Web Design Process

Research

The first step is we need to thoroughly understand your business, your business goals, your customers and their expectations and behaviour, and how your website factors into all of it. We’ll also look at the competitive landscape to establish context and benchmarks for how your site should function and then improve on that. This stage will give us the foundation for moving forward with just the right recommendations for the design and development of your new responsive website.

Design

Once we’re armed with this information, we’ll set to work sketching out interface layouts for 3-5 different views, including the home page, sub page, the blog template, and any additional templates needed. Wireframes look like simple skeletons of your website without the visual polish of the finished design, allowing us to experiment and iterate on solutions quickly so that we have a good sense of how content should be laid out across different screen sizes. We recommend having all of your content ready by this stage which will inform the design and make it faster to load the initial content on the development server so content doesn't hold back the launch. If you won't be able to provide professionally written content by this stage we recommend having our in-house copywriter create the content for you. Next we’ll design high-fidelity comps that show what the final designs will look like on desktop, tablet, and smart-phone screen sizes, providing up to two rounds of revisions on the design.

Development

Next we'll set to work making your design a reality by building the site using standards-based technology.

We'll build the front-end templates in HTML5, CSS, and use JQuery for simple behavior and effects like animations and form validation.

Testing

We'll test the website in a variety of browsers, including Safari, Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer 9. We'll also test the responsive design on iPhone and Android devices. We'll test the functionality of the site to ensure there are no errors or broken links and then hand it over to you for review on a test server. You'll have two rounds of minor revisions or tweaks to the sites, and then we'll launch.

Launch

Once you’ve tested the website and are happy with its functionality, we’ll make the Wordpress theme live on your website and point your domain over to the new site. Launch time!n.