Information gathering

We take time at the beginning of the project to understand you and your business, we need to do this to get things right for you.

Examples include:-

• What your business does.
• Why you want a website.
• Your ideal customer.
• Who you see as your competition.
• Any ideas or examples of web design that you feel might suit your business.

We will, of course, use our experience to help suggest additional things that you may want to consider.

Planning

Using the information gained from our discussions we plan the pages and navigation for the site.

You provide the initial wording and information along with images and logos that you would like us to incorporate into the design

We create a site map that will give you an easy to navigate and coherent web site. Typically sites will have the following pages:-

• Home
• Services
• Contact
• About us
• Our work

Design

We design an outline look and feel for your site, incorporating logos and other major design elements.

If you need images for your business, we can organise this with our professional photographer, or source them from our preferred stock image provider.

Mockups of this outline design are provided for your review.

If you feel we have it right, we move on to develop the site itself.

Development

Starting with the homepage, site page shell and main navigation, your site will be designed to meet web standards ensuring that most people can see your site without errors.

There is no point in having a site if you can't be found! Your web page information is optimised to help search engines, such as Google, reference them. Both visible and non visible information is considered.

Your content is incorporated into the appropriate pages along with any contact forms and specialised web page items e.g. image galleries.

Once the site is completed, we test all the elements of the site, including contact forms. If you wish to perform your own tests, your site will be loaded to a test area of the web.

Make your site available on the web

At this stage we usually register your site name (domain name) (www.yourcompany.co.uk) and organise the space for your website and e-mail (office@yourcompany.co.uk.) The domain name belongs to you.

We load all the elements of the website to the web space and perform final testing.

Your site is now 'live' and can be seen by the public.

Promotion

We know the importance of getting your website noticed and will publicise your site on the major search engines and suggest things you can do to get the right people visiting.

To give your business a bigger boost, we will show you how to add your details to the local Google's business directory (Google Places).

Updates

Not just site updates but performance updates too!

It is good to keep your site fresh, that is why our packages include site updates, just provide us with your latest content and we will update your pages.

We think you will want to know about your sites performance and will provide you a monthly summary and access to detailed analysis via Google analytics.