Preliminary : 1-2 Weeks
With your initial contact, we will chat about your website ideas for your business, then we will send you the Web Design Questionnaire that will give us a sense of your web site needs, functionality, and design and I will send you a contract and invoice. A signed contract and a 15% deposit reserve your start date on our development schedule.
Once your start date arrives, we begin working on the site architecture, preliminary design, and the estimated timeline for your web site. This takes 1 week for us to complete. At this point, we give you access to the web site, so that you can review the preliminary design for your site.
Start thinking about the elements you want on your website such as a color scheme, header design, or fullwidth photo sliders. Take some time to evaluate your current page copy. Does your copy need updating or sprucing up? Do you have a few blog content ideas (at least for 2 blogs) and special images and videos you would like to see embedded into your web site? Where will they be located, in the fullwidth slider, on the page, or as a sidebar element? These are all important design elements that will require your input and approval.
Design Revisions: 2-4 Business Days to 1 Week Per Round
Once you’ve had a chance to look over the initial homepage and interior page designs, you have the opportunity to provide feedback or request changes. Ideally you’ll get back to us in 1-2 business days, but we’ve had some clients take a week or more to get back to us. This is the type of thing that delays the project completion date. So how long this stage takes is really up to you…
However, once you do get back to us with any revisions, the typical turnaround time for relatively simple changes is 2-4 business days. Major changes to the design or requests for an entirely new design concept will take 1 week. We continue this process of fine tuning the design until we have your approval.
Development of Interior Page Content: 1-4 Weeks
This is where estimating a timeframe gets tricky because the content and number of pages will vary greatly from site to site.
The beauty of WordPress is that you are able to easily create all of the interior content pages yourself without knowledge of HTML. In most cases, clients will just need a custom WordPress theme that they take and continue to add all of the content pages themselves.
If that is the case with your project, you can skip over this step entirely; however, if you prefer to hand off the entire web site to us, we will gladly add all of the interior pages for you (based on your provided content).
The timeline for this phase varies greatly depending on the number of pages you are having us develop for you and if you are prompt with providing us all of the content, photos, and graphics for the site. If you have a 1 to 10-page site, for example, we can have the interior pages completed within 1 week. On the other hand, a 30-page website will likely take closer to 3-4 weeks to complete.
Of course, if you are not prompt with providing all content for the pages or if you frequently make revisions to previously approved content that you had already provided us with, that will slow down this stage as well.
