Here’s an overview of what we need to begin your web design project.
What You’ll Need To Gather So We Can Begin
Your Logo
PDF, EPS or high resolution PNG if possible. If you do not have a logo, ask us for an estimate to create one for you.
Hosting Credentials
Your hosting account login and / or Cpanel username and password.
WordPress Login
An administrator login to your current WordPress site (if you already have one).
Images & Pictures
Current and / or new images and pictures you’d like to use on the new site. You will upload these to the shared dropbox folder created for your project.
Content
Page content and any updated verbiage / information for the site. Your web designer will tell you how to provide this information.
Style Guide
Brand style guide, colors or any specific design requirements.
Please do NOT start sending us emails with these items attached. It makes for an organizational nightmare and will SLOW down your project.
We will direct you to the proper channel to provide the information and resources below, at the proper time stage of your project.
If you’re an Eager Beaver (we love those!) you are welcome to begin gathering these items on your own end and saving them to a folder on your computer for ease of access when they are requested.
How We’ll Collaborate On Your Project
What It Is: Dropbox is a cloud-based file sharing platform.We will use Dropbox to share documents and images for your website.
What You Need To Do: If you don’t already have a Dropbox account, get your FREE account now.
Slickplans
What It Is: Slickplans allows us to plan your website sitemap, review and approve it before we starting building your site. This is the first critical step in building a well organized, user-friendly, SEO optimized site. (So yeah, it’s pretty important). Once your sitemap has been created, we will email you a link to review.
What You Need To Do: Wait to receive an email with a link to your sitemap. Once received, we’ll hop on the phone and review and adjust as needed.
Enhanced Site Performance
REQUIRED TO OPTIMIZE SEO PERFORMANCE
What It Is: Yoast SEO Premium provides enhanced performance, broken link checking, social medial sharing customization & xml site maps.
What You Need To Do: Purchase this premium here and then email us your login credentials so that we can download, install & configure.
Cost: $99/year
OPTIONAL, BUT HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
What It Is: Calendly is a booking platform that allows your website visitors to schedule calls with you 24/7. Bookings are synced to the calendar of your choice.
What You Need To Do: Purchase the PROFESSIONAL PLAN by clicking here which will allow you all the needed features to get the most out of this software.
What It Costs: $12/seat/month (you will likely only need one seat).
The Design Process
Phase 1
Getting All Your Stuff
A large and time consuming part of creating a website is planning and capturing all the content and resources needed. I’ll create the sitemap of your website for approval first. From there you will supply me with all the images and content for each of the pages designated on the sitemap. Don’t want to write content? Ask about our content writing services.
Phase 2
Making It Pretty (Awesome)
Once I have your home page content and images, I will design the home page, contact us page and a sub page for your approval. This will give you the overall look and feel of the site. At this point we can make changes in color, style, fonts, etc.
Phase 3
The Techie Stuff
Once the site layout and design are approved, We’ll move forward with designing the entire site, based on your approved sitemap. This includes adding all functionality, plug-ins, forms and pages. We will make sure your site looks great and functions nicely across all devices before moving to the next step.
Phase 4
Getting It Just Right
Once the site is ready for final review, you’ll be able to review each page and request any edits needed at that time. You will have to review every single page of your website at that time to make sure all spelling, grammar, addresses and information are correct before going live.
Phase 5
The Final Wrap Up
Once the site is ready to go live, all development plug-ins, pages, images and back-end files will be removed. A back-up of your site will be created. Your website logins and all credentials will be sent to you. Please save all logins for your records. Upon completion, if you haven’t already signed-up, you’ll get information on our Website Maintenance plan, which we highly recommend to all clients.
Have A Question About ANY Of This?
Call (713) 292-6537
