We’re reading through our competitors web sites, and none of them mention ever meeting the client, sharing a cup of coffee, maybe a doughnut. Seems kinda cold. We generally like to start the whole process off with a little meet and a little greet.
The first in office meeting is generally the best time for you to get to know us, and be sure that you’re about to partner with a firm that matches your intensity and passion for your business.
In this phase, we spend some time asking some questions about your business, how you want to approach your web project, how you want to communicate with your clients, and dare we say, implement your brand. There is a lot to learn about you, your business, and your message.
Generally this takes place as a face to face meeting or a conference call where we communicate our intentions, discover what we can, and recap the project. This phase is very important to us because it’s our best chance to get a clear picture of your project.
This is the pre-curser to the proposal. Bare with us, the proposal can take a few days to prepare, but we want to make sure we have everything in order and clearly identified before you decide to go with our team.
The proposal is an outline of expected functions and features, an outline of the time allotted for the project, and a presentation of our firm. It’s pretty; we think you’ll have fun looking through it.
Although many of the features are outlined in your proposal, it's best to put together a set of blueprints for your website.
Based on our discovery questions, a review of the proposal and further meetings with you and your team, we’ll put together a site architecture outline and seek your advice and direction before we put the fingers to the mouse clicks.
More meetings you ask? Well…yes. Before we start the designs, we make sure to partner your team with one of our artists to discuss and prepare for the design concepts. This is a fairly simple meeting and can take anywhere from a half hour to an hour. Prefer the phone? No problem.
In this phase, we begin to design the initial web comps of your site. Nothing too serious, just some ideas of a direction, some pretty pictures, and a PDF to you for review before we get too deep.
Once we find a direction that fits your brand, then we start to put together more pages, examples of buttons, rollovers, sub pages and so forth. The design phase can take a fair amount of the budget, all relative to the number of features that need designing.
Now we have a design, we’re ready to rock and roll. Development begins, and your site comes to life. If you have software and database applications involved with your project, this also begins at this time. Generally this is the “longest” phase, mostly due to the nature of debugging, coding, testing, coding some more, etc.
Before we reach the end of your project, we begin the debugging and testing process. This will be a team event, with your team and our team working through the system and testing the site during and after development. Be patient, the nature of custom development can be taxing.
We’ll test for multiple browser compatibility, server compatibility, function testing and more. We don’t want to bore you with the details, but testing and debugging is a complicated situation, but obviously vital to launch preparation for your site.
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