Getting Started With Our Web Design Process
Here’s an overview of what we need and an overview to help guide you along before we begin!
1) WHAT WE NEED TO GET STARTED
YOUR LOGO
High res JPEG or PNG.
IMAGES & PICTURES
Current and/or new images and pictures you’d like to use on the new site.
HOSTING CREDENTIALS
Your hosting account login and/or Cpanel username and password.
CONTENT
Page content and any updated verbiage/information for the site.
WORDPRESS LOGIN
An administrator login to your current WordPress site. (if you have one up already)
STYLE GUIDE
Brand style guide, colors or any specific design requirements.
These items can be uploaded to your basecamp project account or uploaded to your secure dropbox folder.
2) ASANA
Asana is an online platform for communication and project management. We’ll be using this to send messages, share files and track progress during the process. This will help alleviate content and images being lost in long email threads. Once your project is underway, you’ll receive an email to set up your asana profile and we’ll be off and running!
3) DROPBOX
Dropbox is a great online image/file sharing platform. This isn’t necessary for every project, but if you have more than 15-20 images for your website or if they’re too big to send through email or post on basecamp, we can use Dropbox. We can also use this to share important logins and credentials instead of sending through email. I will set up a folder for the project and will share the folder with you via email. You can upload all images and files there.
4) THE DESIGN PROCESS
Designing a website, no matter how big or small, is an extensive process that can be overwhelming. To better help you understand what to expect during the design and development, I’ve outlined my process into 3 steps:
1) LAYOUT AND DESIGN
A large and time-consuming part of designing a website is in the planning and layout stage of the process. I’ll create the sitemap (Page/Menu hierarchy) of the website for approval first, then I’ll design the home page and a subpage for approval.
2) DEVELOPMENT
Once the site layout and design are approved, I’ll move forward with designing the entire site, pages and add all functionality and plugins. We’ll make sure your site looks great and functions nicely across all devices and web browsers before moving to the final step.
3) EDITS & REVISIONS
Once the site is ready for final review, you’ll be able to review each page and we can make detailed edits until the site is revised completely. We ask that you please review ALL pages to make sure all spelling, grammar, addresses, links, and information are correct before going live.
5) WRAPPING UP & GOING LIVE!
Once the site is ready to go live, all unnecessary plugins, pages, images and backend files will be removed. The new site will be backed up and saved locally, should it ever need restoring. Once live, it may take between 24-48 hours for the new site to pull up on some devices. Some computers will need to be refreshed in order to see the new site, though most computers will see the new site immediately depending on the wifi connection and where they are in relation to the location of the server that the website is on.
Your website logins and all credentials will be sent to you via basecamp or secure email ensuring the security of your passwords. Though your logins and passwords will be saved by me locally, PLEASE SAVE ALL LOGINS FOR YOUR RECORDS AS WELL. Upon completion, you’ll receive a link to my “moving forward” page where you’ll receive tips and tricks on what to do with your new website and also information on our Maintenance/Security Plan which I highly recommend for all my clients.
If you have any questions, feel free to call or email and if you haven’t had a chance to, please fill out our:
