Web Design & Development

Initial Consultation

You provide us with the details of what you need. It's essential that you give us all the information you possibly can about what you want to achieve, and what you need in order to achieve it.

We can send you an initial design questionnaire to help.

Once we have a good idea of your requirements, we put together a quotation, to include all the elements of design and production. We can also give you an estimate of how long the project should take and work to a specific deadline if needed.

Contract and Deposit

If you're happy with our quotation we will provide a contract document for you to sign and return. Once we've received the contract and initial deposit the design process can start.

We usually ask for a 25% deposit of the total fee prior to the project commencing (50% deposit for starter package websites). The remaining balance is payable on completion for projects under £400 and prior to publication. If the project total is more than £400 we can offer monthly interest free payments, at no additional cost.

Design Stage

If you have commissioned a bespoke design then we will start to work on some visuals for your website, starting with the home page. We normally provide a couple of initial layout ideas for you to view.

It's helpful if you can provide us with some initial content at this stage i.e. draft text and any images that you want to include on the site. This helps us to come up with a layout that will work with your content. The content can always be adjusted during the build process.

We usually put the visuals up on our development server for you to view via a link to a temporary web space. If you like one of the initial designs and no amendments are needed then we can start work on developing the site. If however, the layouts are not quite what you want, or you like some aspects of the designs and not others, just let us know and we will amend the designs to suit, or even create a completely new design if needed.

Coding Stage

Once a design has been agreed and you are completely happy with it we will start the development stage. We create the functioning web pages and navigation along with any additional features such as a slideshow or a content management system.

Testing

We test the site as we are building it to ensure it meets current W3C web standards where possible and can be viewed as intended on all the major browsers e.g. Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc. We also check that the header code contains relevant keywords and descriptions to ensure the site is optimised for the search engines.

Approval and Publication

Once we have completed the website design and construction, we will ask you for an emailed approval to publish the website. Ultimately, the responsibility for proofreading and textual accuracy lies with our clients, which is why the proofing and proofreading stages are so vital.

If you are happy that the website is complete and no further changes are needed we will invoice you the remaining fee (unless staged payments have been agreed in the contract) and on receipt of payment we will publish the website.

We will then register the website with the major search engines e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing so that it can be picked up (indexed) and ranked.