The Discovery Process
The Discovery Process helps us understand your needs and goals—so we don’t build more than you need, or less! This is also a chance to see some initial design work from our team, assuring you we have the talent to take your site to the next level.
- Discovery Meetings
- Solution Proposal Presentation
- Pre-Comp Design Review
- Web Hosting / Domain Transfer Review
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The Content and Design Stage
During Content and Design, we’ll first review the overall plan for your new site, to be sure nothing changed since we first spoke. Once we have confirmation of the direction, we’ll work with you to define all of the text and image content that will be used in the new site, while our design team works to refine the initial concepts you saw during Discovery. At the end, you’ll have an approved design and approved content… the core elements needed to build the static site.
- Review of Site Plan
- Creation, collection and approval of text content
- Collection and approval of images
- Revision and approval of beta comp design(s)
- Initiation of back-end application development (If applicable)
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The Development Phase
Development is exactly what it sounds like. Here, we’re doing the dirty work of building out each page of the static (non-programming) site, based on your approved content and design. In the meantime, our programming team will be hard at work continuing to build any custom web applications that you selected. In short, this phase includes the following
- Build-out of all static pages based on approved design and content
- Animation development (If applicable)
- Back-end application development continues (If applicable)
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The Beta Integration
Once we’ve finished building the part of the site that your visitors will see, we still have to integrate all of the “back-end” elements that give your site functionality, including any animation or custom web applications that you may have requested. Adequate integration time assures you a consistent, professional web presence.
- Completion of application development programming
- Integration of programming into front-end design (If applicable)
- Integration of animation into front-end design (If applicable)
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The Quality Review
Upon completion of the “front-end” (design) and “back-end” (programming) integration, we’ll need to review the site to ensure everything works as intended. We walk through everything a visitor would see and use, and test across all of the current browsers (Internet Explorer 7 and 8, FireFox and Safari) to ensure consistency.
Once we’ve given your site a run-through, we ask you to do the same. This is the point at which you will see a completed, fully functional site for the first time. We expect you will find some things that need to be changed, so you’ll want to give yourself time to inspect everything thoroughly.
- Initial internal quality review and revisions
- Client quality review and revisions
- Approval of stock photography (If applicable)
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Project Launch and Support
The best part of your website project is the part where you like everything and you’re ready to go live! Of course, it’s not always that simple, and there may be quite a bit involved on our end to make that happen. Nonetheless, we can usually get your new site up and live within a matter of days, and our support team will notify you once everything is ready, and will provide answers to any questions you may have.
Once live, our relationship has just started. We fully expect you’ll have changes or questions related to your site as time goes on, and our full-time support staff is here to help.
- Urchin site traffic reporting initiated
- Client training (if applicable)
- Client site launch notification
- Ongoing site maintenance and support
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