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Six Stages of a Successful Website Project
Posted by admin | Posted in Web Development | Posted on 30-03-2008
- Discovery. The first and most important step in the process is the planning and discovery phase. This is when we find out what you want—and what features will help your business grow the most. We will need to determine the following:
- What are your objectives for this project?
- Who is your audience and what are their expectations?
- What actions do you want to inspire?
- In what ways do you differ from your competition?
- Contract Proposal. After determining your needs and evaluating how we will meet them, we will provide you with a contract proposal detailing our solutions. The proposal will also include an estimated time/cost breakdown, and recommended SUREclient Workgroup hosting platform for your site.
- Contract, Initial Payment, and Content. After we receive the signed contract agreement and initial project deposit, we will begin developing your website. At this point, we will need you to send any text, photos or additional media that you would like included on your site. After work has begun, we will send you monthly invoices until the project is completed, at which time we will bill you for the balance of the project cost.
- Implementation. Next, we begin the Implementation phase of your project. In this phase we design and develop the complete site. We will then upload the site to a temporary staged URL for your review and approval. Simultaneously, we will thoroughly test the site to assure that it meets our stringent quality assurance standards for a flawless user experience.
- Deployment. Once you are totally satisfied with your site, we will launch it live on the Internet. At project completion, we will invoice you for the balance of the development cost.
- Website Promotion. After launching your new website, we will promote your site by generating effective description and keyword tags and submitting the site with major search engines and directories. In keeping with your specific business goals, we can also begin a robust Search Engine Marketing Campaign which can include an organic Search Engine Optimization campaign and/or a Pay-per-Click search campaign to generate high search engine rankings and a steadily increasing flow of targeted prospective buyers to your site.