Web Design Process

Phase I - Website Planning and Design Brief

The first phase of your Website project is information gathering and research.

We need to clearly document the details of your company, who your target market is, your expectations of what the Website will do as well as what content you want included (architecture or site map).

Phase II - Website Architecture and Design

Once the requirements for your website have been clearly documented, we need to develop the Website architecture (site map) and the design of a prototype of your Website. This stage of the process will include mock-ups of navigation, content and graphical placeholders.

Our designers use the Website Design Brief document which you filled out to develop a site with the 'look and feel' you require. When drafts of the design have been completed they will be sent to you for comment or sign-off. At this stage the designer can make changes to the draft design until you are completely satisfied with the design of your Website.

Phase III - Website Development and Content Creation

Once we have sign-off on the website design (for all page designs) we can proceed to website development. At this stage the draft designs are sliced into code and this code is used to create the templates from which all pages will be built.

these templates (and stylesheets) can be used to create 'static' HTML pages or they can be incorporated into the Content Management System of your site.

while the site is being built, it is normally available for review in a temporary location on the Internet (at www.croan.ie).

Phase IV - Website Deployment and Testing

Once development has been completed and all of the pages of the site are populated with content (provided by you) the site is ready to go for final approval by you.

Once this has been received the site is ready to be made live on its own domain on the Internet. Final testing when the site is live will ensure that nothing was missed earlier in the development process and that every link is working etc.

SAMPLE WEBSITE PROJECT SCHEDULE:

• Project lead in time: (i.e. from Order confirmation to commencement) is currently circa 1 - 2 weeks).
• Project Kick off: 2-3 days to include briefing and collection of required assets and information to allow design to commence.
• Design Concept: approx 1 week.
• Web site development: (subject to design approval and all content being available): 2 weeks
• Customer Acceptance: 1-2 weeks allowed depending on client availability.