Web Design Services

1 – Meet and brainstorm with clients 

The first step in our overall web design process is to meet and brainstorm with clients about exactly what you’re trying to achieve with your new website. An e-Commerce site for instance, would have different objectives than a company whose primary goal was to project itself as an authoritative leader in its market, perhaps as an environmental web design consulting agency.

2 – Prepare a web design and development strategy

This step would normally include an exhaustive research process for the market you’re in, discovering what your competitors are currently doing, and where opportunities may exist for you to focus your efforts on. This information can be invaluable in supplying direction and guidance to the development process, with clear-cut goals now established. This development strategy will also take into account the need for mobile responsive web design, so that your new website will be optimally displayed on all mobile devices.

3 – Develop the website

During this phase, all the necessary coding will be done, along with comprehensive internal testing and user approval of all functional characteristics. At this time also, all PHP (hypertext pre-processor) scripting is integrated into the HTML code in order to achieve the desired visual effects and other expected results. A Content Management System is decided upon, for instance WordPress or some other system, to manage your ongoing posts and updates to the site.

4 – Prepare the design and layout 

The custom web design begins to take shape during this stage, as the graphics are integrated, content is emplaced, and the layout of each page is finalized, according to the unique needs of your business. With all functional pieces in place, the overall user experience can be gauged, and if any tweaks or changes are needed, they can be incorporated to improve the look and feel, or the usability of the site, before it is release to the general public.

5 – Launch the website 

After all internal testing has been done, and complete client satisfaction has been achieved, the site is ready for launching on the Internet. From this point forward, our team can provide whatever support is needed to optimize the site, and you as a client can begin gathering analytics data that will help you understand which aspects of the site are most relevant to visitors, and which might need some kind of enhancement or revision.

One final step

This isn’t really a step in our web design process, but it’s an important follow-up to the great decision you’ve made in collaborating with Self Image Media. We’d love to have you keep in contact with us to let us know how we’re doing, and how we can serve you better. Our reputation depends on satisfying our clients to the maximum, and that’s an objective of ours that we never lose sight of.