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This website development agreement is between Name Individual / Business , an individual State Owner Biz Type (the "Owner") and  Name Individual / Business , an individual State Developer Business Type (the "Developer").

RECITALS
The Owner is in the business of Description .

The Developer is engaged in the business of developing and designing websites and the Owner wishes to engage the Developer as an independent contractor for the Owner for the purpose of designing and developing the Owner's website (the "Website").

The Developer wishes to develop the Website and agrees to do so under the terms and conditions of this agreement.

The parties therefore agree as follows:

1. ENGAGEMENT; SERVICES.

2. TERM AND TERMINATION.
When it's finished / Whichever comes first Yes / No

3. COMPENSATION.

4. NATURE OF RELATIONSHIP; INVENTIONS

5. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION.

6. MAINTENANCE.
The Developer may access Website pages for minor maintenance for a Period of time day period (the "Maintenance Period"). The Maintenance Period begins on the date the Website is published to the Owner's hosting service or Days days from the Effective Date, whichever comes first. This assumes an average of one half hour per regular web page, including updating links and making minor changes to a sentence or paragraph. The Developer shall provide this maintenance to the Owner at the Developer's standard professional rate of compensation, as listed in Exhibit A. Maintenance does not include replacing nearly all text from a page with new text, major page reconstruction, new pages, guest books, discussion webs, navigation structure changes, attempted updates by Owner repairs or web design projects delivered to the Owner via FTP, CD, or diskette. Very minor page code changes are included under this section, but major page code or database structural changes will be charged at the Developer's applicable hourly rates.

7. WEBSITE WARRANTY.

8. TIMING AND DELAYS.

The Developer shall inform the Owner immediately of any anticipated delays in the delivery schedule and of any remedial actions being taken to ensure completion of the Website according to schedule. If a delivery date is missed, the Owner may, in its sole discretion, declare that delay a material breach of the agreement under subsection 2(b)(ii) and pursue all of its legal and equitable remedies. The Owner may not declare a breach and the Developer cannot be held in breach of this section if the delay is caused by an action or failure of action of the Owner. In that case, the Developer shall provide the Owner with written notice of the delay and will not continue to work on the Website until the reason for the delay has been resolved by the Owner and the Owner has provided written notice of the resolution to the Developer.

9. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY.

Yes / No
10. AUTHORSHIP CREDIT.

The Developer may include a byline and link on the bottom of the Website establishing authorship credit. This byline is on agreement by both the Owner and the Developer and must be removed at any time on written request by Developer / Company / Either

11. OTHER ACTIVITIES.

During the Term, the Developer may engage in other independent contracting activities, except that the Developer may not accept work, enter into contracts, or accept obligations inconsistent or incompatible with the Developer's obligations or the scope of Services to be rendered for the Owner under this agreement.

12. RETURN OF PROPERTY.

Within Days days of the expiration or earlier termination of this agreement, the Developer shall return to the Owner, retaining no copies or notes, all Owner products, samples, models, property, and documents relating to the Owner's business including reports, abstracts, lists, correspondence, information, computer files, computer disks, and other materials and copies of those materials obtained by the Developer during and in connection with its work with the Owner. All files, records, documents, blueprints, specifications, information, letters, notes, media lists, original artwork or creative work, notebooks, and similar items relating to the Owner's business,whether prepared by the Developer or by others, remain the Owner's exclusive property.

13. INDEMNIFICATION.

14. FORCE MAJEURE.

A party will not be considered in breach or in default because of, and will not be liable to the other party for, any delay or failure to perform its obligations under this agreement by reason of fire, earthquake, flood, explosion, strike, riot, war, terrorism, or similar event beyond that party's reasonable control (each a "Force Majeure Event"). However, if a Force Majeure Event occurs, the affected party shall, as soon as practicable:

15. GOVERNING LAW.

16. AMENDMENTS.

No amendment to this agreement will be effective unless it is in writing and signed by a party.

17. ASSIGNMENT AND DELEGATION.

18. COUNTERPARTS; ELECTRONIC SIGNATURES.

19. SEVERABILITY.

If any one or more of the provisions contained in this agreement is, for any reason, held to be invalid, illegal, or unenforceable in any respect, that invalidity, illegality, or unenforceability will not affect any other provisions of this agreement, but this agreement will be construed as if those invalid, illegal, or unenforceable provisions had never been contained in it, unless the deletion of those provisions would result in such a material change so as to cause completion of the transactions contemplated by this agreement to be unreasonable.

20. NOTICES.

Contact name/title Owner Name
Street address
City , State , ZIP Code
Email
Contact name/title Developer Name
Street address
City , State , ZIP Code
Email

21. WAIVER.

No waiver of a breach, failure of any condition, or any right or remedy contained in or granted by the provisions of this agreement will be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the party waiving the breach, failure, right, or remedy. No waiver of any breach, failure, right, or remedy will be deemed a waiver of any other breach, failure, right, or remedy, whether or not similar, and no waiver will constitute a continuing waiver, unless the writing so specifies.

22. ENTIRE AGREEMENT.

This agreement constitutes the final agreement of the parties. It is the complete and exclusive expression of the parties' agreement about the subject matter of this agreement. All prior and contemporaneous communications, negotiations, and agreements between the parties relating to the subject matter of this agreement are expressly merged into and superseded by this agreement. The provisions of this agreement may not be explained, supplemented,or qualified by evidence of trade usage or a prior course of dealings. Neither party was induced to enter this agreement by, and neither party is relying on, any statement, representation, warranty, or agreement of the other party except those set forth expressly in this agreement. Except as set forth expressly in this agreement, there are no conditions precedent to this agreement's effectiveness.

23. HEADINGS.

The descriptive headings of the sections and subsections of this agreement are for convenience only, and do not affect this agreement's construction or interpretation.

24. EFFECTIVENESS.

This agreement will become effective when all parties have signed it. The date this agreement is signed by the last party to sign it (as indicated by the date associated with that party's signature) will be deemed the date of this agreement.

25. NECESSARY ACTS; FURTHER ASSURANCES.

Each party shall use all reasonable efforts to take, or cause to be taken, all actions necessary or desirable to consummate and make effective the transactions this agreement contemplates or to evidence or carry out the intent and purposes of this agreement.

SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS

Each party is signing this agreement on the date stated opposite that party's signature.  

Developer Name


Date: _________________


By:__________________________________________
Name: Yes / No Developer Name Name Name
Title: Title
Owner Name


Date: _________________


By:__________________________________________
Name: Yes / No Owner Name
Title: Title





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EXHIBIT A
SPECIFICATION SHEET

1. Required Elements. The website design will include the following sections and subsections:

2. Owner Requirements. The Owner shall provide the following items to the Developer:

3. Fees. The Owner shall pay a total amount of $$ Amount for the services, which includes:

If additional services are required, the Owner shall pay the Developer its rate of $$ Amount per hour for those services.

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EXHIBIT B
LIST OF PRIOR INVENTIONS AND ORIGINAL WORKS OF AUTHORSHIP

1. Except as listed in section 2 below, the following is a complete list of all prior inventions that were made, conceived, or first reduced to practice by the Developer, alone or jointly with others, before his or her employment by the Owner:

Title Date Identifying Number or Brief Description
I have no inventions or improvements to list

_____________
(Initials)
I have attached _____ additional sheets to this Exhibit B.

_____________
(Initials)

2. Because of an existing confidentiality agreement and the duties of confidentiality that the Developer owes to the parties listed below, the Developer cannot complete the disclosure in section 1 above with respect to the inventions or improvements listed generally below:

Invention or Improvement Party Names Relationship
I have attached _____ additional sheets to this Exhibit B.

_____________
(Initials)







Date: __________________________________

By: ____________________________________

Name: Developer Name Alt Developer Name Developer Is Biz Name