How We Design Your Website

These are the kinds of questions and considerations we look at during the design phase.

Each tab gives a different set of issues we examine.

 

How will you operate the site?

Customer Requirements

How do you currently share information and services with your customers?
  • Why do you want a website?
  • What will your website visitors do?
  • Who will use your website? Where are they? How many people do you expect?
  • What information will you put on the website?
 

What is your budget?

  • Startup Budget: How much will you spend to build and launch the website?
  • Website Hosting: What is your budget? Small sites are cheap, but large sites with many visitors cost more.
  • Maintenance Budget: How much will you spend on maintenance? How often will you update the site?
  • Advertising: Will you pay to promote your website, like with Google Ads or Facebook ads?

Select a good website name and brand.

  • Trademarks: Do you have any trademarks to use on your website? Could another site with a similar name cause problems?
  • Website Name: Do you have a domain name? If yes, does it work well? If not, what should your website name tell search engines and users?
  • Logo: Do you have a logo? Do you want one? Do you know a graphics artist?
  • Competitors: What other websites matter for your success? Who are your competitors and what are their website addresses?
 

How will you attract customers?

  • Look and Feel: Have you seen features on other websites you want to use? If yes, where?
  • Users: Who will use your site and why? In one short sentence, how would you describe your products or services to a customer?
  • Example Websites: Which websites could serve as models for yours? List their web addresses.
  • Partner Websites: What sites will link to yours? Who will you refer customers to? What related services are there?
 

What are your special requirements?

Which features do you want?
  • Calendar
  • User Comments
  • Shopping Cart
  • Blogging Tool
  • Photo Gallery
  • Real Estate Tools
  • Appointment Scheduling
  • Social Media Integration (e.g., Facebook)
  • Joomla offers hundreds of add-on tools.

What information do customers need?

  • Information: What information do your website users need? How do you know?
  • Services: What will your website do for users? Will you need special programming, or can you use ready-made products?
  • Content Development: How will you create information for your website? How will you use information from your users?

How will you operate the site?

  • Site Promotion: Will you use pay-per-click advertising? Will you hire companies to list your site on search engines? How will you promote your website?
  • Timeline: When do you want your website to be ready?
  • Contact: Who will be your main website contact?

How will you maintain the site?

  • As soon as you launch your new website, it might already feel outdated.
  • Someone else may release a better feature.
  • Your products might change.
  • You might update your services.
  • Competitors may make changes, and you need to respond.
  • You might even find an error.
  • Or you see something to improve.
The worst thing to do is nothing.

Plan for fixes and upgrades.

  • Plan for fixes and updates from the start.
  • For simple mistakes, quickly edit articles or data in your tool. Fix errors before they hurt your credibility.
  • Updates: In Joomla, most updates are just a click. But someone still needs to do it.
  • Tool Replacement: Replacing a module is easy, but if the tool manages data, be ready to rebuild your data.

Milestones in Development

Discovery and Strategy

Before we write a single line of code, we dive deep into your business. Our Discovery Phase involves comprehensive interviews to understand your brand voice, target audience, and business goals.

Page Layout

Next, we translate strategy into structure by sketching out the page design. We prioritize mobile responsiveness from the start, as Google uses mobile-first indexing.

Page Creation

Once the page layout is approved, we bring your site to life. We creating stunning, on-brand visuals while ensuring clean, semantic HTML code. We optimize images and follow W3C standards and integrate schema markup to help Google understand your content better.

Launch

Before going live, we rigorously test your site including cross-browser compatibility checks, mobile device testing, and thorough SEO audits. We verify that all meta tags, alt text for images, and internal linking structures are in place.