Guiding you through the process with my trusted partners
Creating or redesigning your website shouldn’t feel overwhelming and that is why I am focused on ensuring you feel guided and supported throughout the whole process.
As part of any Website Project, there are a number of deliverables and milestones to meet. In order to populate your new website, I will require website copy, images etc.
This can be delivered by you and your team or chosen suppliers but should need some assistance, I do collaborate with a number of trusted local experts in copywriting, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), and videography/photography.
Their expertise helps elevate your website, ensuring it stands out for all the right reasons. By delegating these elements, you can focus on running your business while I coordinate the rest.
The Website Development process built for results
This is the proven process I follow to create strategic, results-driven websites that are focused on your goals rather than just the latest design trends or visuals that often sacrifice usability and accessibility.
01 Discovery
Following your initial enquiry email, I will then assess your enquiry and make initial contact with you to organise the 15 minute Discovery Call.
This call allows me to gain more insights into your specific requirements, your budget, your timeframes and the additional services you may require.
If you are happy to proceed I will then create a proposal which I will present to you in person or online.
02 Strategy
Once the proposal has been accepted, signed and deposit paid, this is confirmation that you are ready to commence the project.
During the Website Strategy stage we will colloborate and devise your strategy. This ensures that the website speaks directly to your audience(s) and signposts them directly to where they need to go on your website to perform a certain action. eg. purchase event tickets.
In partnership, we will then create a sitemap. This will provide you with an outline of the pages that need to be created to form the whole website. This is also the stage that we discuss your design preferences and analyse your other competitors.
03 Design
In this phase, I will produce one design concept for your new home page. This will be the first opportunity to see how the final website design will look. The design is a visual representation of the final sitemap, the strategy we have created and your design preferences.
Each design concept is created in Figma, an online prototyping design tool that allows me to present designs and add basic interactions to bring design concepts to life. Extra pages can be designed with an additional agreed budget if required.
Following this you will have the opportunity to provide any feedback before signing off the design concept and proceeding to the Development phase.
04 Development
In this phase, the design concept is brought to life.Your new WordPress website will be fully developed to give you complete control, making it easy to manage and update your content so your website can remain active and relevant.
The website will be tested to ensure everything is mobile responsive and any functionality is tested to a high standard ahead of launch.
The finished website is then ready to present to you. Any final feedback is then gathered at this stage and implemented before proceeding to launch.
05 Delivery
Your website is now ready to handover. Depending on timescales/deadlines, website training can often be completed ahead of launch. With all successful redesigns is the need to compile all of the necessary redirects added to ensure there are no 404 pages found on launch. This is carried out as part of the launch process.
Launch Day is here!
You’ve made it CONGRATULATIONS!
Pop open the Champagne and get ready for everyone to see your new website. I will now ensure your post launch tasks have been completed and you are now ready to share with your peers and your community of customers.
Book a discovery callLaunch day marks the start of your website’s next phase
One of the biggest misconceptions is that no further work needs to be done once a website launches. As your business grows, evolves and changes, so too will your website need to follow suit.
The average lifespan of a website is between 3-5 years. If your website is inactive, it can quickly become dated and an unreliable source of information. Therefore compromising your credibility unfairly.
That is why I have created distinct 4 Website Support packages to help businesses like yours who are keen to keep their website proactively growing but also someone to help monitor and protect their website.
Protect & grow my website
Your website, ready to evolve as your business does
Over time as your business develops and grows you will have new requirements that your website needs to help facilitate.
Helping you to better understand your scope and define what is required in order to deliver it. This allows me to identify the best approach and solution to help solve those new objectives.
From assessing & researching plugins, producing design concepts & prototypes, these are a few examples of the work I do before deciding on the solution. I am able to ensure whatever is added to your website is easy to use, easy to maintain and most important of all, the user experience is maintained at a high standard.
Examples to date: Finding a ticketing system to support my hospitality client. For my education sector client they wanted to create a course calendar that parents could purchase for their child. All tested and delivered with training provided. No compromise required.
