The Steps

Contact/Free Consultation

We talk about your goals, your plans for the website, your current promotional materials, brochures, signage, and business cards. We have a look at your best competition and what they do well in their online marketing. We discuss what is important to your clients or audience and what visitors we will aim to attract. We talk about key information the visitors would seek. We decide on a clear message that your website must send. We brainstorm for images to go with this message. We rethink the size, complexity, and features of your website. We come up with a work-in-progress sitemap and decide on website navigation and column layout.

  • Firm Quote

    You will be presented with a proposal and a web design fee. We can renegotiate the complexity, scope, price, and dates. You may request an alternative proposal.

  • Formalities

    We write up a contract. “The General Agreement” includes due dates and names of parties involved. “The Works” specifies in detail the work to be undertaken and completed. “Standard Terms and Conditions” includes definitions, disclaimers, responsibilities, legal consequences, and rights. Everyone involved signs the contract and we collect 40% of the total fee agreed upon.

  • Design Work

    After receiving all photos and content materials from you, collecting information over the telephone, or email, we start working on the website’s visual direction. You are presented with a partial working demo and decide whether the visual direction taken is what you had in mind or whether you would like to nudge things elsewhere. After the design direction is finalized and the core design work is done, we complete any remaining pages and fill them in with your content. When the pages are complete, we present you with a final working demo. As you check out your website, we test, troubleshoot, check usability, proofread, and verify all pages are linked and that all external links work.

  • Revision Period

    You are given two weeks to ask for any reasonable revisions with the option to launch immediately if all looks good.

  • The Launch

    All necessary services are set up. We let your domain propagate. We set up the website behind a pre-launch message that shows instead of your home page. We test and troubleshoot. When we get the green light from you to launch the website, you are charged the balance of your project, we take down the pre-launch message and launch the site. We submit the website to search engines and optionally launch your online marketing campaign. You may now spread the word out about your new website.

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WE ENJOY BUILDING SITES, & SHARING WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT ONLINE CREDIBILITY, USABILITY & FINDABILITY.

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