An overview of the typical steps we follow through our website design process.

1 – Introduction

• Discuss your goals and objectives.
• Review competition or other precedents.
• Explore current website hosting arrangements (if needed).
• Review current website (if needed).

2 – Quote & Agreement

• Written quote.
• Commencement deposit invoice to secure our time commitment to your project (typically 33% of project fees).

3 – Media Production

• Collate media files (logos, photos, images, video, branding, etc…) or produce if needed.

4 – Copywriting and SEO

• Draft website page map & structure.
• Prepare Advanced SEO Strategy (optional extra).
• Build up website text content document based on your business & services overview.
• Add copywriting overlay (optional extra).
• Client review and proof read of text document – we think of this as an ‘offline’ or text based build up of the website that helps us focus on SEO and content before the graphic side of web design.

5 – Mockup Design

• Design the Home page and menu system to bed down website design language.
• Client review and approval of the Home page (maximum of 3 design revisions).
• Progress invoice to 66% of project the fees.

6 – Website Build 

• Build out all pages, and place text and images.
• Client review and approval of working draft website (maximum of 2 design revisions per page).

7 – Launch Website 

• Launch website, including testing and quality checking.
• Remaining Search Engine Optimisation tasks (SEO).
• Progress invoice for remaining fees.

8 – Ongoing Maintenance 

• Payment of ongoing software licences.
• 24/7 automated uptime monitoring. 
• Software updates & maintenance.
• Advanced web security scan and firewall.
• Web site cloud backups.