If you Don't Know What you Want - You will never get there!
After much thought and consideration, you finally took the plunge and decided it was time to have your own website. That’s a great accomplishment in itself. However, now it’s time to actually plan your website. This can be a very tricky process, but don’t worry; we’ve made it easy with this Website Planner Workbook.
We will take you step by step by taking your planning to new levels from the beginning to the end. We wrote this planner for you, our clients, because successful websites are built on strategy and planning. Whether you're building a website for your business or your organization, you need to start with a plan.
An effective plan starts with quality information, and to get quality information you need the right questions. Use this planner to help nail down your website goals and collect the materials necessary for web development. The more time and effort your organization devotes to this information gathering process, the more likely you are to build an effective, customer-driven, and well-staffed web presence.
We start the process by having you fill out this 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 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.
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.
Based on your feedback from the mockup site(s) and your planner, a design is established and used for your website.
If you requested any special scripting (contact forms, feedback forms, databases, reservation systems, etc.) then we will integrate the scripting into your website.
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.
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.
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 search engines and do any other website promotion services that you requested.
