design & development..... maintenance..... design process..... faqs the design process The entire design is done in phases, and is completely interactive - clients are given full access to review the design at each phase. The timeline for launching a site depends on factors like content, time needed to review and test the site, feedback from client. A detailed document with specifics will be provided to ensure smooth design and delivery. Please fill and email me the web design questionnaire to help assess your design/redesign needs. If you have further questions please read the faqs section, you are free to contact me for any additional questions. Phase1. Basic Design requirements, planning and research basic requirements for a website - domain, hosting server your preference - how do you want your website to look like how do you want it to function and add-ons you prefer like forms, newsletter, secure server, etc colors, styles, themes, fonts, format likewise Phase 2. Layout design and development site planning - main pages, sections, menus, links, sublinks, graphics templates site map including presentation of content, placement of graphics based on (1) and (2) layout design will be suggested and presented. review and feedback Post design approval, we will then move on to the development phase. Phase 3. Content development testing and troubleshooting Get content documents ready from client - ideally content should be ready while Phase 1 & 2 is going on since content development is time consuming Integrate graphics Map content and graphics with layout development phase - Map content and graphics with layout through hard coding(HTML), keywords, meta tags for search engine submission test compatibility with various browsers and platforms total review of Phases 1- 3 final testing Phase 4. Final website launch and review site goes live on web host Search engine submission - Google, Yahoo, MSN