Web Site Design - The Process Described
Here's what to expect as we begin to work together on your new website project;

• Getting to Know Each Other
  • Initial contact & discussions
    • Understand your goals & objectives
    • Determine your target audience
    • Conduct preliminary research & development
    • Understand basic content for the site
    • Understand the technical criteria
  • Select Website Design & Hosting Package
  • Complete the Development & Design Agreement & Planning Guide
  • Establish a "completion date" timeline
    
    
• Content Development
  
  • Determine navigation strategy
  • Develop the website (view: How To Plan Your Website)
  • Develop user interface/look & feel
  • Develop schematic working model
  • Create final design
  • Fine-tune to assure overall cohesiveness
    
    
• Production
  • Make refinements to content and design
  • Create and place meta-tags and titles
  • Complete HTML, JavaScript
  • Perform a final, one-on-one, quality assurance session
  • Upload to production server
  • Conduct acceptance testing
    
    
• Getting to Know the World
  • Launch site
  • Promote your site
  • WebSite Maintenance (as required)

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Web Site Design - How To Plan Your WebSite
The Content of your site is prepared by You. You know your product or service better than anyone. You can use your written media, press releases, brochures, and interviews to create your website. Or you can start from scratch to have a whole new look!

If you have any questions please feel free to email us. We will be more than happy to help.

Not sure about what content you need and how to organize it? Well, imagine planning a six page brochure or presentation for your business. Your content would be divided into six categories or pages. It would start with a concise overview of your product or service, with the end goal of enticing your reader to peruse the entire brochure or presentation. On a web site, this would be your entry or home page (index.html).

Now here are some other general pages or categories you might consider as links from your main page:

About the Company	Describe the history of your company with it's growth and development. You may want bios on key company personnel, possibly with links to a page for each of them
About Us	Include company goals, philosophy or mission statement. You might include bios on key personnel with their education, accomplishments, or portfolio
Products	Show graphics and photos of your products with short descriptions
Services	Describe the service you offer. Different categories of your services can each have their own page with a full description
Catalogue	Provide a catalogue of the products you wish to sell. If you are a musician, it may be your CD's...if a realtor, your listings
What's New	Display new products or information . You need to keep this page current, so customers will continue to come back to see what's new
References	List companies or individuals using your products or services...possibly a page with quotes from customers praising your product or service
Contact Us	List your address, phone, email, etc. You might want to include a form on your page for customers to fill in, allowing them to request more information or express opinions
Links	Link to other sites containing similar information. You want to be careful with this. If a client clicks on a link outside your site, he may not get back, or worse, find your competitor
Ordering	Explain how to order or obtain your services, with possibly a mail order form or e-commerce form
Site Map	List all your web site pages, on a Site map page. Many viewers go to the sitemap page first to streamline their browsing experience
Colors	Find just the right colours for your website using eDesigns Color Code Chart
Other	Display other links or categories pertinent to your business

Create a name, or title for each of your web pages. Keep the name short, since this name becomes your link button name. Long names create very large buttons. Organize and number your content pages in the order you want your link buttons to appear.

Please check for accuracy. It will cost you more if content is rewritten once the site is up. Content is to be submitted in electronic form on disk. We prefer MS Word but will except Word Perfect, .rtf or .txt file, or email as an attachment in either MS Word, Word Perfect, .rtf or .txt file. There is an extra charge for us to type up content from printed copy.