We offer website design and web graphic creation services to help create a professional, cutting edge, brand-building online extension of your business.
Don’t trust your web design to just any design firm. Let us help you develop the website you’ve always dreamed that you would have. We can handle the creation and complete implementation of your website. We know the importance of creating a unique design, a website that will make your potential and current customers take a second look!
Web designers often think about the web design process with a focus on technical matters such as wireframes, code, and content management. But great design isn’t about how you integrate the social media buttons or even slick visuals. Great design is actually about creating a website that aligns with an overarching strategy.
Well-designed websites offer much more than just a please aesthetic. They attract visitors and help people understand the product, company, and branding through a variety of indicators, encompassing visuals, text, and interactions. That means every element of your site needs to work towards a defined goal.
But how do you achieve that harmonious synthesis of elements? Through a holistic web design process that takes both form and function into account.
For me, that web design process requires 7 stages:
1. Goal Identification
We work with you, the client to determine what goals the site will need to fulfill and ultimately find out its purpose.
2. Scope Definition
Once we know the site’s goals, we can define the scope of the project. This means figuring out what pages and features the site will require goal, and the timeline to build those out.
3. Sitemap & Wireframe Creation
With the scope well-defined, we can start digging into the sitemap, defining how the content and features we defined in scope definition will interrelate. At this point will start digging into how your customers will experience your website.
4. Content Creation
Now that we have a bigger picture of the site in mind, we can start creating content for the individual pages, always keeping search engine optimization in mind to help keep pages focused on a single topic. It’s vital that you have real content to work with for our next stage. This means stock or personal photos, graphics, and copy for sections such as the “about” and “contact” page of your website.
5. Visual Elements
With the site architecture and some content in place, we can start working on the visual brand. Depending on the client, this may already be well-defined, but you might also be defining the visual style from the ground up. Tools like style tiles, mood boards, and element collages can help with this process.
6. Testing
By now, we’ve got all of your pages in place and have defined how they display to the site visitor, so it’s time to make sure it all works. We combine manual browsing of the site on a variety of devices with automated site crawlers to identify everything from user experience issues to simple broken links.
7. Launch!
Once everything’s working beautifully, it’s time to plan and execute your site launch! This should include planning both launch timing and communication strategies — i.e., when will you launch and how will you let the world know? After that, it’s time to break out the bubbly!