Our web design process

Initiation Process
a.
Who are our audience?
b.
What are they looking for? How are they getting
the information currently?
c.
What do we want our audience to know about us?
d.
What’s unique about us?
e.
If current site exists, what is not working with
our current website?
f.
Do I need Search engine optimization?
g.
Are there reference sites that could help?
h.
Are there other software’s/tools that needs to
be integrated with the website?
i.
Do we have a social media strategy?
Wireframes & Sitemap
a.
What’s the best layout for my site?
b.
What are the main things to highlight on home
page?
c.
What is our catch phrase, how do we describe our
business in 1 to 3 Statements?
Design
a.
Is there an existing design/style document?
Corporate color, font, logo?
b.
What message do we want to send to our audience?
c.
What attributes best describe what we do?
d.
Any reference websites?
Development
a.
Which browsers do we want to target?
b.
How are we going to add content? Are there any
specific requirements for adding content?
c.
Any other standards that needs to be adhered to?
Content
a.
What’s the best way to prepare the content? Do
we need to worry about styling while preparing the content?
b.
Does the CMS support copy and paste directly
from the source into the website?
Deploy
a.
Where is the hosting server?
b.
Do we have the FTP, control panel, MySql and
other details that would be required to deploy the website?
Maintenance
a.
How regularly does the backup happen and who
does it?
b.
Who maintains the content on the website?
c.
Who performs the upgrades/patches etc?
d.
What’s my acceptable down time?