Securing Intellectual Property

Appendix 7. Web Site Development Agreement

Introductory Note

This is a straightforward web site design and development agreement. It could also be used, with minor changes, for adding functions or content to an existing web site.

Web development ranges from quite simple and low cost to complex and expensive. The more functionality, the more integration with back end data systems, the more complicated the graphics, and the higher the traffic that the web site must handle, then the more prolonged and expensive web development will be. This form is more suited to web site development that is more toward the lower end of the scale. If you want to contract for a more complex web site development, your agreement would look more like Appendix 4, which ...