Phase Of Website Development
VISION AND AUDIENCE DEFINITION
During this first step in creating your website we must asses the demographics of who the website is catered towards. We will determine your target audience and customers. We will also assess what you want the end result to be once a person visits your site. For example if the website is for a real estate company we would potentially include an information form on the website with the opportunity for the potential client to input information so the real estate agent understands who the customer is, their needs, and who he/she can follow up with the visitor of the site.
CREATING THE WEBSITE
In this fourth step of creating your website, we will bring your ideas to life online. Before doing so, we will need to define together which pages are needed, and retrieve content from you that we might not have. Such necessary content includes sections like: about us, team, how it works etc. Throughout the process of creating this website we will contact you and demo which pages or sections of the website are finished for you to see.
UNDERSTANDING LOOK AND FEEL
Our next order of business is to produce the look and the feel of the website and your company. This includes the branding of your company: everything from your logo to making sure your business card matches the aesthetics of your website. We will also work to make sure that your website looks just as appealing on a mobile device, as it does on a desktop.
CREATING PROTOTYPE
In order to bring together the first two steps in having your website go live, we must create a prototype of your website and create mock up designs of what it will look like. While doing so, we can take into account the type of website you are creating as well as the look that you’re going for. For example, if this real estate website that was mentioned earlier was focused on selling high end houses, we would use the right imagery and branding to make sure the prototype caters to a wealthier demographic who would be interested in these houses.
CREATING ADMIN TOOL OR CMS
For the majority of the websites that we build, we provide a CMS (Content Management System). A CMS allows you, the client, to update/change the content of your website yourself without our assistance. For example, the main images, product details, team members, etc on the website have the potential to be modified by you at any time, from the CMS. This can be done simply and quickly by you with no coding or programing expertise needed.
Once the website has been created, we will do our own internal testing on the website to ensure that it is running smoothly. We will also provide a way for you to also test the website and give us feedback on it. Once the feedback has been received from both you and our internal team, we can make changes as needed in order to improve it. When all the changes have been made, and everyone has given their feedback, the website will be ready to be launched to the public!
