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WEB SITE DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT

IDG can create a custom web site for business owners. The process of creating a site is detailed below. The process can take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.

IDG will work with clients individually to create a site that will reflect the client's business strategy and vision. This requires a series of discussions which require timely client input and feedback.

A critical component dictating the timing is the delivery of content from the client. Lack of content can seriously delay bringing a site to the web.

If you have a budget issue, a site can be built in stages. You can always start with a barebones brochure site unless you intend to sell items on line which will require online payments and/or e-commerce. You can build additional functionality later on. However, you should keep this future functionality in mind as the site is designed especially as the navigation and content areas are built out. Alert your designer and/or developer up front about this.

The Process of Creating a Web Site

Content, Content, Content

Payment for Website

Initial Consultation & Quote

Every company is unique. Every site is unique. IDG provides custom websites. You are the most important input for your site. Before we can quote pricing on a website, IDG will sit with you to discuss what you expect from your site. Below are just some of the many questions that need to be answered.

Once we have had this discussion(s), IDG will provide your with a quote and a contract.

Design Comps & Design Signoff

Upon receipt of a contract and initial payment, IDG will sit with you and prepare a design brief. This will decide the visual look and feel of the site as well as the critical navigational elements. Again there are a series of questions that need to be addressed.

After the discussion(s), IDG will provide design comps for your website. Your company will have three opportunities to make changes to one of these comps.

Upon agreement to a design, your company will sign off on that design. This step is critical. After design signoff. additional work due to the design change will have to be charged at our or our subcontractors' current hourly rate as “outside the scope of the contract”. Design changes can be increasingly expensive as more and more work is done on the site as their impact potentially causes rework to either graphics and/or coding. So it is EXTREMELY important to understand the implications of this design signoff. At this point, you are agreeing to additional fees related to any rework if the design is changed during later steps of the project.

Coding of First Page(s) & Client Review

Once the design signoff has been made and the second payment has been received, IDG will code the first page or secondary pages if the home page is different from the secondary pages. You will be shown these in the development area to look at and review.

Content is King!!!

Please note: IDG does not write content. That needs to be provided by you. It is important that content be written with Search Engines in mind. This means (and I'm simplifying) that at the very least, content should contain terms that your potential website visitors would search on for your business services and or products.

In my experience, content has been THE “gating” item that delays site development and prevents sites from going live in a timely manner. The content should be written as the site is being developed. It is extremely important that site content should be written against the finalized design especially related to the agreed to navigational items.

IDG will not be held liable for site delays due to delay of receipt of content or receipt of content that causes recoding due to lack of agreement to the design.

Coding of Balance of Site with additional functionality

After the initial coding of the first page(s), IDG or its subcontractors will work on contracted functionality as well as adding content to the site. Sometimes, additional functionality (photo galleries, blogs) will need to be added after a site is put live in order to efficiently code the site unless the site itself is developed on the live server.

Site Goes Live

After the site goes live and after any functionality that needs to be added after the site goes live, your company will review the final site and signoff approval. Site MAINTENANCE is offered for thirty days on the site after it goes live. This includes minor fixes and regular types of maintenance. This does not include major adjustments that should have been caught in the development stage. For maintenance after the thirty day period, see our web maintenance page

Payment Schedule

Payments are spread out in three parts over the web development phases.