The Web Design Process - From Start to Finish

Evaluation & Education

• We start the process by gathering information about your company, services, target market, purpose, site goals and so o­n.
• We evaluate the information gathered.
• We present you with a proposal and a range of options to accomplish your goals.  We take the time to educate you o­n the benefits, options and alternatives available to you.  Sometimes a business or organizations goals are beyond their current budget, but we can help you to get started reaching for your goals as well as create a plan for a staged approach. 

Coming to Agreement

Once we have your information and you have and understand the information presented to you, we draft an Agreement.  o­nce we have a signed Agreement we set forward designing your site.  Miscommunication and false expectations can be devestating to a project and we so we encourage you to contact us at any point through the process if you have any concerns.

4) Collecting Your Materials
Text, print, copy, brochures, products, pictures, product weight & cost... we need it ALL to get your site going. The more you provide us with the better.

5) Mockup Sites and Sample Layouts
The fun part - Keli E puts together some mock Web sites for your company to critique and discuss. 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 welcomed at any time.

6) Site Architecture
Navigation is o­ne of the most important parts of your site. Site architecture is established at this point to insure your visitors don't get lost o­n your site. We use text links, graphic menus and buttons with rollovers to accomplish this.

7) Working with Materials
Resizing photos, photo optimization, color sampling (for people 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) a design is established and used for your Web site.

9) Establishing Layout Of Site
Based o­n your feedback from the mockup site(s) a layout is established and is applied to your Web site.

10) Home Page First
Starting with your home page, the main page, we start building your Web site. After this part is completed and approved we move o­n. If you have requested your site be optimized for the search engines, it will be started at this time.

11) Sub Pages Second
The sub-pages (based upon layout and design from 7, 8 & 9) are now worked o­n until completion. Forms, Flash, CGI, Java are now added to your site at this time.

12) Web Site Completion and Debugging
Keli E has over 700 professional Web designers from around the world look at your site. All these designers have different browsers, computers and connections - the o­nly way to test your site for optimal performance is to have a wide sample of testers with various set ups.

13) Site goes "Live"
Your site is published for the world to see! You can now start advertising your site, telling friends, business acquaintances and publish print material.

14) Search Engine Submission (if this was ordered)
Keli E shows you how to submit your site to search engines, a VERY easy process, or we do it for you - your call. Please view our search engine area here to start learning.