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Process

We will take you through the process of creating your Web site from start to finish. Here's our typical process-flow:

  1. Development of Project Scope, Estimate, Contract, Project Start: We discuss your needs and develop an estimate and scope of work that fits with your needs and budget. Once we've agreed, the project officially begins!
  2. Market Research: Knowing what your visitors are looking for will help us design the site around them. When your visitors are getting what they want from your site, they'll be back.
  3. Setup & Housekeeping: Depending on your needs, we can perform a number of setup tasks for you including setting up hosting, registering domain names, aquiring merchant accounts and/or SSL certificates (required for selling online or protecting sensitive information). We also set up a client area in a protected area of our site where all of the documents and designs related to your project, as well as your site-in-progress are kept for reference.
  4. Sitemap and Wireframe Development: Before we jump into what your site will look like, we have to determine what it will say. Separating the information from the design is an important step. Developing a sitemap or site outline will help us organize the content of your site. Once we've done that, a wireframe is developed. The wireframe is a clickable walkthrough of your site with no graphic design. It has placeholders for text so we can see where content will go and what the purpose of each page is. This helps us finalize the site structure before we spend too much time on graphical elements saving time and costly design changes later.
  5. Design: Once we've nailed down the information you want to share with your visitors, we work with you to come up with a Web site design that displays your information in a way that is both easy to use and attractive. We use the sitemap we've developed in the previous step to make sure we don't miss anything and that the main points are easy to find for the customers we've identified through the market research step.
  6. Production: Once the design is approved, work can begin on putting it all together. Your sitemap, content, and design are all blended together into what will become the final Web site. If you require the ability to update content yourself, we build in that functionality here. If not, the final content is slotted into the site.
  7. Testing & Launch: The site is built, content is there. Now we just make sure that everything looks the way it should — that everything is perfect before your customers see it. Once it's perfect, we reveal your new site to the world.
  8. Maintenance: A good site is kept up to date. In most cases, good housekeeping is essential to repeat traffic. We can maintain your site for you or you can do it yourself. The choice is yours.