web design
Step 1: Project Definition
Before any pixels are pushed or code is written, there must be a clear outline for what is to be done throughout the duration of the project and beyond. We meet, we email, we call, and we sometimes even carrier-pigeon our way into a cohesive gameplan for your project. My car's paint job be damned, we'll do whatever it takes to start out on the right foot.
Step 2: Site Structure
Working from the initial meetings, an architecture for the site is layed out. We hound you for your content, diagram out what goes where, and then create some solid wireframes. If you're not familiar with the term ‘wireframe’, it's basically the highest, most sophisticated form of cocktail napkin doodle-ry. Without it, however, your site would have no direction and would be wandering around the halls without a hallpass. Not good.
Step 3: Design Stage
Pretty self explanatory, this one. Using the information architecture we created, designs are then drafted while either maintaining the ideals of an existing identity, or creating an entirely new brand.
See ‘Corporate Identity’
Step 4: Site Development
Having retrieved your jaw from the floor and selected one of the designs we presented, we then build the site according to the technical specifications layed out in the initial meetings. This is where all the features and functionality of the site are finally created. Very exciting stuff, indeed.
Step 5: Testing and Refinement
Our sites work: first time, every time. Of course, this is after all the hours of refining, testing, and refining again. This is the last chance for any gremlins to make their appearance before they're snuffed out by our stifling QA process.