Redesign Your Site With a Purpose
Website design or recreation can be a confusing process. We’ve broken down the major steps we take with our clients here so you can better understand what’s coming up next.
STEP 1
Draft Your Goals
Usually done in our initial contact, we want to sit with you and figure out what you’re looking for. Do you love or hate parts of your current website? Do you need extra functionality? Do you need just a facelift or a complete redesign?
This is also the best time to educate yourself about what might be needed to accomplish your goals. Even if you’re brand new to the internet, we are happy to walk you through every step of the process.
3 Major Components
1st Component: Domain
This is the address to your website. Sometimes called a URL, this address is what computers will use to find your website. It’s important that you have control over an address you want to use before you build your website.
2nd Component: Hosting
Hosting refers to the space on a server you will need to actually hold your website. Think of this like land to your website as a building: it’s the place where the building will be.
3rd Component: Development
This is the house itself: what visitors will see when they go to your address. There are a number of ways to construct a website, and we are happy to walk you through various options based on what you’re looking for.
STEP 2
Our Proposal
Here we lay out our plan for your new website to meet the goals we laid out previously. We create a rough wireframe for the future website, our vision for how we can accomplish that for you, and what you can expect moving forward.
STEP 3
Design Mock
We will create mock ups of any important pages, and deliver them in a way where you can see our thought process as you go. Click of the icons over the image to see details about that section of the site.
STEP 4
Functioning Prototype
The next major step will be showing you a staging website that performs most of the functionality you’re looking for. This is where we need the most feedback – if pieces aren’t working properly, if you’re not happy with the flow, this is where we want to know.
STEP 5
Delivering the Finished Site
Once we work out all the bugs, and make sure you’re in love with the final product, we switch domains over and set the website live.
Depending on the hosting, maintenance and support packages you selected, we will offer as much help as you need to get you up and running.