Web design & development projects - Our process.

A website is a very important advertizing platform through which your brand gets maximum exposure and revenue is generated and an important part of our tried and tested approach is to fully understand your requirements and those of your customers — only then can we provide a solution that truly gives you the best output.

Our team approaches each proposal with same enthusiasm let it be a small or a large project based on joomla, wordpress or oscommerce. We have built our reputation on being friendly and easy to work with. Each website we create is carefully planned, beautifully designed, and diligently coded. Before a line of code is written you will see proposals, wireframes, database schema and where necessary we will send design mock-ups. We work closely with you in producing these documents and the visual designs, seeking your approval at each crucial step of the project via IM or phone.

The bottom line? Unless a masterpiece produces the desired result it is of no use. So unless our work gets you the maximum brand exposure or revenue we deem it be unfit! Our designs are driven by ideas and backed by diligent planning, they deliver a clear, uncluttered message — and most importantly they leave a lasting impression.

Stage 1 - Research, Planning & Architecture

During the Research & Planning stage we take the time to get to know your industry, and we utilize our project management system'eidprojects' to plan the architecture of the website.. We then develop a project plan and archiecture for your website that will include.

We work closely with you in producing these documents and seek your approval, incorporating any of your changes, before moving forward.

Stage 2 - Visual Design Concept

This is where things start to get really exciting for you because we start bringing your site to life visually. By the end of this stage we will have turned all those plans and charts into a carefully considered and effective visual design that we are confident will not only meet your needs, but exceed your expectations.

We will provide you with complete visual mock-ups of several key pages of your site — including your new home page — and get your full approval before forging ahead with the next step.

Stage 3 - Page Coding

This stage is also known as the 'front–end build' and is where we take your finalised visual design (which until now has just been graphic artwork) and along with the other plans and wireframes turn it into a functioning interactive website in either xhtml, css or in PHP.

During this coding process we work through multiple browsers to ensure your website presents consistent look, feel and functionality across all three most widely uses browsers; Internet Explorer(IE - 6.0, 7.0, & 8.0), Firefox, and google chrome; as well as maintaining these standards in both PC & Mac versions of Safari and Opera.

This stage of the development process produces a fully functioning prototype of your site displaying the final visual design and demonstrating all static pages, with examples of the templates for any dynamically generated page — those generated based on database of products for example.

Stage 4 - Web Application Development

If your project has web application development requirements — such as a content management system (CMS in joomla and wordpress), e–commerce(virtuemart & oscommerce) system, or a custom application specific to your business model, development of this will already have been carefully planned and be well underway — likely having started at the same time as the Visual Design. This is the point in the project life–span that we begin integrating the coded page templates for the dynamic pages of your site with the web application under development.

Stage 5 - Content Editing & Input

Your site's content is just as important as it's design and functionality — it should be carefully crafted to ensure you are effectively communicating your message and accurately describing your products and services. At this stage we will supply you with a final Content Requirements document that details exactly what content is needed on each page of your site — but we will have requested that you start gathering content back around the time you received the initial site plans and charts. This step of the process closes with you having supplied all necessary content and our team inputting it into your site pages. If you have requested a Content Management System then we will input some of your content to get you started, and you will be able to complete the process via the easy to use online website editing interface we have provided.

Stage 6 - SEO & Stats analysis Software

This is one of the most important stages in the whole process of creating a website. SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is key because it determines the position your website will appear on the results page of a search engine like Google when a search (relevant to your business) is carried out. We take the appropriate steps to ensure that your website will be as high up on search engines like Google as possible.

We use Google Analytics to monitor your websites performance once it's live. We will track all the most important information such as, how many users are visiting your site, where the majority of traffic is coming from, the average time a visitor spends on the site, what are the most visited pages and what links have been clicked on the most.

From all this information we can gather how well your site’s performing and what we can do to improve traffic or improve user experience. We can give you, the client access to Google analytics to see for yourself how your site is performing, this allows for you to track the sites performance on a daily basis if needed.

Stage 7 - Testing & Launch

Your project's journey is coming to an end. Your website is built, all the content gathered in Stage 5 has been input, and we are almost ready to launch it. At this point will do all our final checks — again ensuring that all of the pages of your site are behaving themselves properly across all the major browsers and doing a final validation confirmation on all code. We will ask you to run–your–eye over everything one last time, then get your final sign–off — your site is then ready to be published live on the Internet.