Welcome To Your Paid Trial!
We're so pleased to progress you, thank you for taking the time to complete this trial. The aim is to give you an idea of the kind of work that you would do with us, please follow the instructions and complete this within 1-3 days.
Submission:
Please send ONE email application, with the subject title "Job Application" to staff@smallbusinesswebdesigns.net.au with your responses to the 4 Trial Tasks below.
Your application email will contain:
For reference, we have scripts for most client queries, the aim is just to get a sense of your general abilities and familiarity of the work you may do.
Billing and Management:
Please send ONE email application, with the subject title "Job Application" to staff@smallbusinesswebdesigns.net.au with your responses to the 4 Trial Tasks below.
Your application email will contain:
- The link to your Weebly website builds (Task 1 & Task 5). Feel free to comment about your experience eg. Did you enjoy it? Was it difficult?
- Individual replies to the Client Email Tasks (Task 2, Task 3 & Task 4) presented, relating to Work-in-Progress, Accounts and Support departments.
For reference, we have scripts for most client queries, the aim is just to get a sense of your general abilities and familiarity of the work you may do.
Billing and Management:
- Hours to Charge: You may charge a maximum of 4 hours for the entire trial and complete all of the tasks to the best of your ability.
- Time Allocation: As a guide, 2.5 hours should be spent on Weebly (if you're new to the platform) and 1.5 hours on replying to the sample client questions. You may need longer than this especially if you've not used Weebly before, for the purposes of this trial we will keep this limit as a general guide only.
- From the time you accept the job, we recommend returning the completed trial to us within 3 working days.
Task 1 - Weebly Website Build
To complete your trial, please:
Timeframe:
Task 1 should take 1-2 hours (possibly longer if you are not familiar with Weebly), and you may like to look up some basic video intros to help you along, do let us know how you go and if you enjoy the experience when you submit your website. Please send the link to your trial site along with any thoughts/feedback you had from your experience with Weebly. You may send this in your single email to the address noted above and below.
- Create a free Weebly account and select the free version.
- Re-create the Home and Contact pages from this website in our portfolio: please see the attachment below which contains the banner (you can drag or copy any remaining images/text directly from the website page). The aim is to do a recreation that looks as close as you can get to the original site.
- Publish the website to a temporary Weebly domain (free) and send us the link to review your sample.
Timeframe:
Task 1 should take 1-2 hours (possibly longer if you are not familiar with Weebly), and you may like to look up some basic video intros to help you along, do let us know how you go and if you enjoy the experience when you submit your website. Please send the link to your trial site along with any thoughts/feedback you had from your experience with Weebly. You may send this in your single email to the address noted above and below.
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Task 2 - Client Management - Work in Progress
These are typical questions received during our site build process.
Instructions: Please prepare professional replies to the following client queries. Please note that we do not provide phone-based communication, so you will need to explain this to the client and offer some suggestions for communication.
Instructions: Please prepare professional replies to the following client queries. Please note that we do not provide phone-based communication, so you will need to explain this to the client and offer some suggestions for communication.
Client Email 1 - Client Management (work in progress)
Hi there,
It would be really good to speak to you and talk you through my second edits, so I can get lots of information to you. I'm sure it's fairly simple, but for me I know will be very time-consuming. Can you please call me on 03 2177 488
Thanks
Mike
Hi there,
It would be really good to speak to you and talk you through my second edits, so I can get lots of information to you. I'm sure it's fairly simple, but for me I know will be very time-consuming. Can you please call me on 03 2177 488
Thanks
Mike
Client Email 2 - Client Management (work in progress)
Hi there
I have reviewed my draft website and the content is great. However I do not like the image on the home page banner and I don't want a purple and pink theme as it's a bit old-fashioned and feminine. I would prefer blues, greens, Aqua and turquoise, both for the artwork and the writing. Can you send me some alternative images I can choose from for the home page banner?
Thanks
Mary
Hi there
I have reviewed my draft website and the content is great. However I do not like the image on the home page banner and I don't want a purple and pink theme as it's a bit old-fashioned and feminine. I would prefer blues, greens, Aqua and turquoise, both for the artwork and the writing. Can you send me some alternative images I can choose from for the home page banner?
Thanks
Mary
Task 3 - Support
These are some typical questions we may receive in our support department, after the client's site has been published.
Instructions: Please prepare professional replies to the following Support queries. Our most common query is how to make edits to their website, although we provide guidance to our clients for self-management, it's often not read so we need to remind them that they can self-manage.
Instructions: Please prepare professional replies to the following Support queries. Our most common query is how to make edits to their website, although we provide guidance to our clients for self-management, it's often not read so we need to remind them that they can self-manage.
Client Email 3 - Support
Hi there
My office has moved address and we have a new phone number. I've also had a few staff changes and need to update my website for these details how do I do this?
Best regards,
Jill
Hi there
My office has moved address and we have a new phone number. I've also had a few staff changes and need to update my website for these details how do I do this?
Best regards,
Jill
Task 4 - Accounts
These are some typical queries we may receive relating to payments to start their website build.
Instructions: Please prepare professional replies to the following queries.
Instructions: Please prepare professional replies to the following queries.
Client Email 4 - Accounts
Dear Officer,
Just want to let you know that our accountant has transferred the money to you today for the website deposit to get started.
Cheers,
Macky
Dear Officer,
Just want to let you know that our accountant has transferred the money to you today for the website deposit to get started.
Cheers,
Macky
Task 5 - Create your own Weebly site
Go to your Weebly account which you have set up and select "Add Site". In this task, we want to see your own initiative on building a website when it comes to choosing images, formatting logo design and integrating other features.
Instructions: Build a website for the same business AG Painting using the same business name, same pages and content. But this time you will do the following:
1. Download the "Example Design Preferences_AU" document below to get an example of what a client may provide us with to guide the design, read through it and get some ideas of what they want.
2. Choose a new template from Weebly's templates based on the client preferences and what they indicated they liked
3. Create your own logo using Weebly's logo editor - you may change the colour scheme and fonts to something you like
4. Create the same pages with the same content, however feel free to add new features from the Weebly Build section if you would like
5. Select your own new banner images for each page and upload a different one to each page. You will need to go to Google Images and search for 3 high quality resolution images that are suitable for the painting business and upload them to each page
You are welcome to showcase any other skills you have eg html, design but these are not essential. The task here is just to see what your own formatting / image ideas are like.
Suggested time for this task: 1-2 hours.
Instructions: Build a website for the same business AG Painting using the same business name, same pages and content. But this time you will do the following:
1. Download the "Example Design Preferences_AU" document below to get an example of what a client may provide us with to guide the design, read through it and get some ideas of what they want.
2. Choose a new template from Weebly's templates based on the client preferences and what they indicated they liked
3. Create your own logo using Weebly's logo editor - you may change the colour scheme and fonts to something you like
4. Create the same pages with the same content, however feel free to add new features from the Weebly Build section if you would like
5. Select your own new banner images for each page and upload a different one to each page. You will need to go to Google Images and search for 3 high quality resolution images that are suitable for the painting business and upload them to each page
You are welcome to showcase any other skills you have eg html, design but these are not essential. The task here is just to see what your own formatting / image ideas are like.
Suggested time for this task: 1-2 hours.
| example_design_preferences_au.doc |
Final Steps
Once you've completed the above, check your website build and re-read your answers to the 4 sample queries.
Happy with your work?
Great! Please send ONE email application, with the subject title "Job Application" to staff@smallbusinesswebdesigns.net.au with your Weebly site links and 4 draft client responses to the emails above.
Next Steps
Thanks very much for completing our trial, we look forward to contacting you soon!
Happy with your work?
Great! Please send ONE email application, with the subject title "Job Application" to staff@smallbusinesswebdesigns.net.au with your Weebly site links and 4 draft client responses to the emails above.
Next Steps
- Once received, we will review your application.
- Our response time is within 4 business days, but may be sooner.
- If you are successful, we will invite you to join our team and start on a mutually agreed date.
Thanks very much for completing our trial, we look forward to contacting you soon!
