Web Design & Development
Your successful web design project starts with a well-defined web design process
and clearly defined usability goals.
At Designing Solutions
WD LLC, we use a tested detailed approach to
the design of creating a website, breaking the project into six phases, each of
which ends with a client sign-off. This ensures that the project stays on track
with regard to website structure, content and the budget.
Here’s how our web design process works!
During the first phase of the web design process, we will meet with you to determine
the objective of your website. What process is this project expected to eliminate?
Is this an online tool for your clients or employees? Do you sell directly over the Internet
or is the goal to engage your client for further dialog? We like to plan ahead and
get the details.
How is this website going to benefit your business?
In this phase of the web design process, we are flushing out the technical part
of the website. We need to determine how the information will be made available
to the site users – what paths they will take as they move through the site.
We will build an electronic click-through (without graphics) to judge the website
structure in its online format. Using these tools, we can determine both the needed
technology and site navigation.
Next we develop the graphics and layout for the site. We will ask you to provide
any text and graphics that you want included in the web site and build a graphical
click-through. This will tell us where we need more graphics or modified text for
the site. Once you are satisfied with the direction of the project, we will complete
the graphics, collect or write all necessary text and build any animation or flash
elements for the site.
The amount of programming needed varies from site to site. Business processes and communication
tools specific to your company or organization will be programmed to work within
the design created for you. All features will be built and rigorously tested by both
our people and yours. Once perfected, we make one more exhaustive run through and
the site is ready to go!
The technical release of the site is usually very clear-cut due to the extensive
testing in the previous phase of the web design process. We test our websites immediately
upon release and ask our clients to do the same. At this point we will submit your site to all the major search engines and any directories that you feel important.
At this point the website is released and our job of creating the site is complete.
However, since public web sites are your face to the world, they must be kept current
in terms of graphics, navigation, technology and usability. After release of the
site, we will work with you to establish a regular review and maintenance schedule
for your web site to accommodate client requests, user feedback, system upgrades
and emerging web technologies.
Sound like a lot of work? Absolutely! But it pays off in the design of a quality
website that strengthens your business processes and improves your company communications.