The Design Process
To many people, web application development is often limited to what is
called the "look and feel" of the pages that make up a complete
web site. Things like colors, backgrounds, navigation buttons,
etc. While the look of your site, reflecting a competent professional
appearance is definitely important, we take the concept to a higher
level. From initial concept through final delivery, we constantly
evaluate and consider the marketing goals of the site providing you with a
working sales tool.
Designing a web application is simply a process. You cannot just start
laying out pages and expect to end up with a useable application. Your
site design must first be very carefully planned in order to provide you
with a new and exciting marketing tool that actually works.
Step 1 - Gathering Requirements
Start out by asking yourself a few questions:
- What is the purpose of the web site?
- What is it supposed to do?
- What are the goals to be achieved?
- What materials do I already have that can be presented on the
web? Things such as your company logo, product photo's and
descriptions.
The more information you can gather in the beginning, the better.
In order for us to develop a quality web application for you, we must
understand your company, your image and your style of conducting business.
We can work with many types of information. Of course, the
preferred method is to have all logo's, text and photo's provide to us in
an original digital format. With the popularity of business software
applications such as Microsoft Office as well as the use of digital
cameras this can be easily accomplished. Providing information in
this manner will save us time and therefore reduce the developments costs
we will be charging.
We can also work from existing print media such as brochures and
catalogs, or we can start from scratch by scheduling product photo
sessions, logo design and writing the copy necessary for your site.
Step 2 - Organizing Information
- Alphabetical
- Chronological
- Geographical
- Topical
- No So Obvious Methods
All of the information that you decide to present on the web must be in
a clear and concise format. Have you ever visited a web site where
you are sure the information you are searching for is there, but you
cannot find it? This happens quite often. We always put forth
an extreme effort to organize your site in such a way that it easy for the
web surfer to find what they are looking for or for you to present your
primary goals where they will be seen immediately.
We normally ask that you prepare your ideas for the site in an outline
format that shows this hierarchy.
Step 3 - Putting It All Together
Now that you have gathered and organized the information you would like
to present, we will schedule an interview with you to review all of your
requirements. Upon completion of this interview, we will provide you
with a detailed proposal including a firm quotation that includes all
costs associated in making your web site a reality. The quotation is
normally done on a flat rate basis, although we do have other payment
plans available such as lease to own. We don't believe in charging
hourly rates in which your final cost becomes a huge surprise!
Should you decide to accept our proposal, we will have you up and
running according to the time frame schedule that we committed to in the
quote.
Good luck in your endeavor, we look forward to hearing from you soon.
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