Many of our clients have never hired a Web Design Agency before or if they have their experience has been less than stellar. We have prepared a Web Design process workflow to illustrate the steps involved in planning and building your Web site. This is only part of the process we use to evaluate your site and prepare a proposal.

1) Planning & Strategy

We start the process by meeting with you or your team over the phone and going over your existing site or other websites you consider similar to the one you would like us to build for you using an online meeting software like GoToMeeting.

After the initial meeting we will ask you to fill out a Website Planner Workbook. This book gathers information about your company, services, audience, purpose, site goals and more. This planner will also give you a full outlook of how you see your website, and how we find out your objectives and goals for your project. We will give you as much time as you need to review the planner and answer all of the questions asked. We use this information to help us deliver an accurate quote. This will also help us in the future if you decide to accept our proposal.

We will gladly answer any question you may have at this stage.

2) Website Design Proposal

After you have finished with the Website Planner Workbook, we will gather the information and draw up a proposal for your approval.

We will submit our proposal to you and if possible we will give your company a full presentation in person or over the phone.

3) Agreements / Deposits

If our proposal for your website development is accepted, we will forward to you our standard contract and we will require half the full estimate amount as a deposit. The contract will state the project amount, terms and agreement, and other miscellaneous items.

4) Domain Name Registration & Hosting

If you have chosen a domain name to register for your website, we will register it for you and we will create an hosting account on our server or on a server of your choice. If you already have a domain name we will point it to the right server and if you already have an hosting account we will evaluate its compatibility and advise you on wether it is necessary to upgrade it, keep it for the duration of the development curve or switch it to our server.

In many cases we will suggest you purchase related TLD (Top Level Domains) of your main domain name, such as .NET or .BIZ as well as most common misspellings.

5) Collecting Your Materials

Now is the time to start collecting materials for your website. Anything that you can provide to help us design your website will help. This includes, but is not limited to; brochures, business cards, and photos of your business. If you're selling products, we will probably need photos, product weight, and cost. The more information and materials you'll provide us, the quicker your project will be completed and the better the overall results. All the materials should be of the highest possible quality and in the original file formats. Logos and other line art should be in .ai, .eps or similar vctor formats.

6) Mockup Sites and Sample Layouts

We will put together some mock websites and designs for your company to critique and discuss. If you have requested a logo design, this usually comes before anything else. At this point we're trying to narrow down exactly what you're looking for in terms of design and layout. Your feedback is essential in the web design process and is welcome at any time.

7) Working with Materials

Resizing photos, photo optimization, color sampling (for those who want to match a corporate color to their site design), product weight & pictures, and similar tasks are all done during this phase of the web design process.

8) Establishing Project Design / Look & Feel

Based on your feedback from the mockup site(s) and your planner, a design is established and used for your website.

9) Content

Starting with your home page, we will start building your website and adding the necessary components. After this is completed and approved we will move on and start placing content into your website. Because our sites are fully dynamic, we will insert the main content and create “containers” for future or extra content as needed. We build website to enable you and your team to manage your content with a minimum of effort and with great flexibility and we will create a content management workflow customized to your team's needs and expertise. Should you want to have our team enter all the content for you, an extra charge will apply. We have content entry experts that will perform the task at a lower price than we would charge.

10) Scripting & Databases

All our sites have a built in Content management Systems, contact forms and log in scripts. We also have access to a number of extra scripts that may be useful or necessary for your site.

11) Web Site Completion and Debugging

After you have reviewed the website, and everything is in correct order, we will start by reviewing the site ourselves. We will check website load time, browser testing, resolution testing and the overall optimal performance of your site. At this stage we will also "clone" your main website in a "Staging" area. This is a great resource for testing new scripts, conduct training for your team and to perform code updates without risking the integrity of your main site.

12) Site goes "Live"

Your site is published for the world to see! You can now start advertising your website, tell friends, business acquaintances and publish print material with your website address.

13) Site Optimization & Online Marketing

Your site is optimized so that we can correctly market your website. We will use the keywords and descriptions of your site that you have gave us in your planner. We will then start by submitting your website to selected search engines and directories and do any other website promotion services that you requested.