Web Development Contract
Web Development Contract
Between: Vadoo Commerce Limited (‘Vadoo’ or ‘developer’ in this document) and you:
[Company Name or just You] (“you” or “client” in this document)
Introduction
I will always do my best to fulfil your needs and meet your goals, but sometimes it is best to have
a few simple things written down so that we both know what is what, who should do what and
what happens if things go wrong. In this contract you won't find complicated legal terms or large
passages of unreadable text. I have no desire to trick you into signing something that you might
later regret. I do want what's best for the safety of both parties, now and in the future.
Project Summary
You, the client, are hiring Vadoo, to develop a web application for the estimated total price as
outlined in our previous correspondence. The agreed payment plan is at the end of the
document.
• You have the power to enter into this contract on behalf of your company or
organization.
• Coordination of any decision-making with parties other than me
• To provide me with everything I need to complete the project including text, account
credentials, images and other information as and when I need it, and in the format that I
ask for.
• To review my work, provide feedback and sign-off within agreed timescales.
• To be bound by any dates that we set together for deadlines.
• To stick to the payment schedule described at the end of this contract.
• I have the experience and ability to perform the services you need from me.
• I will carry this service out in a professional and timely manner.
• I will respect the confidentiality of any information you give me.
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• I will endeavour to meet all the deadlines set but I can't be responsible for a missed
launch date or a deadline if you have been late in supplying materials or have not
approved or signed off my work on-time at any stage.
I will not test these templates in old or abandoned browsers, for example Microsoft Internet
Explorer 5, 5.5, 6, or 7 for Windows or Mac, previous versions of Apple's Safari, Mozilla Firefox or
Opera unless otherwise specified. If you need to show the same or similar visual design to
visitors using these older browsers, we will have to re-negotiate an increased rate, as developing
for these older browsers is costly and time-consuming.
Content input
I am not responsible for writing or inputting any content. That includes but is not limited to:
products, page content, categories, attributes, and product tags. I'll be happy to help, though,
and in addition to the estimate I will charge you per hour, including a free initial consultation, for
content input. This particular contract comes with a decent amount of free content input, but I
expect most of the copy to be provided by you, as you know the nature of your business and
message better than I do.
If you have already engaged the services of a graphic designer who has produced mock-ups of
the design of your website, I will work from these and endeavour to produce a website
resembling them as closely as possible. Note that it might not be possible to produce pixel-
perfect interpretations of them across all browsers and under all circumstances due to technical
limitations beyond my control. I will need your mock-ups in PSD format with their original layers
intact so that I can take whatever assets I need from them directly.
Changes and revisions can be submitted by you upon review of each milestone, and finally upon
review of the last milestone which will include a project-wide review. If further work is needed
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after completion of the last milestone, work can be acquired at a cost of £300 /day depending on
availability.
As each milestone is being worked on, changes and revisions should be communicated quickly
and directly so that fixes are happening on an ongoing basis. When development has completed
on a milestone, feedback from you cannot take more than 3 business days or the milestone is
considered to be satisfactorily complete.
If you wish to cancel this agreement, I will retain your down payment and you may be required
to make an additional payment to cover the work I’ve done on a given milestone. This ‘kill fee’
(not as dangerous as it sounds) will be based on the percentage of the milestone completed.
Legal stuff
I will take the utmost care and attention to ensure that my code is error-free and adequately
future-proofed, but due to the rapidly-evolving nature of web standards, browsers and
programming languages it is not possible to guarantee that code will function as intended
indefinitely and so I can't be liable to you or any third party for damages, including lost profits,
lost savings or other incidental, consequential or special damages arising out of the operation of
or inability to operate this web site and any other web pages, even if you have advised me of the
possibilities of such damages.
Severability. Whenever possible, each provision of this Agreement shall be interpreted in such a
manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement
is held invalid or unenforceable, the remainder of this Agreement shall nevertheless remain in
full force and effect and the invalid or unenforceable provision shall be replaced by a valid or
enforceable provision.
Third party materials. All third party materials are the exclusive property of their respective
owners. I shall inform you of all third party materials that may be required to perform the
services or otherwise integrated into the final project. Under such circumstances, I shall inform
you of any need to license.
No Exclusivity. The Parties expressly acknowledge that this Agreement does not create an
exclusive relationship between the Parties. The Client is free to engage others to perform
services of the same or similar nature to those provided by the Designer, and the Designer shall
be entitled to offer and provide design services to others, solicit other clients and otherwise
advertise the services offered by the Designer.
Governing Law. The formation, construction, performance and enforcement of this Agreement
shall be in accordance with the laws of the United Kingdom without regard to its conflict of law
provisions or the conflict of law provisions of any other jurisdiction.
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Copyrights
You guarantee to me that any elements of text, graphics, photos, designs, trademarks, or other
artwork that you provide us for inclusion in the web site are either owned by your good self, or
that you have permission to use them.
1. You own the graphics and other visual elements that I create for you for this project. I will
give you a copy of all files and you should store them really safely as I am not required to
keep them or provide any native source files that I used in making them.
2. You also own text content, photographs and other data you provided, unless someone
else owns them.
I love to show off my work and share what I have learned with other people, so I also reserve the
right to display and link to your completed project as part of my portfolio and to write about the
project on web sites, in magazine articles or in books about web design. Of course I will notify
you if I do any of these things, and any additional publicity your site gains as a result is of course
free of charge.
Example Milestones
Milestone 1
Milestone 2
• Feedback on milestone
• Browser testing of milestone
• Amendments
Milestone 3
Payments
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I am sure you understand how important it is as a small business that you pay the invoices that I
send you promptly. As I'm also sure you'll want to stay friends, you agree to stick tight to the
following payment schedule, which will be as follows, but may be revised based on further
conversations between us.
The total cost of the work is: £5,200 Sterling per month
I will invoice for an initial down payment of £x once this agreement has been signed. I will start
work after receiving this payment.
Just like a parking ticket, you cannot transfer this contract to anyone else without my permission.
This contract stays in place and need not be renewed.
Each party should sign below and keep their copy for their own records.
Signed …………………………………………………………………………..
Signed …………………………………………………………………………..
DATED …………………………………………………………………………..
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