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What is our purpose? ♥
We want to help you create your website and digital presence, show you how to use the friendliest interfaces available today, and guide you until you can do it yourself.
Websites
3 Things you should know about Websites
1- The days of "I am not good at that" are gone. There are platforms that make keeping your own website as easy as posting on Facebook. You don't need to learn to Code or to use WordPress in order to make our own website. When you have a vision, and know what you want, it is great to be able to create it just as you want it.
2- If you already have a website but it was created 10+ years ago, it's probably not responsive, meaning that if you try to access it from a mobile phone, it won't adjust automatically to its dimensions. Unlike 10 years ago, many people browse the web on their phones.
3- Having your own website is a great option for maintaining your creative freedom --as opposed to using a Facebook fan page.
Sample pages
These are some pages with projects we've been involved in. Take them as examples of how you can communicate different things in an effective way through a website.
Hotel page
This is a hotel I used to have on the beach. Use it as an example of what a good hotel website can be. To explore it click on the image.
"Sell business" page
This is a page I created to sell my hotel business in Guayaquil. Note how a dynamic design and big pictures can add up to make anything look more attractive.
Farm page
The ecovillage and biodynamic farm I am part of. This is a good example of a regenerative farm website.
Course page
A course that was offered recently at Finca Sagrada. All the information about a course is better explained in a website with good design.
Project Page
This was a project I started on while I lived at the beach. It's an example of a project's website. To explore it click on the image.
Personal page
And last but not least, this is my personal website. It's an example of how your personal page might look, if we create it.
Costs
Historically, website designs have been quoted per page. "About us" would be a page. Another page "Contact", etc. However, this comes from the old days when the bandwidth was not as high as now, and there was a natural limit on the size of a page.
Nowadays, a page can be as long as you want. So we quote a website by number of words.
$150
Simple website
It's basically a page where you describe it, plus a Contact and About us page. Up to 500 words, up to 10 pictures. You will provide all texts and pictures. I teach you how to create new pages and add content, so you can continue growing it at your own pace.
Upscale your website
You can customize your website and add more features to it, in the measure of your needs. If you are not sure about what you can and what you can't do, we can have a zoom call to organize ideas.
$50
Extra 500 words + 5 pictures. Example: if you have 1500 words, the basic cost includes up to 500 words, so for each additional 500 words there is an extra $50.
$50
Bilingual website. The basic version is one language. You can add a second language version. The cost includes a basic AI translation, that we will quickly check to avoid any transcription error.
$125
E-commerce. An online store is a great way to sell your products or services online. Fee includes the design of the e-commerce page, and a basic PayPal payment system. If you want a payment gateway with a bank, we can help too (extra charge applies).
$50
Google Analytics setup. This is a function that will let you know a lot of useful information about who your viewers are. We'll set it up and show you how to pull the information.
$25
Access to image bank. We will let you choose pictures from a wonderful image collection that doesn't quite look like Image bank.
$100
Copywriting. If you have the idea but are not sure how to communicate it, we're experts on that. The basic package allows up to 500 words in one language. If you want that the second language is not only an AI translation, add $50 for the second language.
$50
Guide to your market. Having a great website with e-commerce does not necessarily mean that you will sell. This is a 60-minute session where we will discuss, explore and research possibilities on what your next steps can be.
$50
Photo session. None of us is a profesional photographer, but we have good Iphones that take amazing pictures. If we conclude that you need the work of a professional photographer we'll help you find one. The $50 basic is for 10 pictures.
$100
Newsletter. Mail Lite is a mailing list service that lets you use the platform for free until you have 1,000 subscribers. We can help create an online form and connect it to your website, and show you how to use the tool so you have a pro database system.
$75
Basic SEO Setup. We'll review with you the essential knowledge you need to have in order to have a website that has visibility. We'll show you the available online tools in case you want to take your SEO to the next level.
A note about the total costs of having a website
When you do a website, you should always consider three costs: Design, Domain and Hosting.
Design. We talked about that above. You can get a basic website starting at $150.
Domains. you pay once a year starting at $9.99, depending on the type of domain.
Hosting. Usually around $30-60 a year depending on how sophisticated and how much traffic your website will have. The platform I recommend, Webnode, has a free version that lets you host your website for free, but with a webnode address. However, you can get away with it using a bit.ly address. Like we use a https://bit.ly/yambala... Looks good and it's totally free. If you want to have more than one language in your website, you will need the $120 a year plan, which is more than the usual cost to host a WordPress website. But the difference in effort-benefit that Webnode gives you is well worth the extra cost. Plus, you won't need to hire a WordPress expert every time you need an update.
SEO. Stands for Search Engine Optimization. It refers to how well your website ranks on Google.
Social Media & Video Creation
We can help you maintain an online presence of your product or service through an Instagram, Facebook or TikTok page.
$200 / month
Basic Instagram + TikTok presence. Includes creation/updating of both channels and two posts per week. If you don't have a graphic line we can help you create one.
$200
45-second promotional video. Basic video. These extra features are charged separately:
- Subtitles
- Subtitles in a second language
- Shooting in distant location
- Creation of concept
- Logo creation
- Animations
- Models
$50
Platform creation or redesign. We create it for you and show you how to be your own Community Manager. Choose any of these:
- Instagram
- Facebook
- TikTok
- Google Business
- Linkedin
Copywriting and other services
We can help in creating content, interpreting and making sense of AI Translations, with a cost of $10-20 / hour, depending on which one of us does the work. These are the ways we can help:
- Copywriting. Putting an idea into words.
- Translations. We use AI but work on the text so it retains the original essence.
- Simultaneous translations. Via Zoom or in person.
Who is Yambala Studio?
We're a small team. We will refer you to the right professional in the fields we don't specialize in.
Oddi. Aesthetics lover, with experience in Social Media, SEO and modeling. Oddi is a quick learner and is great at researching and finding what she doesn't know. Born in Guayaquil, resident of Vilcabamba.
Riki. Expert writer in Spanish, published author, C1 English writer, designer, interpreter, solid basic knowledge of digital marketing, content creator. Born in Guayaquil, resident of Vilcabamba.