Web Design Processes

Our web design processes are designed to give you complete control and transparency throughout the design and development stages.

We have tried and tested the methods below, there is a dedicated professional for each area in the process: account management, web design, web development and search engine optimisation.

1. The business and design brief

We ask you questions and make suggestions about:

• your target audience
• colours and styles you like
• your business and what is appropriate
• what you would like on the home page
• marketing and email
• branding and your company image

2. The wireframe

Once the design brief has been created, the designer gets to work on a wireframe to show you the planned layout of your site and the colour palette. You can make as many revisions to this as you like.

3. The home page web design

The next step is to create a design of your home page. The aim is to make a real impact on you when you first see the home page design, as this is the first thing your new visitors will probably see when they land on your site. The design will just be a flat image but it will show you exactly what your page will look like. You can make as many revisions to this as you like to the home page design.

4. Design for all site pages and the content

We will now create a design view of every site page and ask you for the content for each page as it is built. Once this stage has been completed we can hand everything to the developer to actually build your website and make it work!

5. Building your website

The developer now knows exactly what each page should look like and can build the HTML, PHP and CSS to transform it from series of page designs into working web pages. All through this process the code is created to the following guidelines, saving you time and expense at a later date:

• W3C compliant for HTML
• W3C compliant for CSS
• Cross browser and back browser tested to work on IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari
• Accessible
• Usability considered and built into the site
• Minimised code and CSS to improve efficiency and SEO
• Relevant meta, title, image and header tags used to improve SEO and create a better site
• SEO considered at all times during the build

6. Hosting and email

When the site has been created, we will then set-up the hosting and create email addresses. Our hosting is secure, reliable and UK based.

7. The site goes live

The site is put live when you give the go-ahead. At this point you will be given the statistics access so you can see how well your site is performing.