What are the 6 stages of our web design service?

The discovery phase is key to finding out what you want to achieve with the new website, and what other websites you have seen that you like or want to be influenced by. We discuss your competitors to see what they are doing and ask you for your current pain points, likes and dislikes about your current website (if you have one).

Planning involves developing your new websites architecture through sitemaps and wireframes.  This allows us to explore how people are likely to interact with the site and steer your visitors towards your most important products or services.  The right structure and layout encourages your users to get in touch, buy or donate through your website.

We now take the sitemap and wireframes and develop them into the high-quality designs that your users will see when they visit your site.  At this stage we add colour, images, video and stylised typography to produce the final appearance of your new website. This is exciting because we start to see the project come to life!  We design the home page first and ask you to review that before moving onto the other page types, that will be used throughout the website.

We will build the home page first and show you, then move onto the inner pages.   This is where the pages become interactive and you will be able to navigate through the website and test it's functionality.  If the designs contain any Latin "padding text", we will need your content so we can add that into the pages or you can hire our Copywriter to assist writing content for you (we will provide an estimate for this).

We test your new website across all screen sizes from small mobile devices, through to tablets and large desktop screns. We test on physical devices as much as we can and use an emulator to test any others that we don't have.  se to test the site on. We also ask you to help test the site and report back on any bugs so we can fix them as quickly as possible.

We will run through the final going live checklist, making sure everything works and copy over the site files and database to the live web space on the server.