commerce software and “just” fill it with your desired structure of products, and then upload your products and SELL. With these “softwares”, with names names like OSCommerce (basic features), Prestashop (more advanced features) , Magento (very advanced) etc, your web agency does not really have to code, they will install your boutique, a template design prepared by the supplier of the software, and then handle the implementation. A lot of agencies know how to do that. Here a price range of 5000 € is applicable.

NOW, if you want to go for an on-demand E-Commerce website, then the budget will explode, because everything will be built and hand coded from scratch. These applications are only viable, if you have the budget , and if you really need something SPECIAL (eg a customer interface with specific features etc).

Entreprendre-en-ligne.fr does a mix of the two: They use the ready-made software as a basis and then design the other features around it and apply an on-demand design! That is what we found the best lower cost solution for E-Commerce! The sites range from 2500 € to 6000 €.

Custom Made Websites- € 10,000 € 150,000

If you are looking for advanced functionality including social networking, blogging, ecommerce, or any other on-demand web application topped off with the markets leading design elements, then you should expect to pay a market average of € 25,000 minimum ! A site within this price range will be built and hand coded from scratch. That means your site is unlike any other, does not use any predefined software, and requires the attention and expertise of an experienced web application developer(s) and web site designer(s). A site that falls into this category requires months of market analysis, software research, consulting, database design and implementation, software development and integration, site quality assurance and testing. It is priced accordingly. You well accept to pay 150 € / an hour for the repair of your heating system, but a web agency is always requested to “just” change this button, or “just” add this functionality, and no one ever thinks to ask about the bill for this hour of an experienced developer.

CONCLUSION

Web design and creation is like any other craft or trade and requires a high level of knowledge and expertise. Furthermore, with the rapid rate that technology and the internet is constantly changing, the gap is beginning to seriously widen between web amateurs and professionals. Can you still get a website for $500? Sure you can, but it will not display and operate like a professionally designed website will and it will be as ineffective and unsuccessful as the individual who designed it.

What is the advantage of Xavantes Web & Creations? We rely on experienced web designers and developers for all the websites we develop, but we try to make use of our international group structure to leverage best prices from a lot of locations, India, Romania, to name two, and then mix this with our teams in Europe to deliver best quality! With Xavantes Web & Créations,even a custom made website can come around 15000 € only, if you accept to work in English project management for exemple!

Please ask us for a quote or the detailed outputs of our comparative study by mail or phone!

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